Sign: the smallest unit of meaning. Anything that can be used to communicate (or to tell a lie).
a 'signifier' (signifiant) - the form which the sign takes; and
the 'signified' (signifié) - the concept it represents.
Semiotic as a State of Mind..
It is also been describe as basic semiotical concepts which are indefinable the same as basic of mathematics such as number, point or a set. However, every semiotic studies begin with an explanation of a sign as a primary object of the science.
In our life, we usually use sign in order to communicate with each other like having a conversation or giving an information, as an example we use t
ext,sound,images,pose or sometimes a gesture to do so.
Images in semiotic:
There is a huge amount of material related to semiotics in a web. However, very little of studies of semiotics been focused in visual images.This general introduction by Daniel Chandler at the University of Wales covers most of the basic concepts or history of semiotic study.Roland Barthes Mythologies (1957). Developed by Tony McNeill at The University of Sunderland, a comprehensive site on an essential text on the semiotic analysis of popular-cultural "texts". Menu and reading list.This links to Sandra Moriarty's Visual Semiotics and the Production of Meaning in Advertising (1995) which confronts the nature of meanin
g and images. On her homepage is a list of online articles.The easiest introduction to the semiotic analysis of images is still Judith Williamson's Decoding Advertisements (1978) even if the examples used are embarrassingly out of date.
Signs of Under 18
We often see this sign when we go to a cinema to watch a movie or watch a movie in our home.this sign automatically tell us that the movie we are about to see is a movie for an adult which is above the 18 years old.This film is for aged 18 years and above only.No people under this age will be admitted.Film may contain adult themes, explicit scenes, mature content, nudity, strong language, and/or sex, etc.
Any 18+ movies shown in cinemas after April 14, 2010, will be classified as 18. The rating still uses the circle sign that the previous ratings 18SG, 18SX, 18PA and 18PL used. Any movies previously classified using the old 18+ ratings will now be re-classified as 18. However, video classification that still rated as the previous 18+ ratings is still valid.
This sign is also been applied to the smoking issues.All people under 18 are strictly not allowed to buy a cigarettes in a shop that means the shopkeeper have to take the responsibility to not sell the cigarettes to the likes of a student or everybody which is under 18 years of age.
Nevertheless this sign is always been ignored by people which did not care about their lifestyles and their own health because they will always want to break the law by saying that their old enough to see a movie with adult themes scenes that can destroy their morale values and culture, and with smoking there will more people will have a health problem such as lung cancer, heart attack and many more.
yes, i agree with the statement that nowadays, people ignored this sign. I even saw it with my own eyes, a boy who still below 18 years old watching a movie that contains nudity. Somehow the sign does not become a barrier for these child to prevent them from watching this kind of movie.
ReplyDeleteSomehow the citizens need to be responsible for this. They need to be strict on this issue.
semiotics is about study of sign. there are many sign that we could see in the world. every sign has its own meaning such as under 18 sign.
ReplyDeletei agree with Noorsyafiq (the golden legs) that we usually use sign in order to communicate with each other like having a conversation or giving an information, as an example we use text,sound,images,pose or sometimes a gesture to do so. even a hand wave is a sign which means 'Hi' or 'Good Bye' but we must remember that not every sign give a same meaning. different people different of view =).
yes,i agree with Noorsyafiq.This sign like nothing to anybody.This sign nowadays have been publish anywhere but boys who under 18 just doesn't care anymore for example at cybercafe. Boys love to play at Cybercafe.From my experience, when my friend and I at cybercafe, we got ambush by police. This under 18 year old boys, had been caught because truancy and also that CC must at least above 18. They got caught because they do not care about that sign and their own faults. I hope parents will take good care for their children and told them what is use under 18 sign.
ReplyDeleteyes, i can't agree more with syafiq, asyraf & aiman. I think every different races and country have different meaning of simple sign such as told by mr. Razi in the class. i had heard about the story of sign in the italy by our simple gesture mean very different meaning to them.
ReplyDeleteyes semiotic signs are different in every part of the world but i think when it comes to the part of 18+ above, everybody in this world should know about what it is mean. furthermore, it is the Universal signs for us to know that it is ONLY FOR 18+ years above. yeah, every races have their own signs but the universal sign should be understood because universal = everybody.
I am agree with u. Once, when the people saw this sign, in majority not many who followed it. As we see, most people do not care what purpose of this sign. For example, at the cinema, the films containing 18 above there is still some underage audience want to watching it. It is trend of the people, somehow they do not care what the sign about. That is the problem of the people now. The sign are not use enough, there is still has some lacking on it.
ReplyDeletei'm agree with all the statement that been said in the comment above,however, it's not people do not care about it, but they don't want to follow it, example like under 18 sign, they know what it mean, which is under 18 is prohibited, they know it content something that they shouldn't see, however, the sign is make them more interested to see the content although they were under 18.
ReplyDeletethese shows that the sign is actually working but it not working on it actually meaning. sign became a label of the film content, not restricting the people who is under 18 not to see the film as the one how responsible to prevent the under 18 is not working properly