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How do you pronounce "representamen" ?
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:36 pm
by Kayy
Hello!
I don't have a clue
Could you please help me?
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:24 pm
by Brix
I've never heard this word.
I've never heard it; never spoken it; never read it.
Wind up....
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:53 pm
by Lorikeet
Perhaps it's a coined word by some company? Without ever having heard it, I'd probably pronounce "representamen" with the heavy stress on "sent" and a secondary stress on "men" and it sounds like some superhero representative to me. Heh
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:29 pm
by Kayy
here is a sentence with this word:
A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect ...
I thought it might be pronounced represenTAmen, like representation
but I'm not a native speaker. I don't know
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:20 am
by Lorikeet
Kayy wrote:here is a sentence with this word:
A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect ...
I thought it might be pronounced represenTAmen, like representation
but I'm not a native speaker. I don't know
I have never heard of this word, and apparently neither has dictionary.com. Are you sure it's correct? Without having heard or seen it before, I would guess repreSENTamen, like represent, but I don't think it's a word.
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 9:08 am
by Kayy
yes, the word really exists. it's a specific term in semiotics.
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:59 am
by darimana
i have never heard of the word either, so sorry don't know how to pronounce it, but looked it up, read the following link and still don't really understand what it means..... hope someone can help you soon!
http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/ ... tamen.html
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:22 pm
by Lorikeet
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:52 am
by Don McChesney
The site quoted above has extracts from 1903 and earlier
This was before semiotics was thought of. I think 'signifier' is the current term, but could be wrong