KEY WORDS

  • Imitary
  • Image
  • Sign
  • Symbol
  • Linguistic
  • Message
  • Code
  • Italianicity
  • Cultural message
  • Literal message
  • Symbolic message
  • Rhetoric
  • Anchorage and relay

UNKNOWN WORDS

  • Ontology
  • Tautological
  • Polysemous
  • Denotational
  • Connotational
  • Syntagm
  • Metalanguage

NOTES

  • “Thus we find ourselves immediately at the heart of the most important problem facing the semiology of images: can analogical representation (the”copy”) (produce true systems of signs and not merely simple agglutinations of symbols?” – What is the difference between sign and symbol? I don’t quite understand.
  • “image is an extremely rudimentary system in comparison with language and those who think that signification cannot exhaust the image’s ineffable richness”
  • “The linguistic message is this twofold (at least in this particular image): denotational and connotational” – What does the author want to mean by denotational and connotational?
  • “message without a code” – I don’t understand what this means.
  • “Does the image duplicate certain of the information given in the text by a phenomenon of redundancy or does the text add fresh information to the image?”
  • What are anchorage and relay according to the author?
  • “the anchorage may be ideological and indeed this is its principal function; the text directs the reader through the signifieds of the image, causing him to avoid some and receive others; by means of often subtle dispatching,t remote-controls him towards a meaning chosen in advance.” – ????
  • “the words, in the same way as the images, are fragments of a more general syntagm and the unity of the message is realized at a higher level, that of the story, the anecdote, the diegesis…” – What syntagm means?
  • “This evictive state naturally corresponds to a plenitude of virtualities: it is an absence of meaning full of all the meanings… but this intelligibility remains virtual by reason of its very poverty, for everyone from a real society always disposes of knowledge superior to the merely anthropological and perceives more just than the letter.” – ?????????
  • Photography and drawing