Which of the following is a rule of semiotics ?
Correct answer: B. All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.
- A. All linguistic concepts evolve solely out of the responses of people within a specific historical era.
- B. All linguistic and social phenomena are texts, and the object of studying these texts is to reveal the underlying codes that make them meaningful.
- C. All linguistics is in some way related to class struggle.
- D. All linguistics is related to history, and therefore the meaning of linguistics relies exclusively on historical context.
Explanation
Semiotics studies signs as systems and seeks the underlying codes that allow linguistic, cultural, and social texts to produce meaning. The other choices reduce meaning to class struggle or historical context, which belong more directly to Marxist or historicist approaches.
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