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A distinction sometimes equated to Saussure's distinction between the signifier (seen as form) and the signified (seen as content). However, the metaphor of form as a 'container' is problematic, ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Within his triadic model of the sign, Peirce referred to the sign as an instance of 'Firstness', its object as an instance of 'Secondness' and the interpretant as an instance of 'Thirdness'

Domain: Language; Category: General language

At the (higher) structural level of first articulation a semiotic system consists of the smallest meaningful units available (e.g. morphemes or words in a language).

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Cinematic and televisual codes include: genre; camerawork (shot size, focus, lens movement, camera movement, angle, lens choice, composition); editing (cuts and fades, cutting rate and rhythm); ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In Jakobson's model of linguistic communication this is deemed to be one of the key functions of a sign. This function involves the (usually implicit) construction of an addressee (ideal reader).

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Essentialists argue that certain signifieds are distinct, autonomous entities which have an objective existence and essential properties and which are definable in terms of some kind of absolute, ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Derrida adopted from Heidegger the strategy of writing 'sous rature' which involved printing a word with crossed lines through it, leaving the original word legible, thus: Being. This was intended to ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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