Monday, 20 September 2010

Research and planning: Research into semiotics

Research into semiotics

  • The study of signs and symbols by means of language and communication.
  • The relationship between symbols and language - how people gain ideas from them.
  • Comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.
  • Semantics - Relation between signs and the things to which they refer.
  • Syntactics -Relations among signs in formal structures.
  • Pragmatics - Relations between signs and their effects on people who use them.

  • Images used show the genre. There is an image of musicians on each showing this is a music magazine. The people chosen all have a similar image and are all presented in a similar way.
  • All the people on the covers portray a rock image including the smaller images of the posters included for example.
  • The masthead shows the genre, the font used and the colour choice of black and white. All the fonts used are very informal.
  • These choices of symbols give the magazine a rock genre.

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