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1.
What theory did Roland Barthes come up with?
Answer: Semiotics
2.
What does Barthes\' Semiotics theory state?
Answer: Media texts communicate their meanings through signs and signals.
3.
At what levels do signs function?
Answer: Denotation - the literal or common-sense meaning Connotation - suggested implicit meanings
4.
What is it called when the connoted meaning created by signs becomes self-evident?
Answer: Naturalisation
5.
Who came up with the theory of Narratology
Answer: Tzvetan Todorov
6.
What does Todorov\'s theory of narratology state?
Answer: All narratives share a basic structure that involves movement from one equilibrium to another.
7.
What are the two stages of equilibrium separated by?
Answer: A period of imbalance or disruption
8.
What are the 5 stages of Todorov\'s theory?
Answer: 1. Equilibrium 2.Disruption 3. Recognition of disruption 4. Resolution 5. New Equilibrium
9.
Who devised Genre Theory?
Answer: Steve Neale
10.
What does Neale\'s genre theory suggest?
Answer: Genres may be dominated by repetition but are marked by change, variation, and difference. They borrow and overlap each other.
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