Throughout the course, you have read a variety of “texts” as well as the “contexts” in which they emerged
(historic, cultural, societal). Now that we find ourselves in a unique historic moment, the context is clear. So it’s
time to create an “artifact” of 2020 inspired by what the past year has been like for you, the writer, that can be
shared with future generations to document the human response to these strange times. This “artifact” can be
any creative project you like; you can create a poem, painting, a comic strip, a short story, a podcast, a photo
essay, a Youtube video, a diary, an infographic–all you need to do is address what life has been like in the past
year, how you have responded, and what you have learned about yourself. As part of this process, you must
write at least 600 words; this can either be through the artifact itself (for example, in the form of a short story,
podcast/video script, poem) or you may write an accompanying essay that details your creation and how it
relates to 2020.
While exploiting at the outset on non-linguistic substances, semiology is requisite, to explore language in its path, not only as a theory, but also as unit, relay or signified. Semiology is perhaps doomed to be assimilated into a trans-linguistics, the materials of which may be myth, narrative, journalism, or on the other hand objects of modernization, in so far as they are spoken. On this note, the Roland Barthes (1964) came up with distinctive and widely acceptable elements of Semiology. They are; Language and speech Signified and signifier Syntagm and systems Denotation and connotation Language and Speech Barthes (1964) enforced the concepts of language, or the part of the Semiological system which is consented upon by society, and speech, or the individual choice of symbols, to Semiological systems. The application of these concepts can be supplied to the Semiological study of the food system. According to Barthes (1964), someone is free to create his/her own menu, using personal choices in food mixtures, and this will become their speech or message. This is done with the overall national and social structures of the language of food mind. Barthes (1964) then spread on Saussure’s terms, by explaining that language is not really socially determined by the masses, but is sometimes decided by a certain minute group of persons, somewhat changing the correlation of language and speech. Barthes (1964) exact that a Semiological system can importantly exist in which there is language, but little or no speech. In this case, Barthes (1964) was of the believe that a third element called matter, which would provide signification would need to be added to the language/speech system. Signifier and Signified