General language

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mass communication

Language; General language

In contrast to interpersonal communication ('one-to-one' communication), this term is typically used to refer to 'one-to-many' communication, although this dictinction tends to overlook the ...

materialism

Language; General language

Materialism is an anti-idealist and anti-essentialist position which criticizes essentialist abstraction and reification and the formalist reduction of substance to forms and relations. It is ...

Although signs may be discerned in the material form of words, images, sounds, acts or objects, such things have no intrinsic meaning and become signs only when we invest them with meaning. Signs as ...

mcluhanism

Language; General language

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) was a Canadian literary scholar who enjoyed international cult status as a media guru in the 1960s. 'McLuhanism' is a term sometimes used to refer to his notion that 'the ...

meaning

Language; General language

Saussure's conception of meaning was purely structural, relational and differential - the meaning of signs was seen as lying in their systematic relation to each other. In contrast, referential ...

mediation

Language; General language

Semioticians emphasize the mediatedness of experience, reminding us that we are always dealing with signs and codes, not with an unmediated objective reality.

medium

Language; General language

The term 'medium' is used in a variety of ways by different theorists, and may include such broad categories as speech and writing or print and broadcasting or relate to specific technical forms ...