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metalanguage

Literature; General

A natural or artificial language used to describe another language. For example, the language used by grammarians to explain the functioning of English is a metalanguage.

power structure

Political systems; General

A term popularized by sociologist Floyd Hunter to describe the community leaders who determined policy in Atlanta, Georgia. More broadly, the term is used to describe “power elites” generally.

precedent

Political systems; General

An earlier court case that serves as a justification for a decision in a later case. Also known as stare decisis.

presidential primary

Political systems; General

Method used by more than two-thirds of the states in which voters in one or both parties express their preference for a presidential nominee and choose all or some convention delegates.

An interpretant (or interpretant sign) is the sign's more or less clarified meaning or ramification, a kind of form or idea of the difference which the sign's being true or undeceptive would make. ...

inmediate object

Literature; General

The object as represented in the sign.

dynamic object

Literature; General

The object as it really is, on which the idea which is the immediate object is "founded, as on bedrock". Also called the dynamoid object, the dynamical object.