Phoneme is a sound unit. Phonemes are the smallest sound units in a language. Language, taken as a phonemic system, is studied by identifying the most basic units of sound (phonemes) and the many rules that govern the combinations of these units. In the twentieth...
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Phonocentrism
Phonocentrism is the tendency to privilege spoken language, in other words, to make this form of language central, and in other forms (specifically written language or the language of inscriptions) to be marginalized or pushed into peripheral research. This dentition...
Phytosemiotics
Phytosemiotics is a branch of biosemiotics that studies the sign processes in plants, or more broadly, the vegetative semiosis. Vegetative semiosis is a type of sign process that occurs at the cellular and tissue level, including cellular recognition, plant...
The Pleasure of Text (le Plaisir du texte)
le Plaisir du texte is an expression used by the French semiotician Roland Barthes to denote the pleasure of the text. Sometimes it seems that this pleasure is constructed in erotic and even autoerotic terms. Related: Texts of Bliss
Play
In the works of Jacques Derrida and other deconstructivists, the theme of the game is extremely important. One of the forms that this importance takes is that of puns (word games). Another has to do with insisting on the importance of the signifiers' play (the claim...
Plot/Story
To learn more about the Plot/Story opposition please see Story/Plot. Related: Sjuzet (suzet, syuzhet)
Plurisignation
The term means To learn more about plurisignation, see ambiguity.
Poetic Function of Language
To learn more about the poetic function of language, see aesthetic function.
Poiesis
A Greek term for creating, ("the activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before"). The term is used in opposition to praxis (doing, practicing) and theoria (theory).
Poly-
Preposition from Greek for many. Related: Polyfunctional Polysemy
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Fetish, Fetishizing
The most common understanding of the word Fetish is related to people's sexual desires and peculiarities. This meaning we owe to nonother but Sigmund Freud. While studying human sexuality, Freud found out that there are people that can only be aroused by specific...
Sign System
Sign system is a key concept in semiotics. It is used to refer to any system of signs and relations between signs. For example, the term language is frequently used as a synonym of a sign system. But, as the term language carries certain connotations of human...
Abduction
A term used by Charles Peirce to denote the process of inquiry in which a hypothesis is formed or generated; The result of such a process - the conclusion reached or the assumed guess, respectively, is called retroduction and hypothesis. The word "abduction" has more...
Abject
A term used by Julia Kristeva to mean something that confuses violates or undermines some established order or stable position. It has this effect because it is in the middle of what we normally consider to be absolute oppositions (eg life/death, human/machine). Many...
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