The Concept of Representation

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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

A. The Concept of Representation

The concept of representation has to come to occupy a new and important place in study of culture. Representation began with early literary theory in the ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and has involved into a significant component of language, Saussurian and Communication studies. 7 Representation is essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members and culture. Representation describes the signs that stand in for and take the place of something else. It is through representation people know and understand the world and through the act of naming it. Signs are manipulated in order to make of the world. For many philosophers, both ancient and modern, man is regarded as the “representation animal’ or homo symbolic, the creature whose distinct character is the creation and the manipulation of signs things that “stand for’ or “take the place of” something else. 8 Representation has been associated with aesthetics art and semiotics signs. It is system by which all sorts of objects people and event are correlated with a set of concepts or mental representations, which the directors carry around in the spectator’s mind. Without them, we could not interpret the world 7 Mitchell, W. “Representation”, in F Lentricchia and Mc Laughlin, Critical Terms for Literary Study 2nd edn, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 8 O’Shaugnessy, M. And Stadler J, Media and Society: an Introduction 3rd edn, South Melbourn: Oxford University Press, 2005, meaningfully at all. For examples are our concepts of war, death, friendship, or love. It means that is speaker or the author who imposes his or her unique meaning on the world through language. Our shared conceptual map must be translated into a common language, so that the reader can correlate the author’s concepts and ideas with certain written words, spoken sounds, or visual images. Words mean what the author intends that they should mean. With this approach and theories above writer has purpose to represent women in Sense and Sensibility Film.

B. Cinematographic Elements