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Phonocentrism is a typically unconscious interpretative bias which privileges speech over writing (and consequently) the oral-aural over the visual).

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In Jakobson's model of linguistic communication this is deemed to be one of the key functions of a sign. This function refers to its construction of a relationship between addresser and addressee.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

These is classified here as a type of interpretative code. Some semioticians regard sensory perception as a code. Various arguments are encountered, in particular: a) that interpretation cannot be ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

A paradigm is a set of associated signifiers which are all members of some defining category, but in which each signifier is significantly different. In natural language there are grammatical ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Paradigmatic analysis is a structuralist technique which seeks to identify the various paradigms which underlie the 'surface structure' of a text. This aspect of structural analysis involves a ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

A phenomenon is said to be overdetermined when it can be attributed to multiple determining factors. Overdetermined readings of texts are those in which the preferred reading is very clear from the ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

'Overcoding' refers to structurally simple, conventional and repetitive texts having what information theorists call a high degree of redundancy.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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