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III.2 Semiotic Anatomy III.2.1 (Thu Sept 26) de Saussure‘s Dichotomies

III.2 Semiotic Anatomy III.2.1 (Thu Sept 26) de Saussure‘s Dichotomies.

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III.2 Semiotic Anatomy III.2.1 (Thu Sept 26) de Saussure‘s Dichotomies

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  1. III.2 Semiotic Anatomy III.2.1 (Thu Sept 26) de Saussure‘s Dichotomies

  2. Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic, developed 1906-1911 in his university courses in Geneva, and published posthum as cours de linguistique générale 1916: signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) arbitraire/motivé (arbitrary/motivated) syntagme/paradigme (syntagm/paradigm) langue/parole (language/speech) synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) lexem/shifter (lexem/shifter)

  3. Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) arbitraire/motivé (arbitrary/motivated) syntagme/paradigme (syntagm/paradigm) langue/parole (language/speech) synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) lexem/shifter (lexem/shifter)

  4. EX (expressions ~signifiant) car SG (signification) CT (contents ~signifié)

  5. Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) arbitraire/motivé (arbitrary/motivated) syntagme/paradigme (syntagm/paradigm) langue/parole (language/speech) synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) lexem/shifter (lexem/shifter)

  6. motivated LP arbitrary CD onomatopoiesis

  7. Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) arbitraire/motivé (arbitrary/motivated) syntagme/paradigme (syntagm/paradigm) langue/parole (language/speech) synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) lexem/shifter (lexem/shifter)

  8. paradigmatic axis syntagmatic axis a b a‘ b‘ Roman Jakobson‘s poetical function: project paradigmatic axis onto syntagmatic axis

  9. Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) arbitraire/motivé (arbitrary/motivated) syntagme/paradigme (syntagm/paradigm) langue/parole (language/speech) synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) lexem/shifter (lexem/shifter)

  10. the system! my piece individual realizationusage of formula your piece her piece your personal variant! language T  S  D  T cadence „formula“ speech

  11. monochord Pythagoras tetractys

  12. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Bach‘s music (letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter): I said this to myself: „As if the eternal harmony would have a conversation with itself, like what could have happened in God‘s chest before the world‘s creation—in such a way my interior was also agitated, and I felt as if I would not have or need ears, and the least eyes or other senses.

  13. op. 23.5 (1920-23) pitch onset Arnold Schönberg

  14. Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) arbitraire/motivé (arbitrary/motivated) syntagme/paradigme (syntagm/paradigm) langue/parole (language/speech) synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) lexem/shifter (lexem/shifter)

  15. history 22 years ago: Alanis Morissette 300 years ago: J.S. Bach 2‘500 years ago: Pythagoras synchronic axis diachronic axis 50‘000 years ago: music appears cultures Asia India Europe America A semiotic is a system that evolves in time and is distributed in space:

  16. Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) arbitraire/motivé (arbitrary/motivated) syntagme/paradigme (syntagm/paradigm) langue/parole (language/speech) synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) lexem/shifter (lexem/shifter)

  17. performance symbolic physical

  18. M.C. Escher: Balcony

  19. Hand playing piano

  20. Sergiu Celibidache Fauré - Requiem - Rehearsal - London Symphony Orchestra ( Fauré - Requiem - Rehearsal - London Symphony Orchestra (BBC 1983)

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