For this final assignment you have the choice of doing a biographical lesson or a research lesson. Lessons 1,2 & 3 are biographical and lesson 4 is research and analysis. All 4 lessons will help you bring together the ideas that you have learned about in this semiotics unit, the choice is up to you.
For the biographical lessons try to explore your personal relationship to symbols and meaning. And in the data and research lesson you are looking at how semiotics appear in the world around us. Try to include ideas like icon, index & symbol; meaning; representation; change of meaning; audience; universal meaning; and anything else we have covered.
Which ever choice you pick the final website posting should be 500 or more words.
1. Favorite numbers
What is your favorite number and why? has it always been the same? Why did you pick this number?
2. Your name
How did you get your name? Would your name have different meanings in other counties? If you were to pick a new name for yourself what would it be and why?
3. Childhood fears
What were you most scared of as a child? Why and how did this come about? When if ever did you stop being scared of this
4. ¥100 knock products (DA)assignment: ¥100 Store Semiotics A sign is anything that can be used to tell a lie. -Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics Make a visit to a ¥100 Store. Choose a product that uses persuasion to suggest it is something it is not: healthy, genuine, effective, etc. Carefully analyse the systems of signs present in the item, using techniques similar to those in class on the knockoff brand chocolate bar. Treat the item as expressing a rhetoric: a systematic series of signs and messages, all performing different tasks. Make reference to the various rhetorical strategies and appeals, denotative and connotative language, types of codes and their audiences. Write a descriptive essay, outlining the semiotic aspects of the item. Use Barthes's "Rhetoric of the Image" as an inspiration, if you need. The Semiotics of Food and Drink may also be helpful. Length: 500-1000 words. You may use illustrations and other diagrams.
For the biographical lessons try to explore your personal relationship to symbols and meaning. And in the data and research lesson you are looking at how semiotics appear in the world around us. Try to include ideas like icon, index & symbol; meaning; representation; change of meaning; audience; universal meaning; and anything else we have covered.
Which ever choice you pick the final website posting should be 500 or more words.
1. Favorite numbers
What is your favorite number and why? has it always been the same? Why did you pick this number?
2. Your name
How did you get your name? Would your name have different meanings in other counties? If you were to pick a new name for yourself what would it be and why?
3. Childhood fears
What were you most scared of as a child? Why and how did this come about? When if ever did you stop being scared of this
4. ¥100 knock products (DA)assignment: ¥100 Store Semiotics A sign is anything that can be used to tell a lie. -Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics Make a visit to a ¥100 Store. Choose a product that uses persuasion to suggest it is something it is not: healthy, genuine, effective, etc. Carefully analyse the systems of signs present in the item, using techniques similar to those in class on the knockoff brand chocolate bar. Treat the item as expressing a rhetoric: a systematic series of signs and messages, all performing different tasks. Make reference to the various rhetorical strategies and appeals, denotative and connotative language, types of codes and their audiences. Write a descriptive essay, outlining the semiotic aspects of the item. Use Barthes's "Rhetoric of the Image" as an inspiration, if you need. The Semiotics of Food and Drink may also be helpful. Length: 500-1000 words. You may use illustrations and other diagrams.