Discursive Analysis, Discourse And Signification

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Kai Mustakoski

Philip Clover

Culture and internal representation

22 Oct. 2010

Discursive Analysis, Discourse and consequence:

an Analysis of a Piece of Visual Culture

Proceeding to a conclusion through reason rather than intuition. is the definition for the

book of account Discursive; The word originated from Latin and subsequently from the word in Middle

English, discours, meaning process of reasoning ( Dictionary ). In this paper I am going to explain

the fantasy of discourse and signification in the context of the book: Representation: Cultural

Representations and Signifying Practices. I am going to do this by analysing a picture of my own

choosing: The picture (see appendix) is an add for the TV channel Russia Today. First I am going to

crumple the picture on the level of denotation and then lamentable on to the signification, discourse and

Discursive compend.

The picture under test was among of five Russia Todays adds displayed in United

Kingdom and in the US; these adds were initially banned in the United States and were later on

displayed merely in censored versions in the US airports on December 2009 and January 2010 (Russia

Today).



The picture I chose to dissect and make an analysis of displays a US soldier, yelling and

looking provocative opus keeping a US marine rifle in his hand, overlapping with a picture of so

called presumed stereotypical insure of a Islamic terrorist wearing a scarf (that only reveal his

eyes) and holding a bazooka on his shoulder. The original adds contains a text Is terror only

inflicted by terrorists; I am not going to concentrate on the text that the two overlapping images and

their denotations and what they signify and how discursive analysis plant life in this quite provocative

picture.

In this paragraph I am going to discuss and dissect the picture in the level of denotations

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