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Graphocentrism or scriptism is a typically unconscious interpretative bias in which writing is privileged over speech. Biases in favour of the written or printed word are closely associated with the ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Some semioticians refer to the 'grammar' of media other than language, in particular in relation to visual media, whilst others have challenged this application of a linguistic model to media which ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Conventional definitions of genres tend to be based on the notion that they constitute particular conventions of form and content which are shared by the texts which are regarded as belonging to ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In Jakobson's model of linguistic communication the dominance of any one of six factors within an utterance reflects a different linguistic function. referential: oriented towards the context; ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Functionalism in the broadest sense is a perspective on society and culture which emphasizes the interdependent functions of all of the parts in relation to the whole system. It was established by ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Modes of address differ in their formality or social distance. Following Edward T Hall, a distinction is often made between 'intimate', 'personal', 'social' and 'public' (or 'impersonal') modes of ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Russian formalism was a structuralist, anti-realist aesthetic doctrine whose proponents included Victor Shklovsky (see Denaturalization). The Prague school linguists were also structural formalists. ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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