Language Deformation and the Rebirth of Myth

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10.2991/icelaic-16.2017.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

myth; rational thinking; mythological thinking; language; communications; semiological system; signs; meta-language; connotation; archaic myth; modern mythmaking; images; modern myth

Abstract

The re-mythologizing of modern culture, that is the return of archaic myths and professional mythmaking to arts, politics, advertising and mass communications, transferred the academic problem of myth to the category of topical issues. To study this "new" mythological consciousness, it is essential to know the structure of classical myth. This article examines the theoretical perspective on the problem of myth and the mythical—the concept of myth in relation to language, proposed by the French philosopher and literary critic Roland Barthes. Special subject of the article is the relationship of modern myth and language, similarity and distinction of archaic mythological and modern mythologized mass thinking.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Olga Strelnik
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TI  - Language Deformation and the Rebirth of Myth
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 3rd International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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