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Flashcards by Lisza Neumeier, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lisza Neumeier
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| Question | Answer |
| meaning and meaning-making communication model? Why does ambiguity arise? | • etymology: maenan (OE) = to think • simple communication model: speaker – says something to – listener sender – message – receiver addresser – message – addressee • Roman Jakobson: ambiguities arise because of inherent instability of language - therefore, communicatioon always involves interpretation, on all sides! |
| meaning and meaning-making interpretation process | |
| Literature as communication | Author communication with reader through medium/channel of literary text which functions as a message |
| Code? | linguistic code (in which piece of writing is written in); what kind of language and cultural code (things that help you in what kind of culture this is embetted in) also: narrative strategies |
| Culture and meaning What is culture? | Raymond Williams: social definition of culture 1. culture as a way of living 2. culture as a way of expression (performance: fashion, styling yourself, dancing) 3. culture as making and circulating meanings (closest to reading literary texts) |
| The circuit of culture | |
| Stuart Hall's leading question | What does it have to do with everything else? "Culture [...] is not so much a set of things – novels and painting or TV programmes and comics – a a process, a set of practices. Primarily, culture is concerned with the production and exchange of meaning – the 'giving and taking of meaning' – between the members of a society or group." -Representation 1977 |
| cultural meanings | • help us understand the world • define rules, norms and convenCons which structure our social reality (eg. you know when you have to switch your phone off, ..) • can be shared and/or in conflict (is it okay to have a quich sms under the table during lecture? Whether people look healthy, sick, stupid, etc.) (hard to agree on that) • can be in dominant or dominated (held by minorities, not ethnic, but minority position, maybe religious believe, political believe) • are constructed and perspectival (not natural. eg. That you have to stop when red traffic light – you've learned that, it's a construct of manhood) perspectival: depending on where you stand (in a room as well as in a society); always different perspective • are not natural or universal (=anti-essentialism) : red light in traffic means something different than red light on christmas tree • are contingent (depending on the context and changing with particular context) on time, place, and other factors • are context-specific cannot be entirely controlled (you can't controll the meanin |
| literary meanings | • have a variety of sources • are contingent on the reader's or critic's theoretical lens or perspective • are co-contructed between the sender, message and receiver • are not natural nor universal (whenever you read sth, think again..eg. irony) • are contingent on time, place and other factors • are negotiable and need to be open to debate |
| to remember for both | • Denaturalise what seems natural • Question what seems certain • Be sceptical of what appears normal • Always ask (with Stuart Hall): "What does it have to do with everything else?" |
| fictional - referential | about Literary Text fictional: eg. Harry Potter referential: refers to sth. BUT everything is kind of referential because if there wasn't some kind of reference to our world, the text wouldn't matter to us at all! links! eg. time machine: link between future that H.G. Wells pictures-> he wants to warn us. anyways, it is not the function of literature to point to sth. in the real world, but there is always a bit. Fictional aspect is the reason we read literature for. |
| What is a cultural product? | eg. Ö1, House of Cards, .. |
| We read and see what we know | • LeMer and word recogniCon; sign recogniCon • Structured knowledge: schemata, frames and scripts • Reading / perceiving what we know is faster and beMer remembered than reading what we don‘t know --> our mind works economically --> can it be trusted?? |
| Why studying culture for becoming a teacher? | Languages are contextualised in culture. |
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