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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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intentional fallacy
Language; General language
The intentional fallacy (identified by literary theorists Wimsatt and Beardsley) involves relating the meaning of a text to its author's intentions. Although these theorists ...
interpellation
Language; General language
Interpellation is Althusser's term to describe a mechanism whereby the human subject is 'constituted' (constructed) by pre-given structures (a structuralist stance). This ...
interpersonal communication
Language; General language
In contrast to mass communication ('one-to-many' communication), this term is typically used to refer to 'one-to-one' communication, although this distinction tends to overlook ...
interpretant
Language; 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, ...
interpretative codes
Language; 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.
interpretative community
Language; 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 ...
interpretative repertoire
Language; 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 ...
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