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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.

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representation
Language; General language

In general usage, this term refers to the depiction of something in any medium in the form of a text. However, as standard dictionaries remind us, a representation is something ...

representational codes
Language; General language

These are textual codes which represent reality. Those which are perceived as 'realistic' (especially in film and television) are routinely experienced as if they were recordings ...

reproductive fallacy
Language; General language

André Bazin refers to this fallacy as being that the only kind of representation which can show things 'as they really are' is one which is (or appears to be) exactly like that ...

denaturalisation
Language; General language

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

denotation
Language; General language

The term refers to the relationship between the signifier and its signified.

diachronic analysis
Language; General language

Diachronic analysis studies change in a phenomenon (such as a code) over time (in contrast to synchronic analysis).

differance
Language; General language

Derrida coined this term to allude simultaneously to 'difference' and 'deferral'. He deliberately ensured that (in French) the distinction from the word for 'difference' was ...

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