Communication, Semantics, and Signs: A Comprehensive Guide
UNIT 1: COMMUNICATION
1.1 Definition
Communication is an act whereby an individual (human, animal, or object) provides one or more other contacts that let you transmit certain information.
Elements of Communication
- Issuer: Subject to the act of communication occurs.
- Referring: The extra-linguistic reality referred to by the message communication.
- Joint Signs: Code, interrelated, and rules of construction, available to the sender and receiver.
- Message: Result of coding, carrier of information, or the amount
Forms of Linguistic Expression
Unit 5: Forms of Linguistic Expression
Communication
The concept of communication has two aspects:
- Content: The message itself.
- Expression: The form the message takes.
These are forms of expression:
Description
This is a picture drawn with words. In the description of a person, when it refers to physical features, it’s called prosopography, and when it refers to moral traits, it’s called etopeya. The description uses the adjective, whose function is to identify concrete and abstract qualities of the noun
Read MoreAnalysis of Miguel Hernandez’s Poetry
CHILD Yuntero
This poem tells the story of a very poor young man who owns only one ox and a plow.
Metric Analysis:
- Consists of 15 verses and 60 lines.
- Uses eight-syllable verses.
- Employs consonant rhyme with an ABAB rhyme scheme (chained rhyme).
- The type of art is minor, with 15 quatrains.
Expressive Resources:
- “Meat yoke” is a metaphor.
- “Was born, as the tool” is a comparison.
- “An olive-colored soul” is synesthesia.
- “To live” and “to die” create an antithesis.
- “Life as a war” is another comparison.
- The beginning
Language and Linguistics
Item 1: Language
Basic Units of Language
- Phoneme: The smallest unit of sound representing language.
- Syllable: Consists of one or more phonemes that are pronounced in a single broadcast voice.
- Morpheme: The minimum unit endowed with meaning.
- Word: The union of one or more morphemes, with which we get a complete lexical unit of meaning.
- Syntactic Group or Phrase: A word or group of words connected by relationships that have meaning and serve a whole.
- Statement, Phrase, and Sentence: The minimum communication
Ode to Autumn by John Keats: Analysis and Summary
Ode to Autumn by John Keats
Voice
The poem is written in the second person, as the poet directly addresses autumn.
Mood
The dominant mood is melancholy, reflecting the transition from summer’s fullness to the approaching cold of winter.
Theme
The poem exalts the fullness of maturity, praising the beauty and abundance of autumn.
Structure and Parts
The poem is divided into three stanzas, each eleven lines long, written in iambic pentameter.
Part 1 (Lines 1-11): Focuses on the maturity and fullness of autumn.
Read MoreAnalysis of Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn – Keats
Voice
The third stanza is in second voice, because the poet talks to somebody: the trees, the melodist/musician, and the lover (“Ah, happy, happy boughs!”, “Ah, happy, happy melodist”, “More, happy love!”). He is addressing the various elements on the urn and praising them and its beauty. The fourth stanza is also in second voice, as he refers to the priest (“O, mysterious priest”) and the town (“And, little town, thy streets for evermore…”).
Mood
The mood is one of admiration
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