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In theories of subjectivity a distinction is made between 'the subject' and 'the individual'. Whilst the individual is an actual person, the subject is a set of roles constructed by dominant cultural ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

# A mode in which the signifier does not resemble the signified but which is arbitrary or purely conventional - so that the relationship must be learnt (e.g. the word 'stop', a red traffic light, ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

The Symbolic Order is Lacan's term for the phase when the child gains mastery within the public realm of verbal language - when a degree of individuality and autonomy is surrendered to the ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Synchronic analysis studies a phenomenon (such as a code) as if it were frozen at one moment in time. Structuralist semiotics focuses on synchronic rather than diachronic analysis and is criticized ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Synchronous communication is communication in which participants can communicate 'in real time' - without significant delays. This feature ties together the presence or absence of the producer(s) of ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

A figure of speech involving the substitution of part for whole, genus for species or vice versa.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Morris divided semiotics into three branches: syntactics (or syntax), semantics, and pragmatics. Syntactics refers to the study of the structural relations between signs. The interpretation of signs ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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