The signifier is the image, whether it is sound, visual, etc. ... Saussure's model shows that the signifier is the sound image (spoken word), or multiple spoken words, and the signified is the concept being portrayed by those words. ... Barthes" semiotic theory looks for a cultural meaning of nonverbal signs such as text, sound, images, and artifacts. ... (Barthes 1972) "Semiology - the close analysis of process of meaning by which the Bourg Mythologies is, superficially at least, a rather puzzling title for a book concerned with the meanings of the signs that surround us in our every...

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Language uses symbols (words) which are given sounds varying from culture to culture. ... Each language has its own sounds and rules for using their symbols. ... There are five major functions of non-verbal communication that can be found on pages 170-171 in the book. ...

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We can make computers that are almost human; they can book our flights, beat most of us at computer games, work the stock market, even write poetry and compose music. ... We use it from the time we wake up to the sound of our alarm clock radio to the time we turn on the news before we go to bed. ...

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In this book we say a group of indigenous people struggle with tourism. ... I know that sounds pretty trivial since my view on indigenous people has been changing over the semester, but I saw the Huaorani as smooth and almost charismatic people who seemed to not worry so much about things. ...

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I was working in the auto sales industry for a time and I watched as many young couples and families sat in the finance manager's office and actually reworked their home/family budget just to get a nicer sound system in a car that was already costing them twenty percent or more of the monthly income for payments. ... (p. 998) Let's look at two other definitions of the term "ethnic": an ethnic group is a collective within a larger society having real or putative common ancestry, memories of a shared historical past, and a cultural focus on one or more symbolic elements defined a...

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I don't need to elaborate on this... if you don't know about the direct effect war had on the music of the 1960s (ergo, the music of today), go read a book. ... Cookie Monster-sounding Death Metal bands aside, there are a whole lot of goofy boneheads out there making artwork out of their displeasure at having to mow the lawn of their parents' houses. ...

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Ghost stories are big business in today's modern English language culture. The 6th Sense, one of the most popular ghost films of the decade, grossed about $300,000,000 in theaters in the United States alone (Box Office Mojo). The majority of those within the English speaking cultures may not realize however, the impact Hamlet had on both this movie and every ghost story made after Shakespeare's work. The way ghosts are looked at, felt about, thought about, and presented in television, movies, and books would be completely different without the influence of Hamlet's first encoun...

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The musical sound is normally dark and the music should talk to you (The Gothic Subculture). ... According to Porter, Goths also enjoy a broad range of literature from history to the classics, as well as certain magazines and comic book (example "The Crow"). ...

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