September 25, 2005, 18:18
KallehSymbology vs. Symbolism
It makes sense that
symbology is the study of symbolism, and that
symbolism is the practice of representing things with symbols. But are these two words also used as synonyms? One definition for
symbology, for example, is the "use of symbols," which seems to me identical to the definition of
symbolism. I came across
symbology in this movie critique, and I would have used
symbolism:
"There is some symbology in the movie, involving a construction site and Kelli's interest in ecology, but the movie is not really interested in saving the environment, it's interested in characters who say they are interested in the environment because, after all, who isn't, or shouldn't be?"
[Some sentence, right?
Four times he used the word
interest or
interested.]