CA is an abbreviation for Conversation Analysis. Empirical, inductive research. See: Conversation Analysis
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Canon
Works recognized as authoritative or exemplary. Today there is an important controversy over the creation, maintenance, and revision of canons.
Cartesian, Cartesianism
From Cartesius, the Latin form of Descartes, referring to the philosophy of the early, modern French thinker René Descartes (1596 - 1650), whose works represent a conscious rebellion against medieval thought. Cartesianism is often used in a broader sense to denote the...
Categoreal (categorical) Scheme
A network of categories according to which data is organized and interpreted. One way to understand reason is to perceive it as a mass of formless, inert matter on which objects and events are imprinted. Another way is to see it as an internally structured, dynamic...
Categories
The most universal concepts or ideas, the ultimate genera (the set of species), more freely - the general ideas through which one understands aspects of reality or some princes of experience. In the history of Western philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and...
Cathexis
A term from psychoanalysis, meaning an exciting or stressful force in the soul, as opposed to anticathexis (prohibitive, verifying force). According to Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalytic approach to our mental life is focused on the complex relationships of cathexis...
Channel
A term sometimes used as a synonym for contact. In every communication process, there must be a channel or contact - some physical or actual connection between the addresser and the addressee (sender and recipient) of the message. An example of this is the wire...
Chora
Chora from Greek, word for a vessel, container. A term borrowed by Julia Kristeva from Plato's Timaeus, meaning "an essentially mobile and extremely conditional expression constructed by movements and their ephemeral states" (1974 [1984], 25). Chora "precedes...
Cinema
An important and interesting field for semiotic research. Just as the semiotics of cinema has become an important trend in modern film theory, so the art of cinema or cinema has become a favorite topic of today's semiotic research. Here we can see the intersection and...
Clarity (Grades of Clarity)
Different levels or degrees of conceptual clarity about the signs we use. In Charles S. Peirce's perhaps best-known essay, How to Make Our Ideas Clear, he distinguishes three degrees of clarity: subjective awareness, abstract definition, and pragmatic clarification....
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It encompasses the analysis of every aspect of language, as well as the methods for studying and modeling them. The traditional areas of linguistic analysis include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,...
Phenomenology
A term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote a discipline of philosophy. The term is also used to denote an important movement in modern philosophy, identified with such thinkers as Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Roman Ingarden. It could be said that this...
Feminism
Feminism is an ideology, that, like other ideologies uses reductionism to explain complex issues like, for example, the one that the feminists most commonly cite - the rights to equal pay. Like most ideologies, the feministic too has its roots in somewhat reasonable...
Rationalism
Rationalism in a very general sense means devotion to reason; in a narrower sense, it refers to the doctrine that reason itself has the ability to know reality. In a general sense, then, the rationalist is a defender and advocate of reason. Rationalism is often used...
Intertextuality
Intertextuality is a term introduced by Julia Kristeva and widely accepted by literary theorists to denote the complex way in which a text relates to other texts. Just as there is no sign separate from other signs, there is no text separate from other texts. In...
Free Course in Semiology
A completely and truly free course on Semiology (Semiotics). Learn about the meaning of signs, how and why did the field emerged. What is the relationship between the street signs and the signs that we use every day - words.
