2. THE NATURE OF
SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE
Presented by:
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

9. CONVENTIONAL SYMBOL
Widely Used

10. Mood Thing
Picture
Conventional Symbols

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

16. • Universal symbol is one in which there is an
intrinsic relationship between the symbol
and that which it represents.

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