The Study Of Semiotics - Saussure and Barthes

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Definition of Semiotics: The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.
Saussure's idea was that their is a "signifier" and the "signified" and these are what a sign is composed of. The signifier is known as the form that a sign can take and the signified is the concept. He believed and explains that a sign was not only a sound-image but a concept. The two, signified and signifier, were purely psychological for Saussure. 

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