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    state between life and death, in his works and discusses their importance to depicting a heroic death. This chapter looks at Delacroix’s works, including Liberty Leading the People from, multiple approaches, including biography, social history, and semiotics. They begin by looking at Delacroix’s biography and his connection with the revolution he painted. McCann then goes into the social history by addressing not only those who participated in the revolution and are thus depicted in the painting, but

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    of communication are the following: rhetorical tradition, semiotic tradition, phenomenological tradition, cybernetic tradition, sociospychological tradition, sociocultural tradition and the critical tradition. (Littlejohn, 2008) The seven traditions have characteristics that distinguish them from the others and this distinction will be the main focus of this paper. The seven traditions of communication 1. Semiotic Tradition The semiotic tradition is a tradition is a tradition that most people refer

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    The Work of Representation

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    The Work of Representation Stuart Hall Summarize by Jesse Tseng 1 Representation, meaning and language At first we have to know that: Representation is an essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture. It does involve the use of language, of signs and images which stand for or represent things. And surly it is not a simple or straightforward process. How this article exploring the concept of representation connect meaning and language to

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    Introduction: Language can play many different roles in our day-to-day life. It’s a means of communication and a way of expressing our needs, wants, feelings and emotions. The purpose of this essay is to firstly highlight the important role language plays in every stage of a child’s life, while also examining the learning processes and cues that are used by children to understand written, oral and visual language. Secondly, discuss what it means for a child to be multiliterate in today’s society

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    LITERATURE REVIEW Theories included in the research were theory of representation, Barthes semiotics, Bühler Organon model, theory of advertisement discourse, and critical discourse analysis theory. Theory of representation is crucial here because the fundamental aim of the research is to look at how Indonesia is represented in the tourism advertisement to be further analyzed and criticized. Representation is one of central practices in a process named by du Gay, Hall et al. as the ‘circuit of culture’

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    Contemporary Adolescent Literature 14 October 2014 Semiotics of Gloves in Literature Culture varies throughout the world depending on where you are standing. One object in this part of the world could be a different symbol on the other side of the world, even within your own country. Symbols are everywhere but our culture is what defines it. Charles Sanders Pierce is an American philosopher who has written pieces on semiotics called Collected Papers. Pierce defines a symbol, as something

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    “The child has a hundred languages (and a hundred hundred hundred more)” Loris Malaguzzi, (Edwards, 1998) Language is everywhere, it’s in books, in our minds, in our bodies and in our communities. It’s used to express and communicate, to describe and analyse. In the poem “The Hundred Languages of Children.” Loris Malaguzzi (Edwards,1998), describes children as having, as the title dictates, a hundred languages but also a hundred hundred more. This quotes shows just how vast the concept of language

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    1. What is the transmission model of communication? Where does it come from? What does it do well in helping us understand the process of communication in everyday life? What are its limitations? The transmission model of communication as defined by James Carey is a process whereby messages are transmitted or sent and distributed over distance and into space for the purpose of control. The transmission model includes a sender on one end and a receiver on the other. In the middle is the median

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    Claire, is aimed at heterosexual females the other, Diva, at lesbian females. Now in order to make that simplistic statement I have already used semiotic information, for Diva the sub title "For the lesbian in you" was enough to give me a pointer, sorry signifier, in the right direction. For Marie Claire I relied upon my wife. The semiotic analysis I shall offer, will not include certain items which I have predetermined to be conventional, unless they subvert that convention in order

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    Most advertisements are consisted of pictures and videos, which are designed to propagandize the corporate image and do persuade to public, they always focus on rhetorical figures constructed from visual rather than verbal elements (Phillips & McQuarrie, 2004:114). Advertisement is ubiquitous and forms a vast superstructure with an apparently autonomous existence and an immense influence (Gottschalk, 1999:316). Consumers may learn inferences under the influence of communicators’ desire(O’Donohoe

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