2. THE NATURE OF
SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE
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Yanti Rahayu 1178350545
Desi Puspitasari 117835054
Linta Wafdan H 117835083
Miftachudin 117835078
3. O my Luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my Luve’s like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune
4. Sometimes words are not adequate to
express our human response to the
search for meaning
Symbols are our effort to name and
participate in what is abstract or other
Such as, Symbols are often used when
words fail to express, especially for love &
death & the transcendent.
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5. A symbol is often defined as “something
that stands for something else”.
A symbol is something outside ourselves,
that which it symbolizes something inside
ourselves.
Symbolic language is language in which
we express inner experiences as if it were a
sensory experience,
Symbolic language is language in which
the world outside is a symbolic of the world
inside a symbol for our soul and our mind.
Erich Fromm (p. 37)
6. A Symbol is special type of sign. It is a
word, an action, a picture that
communicates information and affects
the way, we think, we act and feel.
The same symbol can have many
different meanings.
It can affect different people in different
ways.
7. Engagement
Love
marriage
king
bishop
wealth
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8. Three kinds of symbols:
1. the conventional symbol
2. the accidental symbol
3. the universal symbol
11. The accidental symbol
• The accidental symbol is opposite to
conventional symbol, altough they have one
thing in common: there is no intrinsic
relationship between the symbol and that
which it symbolizes.
• The connection between the symbol and the
experience symbolized in entirely accidental.
12. It is the individual experience
JATIM PARK connected with the place
may be we had a that makes it a symbol of a
joyfullness experience mood
in a certain place,
when we hear the
name of that place,
we will easily connect
the name with a mood
of joyfulness or
sadness, just as we
would connect it with
a mood a joy had our
experience been a
happy one.
13. The same reaction could occur in
connection with:
A house A street A certain scenery A certain dress
14. This symbol is rarely used in :
Myths Fairy Tales Works of Art
15.
16. • Universal symbol is one in which there is an
intrinsic relationship between the symbol
and that which it represents.