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    Ditewig-Morris in her article corroborates Tania Modleski’s notion that a recurring and curious semiotic binary exists in Hitchcock’s work when he presents “woman-in-glasses” which signify an aberrance in female spectatorship and also the auteur’s quiet admiration for

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    The belief that gender roles are inherently biological is a cultural fallacy‚ which can lead to an inability to effectively communicate when we do not assess each individual’s personality. Research of this topic is necessary in order to learn how to completely understand how to communicate. When trying to communicate with an individual there are more variables than simply gender that need to be assessed. However‚ there are many ways that society implies that this is not necessary. Our society has

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    ways to convey the ideas. By using different modes and abstraction as a way to portray something in new ways it becomes more approachable. “Visual images‚ design elements‚ written language and photography for example all use different material and semiotic resources to represent meanings” (Serafini). No mode is able to capture a concept entirely‚ each medium will have different strengths and weaknesses. By combining many mediums and embracing each one’s own strengths‚ Amorales creates an exhibit that

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    connotations: for instance‚ sexual connotations. ’Is there any such thing as a single entendre?’ quipped the comic actor Kenneth Williams (we all know that ’a thing is a phallic symbol if it’s longer than it’s wide’‚ as the singer Melanie put it). In semiotics‚ denotation and connotation are terms describing the relationship between the signifier and its signified‚ and an analytic distinction is made between two types of signifieds: a denotative signified and a connotative signified. Meaning includes both

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    Submitted to: Dr. Serwat Rasul Prepared by: Basharat Rasheed Mirza‚ MPhil. Linguistics‚ NCBA & E‚ Gujrat. Contents • Introduction • Objectives • Literature Review ▫ The Term: Discourse ▫ The Term: Discourse Analysis ▫ Multimodal Discourse Analysis ▫ Semiotic Analysis • Data and Research methodology • Data Analysis • Conclusion • References Introduction • DA has emerged as a separate discipline and a significant field in linguistics. • The field of DA is so vast that other disciplines like Sociology

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    distinct from those of other sellers’. (1) The discussion of this essay will be to analyse two chosen brands‚ the brands being ‘Apple’ and ‘Coca-Cola’‚ then a comparison of the brands will be undertaken. Analysing the semiotics of these brands will help to better understand them; semiotics can be defined as ‘Regarding symbolism and how people interpret meaning from words‚ sounds‚ and pictures.’ (2) Emotional and psychological aspects will also be discussed‚ as well as the brands symbolic and cultural

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    (London and New York: Routledge) * Michael Burke * David Crystal. 1998. Language Play (London: Penguin) 1985 * Roger Fowler. 1996. Linguistic Criticism‚ 2nd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 1995 * MAK Halliday. 1978. Language as Social Semiotic: The Social Interpretation of Language and Meaning (London: Edward Arnold) * Brian Lamont * Geoffrey Leech and Michael H. Short. 1981. Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose (London: Longman) * A McIntosh and P

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    Conflict theory[edit] Main article: Conflict theory Functionalism aims only toward a general perspective from which to conduct social science. Methodologically‚ its principles generally contrast those approaches that emphasize the "micro"‚ such as interpretivism or symbolic interactionism. Its emphasis on "cohesive systems"‚ however‚ also holds political ramifications. Functionalist theories are often therefore contrasted with "conflict theories" which critique the overarching socio-political system

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    It is the most interesting and innovative approach to history. The pathfinder of the field was the German Historian George G Igger. He developed it as a methodology in 1970’s to counter the traditional methodology of Social sciences. The basic objection of him was that through the traditional methodology it is not possible to know the concrete reality of small scale life. The small scale life refers to the Anthropological‚ Cultural‚ Sociological‚ Political‚ Economic and all other inclusive

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    literature is used to question the meaning of community‚ to explore conflict and further analyse the cultural semiotics of a community.In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”‚ community creates a segregation between personal semiotics and communal tradition.Communities require the evolution of the forbidden to forge the prospering of cultural semiotics and acceptance of ‘otherness’ influences.This essay explores the aspect of exclusion within a community; continuing

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