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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 ...

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

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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.

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A branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. The term refers to how 'the world' can be known and what can be known about it. Realism, idealism and constructivism are all ...

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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 ...

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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

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