LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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All linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.
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All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.
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All linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes (semiosis) and meaning making. Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something, usually called a meaning, to the sign’s interpreter.
Detailed explanation-2: -The field of semiotics focuses on understanding how people create and interpret the meaning of signs and symbols, including how people visually communicate through metaphor, analogy, allegory, metonymy, symbolism and other means of expression.
Detailed explanation-3: -Semiotics is an investigation into how meaning is created and how meaning is communicated. Its origins lie in the academic study of how signs and symbols (visual and linguistic) create meaning.
Detailed explanation-4: -Iconic signs: signs where the signifier resembles the signified, e.g., a picture. Indexical Signs: signs where the signifier is caused by the signified, e.g., smoke signifies fire. Denotation: the most basic or literal meaning of a sign, e.g., the word “rose” signifies a particular kind of flower.