General language

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episteme

Language; General language

Foucault uses the term episteme to refer to the total set of relations within a particular historical period uniting the discursive practices which generate its epistemologies.

epistemology

Language; General language

A branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. The term refers to how 'the world' can be known and what can be known about it. Realism, idealism and constructivism are all ...

Derrida adopted from Heidegger the strategy of writing 'sous rature' which involved printing a word with crossed lines through it, leaving the original word legible, thus: Being. This was intended to ...

essentialism

Language; General language

Essentialists argue that certain signifieds are distinct, autonomous entities which have an objective existence and essential properties and which are definable in terms of some kind of absolute, ...

expressive function

Language; General language

In Jakobson's model of linguistic communication this is deemed to be one of the key functions of a sign. This function involves the (usually implicit) construction of an addressee (ideal reader).

filmic codes

Language; General language

Cinematic and televisual codes include: genre; camerawork (shot size, focus, lens movement, camera movement, angle, lens choice, composition); editing (cuts and fades, cutting rate and rhythm); ...

first articulation

Language; General language

At the (higher) structural level of first articulation a semiotic system consists of the smallest meaningful units available (e.g. morphemes or words in a language).