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Irony is a rhetorical trope. It is a kind of double sign in which the 'literal sign' combines with another sign typically to signify the opposite meaning. However, understatement and overstatement ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Whilst the term intertextuality would normally be used to refer to links to other texts, a related kind of link is what might be called 'intratextuality' - involving internal relations within the ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

The semiotic notion of intertextuality introduced by Kristeva is associated primarily with poststructuralist theorists. Intertextuality refers to the various links in form and content which bind a ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

This term, used by Jonathan Potter, refers to the interpretative codes and textual codes available to those within interpretative communities which offer them the potential to understand and also - ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Those who share the same codes are members of the same 'interpretative community' - a term introduced by the literary theorist Stanley Fish to refer to both 'writers' and 'readers' of particular ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Although many semiotic codes can be seen as interpretative codes, this can be seen as forming one major group of codes, alongside social codes and textual codes.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In Peirce's model of the sign, the interpretant is not an interpreter but rather the sense made of the sign. Peirce doesn't feature the interpreter directly in his triad, although he does highlight ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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