Structuralism is a metatheory relating to the construction of theories. Structuralism emerged in the twentieth century as a theory of reason, language, culture, and literature. Beyond these specifically structuralist theories, there is implicitly at least one theory...
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Subject, Subjectivity
One of the best ways to understand the meaning of this term is to look at the glacial image of Rene Descartes' Cogito Ergo Sum. When Descartes triumphantly declared himself against the skeptics in his Reflections on Primary Philosophy, the Self that made this...
Sujet en proces
Sujet en proces is a French expression that Julia Kristeva, among other semioticians, used to denote the development of the plot.
Suture
Suture (or editing) is a term that most generally refers to the joining of two edges or surfaces, and in the semiotics of cinema - the editing of two different photos (two frames), in a way that forms a new story. Sometimes this term is used in a narrower sense to...
Symbol
A term often used to denote a conventional sign (for example, a sign based on a convention or established use). But this term also refers to many other types of signs. For Ferdinand de Saussure, a symbol is a sign in which the relationship between signifier and...
Symbolic Order(Register)
The symbolic order, also known as the register, is an expression used by Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, and a number of other representatives of semiotics to highlight the social order as a symbolic arena in which human beings are involved and prevented from acting....
Synchronic vs. Diachronic
Synchronic means belonging to what is represented or simultaneous. Also what the transition of the time is considered irrelevant; diachronic, on the other hand, means belonging to that which changes over time. For example, if the US Congress is currently in session....
Synechdoche
A synecdoche is a type of trope or figure of speech in which a part of something is used to denote or symbolize the whole. For example, when a person says that "they were over the keyboard for the whole day", where the keyboard means the whole - a computer and on a...
Synechism
Synechism is a term used by Charles C. Peirce to denote the doctrine of permanence.
Syntactics
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.
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Adequacy
Three realities or degrees of the theory, moving respectively from one minimum requirement for reporting (observing) adequacy to the ultimate goal of explanatory adequacy through the mediation of descriptive adequacy. This three-threshold difference can best be...
Adequatio
Latin word meaning equivalence, equality, or conformity. Unification is a process in which one thing is done to be the same as another. In medieval thought, the truth was defined in terms of adequatio. According to Thomas Aquinas, truth is adequatio rei et...
Ad Hoc
A Latin term meaning "for this", used as a definition to describe something (such as a committee or hypothesis), specifically intended to solve a particular problem, result, or desire. If an administrator at a university organizes a committee tasked with approving...
Ad Hominem
A Latin expression commonly used as an abbreviation of argumentum ad hominem. One of the meanings is an argument that applies specifically to a person (for example, "If you maintain or assume this, you cannot consistently defend another position"), by which a person...
Adjuvant
A French term, that means helper. The term was used by A.J. Greimas to denote something that originally had an actant role attributed but was later classified as an auxilliant of the same significance.
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