LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
STRUCTURALISM
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Question
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The signifier is the thing, item, or code that we ‘read’-so, a drawing, a word, a photo, while the signified is the idea or meaning being expressed by that signifier.
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The signifier is the thing, item, or code that we ‘read’ – so, a drawing, a word, a photo. Each signifier has a signified, the idea or meaning being expressed by that signifier. Only together do they form a sign.
Detailed explanation-2: -Scholars now regarded signifiers as referring to ideas rather than directly to things. Representations were conventionalized constructions which were relatively independent both of what they represented and of their authors; knowledge involved manipulating such signs.
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