# chap 9: rhythm Four chapters on coherence argue that coherence links to material bodies in space. Rhythm, balance esp. And they go beyond structuring. They vitalize a semiotic artifact, perhaps by placing it in physical context. Summaries 189, 192, p 196. Affordances Rhythm is wavelike and not digital, and stress carries the key information. 182-3 Rhythm organizes measures into phrases. Breath groups in speaking. 3-5 secs. About 25 syllables.184. These groups frame communicative acts. 184 This makes these rhythms semiotic affordances rather than not. Those rhythms that are semiotic are phrased rather than just repetitive. 184 Rhythm organizes phrases into moves. 184. These can be turns in speaking, etc Pulse Phrase Moves The common idea is to licAte the common structure of the element as it appears in multiple media. Not just poetry but visuals, movement, etc. Reminder of how we assign meaning to semiotic affordances 191 By provenance - historic, personal reminders ... By experiential meaning potential - meaning latent in the signifier. In either case, as narrowed by context. Monorhythms and polyrhythms