January 23, 2009

Semiotics

semiotics



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符號學

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–noun (used with a singular verb) 
1. the study of signs 
and 
symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing. 

2. a general theory of signs and symbolism, usually divided into the branches of pragmatics, semantics, and syntactics


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It seems likely that the Harvard-educated Aronofsky would know Roland Barthes's essay on the semiotics of wrestling, which, among other things, discusses this "spectacle of excess" as a dramatic ritual of suffering and humiliation: "It is as if the wrestler is crucified in broad daylight and in the sight of all."


trope
any literary or rhetorical device as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony
the movie is a veritable scrapbook of [tropes] from the heyday of art film. 
The brief return to Israel at pic's end [contains] one rapid [visual] trope that may pass many auds by.
Umlaut








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