Semiotics

semiotics







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符號學



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–noun (used with a singular verb) 

1. the study of signs 

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symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing. 



2. a general theory of signs and symbolism, usually divided into the branches of pragmatics, semantics, and syntactics. 





　

It seems likely that the Harvard-educated Aronofsky would know Roland Barthes's essay on the semiotics of wrestling, which, among other things, discusses this "spectacle of excess" as a dramatic ritual of suffering and humiliation: "It is as if the wrestler is crucified in broad daylight and in the sight of all."





trope

any literary or rhetorical device as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony

the movie is a veritable scrapbook of [tropes] from the heyday of art film. 

The brief return to Israel at pic's end [contains] one rapid [visual] trope that may pass many auds by.

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