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French words, meaning speech (discourse), and language, respectively.

Parousia comes from the Greek word for "presence", "arrival". In the works of Jacques Derrida, we find a critique of the philosophy (metaphysics) of presence. The history of Western philosophy has, in one way or another, been an attempt to define existence in terms of...

Patrilocation is a term that tries to indicate a place within a patriarchal system.

A statement, such as a vow or a promise, in which the statement itself contains the performance of a socially accepted act. If I say in a serious tone that I promise to meet with you at six o'clock, then the very utterance of those words produces a promise. Related:...

The effect of a speech on the listener or reader. John L. Austin distinguishes between locution, illocution, and perlocution, or the locutionary, perlocutionary, and illocutionary force of a statement. If someone utters the message "I'm tired", the message-in-context...

Phallocentric - characteristic of everything that privileges the phallus or phallic forms of discourse (for example, the hard in front of the soft, the penetrating in front of the absorbing); Phallocentrism is the tendency to privilege the phallus or phallic forms of...

A symbol of the penis or more generally of power, which takes male forms; according to the writings of Jacques Lacan, the phallus is the signifier, that provokes everything that would overcome the lack felt by human subjects.

Charles S. Peirce's term used to denote a branch of the inquiry commonly referred to as phenomenology. Peirce takes this term from the Greek words phaneros and skopios. The main task of phaneroscopy is to find universal categories. For this reason, Peirce often...

A communication function that determines the status or quality of the channel (contact) through which the message is transmitted. If someone stands in front of a microphone and says "Test: one, two, three", that person aims to determine the quality or condition of the...

Appearance or the way things appear before us. The term phenomenon exists in opposition to noumenon - things as they are in themselves, no matter how they are presented to us or to any researcher. Phenomenon and noumenon are technical terms for appearance and reality,...