LLCU 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kill Uncle, Connotation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Languages, Literatures and Cultures
• Course: LLCU 200
• Professor: Donato Santeramo

Document Summary

Signs can be concrete (something that can be pointed) or abstract (something that does not exist, impossible to deine) Point something that can point out as connotation (heart -> love) / can be expressed as a metaphor. Connotation and metaphor: way to express something that otherwise would not be expressible. Speech: needs to have a sequence (compose of words) A. depending on the where it is (background) Concrete and abstract have three types: superordinant concepts: mammal, ordinary concept: monkey (standard concept, subordinate concept: chimp (speciic concept) Can have cultural and social connotation (way we relate to this depends on the cultural ideas); monkey can represent as a pet or zoo animal depending on the culture. Formulate the meaning that determined by the one semisphere. Synchronic : process that stays in the momentarily. Disynchronic process: perceive in today because certain things had happened (ex.