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Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar III.2Semiotic Anatomy III.2.1 (M Oct 05) de Saussure‘s Dichotomies

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic, developed in his university courses in Geneva, and published posthum as cours de linguistique générale 1916: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar CT (contents ~signifié) SG (signification) EX (expressions ~signifiant)

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar LP motivated CD arbitrary onomatopoiesis

Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar syntagmatic axis paradigmatic axis Roman Jakobson‘s poetical function: project paradigmatic axis onto syntagmatic axis aba‘b‘

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar T  S  D  T cadence „formula“ language speech my piece your piece her piece individual realization usage of formula your personal variant! the system!

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Pythagoras monochord tetractys

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. 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.

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar op ( ) Arnold Schönberg onset pitch

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar A semiotic is a system that evolves in time and is distributed in space: history cultures EuropeIndiaAmericaAsia 50‘000 years ago: music appears 2‘500 years ago: Pythagoras 300 years ago: J.S. Bach 20 years ago: Alanis Morissette synchronic axis diachronic axis

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar Ferdinand de Saussure introduced six famous „dichotomies“ describing the finer anatomy of any, not necessarily linguistic, semiotic: 1. signifiant/signifié (signifier/signified) 2. arbitraire/motivé(arbitrary/motivated) 3. syntagme/paradigme(syntagm/paradigm) 4. langue/parole(language/speech) 5. synchronie/diachronie (synchrony/diachrony) 6. lexem/shifter(lexem/shifter)

Guerino Mazzola (Fall 2015 © ): Honrs Seminar performance symbolic physical

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