Semiotics, semiology and film

Semiotics and semiology are quite different paradigms stemming from different origins. This paper demonstrates the differences and developes C.S. Peirce's notions of Phaneroscopy, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness, explores his notion of Interpretants and applies these to the study of film....

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Main Author: Keyan Tomaselli
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Language:English
Published: University of Johannesburg 2022-11-01
Series:Communicare
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Online Access:https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/2190
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description Semiotics and semiology are quite different paradigms stemming from different origins. This paper demonstrates the differences and developes C.S. Peirce's notions of Phaneroscopy, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness, explores his notion of Interpretants and applies these to the study of film. Peirce's theory is shown to be much more adaptable than the semiology developed by Metz from de Saussure's linguistic con- cepts. Whereas Metz's theory of signs can only take account of narrative cinema, the extention of Peirce's theory proposed here is able to account for all types of cinema from narrative to abstract.
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spelling doaj-art-f4e74f171a524cbe997cf96c19d6ea6a2025-01-20T08:42:19ZengUniversity of JohannesburgCommunicare0259-00692957-79502022-11-012110.36615/jcsa.v2i1.2190Semiotics, semiology and filmKeyan Tomaselli0University of Johannesburg Semiotics and semiology are quite different paradigms stemming from different origins. This paper demonstrates the differences and developes C.S. Peirce's notions of Phaneroscopy, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness, explores his notion of Interpretants and applies these to the study of film. Peirce's theory is shown to be much more adaptable than the semiology developed by Metz from de Saussure's linguistic con- cepts. Whereas Metz's theory of signs can only take account of narrative cinema, the extention of Peirce's theory proposed here is able to account for all types of cinema from narrative to abstract. https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/2190Semiotics and semiologyC.S. Peirce's notions of Phaneroscopy, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdnessnotion of Interpretantscinema
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C.S. Peirce's notions of Phaneroscopy, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness
notion of Interpretants
cinema
title Semiotics, semiology and film
title_full Semiotics, semiology and film
title_fullStr Semiotics, semiology and film
title_full_unstemmed Semiotics, semiology and film
title_short Semiotics, semiology and film
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topic Semiotics and semiology
C.S. Peirce's notions of Phaneroscopy, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness
notion of Interpretants
cinema
url https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/2190
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