Over the years, there has been a lot of researches made on Media. Numerous people has been coming up with models, hypothesis, approaches, theories and so on. All of these are for its scope and general principles to be established by the semiotics’ theorists. Out of all of those, I shall be discussing about Semiology. Why? Why do I choose ‘Semiology’ out of so many? In the generation we live in today, one of the most used forms of media is through visuals. Media aims to catch the attention of the
This reformed theology emphasizes the importance of the sovereignty of God and how everything else in life is connected to it. Kuyper was inspired by Orr’s works and his Christian thinking. Kuyper focused much on modernism and how scriptural thought and other aspects of life are connected to
your own experience? What aspects of the lecture conflict with your own experience? First, the importance of choosing the right celebrity mentioned in Pringle’s 2012 article and in the textbook seems especially relevant to me. The example of sportsmen scandals and how it impacted brands shows the potential drawbacks a brand may experience due to celebrities’ misbehaviours. Second, the influence of semiotics on consumers perception illustrates how I, or any other consumer with the same demographic and
representation and race, I will discuss the strengths and limitations of representation in the film 12 Year A Slave and how the characters in 12 Years A Slave differ from typical slave stereotypes in western films. Also, this paper shall discuss importance of representation in historical period dramas. 12 Year A Slave is a critically acclaim film adaption of the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a born free African –American from Saratoga, New York who was kidnapped in Washington in 1841 and sold into
and Mr. Abdullah Ariff were both accepted to be part of the Penang Impressionist. Penang Impressionist was an artist group formed by expatriate European. Although at first this group refused to accept any non-white member, they cannot deny the importance of having both Mdm. Lim as well as Mr. Abdullah Ariff to their group. Mdm.Lim was accepted because of her status meanwhile, Mr. Abdullah Ariff was accepted because of his great talent in art. Other important pioneers of art activities in Penang
nostalgia to previous eras in which education and knowledge were prominent and valued in the Islamic world. The tool that fits best in analysing this work is art history because since only arabic letters are used, iconological and ideological as well as semiotic and formal analyses wouldn’t be appropriate. Art history can analyse this work in terms of tracing how Arab-Islamic calligraphy had developed to this stage. Now we turn to the work of Chinese Calligraphy. The work is called Willow Tree by Jin Nong
Name Date Subject Instructor About the Story The story Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne poses different battles between good and evil between the characters of the story. In fact, the author uses various symbolic elements within the flow of the story until it reaches the climax of it. Thus, it relates to the reader that sin cannot be avoided as this is part of humanity, as such no one is deemed perfect as everyone already committed sin. The thesis statement for this paper is that evil cannot
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prayut Chan-o-cha’s Speeches of Elections and Reforms Rachayanandhana Phraekhao 5406610039 1 Introduction Politics is a struggle of power in order to put certain political, economic and social ideas into practice. In this process, language plays a crucial role. Every political action is prepared, accompanied, influenced and played by language. This paper analyses the political discourse of General Prayut Chan-o-Cha, the Prime Minister of Thailand who gave the
In critical studies of media discourse , Van dijk is mostly referenced and quoted amoung CDA practitioners and is even referenced in studies that do not necessarily fit in CDA perspective (e.g. Karim, 2000; Ezewudo, 1998). In 1980s, with the focus on the representation of ethnic groups & minorities in Europe , he started his discourse analysis theory to media texts. In his News Analysis (1988), Dijk inegrated his general theory of discourse to the discourse of news in the press, and applied his
American politics. Thus, composers create texts that obtain the potential to shape meaning and produce provocative insights, to ultimately draw a desired response through the representation of people and politics. Within the mediums of production, semiotics and semantics plays a crucial role