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One of the goals of semioticians is denaturalization: revealing the socially coded basis of phenomena which are taken-for-granted as 'natural'.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

This is a poststructuralist strategy for textual analysis which was developed by Jacques Derrida.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

The comprehension and interpretation of texts by decoders with reference to relevant codes (Jakobson).

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Cultural relativism is the view that each culture has its own worldview and that none of these can be regarded as more or less privileged or 'authentic' in its representation of 'reality' than ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

This was a structuralist and formalist group of linguists founded by the Danish linguists Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1966) and Viggo Brondal (1887-1953).

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Pairs of mutually-exclusive signifiers in a paradigm set representing categories which do not together define a complete universe of discourse (relevant ontological domain), e.g. sun/moon (Leymore).

Domain: Language; Category: General language

This term is used by realists to describe a position which they associate with epistemological relativism and the denial of the existence of any knowable reality outside representational conventions.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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