Semiotic Model of Interpretation

 

 

Cultural Encyclopedia
(Macro level set of symbolic relationships)

 
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Codes through which the object being interpreted becomes a sign
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Experience of Prior Signs
Codes, Genres, Intertextuality / Intermediality
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Object of Interpretation:
Any Cultural Sign (Text, Image, Film, TV, Music, Art, Fashion, etc.)
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Interpretation in new or supplemental set of signs (semiosis)
     
 
         
   
Simplified Model of Semiology
   
     
 
   

Codes
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Signifier
Signified
 
   
Sign
   
   
Signifier
Signified
   
Sign

 

Fashion and Art Systems

       
Fashion text (fashion described in commentary): interpretive codes for fashionability  
Fashion cultural encyclopedia: fashion's intertexts (network of differentiations)
Fashion

Differentiating

Codes

Art
Fashion items (actual garments, accessories, "looks"): instances of current fashionability
Clothing
Non-Art
Utilitarian clothing, body covering