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In contrast to univocality, this is the use of multiple voices as a narrative mode within a text, typically in order to encourage diverse readings rather than to promote a preferred reading.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Those who reject textual determinism (such as poststructuralists) emphasize the 'polysemic' nature of texts - their plurality of meanings.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In Jakobson's model of linguistic communication the dominance of any one of six factors within an utterance reflects a different linguistic function. In utterances where the poetic function is ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

For Hjelmslev and Barthes, the signifiers on the plane of expression were: substance of expression (which included physical materials of the medium - e.g. images and sounds) and form of expression ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

For Hjelmslev and Barthes, the signifieds on the plane of content were: substance of content (which included 'human content', textual world, subject matter and genre) and form of content (which ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Unedited photographic and filmic images are indexical rather than simply iconic - though you could call them 'iconic indexes (or indices)'. A photographic image is an index of the effect of light ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

On one occasion, Barthes asserted that a photograph is 'a message without a code'. However, even though photographs are indexical (as well as iconic) photography involves a translation from three ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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