Curated OER
Semiotics and Set: Year 9
Ninth graders explore semiotics and the meanings of stage sets.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Language and Its Structure Ii: Syntax
A complete undergraduate level online course from MIT, originally taught in 2004. This course and its materials are also available in Chinese and Persian.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Language and Its Structure Iii: Semantics and Pragmatics
A complete undergraduate level online course from MIT, originally taught in 2005. A Chinese version of the course is also available.
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The University of Wales: Semiotics for Beginners
Click on Denotation, Connotation, and Myth. A discourse in the use of "denotation" and "connotation" as they refer to semiotics and cultural myths.
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Univ. Of Oregon: Writing for Multimedia: Storytelling: Image, Video, Audio [Ppt]
A PowerPoint presentation on how to communicate a message using image, video, and sound techniques as described by Herbert Zettl. Includes images and links to video examples.
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Streeter: Semiotics and Advertising
A slide show that offers a good study of connotation and how it refers to semiotics. Symbols are not the things they represent. L.11-12.5b Nuance
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Brock University: Psychoanalysis and Literature
Interesting intro to psychoanalysis and its place in literature. Very accessible to students. Good place to start research on the subject.
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State University of Campinas: Logic of Relatives
This site is provided for by the State University of Campinas. Well-chosen list of short quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce explaining his "logic of relatives" concept. Good for gaining a basic definition of the term.
Baertracks
Creative Quotations: Roland Barthes
This is a brief but interesting site from Creative Quotations that is devoted to Barthes' major quotations dealing with literature and criticism. He was the major structuralist critic of modern times.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Roland Barthes Structuralist
Biography of a major proponent of structuralism. Provides life info and brief mention of his various work.