Below are questions to keep in mind while reading the selections from Chandler.
- What does Chandler mean when he states that Saussure’s sign is structural and relational rather than referential
- What is the difference between langue and parole?
- What does it mean to say that the signified has primacy over the signifier and vice versa?
- Do you agree with Saussure that the sign is arbitrary?
- What does Chandler mean when he writes that there are no natural concepts or categories reflected in language?
- What is the difference between the idea of a sign being ontologically arbitrary and socially arbitrary?
- How does Peirce’s model of the sign differ from Saussure’s?
- Where do you believe meaning resides, within the sign or within its interpretation?
- Give an example of a sign in the symbolic, iconic, and indexical modes
- Why are there no “pure” icons?
- How have linguistics signs (possible) evolved from indexicals to icons to symbols?
- What is the difference between a paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationship?
- According to Kriseva, what are the horizontal and vertical axes of the text?
- What does Chandler mean when he writes “Authorship was a historical invention?
- What is the intentional fallacy?
- What does it mean to say that the writer is the orchestrator of the already-written rather than the originator.
- What Chandler mean when he says that readers construct authors?
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