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A term sometimes used to refer to the physical or material form of the sign (e.g. words, images, sounds, acts or objects). For some commentators this means the same as the signifier (which for ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In Saussurean semiotics, the term signification refers to the relationship between the signifier and the signified.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

For Saussure, the signified was one of the two parts of the sign (which was indivisible except for analytical purposes). Saussure's signified is the mental concept represented by the signifier ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

For Saussure, this was one of the two parts of the sign (which was indivisible except for analytical purposes). In the Saussurean tradition, the signifier is the form which a sign takes. For ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

These are the meaning-making behaviours in which people engage (including the production and reading of texts) following particular conventions or rules of construction and interpretation.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

A sign which does not contain any other signs, in contrast to a complex sign.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

This was Baudrillard's term (borrowed from Plato); 'simulacra' are 'copies without originals' - the main form in which we encounter texts in postmodern culture.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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