German word for Enlightenment.
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Aural
Applying to the ear or hearing. Spoken words are aural signifiers. They function as signifiers, thanks to the fact that they could be heard. Compared to them, the words on this page are visual signifiers - they function as signifiers, thanks to the fact that they are...
Author’s Intention
It is usually used to show that the meaning of the text is limited to what the author intends. William Wimsat Jr. and Munrow Birdzley in The Conscious Mistake, a manifesto of so-called new criticism, reduce the researcher's criticique to this view. Later, E.D. Hirsch...
Auto-
A common prefix in English (coming from Greek), meaning self- (for example, autodidact are those who teach themselves, self-taught). Opposite heter- or hetero- (different) is also a common English prefix (a heterosexual is a person who is attracted to representatives...
Autocriticism, Autocritique
It means self-criticism. Related: Heterocriticism Self-criticism, according to Julia Kristeva and other contemporary semiotics, is a hallmark of semiotic research. At every stage of its production, such research is not encouraged (according to Kristeva) to think...
Autogenesis
Self-genesis or self-origin. Autogenesis is a process by which something grows on its own and is not produced by an external agent or force.
Autonomy
On the one hand, terms mean freedom. In another, more specific sense - the uniqueness of the literary work, or, in a more general sense - the uniqueness of the semiotic system - its ability to relate to itself. Roman Jakobson and others use the term to denote the...
Autotelic
From Greek auto- and telos, meaning self- and goal or end. A process or practice that has no function or purpose other than itself. If you and I talk only for the purpose of having a conversation, refusing to subordinate this pleasure to any external purpose, our...
Auxilliant
A term used by A.J. Greimas, for denoting a unit of narrative analysis by simplifying the original list of six actants (subject, object, sender, recipient, helper, and opponent). Recently, Greimas has classified a helper and an opponent as auxiliants (i.e., helpers).
Axiology
The study of values. The adjective axiological could mean that which is permanent in the study of values, or, more generally, the values themselves.
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Aesthetic Function of Language
А function of language, related to the aspect of communication known as message; it is also called a poetic function. In each communication process, one addresser transmits a message to one addressee; this process occurs in the context of the code and a form of...
Aesthetics
In a broad sense - a branch of philosophy, whose subject is the beauty of art and nature. According to its current use, this definition of aesthetics is, on the one hand, broad, on the other - I claim narrow. It is too broad, as the object of aesthetics today is...
Agency
Possession of status or ability inherent in an agent (actor) - a person, mechanism, or any other object through which a process begins and probably continues or through which some force is exercised and some change is achieved. We usually think of agents as...
Agreeableness to Reason (Method)
One of the four methods of research or ways of establishing beliefs described by Charles Peirce; also called the a priori method. According to the proponents of this method, we should accept, in the course of our struggle to overcome doubt, that faith that is best...
Algorithm
In mathematics, a procedure for solving a problem that has a finite number of steps and often involves repeating an operation; In a more general sense - a step-by-step procedure to achieve a result or solve a difficulty.
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