Semiotics Preliminary Exercise

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Ferdinand de Saussure's Theory of Semiotics

Ferdinand de Saussure is known as modern linguistics and semiology. His theory tends to be viewed as the advocate of the thought that "language does not reflect reality but rather constructs it". His theory describes the signifier as the sound and the signified is the thought. 

Previously known as North America, Panem is now a country separated into 12 districts. They host an annual game called the Hunger Games, which is a televised competition in which two teenagers, a boy, and a girl, are picked at random to fight to the death. They are called tributes. This scene is where they are picking tributes from district 12, the one Katniss lives in. They started off by picking the girl and the one who got chosen was Primrose, Katniss's little sister. Katniss then volunteered to take her place. They then went on to the boys and that was when Peeta was picked.  




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https://www.criticism.com/md/the_sign.html

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