Just Jenny

 To be able to define what 'social semiotics' is, you must understand what semiotics means, because I did not have a clue what that word meant.  According to Webster's Dictionary, the term 'semiotics' means "a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially contracted and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics" Merriam-webster.com).  There are three types of Semiotics, Cognitive, social and cultural, and visual.  In this document, we will explore social semiotics.  According to an article by UCL, social semiotics is "concerned with meaning making and meaning makers. It studies the media of dissemination and the modes of communication that people use and develop to represent they understanding of the world and to shape power relations with others" (Jewitt, henrikson, UCL.ac.uk).      Some rules associated with the methodology of social semiotics include...

 For this discussion I chose to focus on the online argument between country music artists Zach Bryan and Walker Hayes.  I chose this argument, one,  because it's recent and two, because it's the prime example of how arguments are in today's time - online, without any face to face confrontation.  In case you're not familiar, Zach Bryan posted a comment about a new song that came out by Tyler Childers and how it's not being played by radio stations enough.  " “Imagine being radio (whoever the hell that is), hearing [Childers’] ‘Shake the Frost’ and being like, ‘no no let’s go with the Applebees song’,” Bryan wrote referencing a well-known line in the catchy tune that spent more than six months at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart and hit the top 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Songs""(country now.com).  Bryan was basically saying that Walker Haye's "Fancy Like" song was mediocre enough to be played on radio stations, wherea...