Media Studies A-Level
Literal referent
What Literal referent means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Literal referent
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What is shown or said in the most straightforward reading of a sign, stated before moving to connotation.
Topics that use Literal referent
- Semiotics - Barthes' ideas and theories on semiotics (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Connotation
- Cultural association
- Denotation
- Denotation and connotation
- Myth
- Naturalisation and ideology
- Second-order meaning
- Sign analysis
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