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According to this naive realist philosophical position, language is simply a nomenclature - words are simply names for pre-existing things (for some, this may include imaginary things and concepts ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Within Stuart Hall's framework, this is an ideological code in which the reader partly shares the text's code and broadly accepts the preferred reading, but sometimes resists and modifies it in a ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Codes which have been naturalized are those which are so widely distributed in a culture and which are learned at such an early age that they appear not to be constructed but to be 'naturally' ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In some contexts naturalism is regarded as a reductionist form of realism which offers detailed but superficial representations of the appearance of things (verisimilitude), in contrast to a mode ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In contrast to broadcast codes, narrowcast codes are aimed at a limited audience, structurally more complex, less repetitive and tend to be more subtle, original and unpredictable.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Narratology (or narrative theory) is a major interdisciplinary field in its own right, and is not necessarily framed within a semiotic perspective. Semiotic narratology is concerned with narrative in ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

A narrative is a representation of a 'chain' of events. In the orderly Aristotelian narrative form, causation and goals turn story (chronological events) into plot: events at the beginning cause ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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