General language

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digital signs

Language; General language

Digital signs involve discrete units such as words and numerals, in contrast to analogical signs. Note, however, that digital technology can transform analogical signs into digital reproductions ...

The use of the term discourse by theorists generally reflects an emphasis on parole rather than langue. Many contemporary theorists influenced by Michel Foucault treat language not as a monolithic ...

displacement

Language; General language

This refers to the power of words to refer to things in their absence. Displacement was identified by Hockett as a key 'design feature' of language.

dominant (or 'hegemonic') code and reading

Language; General language

Within Stuart Hall's framework, this is an ideological code in which the decoder fully shares the text's code and accepts and reproduces the preferred reading (a reading which may not have been the ...

double articulation

Language; General language

A semiotic code which has 'double articulation' (as in the case of verbal language) can be analysed into two abstract structural levels: a higher level called 'the level of first articulation' and a ...

articulation of codes

Language; General language

Articulation refers to structural levels within semiotic codes. Semiotic codes have either single articulation, double articulation or no articulation. A semiotic code which has 'double articulation' ...

associative relations

Language; General language

This was Saussure's term for what later came to be called paradigmatic relations. The 'formulaic' associations of linguistic signs include synonyms, antonyms, similar-sounding words and words of ...