Vocabulary

1. 1. Polysemic

   Capable of having several possible meanings.

   The polysemic nature of television – the factors which enable different viewers to make different senses of the same text.

   Example: When a symbol, word, or phrase means many different things, that's called polysemy. The verb "get" is a good example of polysemy.

       2. Verisimilitude

   Verisimilitude is the quality of seeming to be true or real.

   [formal]

   At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.

   Example: Gulliver Travels (By Jonathan Swift)

   
   

   3. Iconography

   The iconography of a group of people consists of the symbols, pictures, and objects which represent their ideas and way of life.

   ...the iconography of revolutionary posters. [+ of]

   ...religious iconography.

   
   

   Example: Countries have symbols for their country including birds, animals, and plants.

   4. Semiotics

   Semiotics is the academic study of the relationship of language and other signs to their meanings.

   
   

   Example: Common examples of semiotics include traffic signs, emojis, etc.

   
   
   

   5. Idiosyncratic

   
   

   Relating to idiosyncrasy; peculiar or individual.

   
   

   Example: "She emerged as one of the great, idiosyncratic talents of the nineties"

   
   

   6. Idiosyncrasy

   
   

   A mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual.
   

   Example: "One of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be in the car first"

   
   

   7. Homogeneous

   Of the same kind; alike.

   Example: "If all jobs and workers were homogeneous.”

   
   

   8. Intertextuality

   1. The shaping of a text's meaning by another text.

   2. For a type of media to pay homage (make a reference) to another media text.