... such as the ones made by the men in this extract would not be viewed as shocking. These stereotypical comments were in fact quite common and normal, not to say banal. What is noteworthy in this extract, however, is that the woman seems the least bothered by the somewhat irritating attitudes of those machos. It can even be argued that she ... ...

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... ) Saussure deluded that the relationship between an object we see and the language or word we associate with that object are arbitrary, the concept of signs was therefore created. Taking a banal example of a chair, the physical chair (signified), Saussure argued has no actual link to the word chair (signifier) that we connect it with but together they create a sign that is ... ...

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