This lesson helped me to understand how denotaion underlines narrative and representational issues, which was one of our lesson objectives. I now also understand the difference between denotation and connotation.
Denotation
The simeplest meaning of and image.
Denotating is identifying ONLY what you see in the picture.
Denotation only refers to what is actually reproduced in the text.
While denotating an image we cannot say what the image may represent as denotaion is the first level of analysis, therefore in denotational terms if we cannot see anything else, we only assume that it is there.
Connotation
Connotation is linked to the cultural experience readers bring to it.
It is the second level of analysis which is identifying what the denotation of an image represents.
Connotation is where we the readers adds our own information so that we can understand what the image is signifying, for example an image of cross would be assosiated with religion and symbolizes Christ.
ROLAND BARTHES
French literary theorist, phylosopher and semiotician.
Acording to Roland Barthes we - the readers , go through various stages when we deconstruct the meaning of a sing. It was R. Barthes who identified that connotation is when the reader adds its own information to an image in order to understand it better.
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