Semiotics

spiritual signifiers in The Book of Margery Kempe. We all know of Kempe’s “gift of tears,” of her ecstatic visions, her commitment to wearing white and creating a chaste marriage for herself. However irritating these signifiers may be, at first read the semiotics appear to be stable. Kempe cries readily when free association brings to mind the earthly life of Christ; she details a concierge Christ figure who is available to satisfy her emotional and practical needs; Kempe wears white despite…

Dress, body language, and appearance are all semiotic elements of business communication related to ETHOS (the credibility and identity of the speaker). How does self-presentation work in writing? Dress, body language and appearance are easy ways to garner positive first impressions. People will make…

year spent in school on an island, I began to adapt its social culture from a young age. I never quite understood as a girl, why my grandmother and my elders made certain faces without saying a word. Symbolically, now what I learned to be linked to semiotics, I realized they were communicating with me. As I grew older, I began to understand the intrapersonal communication that had unknowingly been established. I could tell when my aunts or uncles were upset, without them saying a word because I…

extent, can be seen as a set of discourse (Pearson, Moje, & Greenleaf, 2010; Willington & Osborne, 2001, p. 1), the discipline-specific “language-in-use” (Bloome & Clark, 2006) or languaging (Bloome & Beauchemin, 2016) featured with all kinds of semiotic systems (Lemke, 2001). In this chapter, the authors start with a reconceptualization of science literacy and proceed to discuss why science literacy matters and why discourse in various forms matters to science literacy. Then, drawing on their…

declare our own identity. Chapple and Kattenbelt have stated the essential element in theatre, ‘Theatre can happen in anywhere and any art forms as long as the performers and audiences are present at the same time, in which they also employ the same semiotic code in one space’ (Chapple and Kattenbelt,20). Therefore, I believe the display of football stadium has…

Jean Genet’s Les Bonnes, in english: The Maids, is a timeless piece about servitude, fantasy and murder. A man in and out of jail, Genet wrote his first poem and novel behind bars, eventually escaping a life sentence thanks to a petition to the french president backed by prominent names such as John Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and Jean Paul Sartre[], who wrote an invaluable and insightful introduction to Genet’s plays Les Bonnes and Deathwatch which this essay uses to analyse Les Bonnes. It is not…

communicates the location of flowers a language? Do animal in general have language ? Should the songs of chickadees be counted as a language insofar as thay indicate the type, distance, and number of potential predators? (…) How do language relate to semiotic system in general, including codes and other systems of signs? Is music a form of language? (…) Even assuming one could satisfactorily narrow the definition of language to conscious oral communicative system of human beings, many…

Language plays an important role in a child’s intellectual, emotional and social development. Language can be both seen and heard. Language is a guide to social reality (Sapir, 1949). For example, body language, sign language and the social convention about how to combine words, express and connect ideas to interact with other people. All language including written, visual and spoken developed from cultural and social contexts and understood in people's social and cultural background (Green,…

All humans bring a unique set of qualities which impact how they learn. How to accommodate these idiosyncrasies is an important factor in effectively facilitating learning. The subjects of learning and teaching are paramount in many fields of study such as education, business, science and politics. This short list only comprises a small number of the many possible examples of learning and teaching applied to our world. No matter the field or focus of study, a better understanding of how…

Multimodal text are referred as combination of two or more semiotic system, for example, a webpage with sound effects, music, written language, oral language and moving images/stills are combined can be delivered by educator through technologies or media (Anstey & Bull, 2010). Enhancing access to ICT in early childhood…