Semiotics: Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Semiotics? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which influential theorist emphasized that signs “function not according to their intrinsic value but in virtue of their relative position”?
Jacques Derrida
Edward Nigma
Ferdinand de Saussure
Charles Sanders Peirce
Q. Who said that “semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie”?
Umberto Eco
Daniel Chandler
Keyser Soze
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Q. Take a look at this quote: “A sign is in a conjoint relation to the thing denoted and to the mind. If this triple relation is not of a degenerate species, the sign is related to its object only in consequence of a mental association, and depends upon a habit.” Who said this?
Thomas A. Sebeok
Charles Sanders Peirce
Ferdinand de Saussure
Kaja Silverman
Q. Here’s another quote: “The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination.” Who’s behind that one?
Mikhail Bakhtin
John Keats
Roman Jakobson
V.N. Voloshinov
Q. Who argued that “in studying signs one must investigate the system of relations that enables meaning to be produced and, reciprocally, one can only determine what are the pertinent relations among items by considering them as signs”?
Jonathan Culler
Stephen Hawking
Roland Barthes
Thomas A. Sebeok