Project description
This 4-5 page essay provides a prcis and an application with analysis of one of the proposed 5 readings available under the OneStopCourseReading on D2L as of week 4.
Semiotic Contributions
In your first written assignment, “essay”, you will choose one of the following articles (available on D2L under Resource/One Stop Course Reading, tagged Essay Reading 1-5).
The goal of this assignment is to introduce you to new semiotic methodologies and theories. You will provide a prcis of the article, summarise the proposed theory/methodology, and try and apply it to something new.
1. “How Culture Conditions the Colours we See”, Umberto Eco (Essay Reading 1)
2. Language as Social Semiotics”, M.A.K. Halliday (Essay Reading 2)
3. “The Study of Signs”, Thomas Sebeok (Essay Reading 3)
4. You Know My Method, Thomas Sebeok (Essay Reading 4)
5. Atypical Brains and Metaphors, Stphanie Walsh Matthews (Essay Reading 5)
A presentation of the broad content of these articles will be made available to students.
The following questions/instructions should guide your essay :
How does this theorist fit in the larger semiotic discourse? Does she/he propose a new sign theory?
Define, in your own words, what the theory is.
Provide your own examples to either support or refute it.
What other practices and uses does this theory have outside of semiotics?
This essay allows you to situate a particular semiotic theory within the larger evolution of Semiotics
Essay Checklist:
* Make sure your essay has an
Title page
Introduction
A very brief presentation of the author (when and where did th