Reality
المؤلف:
Bronwen Martin and Felizitas Ringham
المصدر:
Dictionary of Semiotics
الجزء والصفحة:
P108
2025-06-25
438
Reality
In semiotic theory, the term reality always refers to constructed reality. In everyday life, this relates to the signification with which we invest the world that surrounds us. The reality effect, then, corresponds to the relationship between that world and the subject (i.e. us) which is activated by some kind of embrayage or engagement, that is, by making our presence felt in the constructed environment.
There are two processes that help setting up reality effects in discourse. The first one is iconization. This relates to the procedure whereby an impression of the referential world outside the text is produced and sustained. The topographical description in Zola's Germinal, for instance, creates an illusion of reality.
Figurativization of discourse represents another, though related, way of constructing effects of being real. All elements in a text that refer to the external physical world and can be apprehended by the five senses belong to the figurative level. They are essential ingredients in the creation of an illusion of reality. A journalist seeking to present an event as vividly as possible, for example, might evoke sounds, colours or smells in his description to produce an impression of immediacy and realism.
See also embrayage, figurativization and iconicity.
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