Language, Texts, and Technology
From the monthly archives: August 2016
Language & Thought
We all know that language is important. Without some form of verbal (such as speech), gestural (such as sign), or visual (such as writing), language, our ability to communicate our observations, beliefs, and desires would be severely limited. But is that all languages are, useful tools for describing our perspectives to others; […]
Semiotics
Our first reading is chapter 2, “Signs” from Daniel Chandler’s Semiotics for Beginners. Here, Chandler introduces readers to the two men regarded as the founders of semiotics and their different accounts of how signs work.
