ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kings Domain, Conceptual Metaphor, George Lakoff
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October 15th 2014: the sign, the speech act, and the metaphor. Nature of the linguistic sign, in susan d. Different speakers may have different ideas about what is being signified by the word beauty . In english, they are words, sheep being the animal and mutton is the meat. Whereas, in french, mouton is used for both sheep and sheep meat: all signs rely on differences to make meanings. Instead of insisting that a sign, a signifier or a signified represents the signified perfectly, there are some politically and emotionally contested places where that might not hold true: for ex. A map of india does that map represent the country, the state, does it represent the country after the partition or before the partition. What is a map of canada and what does it claim to represent: map of canada being a signifier and some idea of the nation or.
