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paradigm

Language; General language

A paradigm is a set of associated signifiers which are all members of some defining category, but in which each signifier is significantly different. In natural language there are grammatical ...

These is classified here as a type of interpretative code. Some semioticians regard sensory perception as a code. Various arguments are encountered, in particular: a) that interpretation cannot be ...

phatic function of signs

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 refers to its construction of a relationship between addresser and addressee.

phonocentrism

Language; General language

Phonocentrism is a typically unconscious interpretative bias which privileges speech over writing (and consequently) the oral-aural over the visual).

photographic codes

Language; General language

On one occasion, Barthes asserted that a photograph is 'a message without a code'. However, even though photographs are indexical (as well as iconic) photography involves a translation from three ...

photographic signs

Language; General language

Unedited photographic and filmic images are indexical rather than simply iconic - though you could call them 'iconic indexes (or indices)'. A photographic image is an index of the effect of light ...

plane of content

Language; General language

For Hjelmslev and Barthes, the signifieds on the plane of content were: substance of content (which included 'human content', textual world, subject matter and genre) and form of content (which ...