Distinction is the process of accounting for differences; the result of such a process. It is useful to differentiate, even to separate things, the process of differentiation is different from that of dividing two or more things. It is one thing to distinguish two...
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Double Articulation
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Dream
A phenomenon that, according to Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and other thinkers, should be treated as a text. The dream, no less than the novel or the play, is above all an invitation to interpretation. Lacan and others combined the resources of psychoanalysis and...
Dualism
Two-element distinction. Like the dichotomy, dualism makes a clear distinction between mutually exclusive or completely different elements. For example, René Descartes is known for his method of man, often described as dualistic, man is composed of two different...
Dyad
A pair, sequence, or anything else that has two parts, sides, or dimensions.
Dyadic
Defined by two terms. The dynamic duo of Batman and Robin is a diabetic combination. There is also a technical, mathematical meaning to the term dyadic. In the context of semiotics, however, this technical meaning is almost never used.
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Abridgment
Reducing or shortening a word or phrase, such as shortening of "Metropolitan" to "Metro". Abridgment affects signifiers, not words (ie nonverbal or linguistic signifiers). The slightest nod from a person's repertoire of nonverbal communication gestures can replace the...
Abstraction
The process by which certain features of a phenomenon or reality are chosen for consideration and others are downplayed; the product obtained by such a process is ens rationis, a state of mind; his being is available only in thought. If we focus on human beings only...
Actant
A term proposed by A.J. Greimas and accepted by narratologists to indicate the most essential categories of the development of the plot. From the beginning, Greimas suggested having three such categories, each in binary opposition: Subject/object; Sender/recipient;...
Actantial Analysis
Actantial Analysis is the analysis of the narrative in terms of actants, abstract functions, located at the level of the deep structure. For narratologists such as Roland Barthes and A.J. Greimas narrative discourse has both a superficial and a deep structure. What...
Acteme
A term proposed by Kenneth L. Pike to denote the most basic units of communicative behavior, whether verbal or nonverbal. What is the phoneme for linguistic research as a system of aural signs is the same acteme for the study of communications as a behavioral system....
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