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Grup structuralist și formalist de lingviști înființat de lingvistul danez Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1966) și Viggo Brondal (1887-1953).

Domain: Language; Category: General language

This term refers to the view that, whilst languages vary in their surface structure, every language is based on the same underlying universal structure or laws. In contrast to linguistic relativists, ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In its most extreme version 'the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis' can be described as relating two associated principles: linguistic determinism and linguistic relativism. Applying these two principles, the ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

For Saussure language was a relational system of 'values'. He distinguished the value of a sign from its signification or referential meaning. A sign does not have an 'absolute' value in itself - ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Loosely, the term refers to the attribution of value, but it is also used more specifically to refer to its attribution to members of binary semantic oppositions, where one signifier and its ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Whilst Saussure established the general principle that signs always relate to other signs, within his model the relationship between signifier and signified was stable and predictable.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In contrast to polyvocality, this is the use of a single voice as a narrative mode within a text. Univocal texts offer a preferred reading of what they represent.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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