LLCU 200 - Week 3 questions with 100%
correct answers
Textuality
the word "teacher" - correct answer ✔✔- The characteristics that define a text.
- In semiotics, a text is an expanded range of references.
- Encodes a larger picture of reality.
- The word "teacher" is connected to other referents in such a way that a broader representation takes
place. Weaving together signs, sign elements and other meaning cues in order to express a complex
notion(s).
- Textuality encapsulates complex notions.
- text is not really just an addition of all the meanings in the text
ex. a book isn't just all the words, it means something else
- Texts involve a specific kind of interpretation of a work of literature, a building, a style of clothing, etc.,
as a whole.
Clothes as a text
- dress code - correct answer ✔✔We interpret what we wear as signs: personality, social status,
character—for example, dressing in a certain manner for a job interview to be perceived in the way you
want to be perceived.
- all articles of clothing are signifiers that creates signified that someone is serious and reliable
, - dress code used to be gendered
Textuality - four discourse codes - correct answer ✔✔Specialized: use of specialized vocabulary: doctors,
lawyers, mechanics etc. - words and abbreviations others wont understand
Common: every day common speech habits, school, media discourse etc. - slang but only if you belong
to that semiosphere
Ritualistic: used in rituals and rites-religious, political, organized crime etc. - what does smthn mean
when the mafia is talking to u
Critical: reflects power relations and ideologies, conservative discourse, Marxist discourse etc..
Intertexuality - correct answer ✔✔paratext, architext, metatext, hypotext, hypertext, subtext
The basic structure of narrative for Greimas, consists of: - correct answer ✔✔•A subject (the hero of the
plot)
•An object (that is desired by the hero)
•An opponent (a villain, a false hero)
•A helper (a sidekick, a device - i.e., motorcycle, plane etc.)
•A dispatcher who gets an object from a sender
•And gives it to a receiver
Leading to a conclusion - although open conclusions are becoming much more popular in narratives.
discursiveness - correct answer ✔✔- Discursiveness - Only thoughts which can be arranged in a peculiar
order (syntax) can be expressed at all.
- Punctuation also plays a great role in creating meaning, e.g., Let's eat Grandma!
Susan Langer: Laws of reasoning/discursive thought - correct answer ✔✔1. I can know what I can ask
correct answers
Textuality
the word "teacher" - correct answer ✔✔- The characteristics that define a text.
- In semiotics, a text is an expanded range of references.
- Encodes a larger picture of reality.
- The word "teacher" is connected to other referents in such a way that a broader representation takes
place. Weaving together signs, sign elements and other meaning cues in order to express a complex
notion(s).
- Textuality encapsulates complex notions.
- text is not really just an addition of all the meanings in the text
ex. a book isn't just all the words, it means something else
- Texts involve a specific kind of interpretation of a work of literature, a building, a style of clothing, etc.,
as a whole.
Clothes as a text
- dress code - correct answer ✔✔We interpret what we wear as signs: personality, social status,
character—for example, dressing in a certain manner for a job interview to be perceived in the way you
want to be perceived.
- all articles of clothing are signifiers that creates signified that someone is serious and reliable
, - dress code used to be gendered
Textuality - four discourse codes - correct answer ✔✔Specialized: use of specialized vocabulary: doctors,
lawyers, mechanics etc. - words and abbreviations others wont understand
Common: every day common speech habits, school, media discourse etc. - slang but only if you belong
to that semiosphere
Ritualistic: used in rituals and rites-religious, political, organized crime etc. - what does smthn mean
when the mafia is talking to u
Critical: reflects power relations and ideologies, conservative discourse, Marxist discourse etc..
Intertexuality - correct answer ✔✔paratext, architext, metatext, hypotext, hypertext, subtext
The basic structure of narrative for Greimas, consists of: - correct answer ✔✔•A subject (the hero of the
plot)
•An object (that is desired by the hero)
•An opponent (a villain, a false hero)
•A helper (a sidekick, a device - i.e., motorcycle, plane etc.)
•A dispatcher who gets an object from a sender
•And gives it to a receiver
Leading to a conclusion - although open conclusions are becoming much more popular in narratives.
discursiveness - correct answer ✔✔- Discursiveness - Only thoughts which can be arranged in a peculiar
order (syntax) can be expressed at all.
- Punctuation also plays a great role in creating meaning, e.g., Let's eat Grandma!
Susan Langer: Laws of reasoning/discursive thought - correct answer ✔✔1. I can know what I can ask
