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Question 24

What does the film "The Name of the Rose" (1986, starring Sean Connery) have in common with the discipline of communication studies?

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The communication discipline was founded in 1897 by Gustav Rose, the eminent sociolinguist
The film was written by Umberto Eco, the eminent Italian communication theorist (semiotician)
The film stressed the role of language in creating reality through arbitrary names ("A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.")
The film depicted the life of Jorge Di'Ologa, the noted horticulturalist who invented the picture-telephone