Examples of Binary Opposition.

Examples of Binary Pairs:

- Fast / slow

- Strong / Weak

- Tall / Small

- Good / Bad

- Wealthy / Poor

- Moral / Immoral

- Happy / Sad

- Male / Female

- Black / White

- Life / Death

- Calm / Moody

- Interesting / Boring

 

Structuralism - understanding semiotics through its opposite which is called the binary opposite.

Claude Levis Strauss and Roland Barthes developed this idea.

They realised that meaning can never reside entirely within a thing in itself, but only from a complete appreciation of a thing opposite ~ called its binary opposite.