Tuesday, 28 April 2009

king henry 8th denotations and connotations

Denotations:

* rich looking male
* overweight
* smartly dressed
* beard


Connotations:

* powerful man
* looks important
* royalty
* scary

Semiotics:

Semiotics is the study of signs. it allows media texts to be taken apart (deconstructed)to show how meaning (as well as important aspects such as trust) are created. semiotics shows that meaning developes at the simplest level.

Representation is something that represents something else, it acts on the behalf of something.

Context is the situation in which you have used something.

Biased is one point of view of something/1 sided.

Connotations is what you interpret what you are looking at as.

Denotations is what you actually see when you are looking at it.