Some of the quotes and sources I will possibly incorporate into my essay:
1) 'Semiology takes in any system of signs whatever the content or limits of the system. Images, sounds, gestures and objects are all part of systems which have semiotic meanings'.
Carson, D 'Visible Signs' 2003 p56
2) 'Myth cannot possibly be an object, a concept, or an idea; it is a mode of signification, a form.'
Barthes, R 'Mythologies' 1954-56 p109
3) 'Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society.'
Barthes, R 'Mythologies' 1954-56 p109
4) 'Mythical speech is made of materials which have already been worked on so as to make it suitable for communication.'
Barthes, R 'Mythologies' 1954-56 p110
5) A photograph will be a kind of speech for us in the same way as a newspaper article…'
Barthes, R 'Mythologies' 1954-56 p111
6) 'It can be seen that in myth there are two semiological systems , of which is staggered in relation to the other: a linguistic system, the language (...), which I shall call the language-object, because it is the language which myth gets hold of in order to build its own system; and myth itself, which I shall call metalanguage because it is a second language, in which one speaks about the first'.
Barthes, R 'Mythologies' 1954-56 p115
7) 'As a total of linguistic signs, the meaning of the myth has its own value, it belongs to a history'
Barthes, R 'Mythologies' 1954-56 p117
8) 'Denotation can be seen as no more of a natural meaning than is connotation but rather as a process of naturalisation.'
Chander, D 'The Basics of Semiotics' 2007 (2nd edition)
9) (He sees the newspaper as) '...a complex of concurrent messages with the photograph as centre and surrounds constituted by the text, the title, the caption, the lay-out and...by the very name of the paper.'
Barthes, R 'The Photographic Message' p15
10) 'Myths can function to hide the ideological function of signs. The power of such myths is that they 'go without saying' and so appear not to need to be deciphered, interpreted or demystified'
Chander, D 'The Basics of Semiotics' 2007 (2nd edition) p145
11) 'Literature is a prime example of a second-orde signifying system since it builds upon language.'
Silverman, K ' The Subject of Semiotics' 1983
