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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Abridgment
Reducing or shortening a word or phrase, such as shortening of "Metropolitan" to "Metro". Abridgment affects signifiers, not words (ie nonverbal or linguistic signifiers). The slightest nod from a person's repertoire of nonverbal communication gestures can replace the...
Abstraction
The process by which certain features of a phenomenon or reality are chosen for consideration and others are downplayed; the product obtained by such a process is ens rationis, a state of mind; his being is available only in thought. If we focus on human beings only...
Actant
A term proposed by A.J. Greimas and accepted by narratologists to indicate the most essential categories of the development of the plot. From the beginning, Greimas suggested having three such categories, each in binary opposition: Subject/object; Sender/recipient;...
Actantial Analysis
Actantial Analysis is the analysis of the narrative in terms of actants, abstract functions, located at the level of the deep structure. For narratologists such as Roland Barthes and A.J. Greimas narrative discourse has both a superficial and a deep structure. What...
Acteme
A term proposed by Kenneth L. Pike to denote the most basic units of communicative behavior, whether verbal or nonverbal. What is the phoneme for linguistic research as a system of aural signs is the same acteme for the study of communications as a behavioral system....
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