General language

General language

Use this category for general terms related to languages.

Contributors in General language

General language

Modernism refers to a movement across the arts in the West which can be traced to the late nineteenth century, was at its height from around 1910 to 1930, and persisted until around the late 1970s. ...

modes of address

Language; General language

Implicit and explicit ways in which aspects of the style, structure and/or content of a text function to 'position' readers as subjects ('ideal readers') (e.g. in relation to class, age, gender and ...

modes of relationship

Language; General language

This is Terence Hawkes's term to refer to Peirce's classification of signs in terms of the degree of arbitrariness in the relation of signifier to signified (to use Saussurean rather than Peircean ...

motivation and constraint

Language; General language

The term 'motivation' (used by Saussure) is sometimes contrasted with 'constraint' in describing the extent to which the signified determines the signifier. The more a signifier is constrained by ...

multiaccentuality of the sign

Language; General language

This term is used to refer to the diversity of the use and interpretation of texts by different audiences (Volosinov).

myth

Language; General language

Barthes argues that the orders of signification called denotation and connotation combine to produce ideology in the form of myth - which has been described as a third order of signification. ...

narration

Language; General language

Narration is the act and process of producing a narrative. Modes of address differ in their narrative point-of-view. Written narratives may employ third-person ominiscient narration ('telling') or ...