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This refers to the power of words to refer to things in their absence. Displacement was identified by Hockett as a key 'design feature' of language.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Within Stuart Hall's framework, this is an ideological code in which the decoder fully shares the text's code and accepts and reproduces the preferred reading (a reading which may not have been the ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

A semiotic code which has 'double articulation' (as in the case of verbal language) can be analysed into two abstract structural levels: a higher level called 'the level of first articulation' and a ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

A dyadic model of the sign is based on a division of the sign into two necessary constituent elements. Saussure's model of the sign is a dyadic model (note that Saussure insisted that such a ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

An 'empty' or 'floating' signifier is variously defined as a signifier with a vague, highly variable, unspecifiable or non-existent signified. Such signifiers mean different things to different ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

The production of texts by encoders with reference to relevant codes (Jakobson). Encoding involves foregrounding some meanings and backgrounding others.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Foucault uses the term episteme to refer to the total set of relations within a particular historical period uniting the discursive practices which generate its epistemologies.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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