The encoder is the addresser or the utterer who transmits the message via some sort of code. Related: Decoder
Semiology Glossary
Encyclopedia vs. Dictionary
See dictionary vs. encyclopedia.
Engendering of Subjectivity
Engendering of Subjectivity is the process by which the human organism, as a result of its existence, initiated in multiple systems of representation, becomes a subject, a focus (conscious/unconscious) of a specific identity. The term includes a play on words, as it...
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment is a specific epoch in Western history, stretching from the late seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century (often identified as the Age of Reason); A network of ideals (mostly reason, freedom, progress, nature) raised during the Age of...
Énoncé vs. Enonciation
Énoncé vs. Enonciation - from French - what is said against (the process of) saying. The terms are used to indicate the difference between what is said (Énoncé) and the process or act of saying (Enonciation). According to the understanding of the linguist Emil...
Enthymeme
Enthymeme is an argument of which one part (or any of the preconditions or conclusion) is missing.
Epistemé
Epistemé is a Greek word for knowledge. The term was proposed by Michel Foucault and widely used to denote the subsurface, often hidden foundations on which the message or statement that is accepted as knowledge during a certain period of human history is built. In...
Epistemological
Belonging to knowledge. Related: Epistemology
Epistemology
Epistemology is the study of knowledge; In a fuller sense - the study of the origin, nature, limitations, grounds, and forms of knowledge. Many semioticians believe that the formal and systematic study of signs has the ability to transform this traditional branch of...
Erasure
Erasure is a term used by deconstructivists like Jacques Derrida to mean the inevitability of relying on definitions that are both inadequate on the one hand and necessary on the other. Derrida adopted this practice of writing sous rature (subject to erasure) from...
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Binary Opposition
Binary opposition is the opposition of two things. Also, the state or process in which two things are opposed to each other. Often the binary opposition is understood as a pair of terms in which one is privileged. Opposition is (as the Latin op- prefix meaning...
Biosemiosis
The biosemiosis is a word derived from bio- (life) and semiosis (sign action). The word denotes the semiosis of living organisms. The term also encompasses anthroposemiosis, zoosemiosis, and (at least in theory) phytosemiosis. Related: Biosemiotics
Biosemiotics
Biosemiotics (which differs from biosmeiosis) is the study of the sign process in the biosphere or the world of living organisms. It includes anthroposemiotics, zoosemiotics, and, according to some semioticians, phytosemiotics. Related: Biosemiosis
Bit
A bit is a technical term from information theory, meaning the elementary unit for information measurement, how many elementary signals from a binary code are needed to translate an elementary unit from a complex code (for example, the English alphabet). The English...
Bliss(jouissance), texts of
The bliss of text is a type of text identified by Roland Barthes as opposed to the text of pleasure (plaisir). The text of pleasure is the one that "contains, causes euphoria, the text that comes from culture and does not interfere with it, is associated with the...
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