Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Lesson 5
• SIGN: something that stands for something else (De
Sassure, inventor of “semiologie”)
Signs
• Signs are embedded in social relations and in a natural world.
• U.Eco: you can lie with signs (people who dye hair).
ambivalence
Power of metaphors
• What metaphors of Globalization are discussed in the
articles? (Favell, Urry & Sheller)
Metaphors of
Globalization