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Broadcast codes have what information theorists call a high degree of redundancy - texts using such codes are structurally simple and repetitive ('overcoded').

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Reductionism involves the reduction of explanatory factors involved in some phenomenon to a single primary function or cause.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Whilst 'commonsense' suggests that reality exists prior to, and outside signification, according to constructivists (who refer to 'the construction of reality'), 'reality has authors' and what we ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

A philosophical (specifically epistemological) stance on 'what is real?' For those drawn towards philosophical realism, an objective and knowable reality exists indisputably 'outside' us and ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

The usage of this term varies mainly in relation to the various aesthetic movements, theoretical frameworks and media with which it is associated - so there are many different 'realisms', though a ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

For Lacan, 'the Real' is a primal realm where there is no absence, loss or lack. Here, the infant has no centre of identity and experiences no clear boundaries between itself and the external world.

Domain: Language; Category: General language

Whilst these terms appear to be graphocentric and logocentric, they are often used in semiotics to refer broadly to 'texts' and their users, regardless of medium. Writers and readers are sometimes ...

Domain: Language; Category: General language

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