ENGL 2005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phoneme

• School: Carleton University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2005
• Professor: Jody Mason

Document Summary

Basi(cid:272) (cid:858)gi(cid:448)e(cid:374)s(cid:859) of e(cid:454)iste(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:894)ge(cid:374)der ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455), selfhood(cid:895) are contingent [dependant on/related to] categories rather than absolute ones. All thinking is influenced by prior ideological commitment. Meaning in a literary text is contingent, subject to change. Distrust of (cid:858)totalizi(cid:374)g(cid:859) (cid:374)arrati(cid:448)es: metaphor of chicken and egg. Liberal humanism: concerned about the egg (text as autonomous meaning) Structuralism: more concerned with the chicken (structures surrounding the text) Major conclusions: (cid:862)u(cid:374)(cid:373)oti(cid:448)ated sig(cid:374)s(cid:863): (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)gs are ar(cid:271)itrar(cid:455, (cid:862)paradig(cid:373)ati(cid:272) (cid:272)hai(cid:374)s(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)differe(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:374)g (cid:374)et(cid:449)ork(cid:863): (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)gs are relational, la(cid:374)guage (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitutes our (cid:449)orld: po(cid:449)er of la(cid:374)guage to (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)t realit(cid:455) (cid:894)(cid:858)terrorist(cid:859) (cid:448)s (cid:858)freedo(cid:373) fighter(cid:859)(cid:895) Meaning is always attributed by the human mind and then expressed through language. Language is what we have to make sense of the world (cid:862)nature of the linguistic ign(cid:863) (1916) Concept/picture of the tree in the human mind = absolutely related to the word we use to name it and mutually informing. That (cid:858)(cid:449)ord(cid:859) does(cid:374)(cid:859)t des(cid:272)ribe innate characteristics, its established by convention.