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In some semiotic triangles, this refers to the sense made of the sign (what Peirce called the interpretant).

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Within transmission models of communication, these terms are used to refer to the participants in acts of communication (communication being presented as a linear process of 'sending' 'messages' to ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Loosely defined as 'the study of signs' or 'the theory of signs', what Saussure called 'semiology' was: 'a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life'. Saussure's use of the term ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Peirce's triad is a semiotic triangle; other semiotic triangles can also be found. The most common alternative changes only the unfamiliar Peircean terms, and consists of the sign vehicle, the sense ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Greimas introduced the semiotic square as a means of mapping the logical conjunctions and disjunctions relating key semantic features in a text. If we begin by drawing a horizontal line linking two ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

The infinite use of finite elements is a feature which in relation to media in general has been referred to as 'semiotic economy'. The structural feature of double articulation within a semiotic ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

The Russian cultural semiotician Yuri Lotman coined this term to refer to 'the whole semiotic space of the culture in question' - it can be thought of as a semiotic ecology in which different ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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