Across
- 4. What type of sign has an arbitrary relationship between the Signifier and the Signified based on cultural conventions?
- 5. What do we call a system of signs that can be analyzed to reveal the underlying structures and cultural codes producing meaning?
- 6. What is the term used to describe the system of relationships and differences that give rise to meaning in structuralism?
- 8. Which term, proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure, refers to the study of signs and symbols as part of social life?
- 9. What do we call a type of sign that has a direct, causal, or physical connection to its Signified?
Down
- 1. What framework studies how meaning is constructed from signs and is foundational to the analysis of language and culture?
- 2. What term describes a system of conventions or rules that govern the relationships between signs in a cultural or linguistic context?
- 3. What concept is characterized by the rejection of traditional notions that literature expresses an author's meaning or reflects reality?
- 7. In structuralism, what are analyzed as systems of relationships that reveal universal patterns?
- 8. What term refers to the conceptual meaning or idea that a Signifier evokes within the system of language?