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Weltanschaung
Weltanschaung is the german word for worldview, philosophy of life, and/or ideology.
Writable or Writerly Text(s)
The following article explains what a writable is text. Here, and in most places where the word text is embedded in a semiological context, one ought to read it in an abstract sense. Although, we most often interpret it as a number of interconnected written sentences,...
Writing
In the context of semiotics, the term "writing" refers to the process of spelling signs on a more or less lasting medium. The result of the process is, of course, a text made of words. The notion that when one is writing the text is made of words is an important one,...
Writing Degree Zero
Visible from the term itself this is writing degree zero. See Zero Degree.
Writing Under Erasure
As the term states itself this is the act of writing under erasure. See erasure.
Zeichen
Zeichen is the german word for a sign. It also means symbol, mark, signal, indication, and clue.
Zeichentheorie
Zeichentheorie in the German language is the word for semiology. The word is made of two words - Zeichen and theorie. Where the latter is obviously german for theory. So, the German word semiology is Zeichentheorie which literally translates to Theory of the signs.
Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist is a word that most of us know from the movie with the same name, that became famous in the early 2000s. The word Zeitgeist translates to the spirit of the time or an era. Usually, Zeitgeist is used to define the dominant feelings or "mood" of an era.
Zero Degree
Zero Degree is a term, coined by Roland Barthes for the writing style that is trying to self-erase or hide. For example, in the works of Albert Camus, Émile Zola, and Ernest Hemingway we can see a writing style that is trying not to focus the attention on itself. Yet,...
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Illocution; Illocutionary Act/Force
Illocutionary Act - a sentence that contains the performance of an action, usually recognized institutionally or socially (in the very act of pronouncing the relevant words in appropriate circumstances - "I baptize you Peter", the priest performs the ritual of...
Imaginary Order or Register
Imaginary Order or Register is a term used by Jacques Lacan to denote one of the three orders (or domains) of human subjective experience. The other two orders are the symbolic and the real order. The imaginary order (often called simply imaginary) is pre-Oedipal,...
Immediate Knowledge
Immediate Knowledge is a term often used as a synonym for intuitive knowledge; knowledge, not mediated by any factor (e.g. signs). In a colloquial sense, intuition is a reminder, an instruction. But after the great influence exerted by Charles Peirce and some others,...
Index
The use established by Charles Peirce is widely accepted by modern semioticians to denote a specific type of sign or sign function in which the sign vehicle provides its object through an actual or physical connection. For example, the wind vane is an indexical sign,...
Individual
Individual is a term often used in opposition to a subject; likewise, a term used by Charles Peirce in a sense too close to the etymology of the word individual, singular (that which is indivisible or which cannot be decomposed into anything simpler or less). Let's...
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