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Structuralists such as Lévi-Strauss argues that there is a universal mental structure based on certain fundamental binary oppositions. This structure is transformed into universal structural ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Codes without articulation consist of a series of signs bearing no direct relation to each other. These signs are not divisible into recurrent compositional elements.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Tropes are rhetorical 'figures of speech' such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony. Poststructuralist theorists such as Derrida, Lacan and Foucault have accorded considerable importance to ...

Domain: Language; Category: 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.

Domain: Language; Category: 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 ...

Domain: Language; Category: 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 ...

Domain: Language; Category: 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 ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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