Varietà della Lingua Inglese

–

VARIETÀ DELLA LINGUA INGLESE

↔ museum ↔ as texts.

Texts around → language as the foundation of one’s subject thought. Everything we

How we define language?

hear or sense is mediated by language.

Example: the way we dress is something related to language and communication. The way you

→

dress is something interpersonal / interactional you can send a message through what you are

wearing. Thanks to your clothes you constitute yourself in a group.

“The signifier represent a signify for other signifiers”.

Another example: name. Everyone is born in a signifier that had already been decided for him/her.

Your name becomes a different signifier for everyone who enters in contact with you.

Silence. We measure the meaning of what is said or not said by what we were expecting to receive.

Our language is based on differences and absences. →

Rauschenberg is an artist who creates a work of art by erasing a former piece of art. we can

express ourselves in absence and not just in presence.

How we define text? And reading?

A text is any signified unit that the viewer constitutes as an analyzing whole. A text can be formed

by other subtext.

Reading is interpreting. there’s the belief in western

Texts are never objectives. Objectivity in culture is free of bias but

culture that language can be objective. In reality, all communication involves interpretation and

selection. The way we describe an object is always a point on view of this object.

There are text that are neutral (reasonable, non-subjective) and others that are highly emotional

(subjective and less trusty).

My language has to capture anyone who is listening to me so I have to modify my language

according to who I am speaking with.

Ravelli, Museum texts: communication frameworks

Systemic functional linguistics (Halliday).

Halliday applies a sociological approach to language, useful because it dwells on the relationship

between text and context.

The origins of museums:

→ ethimology: mouseion (in Greece it represents the seat of Muses) / Museum (in Roman time, the

place of philosophical discussion)

→ early history: in the XV century it represents the collection of De Medici (without indicating a

building). In the XVII century it represents a collection of curiosities. The modern concept of

museum is born when for the first time a building was built up to house a collection.

It’s a recent idea that the museum has to be a place where you have to attract people; before, it only

a few and well-educated people went to visit museums. Today museums are considered institutions

for the preservation.

Reading spaces in the museum: Institution

Exhibitions

Exhibits

s

Relat