The term comes from the Latin predicare "to say about". Predication is what is said about something, or the process. In the simple sentence, "Peter Carlo is delightful", the quality "delightful" is a predicate (said) for a person. The word or expression spoken about...
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Prescissive
Prescissive is a term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote the form or process in which we focus on some aspects of a phenomenon while ignoring others. Related: Abstraction Hypostatic Abstraction
Primary Process
Primary Process is a psychoanalytic term used to identify each of the many processes in which the unconscious or Id seeks to satisfy their repressed passions and desires. Related: Sigmund Freud
Private Language
Private Language is a term used by Ludwig Wittgenstein to denote by an oxymoron the sign system available for use by only one isolated user of the language. For Wittgenstein and many other prominent authors who contributed to the development of semiotics, all...
Privilege, privileged
Privilege is an activity in which something is given without merit, and often out of preference; We call privileged the status of being preferred. Privilege and its derivatives are preferred terms in the vocabulary of deconstructivists and postmodernists. The purpose...
Problematique
Problematique is a French word used to identify something that creates a problem or generates a difficulty or, more likely, a spectrum of difficulties; more or less related series of problems specific to a particular field of study (for example, the determination of...
Proper
Proper is a term often used deliberately in a dual sense. Related: Ambiguity The dual nature of the term Proper suggests on the one hand the so-called by feminists "father's law". That is the tensions and prohibitions that often come from the male side, but are...
Proposition
Proposition is what is expressed or conveyed in the message, in contrast to the assertion and the way or mediator of the expression.
Propositional Attitude
Propositional Attitude is the attitude or reaction one takes towards a proposition. Such an attitude could be, for example, approval or doubt.
Proxemics
Proxemics is the semiotics of space. This branch of semiotics was originally developed by Edward T. Hall in connection with cultural anthropology.
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Acteur
An actor or character from the surface field of narrative discourse, other than the abstract function of the actant from the level of the deep structure.
Actuality
Status of existence other than potential. Objects do not just exist in different shapes and sizes; the real way of being one thing may be different from the way other things are. While the newborn is only a potential member of one language community, the competent...
Actualization
The process by which something purely potential becomes real (for example, the emergence of a flower from a seed). A.J. Greimas and J. Courte explain that in the context of semiotics this term means "transition from system to process" Thus language (langue) is a real...
Addressee
One of the six factors that make up any speech event or communication process. The addressee is the being to whom the message is addressed or transmitted; The addresser is the agent or mechanism that sends or transmits the message. If I shout to warn you of a danger,...
Addresser
One of the six factors in any communication exchange; in particular, the agent or mechanism that sends or transmits the message. Corresponding to this factor is one important function, namely the expressive or emotional function. When the communicative process focuses...
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