Name : Ines Margaretha Sitompul

Nim : 200705063
Semiotic
A Class
September, 28th 2022
QUIZ (topic on Saussure’s Semiotic)

1. Ferdinand de Saussure is important to literary theory because

a. he liked to read
b. he wrote many poems
c. he explained that language is meaning-making
d. he wrote literary criticism

2. What is semiotics?

a. The study of signs

b. The study of language
c. The study of symmetry
d. The sounds that we make

3. Which word most accurately describes la langue?

a. Speech
b. Language
c. Long
d. None of these words describes la langue.

4. What is the relationship between the signified and the signifier?

Answer : The relationship between the signifier and the signified is referred to 'signification'
According to Saussure, the relation between the signifier and the signified is “arbitrary”. there is
no direct connection between the shape and the concept (cf.Bussmann 1996) for example, there
is no motivation behind why the letters C-A-T (or the sound of these phoneme) create precisely
the picture of the little, tamed creature with hide, four legs and a tail in our brains. It is an
aftereffect of ‘tradition’ speakers of the same dialect bunch have consumed (and realized) that
these letters or sound summon a specific picture.