Can the meaning or interpretant of my photo change? Can it represent something completely different then what it does to me? To myself it won’t but to every-one person it will. It could be an extreme difference in interpretation where the end interpretant has no similar meaning to mine. Or a small one that makes a similar interpretant agreed on. My original interpretant to this photo was family, mother, father, sister, caring, giving, sharing, emotional uplifting, which was summed up to me in a word of love. Someone else could see this photo and have an interpretant of a happy moment, maybe not seeing love but seeing a time of happiness, excitement, and even quality time. It’s a change of meaning from the same symbol just a different interpreter. In other words having different opinions about the same symbol. As you can see meanings or interpretants can change do to personal opinions. Not everyone thinks the same therefore they won’t come up with the same interpretants.
Dominic -
ReplyDeleteThe assignment was to add a caption to your "love" photo to change its meaning intertextually. YES the answer is YES -- the meaning of a photo can change! Think about how you could change it simply with a caption. Also, please remember, blogposts need to be 200-250 words.