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,...
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Lack is a term used by Jacques Lacan to denote Lack, animated Lack, or neglect. This use echoes Hegel (1770-1831), a philosopher who sheds light on the "potential power of negation." This power is manifested in desire: a lack of feeling, a compelling feeling of being...
Language
Language is a term often used by semioticians as well as by other scholars in a very broad sense to denote any system of signs. It is also often used in a narrower sense to denote a system of verbal signs, as verbal here includes spoken/auditory and written signs. A...
Language Game
An expression introduced into philosophy by Ludwig Wittgenstein and intended to serve many purposes, above all two, to emphasize two important features of human language: the conventional and contextual nature of our linguistic practices the variety of tasks that can...
Language vs. Speech(Discourse)
To learn more about the opposition Language vs. Speech(Discourse), please visit: Language vs. Parole
Langue vs. Parole
Langue vs. Parole - these are French terms, usually translated as language and speech (discourse). In The Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure separates Langue from parole. Saussure deals with the reorientation of linguistics (the study of language)...
Latent vs. Manifest Content
Latent Content vs. Manifest Content Latent content is the hidden content or meaning of a message or other character configuration (such as a dream); Manifest Content is called superficial meaning. Someone might dream that he is being chased by lions, tigers, or bears....
Lebenswelt
Lebenswelt is a German word for the living world; the world of everyday experience. Lebenswelt is a matrix from which all actions and reflections emerge and a context in which all our inclusions and theorizing are finally situated. In such a context, life should not...
Legisign
Legisign is a term adopted by Charles S. Peirce to denote a particular type of sign or sign function, namely one in which a rule or law of the general serves as a sign vehicle. The word is an example of Legisign. Throughout his life, Charles S. Peirce tried to...
Lexical, Lexicon
Lexical, Lexicon Lexical - belonging to or located in a dictionary. Lexicon - The lexical meaning of the word is that which is in the dictionary.
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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.
