This paper develops a semiotic operand, the hypersign. The hyperlink is structurally amenable to semiotic analysis. Anchor and destination function as signifier and signified. Especially significant are digital surrogates, such as Amazon catalogue entries, and Google gists, which are systematically produced hypertextual signifier-signified pairings. Hyperlinked surrogates constitute the hypersi...

In the 1950s Jacques Lacan developed a set-up with a concave mirror and a plane mirror, based on which he described the nature of human identification. He also formulated ideas on how psychoanalysis, qua clinical practice, responds to identification. In this paper Lacan's schema of the two mirrors is described in detail and the theoretical line of reasoning he aimed to articulate with aid of th...

The way humans establish communication depends on the generation and conveyance of meaning. Linguistically, meaning in information is dependent on the meaning that is ascribed to signifiers in the context of the communication. These signifiers can include items such as words, phrases, signs, and symbols. Conveyance of meaning may, however, imprecise and prone to error. The meaning of informatio...

the islamic fundamentalism which turned into a major social course in many arab countries in 1980s, has inspired a wide spectrum of theoretical analyses. in this article we have attempted to evaluate this course by the method of discoursive analyse. despite many dissimilarities that differentiate islamic fundamentalism from other political , and even religious reformist, movements regarding met...

This research aims to identify the representation of fantasy comedy and explain sign system represent that is found in Turning Red movie posters. was descriptive qualitative because result discussed descriptively. The data this signifier signifier, verbal signs represented by text which consists words, phrases, clauses, sentences on posters, non-verbal picture. Then, color meaning From research...