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Satanism: Inverted star, symbolizing the rejection of Christian Holy Trinity. Represents 4 elements and the Spirit. Sacred Art: Formed from a myriad of religious symbols. Needed this structure to convey the correct meaning. Art in this case is a symbol. To change the style of the symbol would be to change the meaning.
Sacred art and sacred space: The Sarcophagus of Lord Pakal book The symbols combined create a passageway through which Pakal passes to reach the Underworld and then be resurrected as a God. Made of brick and running along the stairway. Egyptian spacetime: With its orientation to the heavens, sacred space in Egyptian architecture represents a dimension where heavenly time reigns a sort of space time mix. To build a sacred space was to establish not only a spatial but also a temporal link with the heavens; it was a realization of eternity.
In the Old Kingdom all the construction work done by the state concentrated on the pyramid as the epitome of sacred space: a structure built for the king to touch and enter into eternity. Color: The separation of the color spectrum is cultural and arbitrary. Why do we have orange? Why not have only, perhaps, 3? The Yoruba of Nigeria Guinea Coast distinguish only these 3 colors: Funfun cool colors: white, silver, pale gray associated with wisdom and respect.
Pupa red, pink, orange, deep yellow Passion and pride. Dudu black, blue, purple, green dark browns, red- brown Cool, dark, warm. The colors on the crown are both hot and cool. This is necessary to symbolize the wisdom of a king to bring harmony and balance to the community.
Navaho: Turquoise blue is the ideal blue: Blue is the color of celestial and earthly attainment, of peace, of happiness, and success, of vegetable sustenance. Ancient Egypt: Faience a fired, man-made substance of crushed quartz and silica mixed with a bit of lime, ash and copper. Also a Turquoise blue.
A semi-precious material, beloved by the gods and goddesses. Time as Symbol: We organize our lives around seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, etc. Time is also arbitrary! Why 7 days in a week? Ritual usually goes hand in hand with time. Periodic Rituals Mayan calendar Egyptian calendar Chronotope: A timescale unique to a certain society History, time and reality are social constructs and symbolic forms that undergo specific shapings and weighings in every culture and in every age.
While the heathens wander around in circles … a calendar, punctuated by the rhythms of mornings, noons, and evenings, births and deaths, repeating themselves over and over again indefinitely. Christians move toward the consummation represented by redemption. The model for such cyclical congruence is the cosmos, with its orbital recurrence of astronomical, meteorological, and seasonal cycles. Hence the generation of cyclical time within society serves to harmonize the human order of things with the cosmic.
Page 31 of 52 Music as Symbol: Music as a symbol used to get across the desired meaning of a ritual. Meaning: Music that uses pitch, tone, speed, cadence, beat to convey and emotion like happiness in a culture not your own, may not necessarily evoke in your feelings of joy.
The reverse is also naturally true. In order to bridge the music symbolism gap between cultures, some artists are employing syncretism fusion of elements from 2 diff. Dance as Symbol: Many traditional religions use dance as a symbol to create meaning. The symbolism, therefore, gives universality to the characters and the themes of a piece of literature. Function of Symbol on Literature Symbolism in poetry is a sort of literary shorthand, used to convey deeper meanings than the words themselves would otherwise.
The metrical verse of poetry is chosen specifically because of the larger context and connections they can convey to the reader, who must make individual associations based on his or her own personal experiences. Symbolism allows this to take place in poetry by avoiding directly mentioning intent.
The poet attempts to evoke unique and strong feelings in the reader through symbolism in poetry, instead of direct statements that would limit its scope and the diverse reactions it could have on various audiences. A primary reason for poetry's ability to stimulate reactions in the reader is due to its use of symbolism, using far fewer words than prose.
This trait of poetry led to a widespread movement known as the Symbolism movement in France, Russia, and Belgium during the midth century. It was a popular transitional period that bridged the earlier Romantic period of the midth century, with Modernism and Surrealism movements in the arts of the early 20th century. Like the function of symbolism on literature, there are also a great function of symbolism on religion, economy, society and many other aspects of the society.
Importance of Symbolism When we like to communicate with others through small messages, we tend to make use of symbols. To communicate with others we need to formulate our thoughts into sentences by using either words or symbols. When we communicate through any small medium like short messages, most of us use short cuts or symbols to transfer the content and complete the communication process.
Symbols are used in order to create shorter and meaningful sentences. Different concepts are put in the form of meaningful sentences by the collection of letters and words. Numbers also represent certain concepts. Musical notes are also written as symbols and symbols form a major part of development of our civilization.
A symbol is used to tell or represent something else as it has relationship or resemblance with it. Symbol can be an object or represent that is invisible. Symbol is something that can give deeper meaning or it will extend the meaning of actual word or imparts a specialty to a written word by transforming it into powerful instrument. Symbolism is important in representing significant aspects like religion, mathematics, politics, color, architecture, advertising, and so on.
Page 33 of 52 Symbol provides more information than what is written about the object as its description. When a story is written, the actual theme of the story as well as the action in that story will be important at certain extent. Symbolism of some objects in the story at another level will enhance the main line of the story. For example, a strong conflict or high emotions can be symbolized as a storm or the transition from day to night, spring to winter can be symbolized using conversion of good to evil.
Flowers stand as symbolic to beauty. Using symbols to explain something very big will tell us everything in one shot. This type of story or novel writing using symbols will be helpful and easy. The usage of symbols will bring a lot of change in the conveyance of the meaning though symbols are very small and appear as little. Usage of symbols many times will result in confusion. Hence, symbols used appropriately will be helpful and import. Significance of Symbolism Symbolism has a great significance.
Some Significance of the Symbol of an Element:- 1. Symbol represents name of the element. Symbol represents one atom of the element.
Symbol also represents one mole of atoms of the element. That is, symbol also represents 6. Symbol represents a define mass of the element equal to atomic mass expressed in grams. Example of the Significance of Different kinds of Symbols Snowflake The Snowflake: The snowflake represents coldness and hardness in human nature, but also the fragile beauty of a snowflake symbolizes truth and wisdom. The snowflake is also a symbol of individuality, since no two are alike. The Snowflake symbolizes me very well in my opinion.
The world could use some more harsh truth, too often we seek to delude ourselves with comforting lies. It also represents my belief that we are all individuals and we are all unique, tying in with my contempt of conformity for the sake of popularity. Silver Silver: Linked to the moon because of its color, silver is bright, but also tarnishes, symbolizing the corruptible side of human nature, which needs cleansing. In China silver is the lunar, feminine yin: in Christianity it is purity, chastity, and eloquence.
The Vikings also held silver in higher regard than they did gold. This works well for me that while I am a quest for self purity, I must always fight the corruption in my soul that threatens to consume me at times. I have also preferred the night and moonlight over the sun and daytime.
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Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Privacy Policy. Password recovery. Mobile All Android iPhone. Anna Wierzbicka dedicates a chapter specifically to this very broad, stimulating and fun- damental question that is always standing somewhere in the background of work on verbal communication and which is as much about philosophy of concepts, ethnology and anthropology as it is about linguistics and verbal communication.
In her chapter, she carefully delineates what in language is culture-specific and what is not and thus is universal. She explains with sound examples and in de- tails how two levels of language universal and culture-specific are identifiable. Throughout the chapter, she shows how linguistic variation and non-variation has to be carefully balanced, far from ideologies that either challenge the existence of universals in the human language vocabularies and concepts or take intuitively some concepts to be universal by speculation without looking at actual linguistic data.
This divide is understandable since linguists will not think of differences of quality when study- ing language, but other scholars interested in communication will on the contrary think of quality as a major issue. Even the linguists interested in pragmatics will also mostly refrain from talking about quality, since what might happen in specific conversations in terms of quality will not be felt as being a question that regards the overarching principles of conversation in which they are primarily interested.
Nonetheless, a notion such as quality has direct connections with at least three concerns of lan- guage sciences: misunderstandings, deception with language, and communication in institutions where some warrants of efficacy are necessary and where relations of dominance are established. Total failure is relatively rare but approxi- mations and ambiguities often lead to local problems where asking for precisions or confirmations become necessary, in particular when competing contextual pie- ces of information might lead to different inferences or more simply when the lin- guistic meaning needs to be specified ad hoc and such precision is not salient enough from the context.
Such cognitive roots are taken into account by Steve Oswald, Didier Maillat and Louis de Saussure who address in the next chapter the notion of decep- tion and uncooperativeness in language. An introduction 19 cognition; the chapter explains that contemporary cognitive theories are being brought in the picture of malevolent communication in order to explain how falla- cious arguments can come to be efficient in real life.
Geert Jacobs, in the next chapter, shows how quality of communication is cen- tral to the life of institutions and how complex it is to find the right method of evaluation, from text-focused methods using general principles to expert-focused strategies as it stands for example when evaluating articles submitted to scientific journals and to reader-focused strategies where panels of readers are selected to represent the target audience and intuitively grade the quality.
The volume ends with two chapters dedicated to skills. John Green, addressing oral communicative skills, recalls how much the issue is a matter of concern since at least Antiquity in Egypt and Greece where treaties existed on techniques of per- suasion among which oral skills in the sense of eloquence and winning arguments.
He focuses on adult proficiency and explains in the chapter why oral skills do indeed matter, in relation to their various functions in communication, and that deficits in these skills, which are observed between individuals, have specific sour- ces and that proficiency can be improved notably through conscious and moni- tored practices.
Mary Jo Reiff considers in her chapter on written communication skills that these skills are connected to rhetorical genres and to the ability or capac- ity to manage them appropriately for the envisaged ends.
Her chapter presents the state of the art of the research on writing skills and looks at the cognitive and social dimensions they involve; particular attention is paid to social contexts and the social factors that influence writing practices, typically in the workplace, with an eye to the ideologies that get involved in these practices for example, she re- lates a case study that showed how letter writers in insurance companies tend to adapt their practices to their position of power, making use of the classical strate- gies identified by Critical Discourse Analysis in order to maintain that position.
The chapter also elaborates considerations on written communication skills improve- ment and teaching. References Barthes, Roland. Communications 16 1. Craig, Robert T. The Speech Tradition. Communication Monographs Jacobs, Scott. Language and Interpersonal Communication. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Limoges: Editions Lambert-Lucas.
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