A word or phrase, derived from the inversion or transfer of letters from another word or phrase. An interesting and playful example is getting "Agent's evil" by shuffling the letters in the word "Evangelists". Ferdinand de Saussure studied anagrams in Latin poetry on...
Semiology Glossary
Analepsis
Narrative technique, usually called a return to the old moment, less often - retrospection. If in the course of the narrative events one is presented, told before the description at the moment, it is an example of analepsis; if in the course of narrative events...
Analogy
In general - a comparison; The similarity between things that are otherwise different (for example, in many famous passages from his Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure draws attention to the analogies between language and the game of chess). In logic...
Analysis
A process in which an object or phenomenon under study is broken down - either physically (as in the chemical analysis of a substance) or conceptually - into its components in order to be more fully understood. The analysis is one of the main procedures used in all...
Analytic/Synthetic Judgments
Animal Symbolicum
A Latin expression meaning symbolic or symbol-using animal; an expression used by Ernst Cassirer to denote the human race. Animal Symbolicum also suggests something broader and deeper than what is usually understood by the classical definition of the human being as a...
Anthropomorphism
From the Greek words anthropos and morphe, meaning man and form, respectively. Anthropomorphism refers to the tendency to understand or interpret something that is not human or personal in a human or personal sense. To perceive God the Father as a man with white hair...
Anthroposemiosis
All sign processes in which human beings but also other animals participate; more specifically - the human use and formation of signs. Art, science, religion, and language, at least in their complex manifestations, are examples of anthroposemiosis in a narrower sense....
Anthroposemiotics
A branch of semiotics devoted to the study of man, exclusively and only to the characteristic human uses and forms of signs; part of zoosemiotics dealing with anthroposemiosis.
Anti-humanism
The opposite or the rejection of humanism. In a very broad sense, humanism is the acceptance of the values and dignity of human beings; in a more limited sense, it refers to a cultural and intellectual movement that began in the Renaissance (if not earlier) and...
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Acteur
An actor or character from the surface field of narrative discourse, other than the abstract function of the actant from the level of the deep structure.
Actuality
Status of existence other than potential. Objects do not just exist in different shapes and sizes; the real way of being one thing may be different from the way other things are. While the newborn is only a potential member of one language community, the competent...
Actualization
The process by which something purely potential becomes real (for example, the emergence of a flower from a seed). A.J. Greimas and J. Courte explain that in the context of semiotics this term means "transition from system to process" Thus language (langue) is a real...
Addressee
One of the six factors that make up any speech event or communication process. The addressee is the being to whom the message is addressed or transmitted; The addresser is the agent or mechanism that sends or transmits the message. If I shout to warn you of a danger,...
Addresser
One of the six factors in any communication exchange; in particular, the agent or mechanism that sends or transmits the message. Corresponding to this factor is one important function, namely the expressive or emotional function. When the communicative process focuses...
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