Semiotics for Beginners
Daniel Chandler
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Abduction
Aberrant decoding
Absences
Abstraction, levels of
Address, modes of
Addresser and addressee
Advantages of semiotics
Aesthetic codes
Allusion
Althusser, Louis
Analogical signs
Analysis
Content
Diachronic
Paradigmatic
Semiotic: doing your own
Structuralist
Synchronic
Syntagmatic
Anchorage (Barthes)
Arbitrariness or conventionality
Articulation of codes
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Barthes, Roland
Anchorage
Bourgeois ideology
Five codes of reading
Ideological function of photography and film
Myth
Orders of signification
Photography
Behavioural codes
Bernstein, Basil
Bibliography
Binary oppositions
Bodily codes
Bond, James
paradigmatic analysis of
syntagmatic analysis of
Bourgeois ideology
Bricolage
Broadcast codes
Categories: marked and unmarked
Chain, syntagmatic
Channel
Cinematic codes
Circuit of communication (Hall)
Codes
articulation of
elaborated
restricted
types of
Codification
Combination, axis of
Commodity codes
Communication
Circuit of (Hall)
Encoding/Decoding model of
Mass and interpersonal
Synchronous and asynchronous
Commutation test
Comprehension
Conative function of signs
Connotation
Constraint and motivation
Constructivism, constructionism
Content, form and
Content analysis vs. semiotics
Contiguity
Conventionality or arbitrariness
Conventions
Criticisms of semiotics
Decoding
Defamiliarization
Demystification
Denotation
Design features of semiotic codes
Determinism, textual
Diachronic analysis
Diachronic syntagms
Diatopic syntagms
Digital signs
Directness of address
Dominant code and reading
Double articulation, codes with
Duality of patterning
Dyadic model of sign
Eco, Umberto
Bond, James
paradigmatic analysis of
syntagmatic analysis of
Ten fundamental codes
Types and tokens
Economy, semiotic
Elaborated codes
Élite interpreter
Empty signifier
Encoding
Estrangement (Shklovsky)
Expressive function of signs
Film
Codes
Compared to language
Cuts
Shots
Similarity of signifier and signified in
Floating signifier
Form and content
Form and substance
Formalism, arid
Formalism, Russian
Formality of modes of address
Functionalism
Functions of signs
Genette, Gerard
Genres
as codes
Intertextuality and
Grammar
Film and television 'grammar'
Linguistic
Story grammar
Grande syntagmatique
(Christian Metz)
Greimas, Algirdas
Stuart Hall
Denotation and connotation
Dominant, negotiated and oppositional readings
Ideology
Hegemonic code
Hermeneutics
Historicity
Icons
'Ideal readers'
Idealism (subjectivism)
Ideological codes
Ideology
Roland Barthes on
Stuart Hall on
Valentin Volosinov on
Indexical signs
Interpellation (Althusser)
Interpretant (Peirce)
Interpretation of signs by their users
Interpretative codes
Interpreter, role of
Intertextuality
Jakobson, Roman
Axes of selection and combination
Marked and unmarked categories
Korzybski, Alfred
Kress, Gunther: on metafunctions of semiotic systems
Kristeva, Julia
Lacan, Jacques
Language codes
Langue
(Saussure)
Levels of abstraction
Levels of signification
Limitations of semiotics
Linguistics, relationship of semiotics to
Links on the Web
Lodge, David
Logical codes
Magazine codes
Making the familiar strange
Marked categories
Marxist approaches
Mass media codes
McLuhan, Marshall
Mediation
Medium
Medium, non-neutrality of
Metalingual function of signs
Metaphor
Metonymy
Metz, Christian
Modality
Modelling systems, primary and secondary
Models of communication
Models of sign
Modes of address
'Moments' of communication
Morley, David
Motivation and constraint
Multiaccentuality of the sign (Volosinov)
Myth (Barthes)
Narrative film
Narratology
Narrowcast codes
Naturalization
Codes
Denotation
Negotiated code and reading
Object (Peirce)
Openness to interpretation
Codes
Connotation and denotation
Open and closed texts (Eco)
Oppositional code and reading
Orders of signification (Barthes)
Overcoding
Paradigmatic analysis
Paradigms
Parole
(Saussure)
Parsimony, principle of (Lévi-Strauss)
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Peircean tradition in semiotics
Perceptual codes
Phatic function of signs
Photographs as indexical signs
Photography
Barthes, Roland on
Compared to language
Newspaper
Peirce, Charles Sanders on
Pictograms
Politics of signification
Positioning of the subject
Poststructuralist semiotics
Pragmatics
Pragmatic level in interpretation of signs
Preferred reading
Production codes
Propp, Vladimir
Reading: dominant or preferred, negotiated and oppositional
Realism (objectivism)
Realism, aesthetic
Redundancy
Referent
Representamen
Representation
Restricted code
Rhetorical codes
Romantic emphasis on authorial originality
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Defining semiology
Langue
and
parole
Model of sign
Saussurean tradition in semiotics
Science, semiotics not a
Introduction
Criticisms of semiotics
Scientific codes
Selection, axis of
Semantics
Semantic level in interpretation of signs
Semiology
Semiosis
Semiotic economy
Semiotic square (Greimas)
Semiotic triangle
Sense
Shklovsky, Victor
Making the familiar strange
Sign
Sign vehicle
Signification, orders of
Signified (Saussure)
Signified, transcendent
Signifier
Empty or floating signifier
Primacy of
Signifier (Saussure)
Signifying practices
Single articulation, codes with
Social context
Social conventions
Social determination
Social semiosis
Spatial relationships as syntagmatic
Square, semiotic
Story grammars
Strengths of semiotics
Structuralism
limitations of
binary oppositions
Structuralism
Stylistic codes
Subject, positioning of the
Subject-effect
Subjectivity of interpretation
Substance, form and
Substituting paradigms
Symbols
Synchronic analysis
Synchronic syntagms
Synecdoche
Synoptic syntagms
Syntactics
Syntactic level in interpretation of signs
Syntagmatic analysis
Syntagms
Televisual codes
Text
Textual codes
Textual determinism
Tokens and types
Transparency
Triadic model of sign
Triangle, semiotic
Types and tokens
Typologies
of codes
of signs
Unarticulated codes
Unlimited semiosis
Unmarked categories
Use and production of signs
Vehicle in metaphor
Vehicle, sign
Volosinov, Valentin
Weaknesses of semiotics
Whorfian theories
'Window on the world' metaphor
Contents
Contents Page
Preface
Introduction
Signs
Modality and representation
Paradigms and syntagms
Syntagmatic analysis
Paradigmatic analysis
Denotation, connotation and myth
Rhetorical tropes
Codes
Modes of address
Encoding/Decoding
Articulation
Intertextuality
Criticisms of semiotic analysis
Strengths of semiotic analysis
D.I.Y. semiotic analysis
Glossary of key terms
Suggested reading
References
Index
Semiotics links
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