Semiotic Theories

This is the first time that i was introduced to semiotic theories. in fact i had never even heard of this before. At first i was completely confused with Saussures theory and the meaning behind it. i guess i had never realized that symbols and signs could be completely different and that there were even 2 parts to a sign. i have never learned anything about language and its importance until now. what made things more clear to me was reading the semiotic theory accoridng to Charles Sanders Pierce. I understood his theory of triads which include signs, interpretnets and objects. In the analysis of his third triad, the object, it is stated taht there is a crucial distinction betweeen experience and thought. I found this to make the most sense, especially after the two words were defined...experience being a world of things with no intellectual access to them and thoughts being only a way ok knowing. I further liked the idea of man being the product of language. esentially, we are the sign and we create language in our own mind. This idea made me think back to prior class discussions and how each of us have our own view and our own meaning of incidents based on our own experience. i felt that i could most clearly understand this theory.