SMC229H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Narration, Everytime
9 Apr 2016
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In both cases this innovation is produced entirely . Concerned with texts; and traditional form of texts. Concerned with discourse & communication (might be oral or text) Concerned about semantic innovation: understanding and the meaning of the texts, meaning and relationship/logics = semantic. Interpretation of signs: creation of something new through signs, innovation of meaning through language. Whole tension of literal meaning: eg. He is a angry lion describing a friend = implication he is a lion. Everytime we are creating with language, we are creating with semantic innovation. This is what metaphor does, and the same thing happens to narratives. Go against structural meaning is present allows semantic innovation. When we have narrative, we get a sense of temporal unity etc. All of these work together in productive imagination. Time becomes human to the extent that it is articulated through a narrative mode, and narrative attains its full meaning when it becomes a condition of temporal existence.
