Semiotics 45-78

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Exploring Semiotics: A Deep Dive Quiz

Challenge your understanding of semiotics with this engaging quiz! Covering key concepts from renowned theorists, this quiz is designed to test your knowledge and enhance your interpretive skills in the world of signs and symbols.

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In aristotele’s De Interpretatione the relation between sounds of voice, affection of the soul and external objects may be thus described :

The relation between sounds of the voice and affections of the soul is conventional, while the relation between affections of the soul and external objects is motivated

The relation between sounds of the voice and affections of the soul is motivated, while the relation between affections of the soul and external objects is conventional

The relation between sounds of the voice and affections of the soul and the relation between affections of the soul and external objects are both conventional

Which of these statements best fits Ferdinand De Saussure description of the relation between langue (language) and parole ( speech acts)

Langue and parole are interdependent : there can’t be one without the other

Parole depends on langue : you can’t have the first without the second

Langue depends on parole : you can’t have the first without the second

What kind of narrative (natural or artificial) is Orson Welles’s radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds ?

An artificial narrative that was mistaken for natural narrative

A natural narrative that was mistaken for an artificial narrative

A natural narrative that was presented as an artificial narrative

�a tsar gives an eagle to a hero. The eagle carries the hero away to another kingdom” . What two narrative functions (Propp) are involved in this sequence ?

Mediation and departure

Liquidation of misfortune and return of hero

Receipt of agent and spatial transference

What kind of abduction is this ? This person has specks of mud on the back of his trousers . When people carry trolleys in a wet street , they get speck of mud on the back of their trousers This person has been carrying a trolley in a wet street.

It is not an abduction

Hyper-coded

Hypo-coded

What according to Eco-Fabbri could cause aberrant coding ?

A discrepancy between the codes of the sender and those of the addressee

The sender’s intention to lie to the addressee

The addressee’s philological attempts to reconstruct the sender’s codes

What is the difference between likely and unlikely possible worlds ?

Likely possible worlds can be conceived without altering our representation of the real world whereas unlikely possible worlds are historically inaccurate in so far as they introduce a supernumerary fictional character

Likely possible worlds can be conceived without altering a representation of the physical laws that operate in the real world where as unlikely possible worlds infringe some of those laws

Likely possible worlds can be conceived without contradicting some fundamental Lodge close where as unlikely possible worlds are internally contradictory and go beyond our capacity of consumption

Which of the following is the best definition of what Peirce meant by habit ?

The cognitive outcome of a scientific inquiry

An involuntary behavior pattern that is difficult to change

The tendency to repeat an action that has been performed before

Which of the following statements does not apply to textual cultures ?

Society directly generates texts, which constitute macro-units from which rules can eventually be inferred, but which initially and most importantly propose models to be follower and imitated

Texts are generated through combinations of discrete units and judged correct or incorrect according to their conformity to the combinational rules

A text oriented judicial system is a common law legal system where each case has to be decided upon according to the law of the precedent, so that similar facts will yield similar and predictable outcomes

What kind of labyrinth structure is the best metaphorical representation of Eco’s notion of encyclopedia

The maze which has only once entrance and one center to be reached, but presents whoever traverses it with multiple possible paths

The classic labyrinth which has only one entrance and one possible path

The network which has no center and in which every point may connected to any other point

According to Eco , the model reader is

An ideal reader who understands the author even more than the author understood him/ herself

A cultural equipped reader who knows all there is to know is order to interpret the text the way the author wanted it to be interpreted

The set of clues that a text strategically displays to direct the reader’s interpretive activity

Nominalism is …

The doctrine according to which no two occurrences of the same word ever have exactly the same meaning

The doctrine according to which general ideas are intuitively acquired

The doctrine according to which general ideas don’t exist outside the words that name them

The king asks the hero to free his daughter who has been imprisoned by the Dragon but in order to do so the hero needs to find the only sword in the world what will slay the dragon . Which of the following is the object of the hero base narrative program ?

Finding the sword

Freeing the king’s daughter

Slaying the dragon

What according to Eco is the alethic privilege of artificial narratives

They are the only narratives that may generate indisputable beliefs

They are the only narratives that are pursue a poetic effect

They are the only narratives that never lie

Which of the following definitions bets fits what linguistic mean by standardization

A semantic norm that prescribes the use of a specific word to refer to a particular meaning

An arbitrary rule that needs to be stipulated before it can be applied

A practical habit that has rooted in a social group thus regulating its future behaviors

What is the difference between narrative and logical paradigmatic thinking, according to Bruner ?

Only the first is based on the principle of causality that merges two consecutive contents into one continuous unit

Only the first link two token events into a single sequence rather than formulating that aspire to be universally valid

Only the first creates interpretative habits capable of directing the flow of subsequent thoughts

What does the principle of minimum deviation assert with regard to the construction of narrative fictional worlds ?

Only some conceivable assertions about fictional entities are decidable, while others are not

The stipulation of a possible world is subject to unavoidable constraints, such as the rule of non-contradiction

If the text does not specify alternative properties, readers assume that the world it describes resembles in all respect their own actual world

According to Saussure principle of horizontal arbitrariness

There is no particular reason (apart from historical contingencies) why a certain linguistic should be associated with a given word as proved by the fact that different languages use different words to refer to the same meaning.

At birth, all humans are potentially capable of producing an indefinitely open range of sounds, as proved by the fact that babies may learn whichever historical language they are born in.

There are no points in the amorphus mass of context where it is more reasonable or mere natural to separate linguistic meaning from another. As proved by the fact that different languages carve out different meanings from the same semantic continuum

How would you define substance in Hjelmslev’s linguistic mode ?

The undifferentiated continuum of experience within which different language codes carve out their positions.

The concrete elements each language carves out the amorphus set of sounds and thoughts that are potentially accessible to human beings

The empty grid of relevant positions that each language code superimposes on the paralinguistic universe to carve its relevant positions.

There is no internal connection … between the idea sister and the French sequence of sounds s-o-r which acts as its signifier .. This is demonstrated by differences between languages , and even by the existence of different languages. The significant “ox” has its signifier b-o-f on one side of the frontier, but o-k-s on the other side . What is Benveniste objection to Saussure demonstration of the arbitrary nature of linguistic sign ?

Saussure is confusing the notion of arbitrariness with that of convention, as if the two were the same, whereas they are not.

Saussure thinks he is proving the arbitrary relation between signifiers and signified, whereas in reality his example proves the arbitrary relation between words and their referents.

Saussure does not take into account the fact that there are linguistic signs, such as onomatopoeic words and interjections, in which the relation between signifier and signified are least partially motivated

What are connections is Propp’s morphology of folkstale ?

The characters’ motivations for doing what they do

The information that a new character who enters the scene needs to know in order to become part of the plot

The actions of the tales characters determined from the point of view of their meaning for the course of the narrative

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