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This exploration of cultural codes in family narratives delves into how shared meanings are constructed through a systematic framework of signs and signifiers. It highlights the relationships between icons, indices, and symbols, using the concepts of diachronic and synchronic meanings to illustrate how experiences and traditions are understood over time. The significance of an engagement ring, for example, becomes a focal point for interpreting familial expectations and networks of understanding. By unpacking these layers, we can better make sense of the stories that shape our lives.
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Signs & Stories Codes and Semiotics in Family Stories
CULTURAL Code • Agreed-upon frame of reference • With a “grammar” (system of rules) • For making sense and expressing experience • Learned through experience
Signifiers & Signified • SIGN (icon, index, symbol) is the SIGNIFIER • OBJECT of ATTENTION is the SIGNIFIED • “(fire)” is the SIGNIFIED of the Index: Smoke • What is the SIGNIFIED of an engagement ring? • This network of relationships between signified and signifier is the CODE
Diachronic vs. Synchronic Meaning • DIACHRONIC—means across time • SYNCHRONIC—means at one point in time
SYNCHRONIC • When something is synchronic—it happens at one point in time, and therefore, it calls for us to make sense of it— • We use the grammar and our experience to do that
DIACHRONIC • It happens across time—which means it has been repeated…has occurred at least at two different points in time. • It is the BASIS for sensemaking—the way these events are related. • If it’s been repeated enough to trigger an EXPECTATION—the absence of the sign will cause dissonance and require sensemaking
