Myth today, Barthes says, is a message - not a concept, idea, or object. More specifically, myth is defined "by the way it utters its message", it is thus a product of "speech", rather than of "language". ... Other first order signs in this ad are the text, the bottle of Chivas. There is text just to the right of the woman's head that says: "Yes, God is man". ... The text "It just doesn't get any sweeter than this". ...

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For example, to achieve the reading comprehension we need to understand the information given by the text, for instance, we can identify where the agent and theme of the text or identify the tenses of text or sentences. As argued by Givon (1995 in Zhang, 2012) the grammatical knowledge is important to the comprehension of texts in that it is essential to coherence building, as well as to word integration for establishing propositional meanings that enable text model construction and integration (Fender, 2001; Kintsch, 1998; Perfetti & Britt, 1995 in Zhang 2012). ... This theory states, second ...

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SEMIOTICS Introduction When reading from a text or observing the world around us, words and images can convey different meanings to different people. ... As a result, mixed messages can be sent and received depending on who is interpreting the word or object. ... Signs convey meanings as well and often convey a message that words themselves would not convey. ... A difference in attitude can lead to confusion in the interpretation of signs and the meanings of messages. ... They communicate a message that is subject to interpretation. ...

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