We started off the lecture with the talk of semiotics and the connotations of context; and by ‘started off” I mean we spent half of the lecture talking about it. It all seems pretty straight forward – whenever we say something it has a context. This is pretty simple to understand in speech terms because we can sense a tone quite easily in a conversation, tones such as sarcasm when saying “I’m fine” – which changes the dictionary definition of the word. I suppose that it only makes sense then that there are contexts on other forms of communication. The author was a hot topic. The mainstream author normally has a specific story that he wants to tell and will put specific connotations that he understands, this however might be changed once the reader reads it with a different set of values and history etc., therefore the original context can’t survive, which is a very valid point.

Art has a personality of its own distant from the artist.