Visual sign connotation connects images to ideology through cultural deep structures
Evidence
The visual sign is, however, also a connotative sign. And it is so preeminently within the discourses of modern mass communication. The level of connotation of the visual sign, of its contextual reference, of its position in the various associative fields of meanings, is, precisely the point where the denoted sign intersects with the deep semantic structures of a culture, and takes on an ideological dimension. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 801
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines the connotative level of the visual sign as the intersection point where images acquire ideological dimensions.
- XREF: Connects to Roland Barthes on connotation and myth, and to Hall’s own later encoding/decoding model in Volume 1.
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- Connotation is where visual signs acquire ideology by intersecting with cultural meaning structures. (similarity 0.83)
- Connotative codes are the linguistic means by which ideology enters culture (similarity 0.83)
- Connotative codes make social knowledge thinkable by mapping meanings onto signs (similarity 0.82)
- Connotative codes map a culture’s power structure into everyday signs. (similarity 0.80)
- All signs are inherently ideological because they refract reality rather than mirror it (similarity 0.79)
- Ideological unity forms through connotative condensation and an axial interpellation (similarity 0.78)