Semantics behind purchasing expensive watches...
Discussion
Hello,
Ok, so I was dragged into a healthy debate with a colleague about buying and wearing expensive watches (i.e. watches £1k+) and I wanted to see what others on here thought:
Are watches bought to satisy the conspicuous consumption theory? If you really ask yourself deep down, do you wear an expensive watch because you want people to know that you're wearing an expensive watch. I'm sure all of us get a little warm feeling inside when someone makes a comment along the lines of "is that a real 'x'?" and you get to respond with a blasé, but slightly smug and hushed "yes".
Ok, so I was dragged into a healthy debate with a colleague about buying and wearing expensive watches (i.e. watches £1k+) and I wanted to see what others on here thought:
Are watches bought to satisy the conspicuous consumption theory? If you really ask yourself deep down, do you wear an expensive watch because you want people to know that you're wearing an expensive watch. I'm sure all of us get a little warm feeling inside when someone makes a comment along the lines of "is that a real 'x'?" and you get to respond with a blasé, but slightly smug and hushed "yes".
goldblum said:
Surely you don't mean "semantics"?
I did mean it. I know that 'Semantics' is the study of meaning: a wide subject within the study of language, but not restricted to linguistics per se. Words stimulate concepts and vice-versa and this is also true of stimuli (creating words etc). One major area in semantics is the notion of conceptions of meaning (i.e. words to things or even words to concepts to things). Look into the 'Cratylus' of Plato and 'The Meaning of Meaning' by C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards. My point is that the concept of expensive purchases is varied and can be expressed in words. Both concepts and words have various meanings.
Thus, my title "semantics behind purchasing expensive watches", I believe, is apt.
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