Isotopy (semiotics)
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
In a story, we detect an isotopy when there is a repetition of a basic meaning trait (seme); such repetition, establishing some level of familiarity within the story, allows for a uniform reading/interpretation of it. An example of a sentence containing an isotopy is I drink some water. The two words drink and water share a seme (a reference to liquids), and this gives homogeneity to the sentence.
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Isotopy (semiotics)" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
