TV texts and Narratives

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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.