Open AccessReinterpreting some key concepts in Barthes theory
Author(s) -
Yan Sui,
Ming Fan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of media and communication studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2141-2545
DOI - 10.5897/jmcs2014.0412
Subject(s) - semiotics , referent , meaning (existential) , key (lock) , epistemology , linguistics , semiotics of culture , construct (python library) , mythology , sociology , philosophy , art , literature , computer science , computer security , programming language
The paper makes clear some basic concepts in semiotic studies like signifier, signified and referent and core concepts in Roland Barthes’s theory are restudied with new developments especially in connotateurs, meta-language and meaning transfer, which play a key role in understanding how myth is constructed with the two mechanisms of naturalizing and generalizing. With the new understanding, the paper studies the representative signs from television and their semiotic function and concludes that meaning transfer is the fundamental way for media signs to construct new meanings. Key words: semiotics, Barthes, media signs
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