General language

General language

Use this category for general terms related to languages.

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General language

The semiotic notion of intertextuality introduced by Kristeva is associated primarily with poststructuralist theorists. Intertextuality refers to the various links in form and content which bind a ...

intratextuality

Language; General language

Whilst the term intertextuality would normally be used to refer to links to other texts, a related kind of link is what might be called 'intratextuality' - involving internal relations within the ...

irony

Language; General language

Irony is a rhetorical trope. It is a kind of double sign in which the 'literal sign' combines with another sign typically to signify the opposite meaning. However, understatement and overstatement ...

isomorphism

Language; General language

The term is used to refer to correspondences, parallels, or similarities in the properties, patterns or relations of a) two different structures; b) structural elements in two different structures ...

Dyadic model of sign

Language; General language

A dyadic model of the sign is based on a division of the sign into two necessary constituent elements. Saussure's model of the sign is a dyadic model (note that Saussure insisted that such a division ...

abduction

Language; General language

This is a term used by Peirce to refer to a form of inference (alongside deduction and induction) by which we treat a signifier as an instance of a rule from a familiar code, and then infer what it ...

aberrant decoding

Language; General language

Eco's term referring to decoding a text by means of a different code from that used to encode it. See also: Codes, Decoding, Encoding and decoding model of communication.