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October 16, 2019 • 16:44 pm 0 points
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Who among the following analysed the naturalisation of connotative meanings into myths ?

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    Roland Barthes wrote 'Mythologies' (1957) containing 54 short articles on a variety of subjects and trends that took place in France in the 1950s. He looks at film, newspapers, magazines, events, photographs, toys and popular pastimes such as tourism and wrestling. For Barthes, Myth subtly obscures, distorts and hides truth and reality. So much so that the reality is robbed from us. Barthes argues that myth functions to naturalise an ideology.
    Denotation : The explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it. For example, red denotes a colour, car a vehicle etc.
    Connotation : The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning. (i.e. 'red' connotes danger/passion/communism)
    Myth : Roland Barthes in 'Mythologies' explores this further by looking at the mechanisms through which meanings are produced and circulated. He is interested in 'how' things mean.

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