Semiotics: Making Meaning from Signs, Symbols, Icons, Index | LittleArtTalks

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1. That's really a great video getting me to understand semiotics!! I'm really fascinated by the Structuralists vs Post-structuralists, and have just read Barthes's the Death of The Author, which is closely related to the concept of semiotics~!

2. Thank you so much. this video is awesome. It helps to understand semiotics. love ya 😀

3. Well that was a great reminder. Thank you :).

4. En español tenemos una idea en la cual tendemos a diferenciar signo("sign")de  símbolos("Symbols"), En ambos casos representa ideas, pero intuitivamente me entiendo más con el significado que le dan los ingleses.

5. Please do more videos about it, including symptoms and signals!

6. This was a lot of fun. But the "play" button is not arbitrary but rather indexical. The right pointing arrow indicates the direction a tape would play in a recording studio tape deck of an old Boom Box playing cassettes. A button pointing in the opposite direction, to the left meant rewinding the tape, the tape would spin in the other direction. The addition of multiple arrows (fast forward or fast rewind) indicate the speed in that direction would be increased. In the digital age, folks like You Tube have adapted the right-arrow play button for digital uses and so it may seem arbitrary, but for anyone who used or still use tape decks of any kind, it's most def an indexical sign.

   But like I said, I enjoyed this a lot and will be sharing it with a colleague and some students (I'm a PhD student at University of Chicago).

7. this helped me a lot for anthropology, thanks!

8. great video, you have a new suscriber!!

9. hi Karin, i would like to quote you on my assignment on semiotics, however, i do not have much details except for your name and the link. please help..assignment due on the 21st

10. 3 years of study = 3 minutes learned from this video !… nice !

11. At 00:36 you say that "The Process from the signifier to the signified is called signification" But on your drawings signification is placed on the right side, at the arrow down. The arrow down means signified to signification. I just wanted to ask what is the right meaning of signification. Signified to signifier or signifier to signified?
    Thank you so much 🙂

12. Your video helps a lot thank you so much! I needed this theory of signs for my thesis and now I am completely understand the concept thanks to your video 🙂 Thank you and thank you!

13. Wowww finally i understand.. thank you! it is so helpful for me doing my thesis

14. does humain language include indexical iconic or symbolic signs ? justify your answer.

15. Nice introduction! It is pronounced CS "purse" not Pierce by the way!

16. what happened with your voice

17. This was useful thank you?

18. Indexicality and ostension in philosophy of language is to me a problematic area since, since ostension cannot rest on the physical act of pointing.  The notion in semiotics of an indexical sign also seems like a weak point in the whole theory since the photo could look just like you (given the distance, clarity, etc.) and yet have been taken of someone else, so that it would in fact be indiscernible from a photo that was actually taken of you.  The one may have the correct causal history, but that is the only thing suggesting it as a representation of you.  Replies are welcomed.

19. Quite interesting!!!

20. Oh my goodness this saved my ass. I'm doing a Packaging project that's due in 3 hours. This literally cleared up my confusion. Thank You!!

21. THIS IS Good

22. very well explained! thank you!

23. Very clear , thanks

24. does Tom know that you are using his video?

25. whoever is in charge of the production of videos on this channel: use a de-esser PLEASE! All those s-es are like nails on a chalkboard.

26. She sounds like she's about to cry. Hehe.. It was a great video. Very educational…. Thanks…

27. I'm now ready for my midterm lol. Thank you for explaining it so well!

28. Thank you very much . It helps alot .

29. Not true. The play button denotes play-forward movement by facing the same direction the we read & write.

30. omg your voice 1:57

31. The question is what does the up and down arrows means?

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