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This term was used by Peirce to refer to the process of 'meaning-making'.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Saussure's term sémiologie dates from a manuscript of 1894. 'Semiology' is sometimes used to refer to the study of signs by those within the Saussurean tradition (e.g. Barthes, Lévi-Strauss, Kristeva ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Morris divided semiotics into three branches: syntactics, semantics and pragmatics. Semantics refers to the study of the meaning of signs (the relationship of signs to what they stand for). The ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

At the (lower) structural level of second articulation, a semiotic code is divisible into minimal functional units which lack meaning in themselves (e.g. phonemes in speech or graphemes in writing). ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

André Bazin refers to this fallacy as being that the only kind of representation which can show things 'as they really are' is one which is (or appears to be) exactly like that which it represents in ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

These are textual codes which represent reality. Those which are perceived as 'realistic' (especially in film and television) are routinely experienced as if they were recordings or direct ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In general usage, this term refers to the depiction of something in any medium in the form of a text. However, as standard dictionaries remind us, a representation is something which stands for or in ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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