The Communication Theory | Reader Edited by PAUL COBLEY R London and New YorkContents wledgements Paul Cobley 4 Emile Benveniste 5 VN. Volodinoy 6 Part Il MEANING’ LINGUISTIC LINGUISTIC “MEANING Ferdinand de Saussure 4D SUthat precede them. Barthes largely overlooks the 8 of meaning (allrough ne neve i this direst on w ine ‘objee's) anc Eco resets hs analyss to visuel components wrich Ie. ie a sores, not yet acded ino messsaes. It might be argued, ther, nat we can 's with the idee cf asua racresentstion we avcic ive power ag anelocon ard cansider the sombirations pute it win meeneg curther reusing Harand 193 cp. 3-12; Hartley “938 pp. 20-97 J. Palmer 4690 ap. 51-69; Star of el. 1992 9p. 26-68, Metz 1374; Eco 1986; Hodge 41088; Keess and van Leeuwen “992b: Kress 1994 pp 194-207 9 Roland Barthes Denotation and coimnotation STAGGERED SYSTEMS be remembered that any sysiem of i ‘plane of expression (E) and a plare of content significat on coincides &) of the two planes: ERC 1m ERC becomes in its sam a ‘or staggered. Bi ays dopendent u the peint of insertion of th tor into the second, and there ‘opposite sets. se (ERC) becores 1 fore it can resut int In the first case sion, or signifier, 2 lane of expres or vise: ( XC. This is the case which Hielmslev semiztcs; the first system is then tre plane of system iwider then the first) the plane of tated