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Semiotics: Ferdinand de Saussure's Theory

  Ferdinand de Saussure liked to refer to his theory as semiology. The big idea was that he believed in sign= signifier + signified. My teammates and I used the movie "five feet apart" and picked out signs from the movie and identified the signifier and the signified. The signs we choose had major meanings that were important to the plot. We analyzed each sign and figured out what the each meant and came up with a graphic organizer. The example from the film we used was a cover poster with lungs on them (seen down below). The signifier was the pair of lungs and the signified was the two young individuals who each have all this joy and brightness in them despite their living conditions but not be able to share it with one another fully because their disease doesn't allow them to come closer than 5 feet. Also, the big, bolded words "five feet" puts a space between the boy and girl and their hands up are showing that they would each like to come closer the big thing in between them is stopping them from that. 



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