Critical commonsensism is a doctrine defended by Charles S. Peirce, mostly in response to Cartesianism. While René Descartes proposed a method of inquiry that began with universal doubt ("Begin to see as absolutely false any belief in which there is a particle of...
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Critique
Critique in the broadest sense means "evaluation". This term is often used in a narrower sense, reflecting its use by Karl Marx and subsequent authors who deal with emancipation in one form or another. The influence of Marx and Sigmund Freud on European semiotics is...
Cryptography, Cryptology
Cryptography refers to the secret letter, and cryptology - to the scientific study of this letter.
Culture
Culture stands for the totality of institutions and practices (including forms of discourse) developed and established by some specific groups of human beings. Ethnology - this branch of anthropology devoted to the study of culture - is the field from which many...
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Acteur
An actor or character from the surface field of narrative discourse, other than the abstract function of the actant from the level of the deep structure.
Actuality
Status of existence other than potential. Objects do not just exist in different shapes and sizes; the real way of being one thing may be different from the way other things are. While the newborn is only a potential member of one language community, the competent...
Actualization
The process by which something purely potential becomes real (for example, the emergence of a flower from a seed). A.J. Greimas and J. Courte explain that in the context of semiotics this term means "transition from system to process" Thus language (langue) is a real...
Addressee
One of the six factors that make up any speech event or communication process. The addressee is the being to whom the message is addressed or transmitted; The addresser is the agent or mechanism that sends or transmits the message. If I shout to warn you of a danger,...
Addresser
One of the six factors in any communication exchange; in particular, the agent or mechanism that sends or transmits the message. Corresponding to this factor is one important function, namely the expressive or emotional function. When the communicative process focuses...
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