Semiotics Essay The Swiss linguist "Saussure developed the original formal theory of the hidden, absent elements of language" (Lemert: 1993: 22) Saussure deluded that the relationship between an object we see and the language or word we associate with that object are arbitrary, the concept of signs was therefore created. ... The fact that the woman is in a red dress is also significant when reading this image in terms of semiotics: when a woman is portrayed as the object of desire or centre of attention she is often seen as wearing a red dress. ... That they will ooze sex appeal and be i...

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"Like all young men, he loved a dancing girl. Like all dancing girls, she betrayed him."" Son of the Sheik was produced in a time when the unknown was often a subject of intrigue and wonder to most Americans. It follows a love story, complicated by the differences in the lifestyles of the tw...

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In India first objects to represent feminine were terracotta figures. ... "Women in general, when seen in public places in all their layers of clothing, seemingly modest or only fashionably and conventionally uncovered, appeared as eroticized objects that called for a double vision: underneath the dress was that extension of white teeth, gloveless hands and secretly glimpsed ankles, that thing of beauty and desire.."... To posit "the phallic body" as the "true, enduring sex object of Western culture" in place of "any female version of beauty" is to radically alter the paradigms inherited from...

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Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of their success and affluence. ... In fact, since most American men rarely used their new tools, the possession of a "fetishistic tool" often served as the object of the hobby (57). ...

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This helps to illustrate the idea that the meaning of an object in general is created by society. ... This helps to illustrate the concept of gender identity, (the culturally constructed beliefs and behaviors associated with each sex), and how one simple worldview can lead to a whole host of assumptions based upon it. ...

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Language & Culture No one in other majors will be more sensitive than us about the relationship between language and culture since we are English majors. The exact nature of the relationship between language and culture has fascinated, and continues to fascinate, people from a wide variety of backgrounds. That there should be some kind of relationship between the sounds, words, any syntax of a language and the ways in which speakers of that language experience the world and behave in it seems so obvious as to be a truism. It would appear that the only problems deciding the nature of the relat...

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