It is most common meaning value stands for something and its price. Yet in Saussurian linguistics value (valeur) stands for something a lot different, and, frankly, hard to understand. As Saussure has put a lot of effort, into trying to make a comparison between...
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Verbal
Derived from latin "verbum" which means "word", verbal refers to or consist of words. For example, verbal communication, which is the act of communicating with words. Verbal communication is the opposite of non-verbal communication, which we often refer as body...
Verbicide
Verbicide stands for the act of "murdering a word". Sometimes we are using words carelessly and lightly, that they might loose their true meaning. For example, the word "awful" is actually dead. Nowadays, we can't use it to describe something suggests awe, as it...
Verbum mentis
Verbum mentis is, of course, a Latin expression. It stands for a mental or internal word. In the middle ages, people believed that prior to and regardless of their public (social) meaning, words exist in our minds. Thus - mental (internal) words. The mental words are...
Verifiability
From the Latin veritas - truth, verifiability is a term that stands for the ability of a message to be verified (proven to be true). Verifiability was a keyword for the positivists. They've tried to use verifiability as a criteria to distinguish significant from...
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