A narrative is a specific type of text or discourse that supports some kind of narration. The narratives are very much present in every kind of text. Be it made of words, or moving images. News Media broadcasts have a narrative, politicians have narratives, and even...
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Narrativity
Narrativity is a one or series of markers that differentiate the narrative from other types of text and discourse. Related: Narrative Discourse Text
Narratology
Narratology is the act of studying the narrative, which is often performed via the structuralist perspective. Therefore, Narratology strives to create a grammar of the narrative of sorts. Related: Greimas Discourse analysis
Neologism
Neologism is a newly introduced or newly created word. While Charles Peirce, one of the creators of contemporary semiotics, was studying the signs, he had to coin a significant number of new words. His motivation was the same as that of the physicist that coined the...
New Criticism
The new criticism is an important school in literary critique, that flourished in the United States of America from the '30s to the '50s. Probably one of the main contributions of this school of thought was its focus on the autonomy of the literary work. When they...
New Historicism
A completely new reaction on the part of literary theorists and other scholars against the anti-historicism of some of the dominant approaches to textual analysis and critique (especially New Criticism, Archetypal Criticism, and Deconstructivism). New historicism is...
Noise
A side sound that interferes with or creates during the transmission of a message, in general - anything that works against the message so that it cannot reach its final destination. The noise affects the message channel.
Nomenclature
From Latin nomen - name; nomenclature called by name, list of names. The naming process; the result of this process - a series of names. Early in his Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure put forward the question, "Why is semiology (general study of...
Nominalism
From the Latin nomen, name. Nominalism is a doctrine that is dealing with the status of universals. For the nominalist, individuals are only real, and the universals are simply names or sounds of the voice. The universals are predicative terms for an unlimited number...
Nonverbal Communication
Communication not through spoken or written words. Facial expressions and gestures are examples of such communication. Check Semiology.net's section on Body Language.
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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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