This document summarizes key concepts about signs and their meaning. It discusses the relationship between the signifier and signified, and provides examples of how words can have both denotative and connotative meanings. Specifically, it notes that the denotation of a word is its explicit dictionary definition, while the connotation refers to the set of associations a word brings to mind. Icons are defined as pictures or images that can represent something in a symbolic manner.

1. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZO
Facultad: Ciencias de la educación
Escuela: Idioma
Students: Manuel Lema, William Coro
Teacher: msg. Cesar Narvaez
Semester: 7mo

2. THE MEANING OF SIGNS
• What is the nature of relation between
signifier and signified?
• In other words, how do sign mean? When
Emely Dickinson uses in her poem words
like “rose” or “rosemary”, these words
point to objects that grow in the real
gardens of the real world.

3. SIGNIFIER
• Red rose with a green stem.

4. SIGNIFIED
• A symbol of passion and love – this is
what the rose represent.

5. DENOTATIVE VS CONNOTATIVE
• The denotation of a word is its explicit
definition as listed in a dictionary. Let’s use
the word “home” as an example. The
denotative or literal meaning of “home” is “
a place where one lives; a residence.”
Hint: Denotation, denotative, definition,
and dictionary all start with the letter
‘D.

6. CONNOTATION
• set of associations that a word usually
brings to mind. The connotative meaning
of “home” is a place of security, comfort,
and family.

7. ICONS
• a picture, image, or other representation.

8. ICONIC
• relating to, or having the characteristics of an
icon.

9. Examples