General language

General language

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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 which stands for or in ...

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 or direct ...

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 which it represents in ...

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 apparent only in writing. ...