Abstract
Experience is spontaneous and continuous. Only after the fact is conscious experience translated into language, stories, and descriptions that engender understanding of the world around us. According to William James,
events separated by years of time in a man’s life hang together unbrokenly by the intermediary events. Their names, to be sure, cut them into separate conceptual entities, but no cuts exist in the continuum in which they originally came.1
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Gaines, E. (2010). The Narrative Semiotics of The Daily Show . In: Media Literacy and Semiotics. Semiotics and Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115514_7
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