Monthly Archives: April 1999

How to Say the Non-dit; Disclosing World in Neo-Realist Film

Talk of the non-dit and its opposite, the dit, implies a linguistic paradigm in which meaning is constructed around a speaker and a receiver. The non-dit exists only within the communicable, that is, within symbolization. The non-dit can refuse symbolization but it cannot move outside it. It can refuse but it cannot transcend communication.