Bricolage is a term coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss (p. 1908) to denote the way in which the so-called savage or primitive mind orients itself in the world, especially to natural objects and events, on the one hand, and to social beings. and their relationship, on the...
Semiology Glossary
Bricoleur
Bricoleur fr. the thinking, the able. The anthropologist, and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss built his significant and influential concept of bricolage from the characteristic manner in which the artist works. This manner includes, above all, a superficial...
CA
CA is an abbreviation for Conversation Analysis. Empirical, inductive research. See: Conversation Analysis
Canon
Works recognized as authoritative or exemplary. Today there is an important controversy over the creation, maintenance, and revision of canons.
Cartesian, Cartesianism
From Cartesius, the Latin form of Descartes, referring to the philosophy of the early, modern French thinker René Descartes (1596 - 1650), whose works represent a conscious rebellion against medieval thought. Cartesianism is often used in a broader sense to denote the...
Categoreal (categorical) Scheme
A network of categories according to which data is organized and interpreted. One way to understand reason is to perceive it as a mass of formless, inert matter on which objects and events are imprinted. Another way is to see it as an internally structured, dynamic...
Categories
The most universal concepts or ideas, the ultimate genera (the set of species), more freely - the general ideas through which one understands aspects of reality or some princes of experience. In the history of Western philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and...
Peircean Categories
Firstness (the thing in itself), Secondness (resisting), and thirdness (inter-; intermittent); In other words - qualitative immediacy, brutal confrontation, and dynamic mediation. Peirce's categories are designed to draw attention to what he believes are always...
Cathexis
A term from psychoanalysis, meaning an exciting or stressful force in the soul, as opposed to anticathexis (prohibitive, verifying force). According to Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalytic approach to our mental life is focused on the complex relationships of cathexis...
Channel
A term sometimes used as a synonym for contact. In every communication process, there must be a channel or contact - some physical or actual connection between the addresser and the addressee (sender and recipient) of the message. An example of this is the wire...
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Antinomy
Generally speaking, the contradiction that manifests itself between two equally valid principles or between two (obviously) correct conclusions based on these principles.
Antipsychologism
The view that psychological or spiritual processes cannot explain the sign process. Proponents of this doctrine argue that signs cannot be explained by their relationship to reason, namely, reason accepted as an internal or private sphere; reason could be explained...
Anti-realism
The complete denial of realism; even more radical, a denial of the problem (a series of problems) that raises the question of whether or not our signs can or do not accurately describe or represent reality.
Aperçu
A French word meaning flash, insight, schematization, and annotation. Sometimes this word is used to denote the sketching or general representation of an argument or narrative.
Aphasia
Lack or lack of ability to understand words, often as a result of brain damage. Roman Jakobson and other linguists have studied aphasia in the hope that such a study could shed light on our speech abilities as well as the nature of language.
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