Écriture is a common French word for "writing", "handwriting". When this French word is left untranslated in an English text, the term is probably used in one or more senses established by a contemporary French author. In a sense, Écritures refers to writing as an...
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Écrivain
Écrivain is a term used by Roland Barthes and others to denote something that is often translated as "author", the producer of texts for whom the verb "write" is intransitive. In this sense, writing focuses the reader's attention on the writing activity and not on...
Écrivant
Écrivant is a French word for a writer. In order to find out about the term Écrivant, please refer to Écrivain.
Ego
Ego is a Latin word for "I," often used as a psychoanalytic term denoting a particular part of the human soul, that part that defines the role of the intermediate between Id and reality or between Id and the superego. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory has...
Emic/Etic
Emic / Etic are the definitions adopted by Kenneth L. Pike to denote two different approaches to the study of such subjects as language or culture, emic - the approach is one that deals with a particular language or culture, while etic - the approach has general...
Empiricism
Empiricism is a doctrine that professes that all knowledge is based on experience or observation. Contrary to the claim that the human mind possesses innate ideas, John Locke and other empiricists accept that by birth reason is a tabula rasa (pure plate) and the only...
Encoder
The encoder is the addresser or the utterer who transmits the message via some sort of code. Related: Decoder
Encyclopedia vs. Dictionary
See dictionary vs. encyclopedia.
Engendering of Subjectivity
Engendering of Subjectivity is the process by which the human organism, as a result of its existence, initiated in multiple systems of representation, becomes a subject, a focus (conscious/unconscious) of a specific identity. The term includes a play on words, as it...
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment is a specific epoch in Western history, stretching from the late seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century (often identified as the Age of Reason); A network of ideals (mostly reason, freedom, progress, nature) raised during the Age of...
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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...
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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.
