Furthermore, how an entity is studied to be relevant within a structures’ entirety, such that how the connotations of an object change the appearance or meaning of the piece of a whole, not just the singular article. Intrinsically, the denotation if the visual, furthered by the connotation of what values, notions and ideologies are represented and expressed within the way in which it is represented. Symbolism, as expressed within the Symbolist manifesto is to metaphorically represent absolute truths. Jean Moréas alluded to an art in which all concrete phenomena cannot manifest themselves; but are sensible appearances to
(p 33) Berger and Luckmann believe that semiotics or signification is the primary means by which human beings categorise their subjective view of the world. They define a sign as anything that has an “explicit intention to serve as an index of subjective meaning.” (p50) These include gestures, body language, material artefacts, and the most important is language, which they say may be defined as “a series of vocal signs”. Language provides me with a ready-made possibility for the ongoing
IN this same article he states how he is a ethnographer who uses Gilbert Ryle's idea of thick description. He uses Ryles idea of “winx vs twitches” to explain how its in ethnographers job to not only state the facts but also to interpret these ideas into meanings of structure in a culture. He states how his ideas are linked to that of Max Weber who believes that humans create “webs of significance” and that these webs create meaning. Clifford Geertz explains how he believes culture is semiotic in that it is a public act people use to express themselves using symbols that have prescribed cultural meaning. In “deep play:notes on balinese cockfighting” Geertz explains how he became fluent in the language and gained trust with the people once he ran away from the cops when they came to end a fight.
In addressing the epistemic quality of rhetoric, Robert Scott has said, “rhetoric may be the art of persuasion, that is, it may be seen from one angle as a practical capacity to find means to ends on specific occasions; but rhetoric must also be seen more broadly as a human potentiality to understand the human condition” (quoted in Brock et. al, 1990, p. 143). What constitutes rhetoric, then, is human symbol use that results in knowledge-formation, including, but not limited to, persuasive discourse, appeals to memory and historical inquiry. With these three elements--persuasion, memory and history--a unique form of rhetoric exists in the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D. C. Unveiled and dedicated on July 27, 1995, the Korean War Memorial sits opposite the Vietnam War Memorial on the other side of the reflection pool. The Korean Memorial was erected partially due to pressure from Korean veterans who felt neglected after the 1984 construction of the Vietnam War Memorial.
Kennedy then goes on to say that visual literacy is the ability to construct meaning from images. He also tells us that it is not a skill but a form of critical thinking that enhances your intellectual concept. He also tells that The International Visual Literacy Association adopted Debes's (1969) definition of visual literacy. Our text book tell us the same thing but goes farther to state what the IVLA definition is which states [that it is a group of vision-related competencies a human being can develop by seeing, and at the same time, having and integrating other sensory experiences. [These competencies] enable a visually literate person to discriminate and interpret the visible actions, objects, and symbols that he [or she] encounters .
Hume and Kant – On Cause and Effect Compare and discuss the concept of causation as it appears in the philosophy of David Hume and Immanuel Kant. “Der ønskes en sammenligning af Hume og Kants analyse af årsagsbegrebet.” Units: 16.548 Introduction: This assignment has the goal of explaining and relating the concept of cause and effect as found in the philosophy of Hume and Kant. Causation is a vital concept to the human understanding of reality. Whether we will it or not it is as good as impossible to imagine the world without some notion of cause and effect. It is therefore not surprising that the grounding for this notion has been the subject of heavy debate.
A Journey across Metaphors In a TED Talk the speaker James Geary has claimed that “metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate, learn, discover and invent.” It can be argued that whenever we deal with ideas, emotions, feelings and thoughts, we inevitably resort to metaphor as a resource to conceptualise those abstract or complex ideas through association with simpler, tangible objects. Lakoff states in Metaphors We Live By that “metaphorical expressions in our language are tied to metaphorical concepts in a systematic way.” In other words, that metaphors form semantic networks which are deemed to constitute a coherent whole, so when analysed collectively, they suggest the existence of an underlying system. This can be exemplified by a set of metaphors connected to travel experiences, especially sailing and flying, which make reference to success, failure, uncertainty or mental states and have been selected to prove how Lakoff’s point can be applied to Argentinian culture. Firstly, metaphors related to flying can connote mental and emotional states. Throughout the 20th century, planes became a frequent means of transport within our society, and as a consequence, they were integrated in our everyday language.
Metaphors are described as rhetoric devices that compare two objects (abstract or physical) to show the similarity between one object to the other by creating a new idea using each of the objects elements (Britannica, 1990, p. 61). Structural and ontological metaphors are used within the article. The metaphor, ‘…the B team of religious celebrations’ (Deveny, 2008) indicates that it is a structural metaphor of which is one concept made in the condition of the other concept, as expressed by Marsden (2006, pg. 41). It is seen that in this metaphor there are two concepts, ‘B team’ and ‘religious celebrations’; one is inclined to process the meaning of ‘B team’ and then correlate it with another concept ‘religious celebrations’.
According to Bogdon and Biklen (2007), qualitative data take a narrative form, representing perspectives or interaction that is naturalistic or context-driven. Qualitative research has actual settings as the direct source of data and the researcher is the key instrument. He goes to the particular setting under study because he is concerned with context. Qualitative research is descriptive, the data collected take a form of words/pictures rather than numbers. The data include interview transcripts, fieldnotes, photographs, videotapes, personal documents, memos, and official records.
Conflictingly, its discourses connote more covert hierarchal and patriarchal power relations. With these I have taken issue and will hence propose, through textual intervention, an alternative invited reading which is that ‘actions have their consequences’. Language is a heterogeneous mass of articulations wherein each linguistic term, each sign, is a “two-sided psychological entity” (De Saussure, 1916: p. 964), composed of intimately united elements: the signified (concept) and the signifier (sound-image). The correlative qualities of arbitrariness and difference are what constitute a signifier whose value is acquired “only because it stands in opposition to everything that precedes or follows it” (De Saussure, 1916: p. 974). Moreover, signifiers follow Barthes’ ‘symbolic’ code and form ‘binary opposites’ or Levi Strauss’ ‘dyadic pairs’ which, like the tale in question, express hierarchies as one element of the dyad will be positively marked by society (in this case, the term on the left of the ‘/’) (Phillips, n.d.) (Barry, 1995: p. 46) (Klages, 2006).