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The representamen is one of the three elements of Peirce's model of the sign and it refers to the form which the sign takes (not necessarily material). When it refers to a non-material form it is ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

The term 'relativism' is frequently either a term of abuse used by critics of constructivism (notably realists, for whom it may refer to any epistemological stance other than realism) or by ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

This is a term adopted from Althusserian Marxism, where it refers to the relative independence of the 'superstructure' of society (including ideology) from the economic (or techno-economic) 'base' ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

To reify (or 'hypostasize') is to 'thingify': treating a relatively abstract signified as if it were a single, bounded, undifferentiated, fixed and unchanging thing, the essential nature of which ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Some 'reflexive' aesthetic practices foreground their 'textuality' - the signs of their production (the materials and techniques used) - thus reducing the transparency of their style. Texts in which ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

In Jakobson's model of linguistic communication this is deemed to be one of the key functions of a sign. This function of a sign refers to content.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

This term has been used to refer to the assumption that a) it is a necessary condition of a sign that the signifier has a referent (in particular, a material object in the world) or b) that the ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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