Conceptualizing Objectual Message

Åžtefan Vlä‚duå¢escu ()
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Åžtefan Vlä‚duå¢escu: University of Craiova, CCSCMOP, Craiova, Romania

Chapter 49 in New Approaches in Social and Humanistic Sciences, 2018, vol. 3, pp 554-562 from Editura Lumen

Abstract: This study is circumscribed to the science of communication. It aims to illustrate, exemplify, and conceptualize the idea of objectual message. The meta-analytical method and the comparative method are used. Two historical and one semiotic messages are examined. The first message is extracted from Herodotus's "Histories": in the form of a message, the Scythian kings send Emperor Darius a bird, a mouse, a frog, and five arrows. The second message is extracted from Cassius Dio's "Roman History": Decebalus sends Trajan a huge mushroom on which he wrote in Latin the advice to make way back and start peace talks. The third element is an analysis of Roland Barthes, in which he states that an object like "a scarf" constitutes a message with haptical meanings. From the comparison of the three messages, the characteristics of the objectual message are infered. In a related way, it is found that in practical order the objectual message is one of the most important types of message, along with the verbal message, the oral message and the written message.

Keywords: message; communication; historical message; objectual message; conceptualization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A3 I2 I3 M0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
ISBN: 978-1-910129-15-9
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DOI: 10.18662/lumproc.nashs2017.49

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