Reflection (Page 850) In Ferdinand De Saussure's Course in General Linguistics, almost the entire reading from our assigned texts that is, has conventionally been summarized on page 850. Overall, Sassuare explains his analysis of language by describing it as a system of signs and comparing/contrasting words in a language to other words. He says that words are what they are because of what they're not, and language wouldn’t exist without sound-image. Saussure analized language as a system of linguistic signs that he used to explain the “..indefinite plan of jumbled ideas..” inside our minds (Saussure 856). Sassaure’s diction on page 850 really stuck out to me obviously because it's the first example of his strange thought process. His diction is rather strange at times, but I thought this page served as a great introduction of what type of “adventure” you're about to embark on trying to follow along and get inside of Sassaures head for the rest of this piece. For example, who characterizes language and speech as heterogenous or homogenous? What does that even mean? What is a speech-circuit? This definitely is NOT a book that you can read or should be able to read, process, and comprehend on a first read through.
On page 850, he explains what he considers to be the characteristic of language. He says that language is just a system for phonic images and were we’re first introduced to his obsession with sound image, “..auditory image becomes associated with a concept..”
This is a poem that problematizes ‘language’. “Language plays an altogether fundamental role in human thinking, and it bestows on man his unique ability
He uses it mostly with birds, but sometimes he uses it for Doug’s perspective on things. Doug describing the bird is very imaginable, “‘Don’t think of the bird as a flat image.”’ “‘Think of it the whole way around, even parts that you don’t see.”’ “‘Then think of how all the different pieces of the bird are working with or against each other.”’ “‘Think how the body of the bird wants to fall…”’ “‘And the wings want to keep it up”’(234). He shows imagery by the bird picture, descriptively saying how the picture looks. This is so the reader can really understand what is happening in the picture and how he’s explaining it. Doug explains things very deeply like, “There was still a little bit of light left in the summer sky, and the birds were having a riot before turning in” “A few stars starting up”(77). Doug is very observant with things and he describes them well so people know what he’s talking about.It’sa good thing to be descriptive. He also explains another bird, “And then you looked at the belly of the bird, which was spouting think red blood all over the dark feathers”(114). Doug is very descriptive about the bird he is describing and it can understood so that stuff that is happening in the bird picture is being imagined. Doug describing things very well and the imagery helps understand what he’s talking
The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the
From this point, he concludes that literature is concerned with symbolic action, that literary or mythological characters are typical, and that the world of poet imagery is “totally symbolic” (p. 75). He then moves to the principle of “literature as a whole” (p. 49): “you don’t just read one poem or novel after another, but enter into a complete world of which every work of literature forms a part” (p. 69). Hence there is a progressive element in the study and teaching of literature: as we read more works, we become able to generalize from our experience of literature.
In this article, he uses appropriate words that generally everyone will understand. For example: “superficial” “unprecedented” simultaneous.” He uses these words to make sure that his reader does not get lost; if they do not get lost, it is easier for him to convince them of his claim. He also uses sources to from Erick Kandel, Nobel prize winning neuroscientist in saying that, “only when we pay attention to a new piece of information are we able to associate it ‘meaningfully and
emotions felt by characters in the novel. His use of language in this way helps convey his
(1) “While music is changed to language, with the attendant change in meaning and while the obsession is still with bringing light and thus reason, the narrator is opening up the meaning with reference to “we” and to the emotional conditions of suffering and delight.” 1
He reasoned that our senses often misinterpret the physical world, e.g. we sometimes see things that aren’t actually there or perceive things differently from different distances.
life to draw a deeper connection to his point of view on language. He also uses juxtaposition a lot
Two, there are multiple lines in the song where imagery plays a big part. Visual, or any other form of imagery, is when you make the reader feel, see, touch, hear, or taste something,
Although Louis XIV, also known as Louis the Great, brought death and destruction through his wars, there are many positive aspects of his reign, such as the creation of Versailles and the building of France’s national army. He did what had never been done before. He changed the lifestyle and the attitude of France by creating one of the most powerful monarchies ever to be built and at the same time, reassured all the nobility and other wealthy groups of their political and social standings. He made it clear that he was the final decision maker yet he still needed the help of the nobility and other authorities.
aims his focal point at imagery to provide vivid and rich details. Literary devices play a crucial
Achille-Claude Debussy or Claude Debussy was a French 20th century composer known for his prominent role in impressionistic music. Debussy never described his pieces as impressionism as he disliked the term when it was associated with his music. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he and his family left for Paris in 1867 only to move to Cannes in 1870 to escape the Franco-Prussion war. Claude Debussy learnt to play piano from an Italian violinist by the name Jean Cerutti and later studied under a woman, by the name of Marie Mauté de Fleurville, who claimed to have been a pupil of Frédéric Chopin. In 1872 he was enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire and remained there to develop musically over the next 11 years. Debussy was infamous for his experimental nature breaking
In the Romano Pitesti case, Tickton-Jones’ Management Team is faced with a situation that is not altogether uncommon in the business world, in that some employees feel that members of the Sales staff are being given “special” treatment by the company. Romano’s actions have probably not been as bad as what has been described to Management, but due to the fact that employees are still trying to find their place in the new, combined company, any hint of “unfairness” is immediately put under a microscope by other employees, and therefore, Management will have to take some sort of action, in order to show the other employees that their concerns are being taken seriously.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte was written by Karl Marx a few months after the December 1851 coup d’etat of Louis Bonaparte in France. In this short text, Marx further examined the revolution of 1848 and the series of political reversals which eventually led to the coup. Marx views the coup as a consequence of sharp intensifications of class antagonisms in modern bourgeois society, which is the central idea of the theory of revolutionary change presented in the Communist Manifesto. Therefore, his analysis in the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte allows us to understand how his theory bears out in practice. However, in the latter text, Marx also made some adjustments to his theory. He went from a simple, bifurcate model consisting of only a dominating class and a dominated class to a more sophisticated understanding where he identifies the subgroups within the main groups, as well as the roles each of these factions played during the course of the revolution. In this paper, I will explain the revolution theory proposed by Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto, and how the theory was applied and adjusted in the Eighteenth Brumaire to make concrete historical sense of the events happened during the years between 1848 to 1851.