Category: Glossary

adjective

: mentioned previously

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aforementioned

In the article, “Today’s design grads are more woke than ever and its looking great” in the sixth paragraph, first sentence it states, “Girl Club’s graphic design manifestation is in the form of a set of zines that cover various topics relating to women and gender more widely. The topics vary from the aforementioned Notes on Camp and hip hop culture.”

Gosling meant that topics relating to women and gender have been talked about before, so it’s an on going discussion about it.

Noun

:The organization of all the tones and harmonies of a piece of music in relation to a tonic.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tonality

In the article, “An avatar analysis: Choosing your profile picture” Chad uses it in the first sentence in the first paragraph, “In the digital space, we do not have the luxury of forming an opinion based on body language, tonality, or other non-verbal forms of visual communication.”

Chad meant that people only form opinions on verbal forms of communication, and not non-verbal

dissonant (adjective)

1. no harmony
2. disagreement that cannot be resolved
3. sounds that do not sound well together

Sources: Merriam-Webster and  Cambridge

In “Revision of Strategies of Student Writes and Experienced Adult Writers” by Nancy Sommers, the word dissonant is used in the sentence, “In fact, Saussure bases his entire Course in Linguistics on these differences, and such differences are dissonant; like musical dissonances which gain their significance form their relationship to the “key” of the composition which itself is determined by the whole language”.

In this case, Saussure is talking about music that doesn’t sound well together (which is the third definition), and how they clash.

Synonyms: inharmonious, off-key, discordant

1. resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction.

Malevolence (noun)

the state of wanting and causing nothing but harm to others

Source: dictionary.com

In the article “No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear” by Toni Morrison, the word malevolence is used in this sentence: “This is the first step of a despot whose instinctive acts of malevolence are not simply mindless or evil; they are also perceptive.”

Morrison is talking about dictators and tyrants hurting many people as a strategy of repression.

Synonyms: malice, hostility, hatred, grudge

Apartheid (noun)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartheid

• racial segregation (specifically a former policy of segregation,political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa.)

In “No Place for self-pity,No Room for fear” Toni Morrison stated “The Nation could never have existed or flourished in 1940s Spain or 2014 Syria or apartheid south Africa, or 1930s Germany.”

I chose this word because it stood out to me and it really gave a deeper understanding of what the author Toni Morrison is trying to explain.

Adornment (verb)

• to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adorning

In “NonsieNontsikelelo Mutiti on Interrogating Euro-centric Design Canon” Ksenya Samarskaya stated: “There were pictograms painted on rock faces or walls and also beaded adornment with codified meaning. It was not taught about any of these ways of articulating myself.”

In other words, Samarskaya meant the pictographs painted on the walls, rock faces has a value to it meaning it’s delicate looking.

Metadata: (noun)

Data that serves to provide context or additional information about other data. For example, information about the title, subject, author, typeface, enhancements, and size of the data file of a document constitute metadata about that document.

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/metadata.html

Sentence: The picture that I uploaded to the visual library contains metadata that provides the date and time when I posted it.

Hierarchy (noun):

a graded or ranked series

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hierarchy

“Nontsikelelo Multi on interrogating the Euro-centric design cannon”

It states “It automatically placed a hierarchy among forms, ways, and language. ”

It means that there was a system put on the different forms, ways, and languages. All of them were based on ranks