General language

General language

Use this category for general terms related to languages.

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General language

Peirce made a distinction between tokens and types. In relation to words in a text, a count of the tokens would be a count of the total number of words used (regardless of type), whilst a count of ...

trascendental signified

Language; General language

Derrida argued that dominant ideological discourse relies on the metaphysical illusion of a transcendental signified - an ultimate referent at the heart of a signifying system which is portrayed ...

transformation

Language; General language

Analogously to Chomsky's notion of 'transformational grammar', European structuralists such as Lévi-Strauss argued that new structural patterns within a culture are generated from existing ones ...

translatability

Language; General language

Linguistic universalists argue that we can say whatever we want to say in any language, and that whatever we say in one language can always be translated into another. For linguistic relativists ...

transmission model of communication

Language; General language

Everyday references to communication are based on a 'transmission' model in which a 'sender' 'transmits' a 'message' to a 'receiver' - a formula which reduces meaning to 'content' (delivered like ...

transparency

Language; General language

We become so used to familiar conventions in our everyday use of various media that the codes involved often seem 'transparent' and the medium itself seems neutral. The medium is characterized by ...

triadic model of sign

Language; General language

A triadic model of the sign is based on a division of the sign into three necessary constituent elements. Peirce's model of the sign is a triadic model.