Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Traditional values

Self-reference  criterion  (SRC)  as  an  unconscious  reference  to  ones  own  cultural  values,  experiences  and  knowledge  as  a  basis  for  decisions. The  SRC  impedes  the  ability  to  assess  a  foreign  market  in  its  true  light. For  example,  Americans  may  perceive  more  traditional  societies  to  be  "backward"  and  "unmotivated"  because  they  fail  to  adopt  new  technologies  or  social  customs,  seeking  instead  to  preserve  traditional  values.


In  the  1960s,  a  supposedly  well  read  American  psychology  professor  referred  to  India’s  culture  of  "sick"  because,  despite  severe  food  shortages,  the  Hindu  religion  did  not  allow  the  eating  of  cows. The  psychologist  expressed  disgust  that  the  cows  were  allowed  to  roam  free  in  villages,  although  it  turns  out  that  they  provided  valuable  functions  by  offering  milk  and  fertilizing  fields. Ethnocentrism  is  the  tendency  to  view  one’s  culture  to  be  superior  to  others.

The  important  thing  here  is  to  consider  how  these  biases  may  come  in  the  way  in  dealing  with  members  of  other  cultures. Self-reference  criterion  importance  to  a  marketing  firm  planning  to  enter  international  markets  for  the  first  time. Importance  of  Self-reference  criterion  as  a  topic  of  research Self-reference  is  a  topic  whose  theoretical  foundations  have  so  far  primarily  been  studied  in  the  context  of  logic,  the  philosophy  of  language,  systems  theory,  and  post-modern  culture.

In  computer  science  it  has  been  a  topic  in  the  context  of  the  recursively  of  Turing  machines. In  semiotics,  there  have  been  only  few  studies  which  have  dealt  explicitly  with  this  topic,  although  marginal  reflections  on  self  reference  can  occasionally  be  found  in  the  context  of  the  theory  of  reference. Levels  and  degrees  of  self-reference  criterion:  Examples  from  advertising Just  as  signs  may  self-referentially  refer  to  the  world  of  signs,  the  media  may  refer  to  the  world  of  the  media  in  a  self-referential  manner.

Citations,  intertextuality,  intermediality,  met  textual  references,  repetitions,  recursions,  and  references  to  the  communicative  situation  are  some  of  the  symptoms  of  self-reference  in  the  media. Various  degrees  of  self-reference  must  be  distinguished,  from  the  sign  that  refers  to  nothing  but  itself  to  the  sign  that  refers  only  partially  to  itself  and  partially  still  to  something  else. Furthermore,  self  reference  occurs  at  different  levels  of  the  message  in  which  it  occurs.

Beginning  with  the  smallest  elements  of  the  message,  the  first  three  levels  of  self-reference  are  derived  from  reaction paper about accounting  of  the  interpret  ant:  34  rheumatic  (equivalent  to  the  unit  of  a  word),  dicentic  (equivalent  to  a  proposition),  and  argumentative  self-reference. In  extension  of  this  Peircean  triad,  textual,  intertextual,  intermedial  and  communicative  self-reference  will  be  distinguished.

Communicative  self-reference  pertains  to  pragmatics,  the  situation  of  text  production  and  reception. The  roles  of  the  readers  or  the  spectators  and  the  enunciative  roles  of  the  authors,  the  producers,  the  actors  or  the  players  become  the  topic  of  the  message. Instead  of  presenting  or  representing  ideas  or  events  in  the  world  beyond  the  message,  the  text  deals  with  its  own  communicative  context,  its  communicative  function,  and  its  presuppositions.

The  text  has  thus  its  own  pragmatic  dimension  as  its  topic. For  example,  the  audience  of  a  film  is  reminded  of  the  fact  that  it  is  participating  in  the  film  while  sitting  in  the  film  theatre. 38  Peter  Greeanway’s  actors  that  step  out  of  their  role  as  actors  and  mingle  with  the  audience,  or  Alfred  Hitchcock,  who  steps  out  of  the  role  of  a  film  producer  to  become  an  actor  are  further  examples  of  communicative  self-reference.

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