Semiotics 23-44

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What does Saussure mean when he says that linguistic sign is arbitrary ?

That there is no natural reason why within a specific language any given signifier should be associated to any given signified

That there is no historical reason why within a specific language any given signifier should be associated to any given signified

That there is no particular reason why a speaker of any specific language should associate any given signifier to any given signified

Which communication model explicity refer to the notion of Code ?

Jakobson’s and Quine’s model

Umberto Eco’s (Eco-Fabbri et all) and Jakobson’s models

Shannon-weaver’s and Jakobson’s model

Which of the following definitions does not apply to phonemes ?

The minimum elements of linguistic content

The minimum element of linguistic expression

Types of sounds that are able to differentiate linguistic meanings

To throw off a group of pursuers as to his direction of escape, Zorro shoes his horse the wrong way round, the hoof-prints on the ground are :

An in-between example of motivated yet arbitrary signs

Artificial signs that the pursuers are meant to interpret as natural signs

Natural signs that the pursuers are meant to interpret as artificial signs

Put the following terms used by Eco in their correct order, starting from the external , real world entity and moving inwards, towards the communicative rules that are inscribed within the text

Empirical author, narrator, model author

Model author, empirical author, narrator

Empirical author , model author , narrator

Which of these statements best defines Barthes’s notion of myth ?

A myth is an exclusively visual sign that may be used in advertising in order to manipulate the perception of historical facts

A myth is a narrative that was told by prehistoric hunter-gatherers during ancient initiation rites

A myth is a naturalized form of signification that conceals the historical and arbitrary connection of its connotational meaning with the form that function as its signifier

According to Emile Benueniste , the pronouns I and You

Have no meaning outside a specific speech situation

Have no reference outside a specific speech situation

Have no sense outside a specific speech situation

What does the Kuleshav effect prove ?

That a narrative that limited itself to reitareting consolidated expectations would scarcely narrative, since the streght of a story lies in its ability to represent the transgression of a social standard

That when most people watch an animation od independetely moving geometric shapes, they attribute intentional movement and goal-directed interactions to the shapes

That viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot of isolation

What is the Cognitive Type in Eco’s theory of iconicity ?

A perceptual model that allows to recognize two similar objects

A representment that looks like its object

A type of interference that triggered by natural signs

What is the linguistic function that humans acquire first , according to Jakobson ?

Referential

Emotive

Phatic

Suppose a doctor diagnose a patient with chicken-pox on account of the red spots that cover the patient’s face . in Peircean terms the red spots are

Representamen

Immediate object

Dynamic object

What according to Peirce is the inferential sequence that provides the contrast framework of any scientific inquiry ?

Abduction – induction – deduction

Deduction – abduction – induction

Abduction – deduction – induction

According to Peirce

Some mental activity is inferential

all mental activity is inferential

Most mental activity is inferential

Why is the post hoc ergo propter hoc principle considered as a logic of fallacy ?

Because most of what we know about the world is not made up of first hand experience , since it relies on texts that have been told to us by others

Because abduction are always fallible

Because there is no priori guarantee that what happens next is cause by what happens before

What are hypo-coded abduction

Hypothesis in which the rule does not yet exist, and it is up to the interpreter to formulate it from scratch

Hypothesis in which the connection between the case and the rule is already registered in the encycolpedia

Hypothesis in which the rule is selected from a series of equally probable rule made available by the encyclopedia

Dumbledore sends harry and hermione back in time to save Buckbeak and Sirius Black” . If the narrative program is “saving Buckbeak and Sirius black “ what is Hermione’s actantial role ?

Helper

Subject

Sender

What makes a fact surprising according to Peirce ?

Its unexpected irregularity

Its unexpected regularity

It expected regularity

Why is a signature an index according to Peirce ?

Because it is a proof of its object

Because it stands for its object

Because it is similar to its object

Which of the following is the best way to define the difference between Opponent and Anti-subjects according to Greimas ?

Opponents may be found in instrumental narrative programs whereas Anti-subjects are active in base-narratives programs

Opponents are involved in the decisive test while ani-subjects are active in the glorifying test

Opponents intervene at the time of the acquisition of competence whereas anti-subjects intervene in the sanction phase

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