Semi-symbolic
المؤلف:
Bronwen Martin and Felizitas Ringham
المصدر:
Dictionary of Semiotics
الجزء والصفحة:
P121
2025-06-30
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Semi-symbolic
The term semi-symbolic designates a particular relationship between expression and content, or signifier and signified. Nodding one's head to signify 'yes', would be an example, or shaking it to mean 'no'.
The term semi-symbolic is applied in particular to the visual arts, where movement, gesture, colour, etc., acquire specific values. In a particular picture, for instance, light colours and simplicity of outline may be associated with happiness, whereas their opposite - dark colours and blurred lines - may be associated with unhappiness.
The concept semi-symbolic differs from symbolic in that the relation ship between signifier and signified relates to categories rather than units. Nodding yes or no, for example, uses the vertical axis to affirm and the horizontal to deny, thus linking the category of spatial axes to that of assertion versus negation. Or a semi-symbolic representation of the category good versus evil may be found in nature where a mountain is associated with God and an abyss with the devil. In the case of a symbol, on the other hand, the relationship between expression and content is one of two individual units: a set of scales symbolizes justice; a rose symbolizes love.
See also semantic category and symbol.
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