Syntactics is a term used by Charles Morris to denote this branch of semiotics that deals with the relationship between the sign vehicle and other sign vehicles.
Semiology Glossary
Syntagm
A syntagm is any combination of units (such as words) that means something. The sentence is an example of a syntagm.
System
Any structure that is characterized by a high degree of regularity and unity is called a system. In this sense, the living organism is a biological system. Related: Structuralism
Taxonomy
Taxonomy is a term meaning classification, as well as the study of the principles of classification. Charles S. Peirce was interested in classification in both senses of the term. He and Ferdinand de Saussure (co-discoverer of modern semiotics) also devoted much of...
Text
Text is a term used today in a very broad sense, covering not only verbal but also other forms of communication. One can find claims that a person or a city is a text. A distinctive feature of this new use of text comes from the fact that the derivatives of the word...
Thematize
Thematize is a term that means explication and focusing.
Thirdness
Thirdness is one of the three universal categories of Charles Peirce. Defined formally and abstractly, it is something in between or mediating (CP 5.104). Everything is something in itself; this Peirce calls firstness. We can call it a "thing-in-itself." Everything...
Thought
Thinking is the process or act of thinking, the product or result of that process or act. In semiotics, it is seen as a sign process. According to its supporters, semiotics has a conceptual revolution, a radical revision of the way we think about such things as...
Token vs. Type
For more information on the opposition token vs. type, please see type vs. token.
Trace
Trace is a term that occupies an important place in Jacques Derrida's grammatology. The trace also the inscription in the grammatology of Derrida has the same meaning as the sign in the semiology of Saussure or in the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce. If an object never...
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Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Hermeneutics of Suspicion is an expression proposed by Paul Ricœur to denote a specific approach towards the interpretation of the text or discourse in which the main problem is for one to reveal what is not being said, and not so much for what is being said to be...
Heterocriticism
Although the world hetero is nowadays predominantly related to one's sexuality due to the immense presence of sex and gender in the public discourse, in fact, means different. Therefore, hetero criticism is a term that denotes the criticism directed at someone who is...
Heuristic
Charles Sanders Peirce describes his categories as having heuristic functions, by which he means that they are tools or means of researching any subject. Heuristic, therefore, stands for subsidiary means in learning, discovery, or research.
Hic et Nunc
Hic et Nunc is a phrase of Latin descent that stands for "here and now". For Duns Scotus and later for Charles Peirce, the here and now for the objects is their objectification or their individualization (the fact that the object is this one and not that one is...
Homo Loquens
Homo Loquens, like Homo Sapiens, is one of the many ways that we, humans, call ourselves. While Homo Sapiens is a widespread term, that means wise man, the Homo Loquens is a term that is arguably far less recognized among society. The term, again from Latin, stands...
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