LLCU 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Semiosphere
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Eating and seeing; all the things linked to food and light => decipher by the diferent cultures. Metaphor will not be understood by many semiosphere. The fact of the light is shared within the culture (enlightenment) Metaphor can be verbal or no-verbal (physicals); the connection needs to be present. Myth plays an important role on how the universe is understood (this is a story telling which is fundamental to human being) Narrations are in every society (even organized crime groups have myth because it is linked with the origins that will give the standing) Mythological things are universal (what cannot be understood directly) They have an universal thing such as what is good and what is evil; they are constant via all the cultures. -in many ways by creating or having an idea of what is good and what is bad.