Essays on Semiotics

This essay discusses and presents the idea of Historicism and semiotics in architecture through comparative study between the design of Petronas twin towers in Malaysia and the design of Portland building in USA. And here are the elaborations of the Historicism and semiotics. Historism is...

The method I have covered in class and have chosen to discuss is Semiotics. In this essay, I discuss Semiotics and its definition, how it can be used, its historical background along with its strengths and weaknesses. I have used sources such as my textbook,...

It has been 18 years since Legally Blonde premiered in theaters all around the world. At the time most critics considered it a typical romantic comedy, however, nowadays is for many a landmark in the feminist movement happening in the modern cinema. The 2001’s film...

“Semiology, also known as semiotics, began as a method for analysing language,” and “is defined as the science of signs or the study of signs and sign systems. ‘ Semiology makes sense of communication by exploring the reasoning and methodology behind it. In doing so,...

In this essay, I am writing about semiotics, I will begin by explain what semiotics is and how it works, I will write about the semiotic approach according to Saussure, explain that there are two levels to sign, the denotative and connotative level and finally...

This visual essay looks at the work of filmmaker Martin Scorsese, focusing in on the film ‘Taxi Driver’. The aim was to make a correlation between this film and theories of semiotics, in particular the symbolisms Scorcese uses to question the protagonists Loneliness and Masculinity....

Semiotics is an investigation into how to create meaning and how to communicate meaning. Its roots lie in the study of how meaning is generated by signs and symbols (visual and linguistic). It is a way of seeing the world and recognizing how we all...

This paper will be discussing how semiotics in musical videos affects audience emotions. Visual resources are nowadays very popular in the music industry because they add more meaning to artists work. Thanks to the technological revolution this great advance has been produced and since then,...

 In this literature review I will be addressing Jacques Derrida’s concepts on the ‘trait’ of drawing. (in: Memoirs of the Blind. 1993) Jacques Derrida explores issues of the faculties of sight, destituteness of vision, self-representation, and their relation to the draftsman’s drawing and sketching, while...

Rāhui is expressed in the Maori language as a ban or restriction on a place of conservation due to the scarcity of resources. New Zealand law has adopted this Maori concept of Rahui and can be seen in legislation as drawing on three of the...