Etymologically, the skeptic is the researcher or the one who asks the questions. One who predisposes others to hear the answers or expresses doubt. The term skeptic is often used in a different and stronger sense from the philosophers. It could mean a person who...
Semiology Glossary
Speculative grammar
Speculative grammar is a branch of logic developed by Charles S. Peirce. Logic is usually defined as the hearing of arguments and inference. But Peirce perceives that this study is only part of logic, part of what he calls critique. In addition to critique, the task...
Speculative rhetoric
The speculative theory is a term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote the third and final part of logic. He also calls this branch of logic methodeutic. Related: Speculative Grammar
Speech
Speech is a term most often used as a contrast to language. Language is a system that makes communication possible, while speech (discourse) is the actual use of this system in specific circumstances (context). Related: Language vs. Speech Discourse...
Speech act theory
Speech act theory is a contemporary philosophical approach to language inspired by John L. Austin and his book How to Do Things with Words and developed by John Searle in Speech Acts (1969). Austin puts to the test the deep-rooted tendency to assume that the only or...
Stare pro
Stare pro comes from Latin and literally means "stands instead". From antiquity to the present day, the function of one thing standing instead of another is taken to be the definition of the sign (see aliquid stat pro aliquo). In one of the most famous texts in the...
Stoic theory of signs
Stoic sign theory is an important doctrine of the early phase of semiotic research or reflection. One crucial part of this doctrine is the statement that the sign unites three components: material and respectively perceptible sign vehicle (for example sound or...
Story/Plot
Story is a term commonly used to translate the Latin word Fabula; happening - a word used to translate the word plot. Russian formalists have made an important distinction between storytelling and happening. While the narrative is a pre-literary sequence of events,...
“Strange, making”
Translation of the Russian Ostranenie. Related: Defamiliarization
Structural Lingiustics
Structural linguistics is the study of language based on the principles of structuralism.
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Gestalt
Gestalt is a psychological term. It stands for an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts. Gestalt is a German word that translates to "shape," "form," or "configuration" in English. In a broader sense, it refers to a concept, structure, or...
Glotto-, Glutto-
Word-forming element meaning "language," from Attic Greek glōtto-, from glōtta, variant of glōssa "tongue; language". It is broadly considered to mean language but in a narrower sense, it stands for speech.
Glottocentrism
Glottocentrism is a word derived from the greek glōtto (Glotto-) and is an approach to semiotics that assumes that language and more specifically - speech is the key element of all sign systems. Often a similar approach to semiotics not only makes language the focus...
Glottogenesis
The origin or the evolution of a system of phonetic signs. Nowadays it is generally considered that Glottogenesis has begun around 50 000 ago. See: Semiogenesis
Grammar
Grammar is a system of rules, governing the formation and combination of the main units in a semiotic system.
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