General

General

General nature or nature terms.

Contributors in General

General

System of graded and measurable categories and intervals in which individual subjects can be distributed around a norm. For example, western medicine and judiciary systems have increansingly appealed ...

multi-accentiality

Literature; General

Capacity of a sign to have different meanings attached to it by different classes. This capacity is attributable to the fact that meanings ascribed to signs comprise “evaluative accents” expressive ...

myhtical sign

Literature; General

A sign that does not represent, but naturalizes a historical and cultural concept.

intertexuality

Literature; General

The accumulation and generation of meaning across texts, where all meanings depend on other meanings. The self-conscious citation of one text within another as an expression of enlarged cultural ...

post-structuralism

Literature; General

“After srtructualism” involving both critique and absorption. Poststructuralism absorbs structuralism's stress on the relational character of language and the production of significance through ...

readerly

Literature; General

Barthes argues that most texts are readerly texts. Such texts are associated with classic texts that are presented in a familiar, linear, traditional manner, adhering to the status quo in style and ...

quota sample

Political systems; General

A method of polling, considered less reliable than a random sample, in which members of a particular group are interviewed in proportion to their percentage in the population as a whole.