COMN 3751 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Semiotics, Linguistic System, Connotation
20 Oct 2016
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Representation connects meaning and language to culture. Representation means using language to say something meaningful about, or to represent, the world meaningfully, to other people. Representation is an essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture. Involves use of language, signs and images which represent things. Does language simply reflect a meaning which already exists out there in the world of objects, people and events? (reflective) Does language express only what the speaker or writer or painter wants to say, his or her personally intended meaning? (intentional) Or is meaning constructed in and through language? (constructionalist) Representation is the production of meaning through language. To represent something is to describe or depict it; to place a likeness of it before us in our mind or in the senses (eg. this picture represents the murder of abel by cain)
