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Some semioticians refer to the 'grammar' of media other than language, in particular in relation to visual media, whilst others have challenged this application of a linguistic model to media which ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Graphocentrism or scriptism is a typically unconscious interpretative bias in which writing is privileged over speech. Biases in favour of the written or printed word are closely associated with the ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Hermes was the Greek god who delivered and interpreted messages. The term hermeneutics is often used to refer to the interpretation of texts. Guiraud uses it to refer to a relatively open, loose and ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Historical context. Insofar as structuralist semiotics tends to focus on synchronic rather than diachronic analysis, critics have argued that it is ahistorical - that it ignores process and ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

A mode in which the signifier is perceived as resembling or imitating the signified (recognizably looking, sounding, feeling, tasting or smelling like it) - being similar in possessing some of its ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

This is a term often used to refer to the roles in which readers of a text are 'positioned' as subjects through the use of particular modes of address. For Eco this term is not intended to suggest ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

A philosophical (specifically epistemological) stance on 'what is real?' in which, in its extreme form, it is argued that reality is purely subjective and is constructed in our use of signs. ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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