Signification

Defining signification
Study of signs, communication, meaning

Semiotics

Connections to material culture
Webb Keane

Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society

Materiality of a thing connected with its actual, spoken sound

Markedness (lion, lioness) and notions of the dominant, hegonomically important

We do more than one thing at a time when we communicate - some prioritization!

Indexicality, mancala metaphor

Token vs type disinction

Signs: icon, index, symbol

How has my understanding of signification changed since the beginning of class?
Connect to Peircean theory for music (Turino)

Phatic communication (Malinowski)

Folktropes
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