Signifiant is a French word that almost always translates as signified. Signifiant is a word used by Ferdinand de Saussure to indicate one of the sides of a sign (signe, "two-sided psychological unit").
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Signification
Signification is the process by which signs and their meanings are created or produced. Related: Enonciation
Significs
Significs is a name given by Lady Victoria Welby to "the study of the nature of signification in all its forms and relations" (1911, VII), thus close to synonymous with semiotics. She also suggested the word sensifics as another name for this field of study.
Signifie
Signifie is a French word that almost always translates as signified. Related: Signifier Signified Ferdinand de Saussure
Signified
Signified is one of the essential correlates of the sign, as defined by Ferdinand de Saussure. For him, the sign is a relative opposition between signifier and signified. Signifier focuses his attention on something other than himself; Signified is the receiver of...
Signifier
The Signifier is one of the essential correlates of the sign, as defined by Ferdinand de Saussure. In recent years, the status of the signifier has been raised and that of the signified has been lowered. The idea of language, though implicit in Saussure's writings, as...
Signum
Signum is Latin for a sign. Roman Jakobson uses signum as a synonym for Saussure's signe. Writing in French, Saussure defines signe as signifiant, as opposed to signifie (signified, as opposed to to the signifier); when translated into Latin we have signum as a result...
Sinn
Sinn is a German word, usually translated as "meaning" or meaning and opposed to reference (Bedeutung). For clarity, it is useful to distinguish between Sinn (meaning) of a word or expression from Bedeutung (relation, sense). For example, the two words sunrise and...
Sinsign
Sinsign is a term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote a particular type of sign, in which the individual event or object serves as a sign vehicle. If a knock on the door announces incoming guests, that knock is a sinsign. More precisely, it is a Dicent Indexical...
Sjuzet (suzet, syuzhet)
Sjuzet is a Russian word used by Russian formalists to denote an event or narrative, but not the events that make up the story (Fabula). Related: Story/plot Narrative
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Firstness
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Form of Life(Lebensform)
Ludwig Wittgenstein and his followers are using the expression Lebensform to define the totality of the institutions, practices, and discourses in which the language games (also an important concept for Wittgenstein) have meaning. Language games in the auction bidding...
Function
A task or a role, action or a way of action in which the task or the role is executed. Also, the relation between two variables. Roman Jakobson discerns six possible functions of people's communication: When the communication is oriented (directed) towards the...
Geisteswissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften is the German word that stands for Humanities. The goal of this German word is to distinguish between the Humanities and Natural Science. Usually, we are differentiating the Humanities as a branch of science that is striving to understand...
Gender/Sex
The existence of this more and more important issue of the difference between Gender and Sex is one of the most obvious proofs that Language is what defines our reality. The existence of the two terms is not only controversial but what is more, they do not exist in...
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