How do you pronounce "representamen" ?

Kayy · Post by **Kayy** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:36 pm

Hello!

I don't have a clue

Could you please help me?

Brix · Post by **Brix** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:24 pm

I've never heard this word.

I've never heard it; never spoken it; never read it.

Wind up....

Lorikeet · Post by **Lorikeet** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:53 pm

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

Kayy · Post by **Kayy** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:29 pm

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

Lorikeet · Post by **Lorikeet** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:20 am

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.

Kayy · Post by **Kayy** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 9:08 am

yes, the word really exists. it's a specific term in semiotics.

darimana · Post by **darimana** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:59 am

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

Lorikeet · Post by **Lorikeet** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:22 pm

darimana wrote: http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/ ... tamen.html

Eeek!

Don McChesney · Post by **Don McChesney** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:52 am

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