04:192:200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Counterpoint, Cooperativeness, Refseq
30 Oct 2014
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Characters, letters, numbers, words, objects, people or actions that stand for or represent something besides themselves. Language: set of characters, or elements, and rules for their use in relation to one another. Illustrations of symbolic language: monetary system, morse code, braille. Through the use of technology, symbols can have permanence and significance apart from the situation in which they were originally used. Enables us to bridge time, transmit information from one generation to the next. The meaning of things, utterances etc. is worked out individually and in interaction, where meaning is negotiated and co-constructed. Second order: using learned symbols & meanings. No two of us attach precisely the same meaning to the messages around us. Due to commonness of cultural experience with other people, symbols and meanings become intersubjectified shared and standardized. The meanings we learn to attach to the symbols we use always reflect our own experiences.
