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TV texts and Narratives
Symbolic signs
are fully arbitrary. Signifier and signified are only connected by conventions that have
been learned by language users
Paradigmatic
A paradigm is a set of signs that can be subsituted for one another within a syntagm.
Syntagmatic
A sytnagm is a particular ordered arrangement of signs
Story
the set of events that are represented within a narrative
Discourse
the narrating process that puts story events in an order
Iconic signs
are not fully arbitrary. Partially motivated, signifier has structural resemblense to
signified.