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Derrida coined this term to allude simultaneously to 'difference' and 'deferral'. He deliberately ensured that (in French) the distinction from the word for 'difference' was apparent only in writing. ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Digital signs involve discrete units such as words and numerals, in contrast to analogical signs. Note, however, that digital technology can transform analogical signs into digital reproductions ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

The use of the term discourse by theorists generally reflects an emphasis on parole rather than langue. Many contemporary theorists influenced by Michel Foucault treat language not as a monolithic ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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

The ontological division of a domain into two discrete categories (dichotomies) or polarities. 'Binarism' is a more loaded term which critics have applied to what they regard as the obsessive dualism ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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