Lecture1 : Review: Last week we talked about interpersonal communications. Gofman’s argument that people put on a front or a face. Comm is dramaturgical. Different circumstances call for different aspects of yourself to be brought into the public sphere. We all know that everybody is putting up a front and acting. It is in the acting that society comes together and is able to live together. Gofman is continuation of Katz two step flow‚ role of opinion leaders‚ and importance of people in comm
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Ferdinand de Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure (/sɔːˈsʊr/ or /soʊˈsʊr/; French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century.[1][2] He is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics.[3][4][5][6] One of his translators‚ Emeritus Professor of Linguistics (Oxford University)‚ Roy Harris‚ summarized Saussure’s contribution to linguistics and the study
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Semiotic and Ideological analysis of ‘Extraordinary Measure’ - Directed by Tom Vaughan. Valentin Voloshinov declared: ’Whenever a sign is present‚ ideology is present too’ (Voloshinov 1973‚ 10). Signs do not merely reflect reality but involved in its construction; therefore those who control the sign systems also control the construction of reality. Film a media text‚ uses visual imagery to tell specific stories to promote specific ideologies. This essay will explore the film with the use
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Dainy Daniel Mrs. Susan George B.A. English Hons.(II-B) 20 April 2015 Structuralism is an idea based on the belief that all human understanding is built out of a structure. Every structure also has a deep structure as well as an origin. Origin is complex and articulated. The structuralist believed center is immobile‚ static‚ controlling‚ all powerful‚ balanced point which controls the structure from playing. The center can be anything universally accepted (God‚ Being‚ presence‚ truth or man himself)
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Gerard Genette: Structuralism and Literary Criticism What is structuralism? How is it applied to the study of literature? Structuralism (Structuralist Criticism): It is the offshoot of certain developments in linguistics and anthropology. Saussure’s mode of the synchronic study of language was an attempt to formulate the grammar of a language from a study of parole. Using the Saussurian linguistic model‚ Claude Levi-Strauss examined the customs and conventions of some cultures with a view of
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A. Introduction Background In this paper‚ the topic I would like to discuss deeper is the inconsistency of the text. That’s because the inconsistency can be seen and analyze in many form inside of the text. The inconsistency can be seen in the form of the contradictory words or phrases‚ and also from the shifts or instability in the continuity of text. The text which I will use in this paper is the song lyric. The title is “Come Undone” sang by Robbie Williams. This song was written by Robbie Williams
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Roland Barthes was a French philosopher‚ linguistic‚ critic and theorist. He was also the first begins systematically to think through the intellectual changes in the study of fashion and clothes. His fashion theory has a close relationship to his structuralism and linguistic knowledge‚ and defined fashion‚ clothes their origins and functions within the system. First of all‚ Barthes saw fashion as a whole system. Based on the article‚ system has been defined as ‘a group or set of related materials
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Gerard Genette writes at the outset in his essay ‘Structuralism and Literary Criticism’ that methods developed for the study of one discipline could be satisfactorily applied to the study of other discipline as well. This is what he calls “intellectual bricolage ’‚ borrowing a term from Claude Levi-Strauss. This is precisely so‚ so far as structuralism is concerned. Structuralism is the name given to Saussure’s approach to language as a system of relationship. But it is applied also to the study
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In regards to this thought in relation to structure it suspends the assumed connection between mind and meaning with the understanding that method provides us with object to join them (Norris‚ 2002). In early writing Barthes and others present structuralism as a code of language. In 20th century linguistics this form of understanding can no longer be the definitive outcome to interpret meaning due to the variety of language and culture fusing together. From this understanding we can recognise how
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STRUCTURALISM is a theoretical paradigm emphasizing that elements of culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger‚ overarching system or structure. It works to uncover all the structures that underlie all the things that humans do‚ think‚ perceive‚ and feel. Alternately‚ as summarized by philosopher Simon Blackburn‚ Structuralism is "the belief that phenomena of human life are not intelligible except through their interrelations. These relations constitute a structure‚ and
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