ENGL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Literal And Figurative Language
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Little kid calls all small furry animals doggie because that is the only concept for small furry animals that he or she has. Maybe, but it"s not possible to *really* understand it without a word for it. It exists once you can put a name to it in a way it didn"t before. But you can know something exists and experience it without having a word for it. Having a word for something is necessary to communicate! We can describe things, but having a word for something simplifies communication. Words make concepts specific and concrete in a way that phrases can"t. They"re things that we decide to attach meaning to. Literature focuses on symbolism, figurative language, diction, etc. (how language works) Art focuses on how visual images work (shading, color, perspective, etc. ) Math is also representational (numbers represent concepts, etc. ) *culture a views white as representing purity; culture b views it as representing death.
