General language

General language

Use this category for general terms related to languages.

Contributors in General language

General language

This term, used by Jonathan Potter, refers to the interpretative codes and textual codes available to those within interpretative communities which offer them the potential to understand and also - ...

Interpretative community

Language; General language

Those who share the same codes are members of the same 'interpretative community' - a term introduced by the literary theorist Stanley Fish to refer to both 'writers' and 'readers' of particular ...

Intentional fallacy

Language; General language

The intentional fallacy (identified by literary theorists Wimsatt and Beardsley) involves relating the meaning of a text to its author's intentions. Although these theorists regarded meaning as ...

Interpretative codes

Language; General language

Although many semiotic codes can be seen as interpretative codes, this can be seen as forming one major group of codes, alongside social codes and textual codes.

Myth

Language; General language

Barthes argues that the orders of signification called denotation and connotation combine to produce ideology in the form of myth - which has been described as a third order of signification. ...

Narration

Language; General language

Narration is the act and process of producing a narrative. Modes of address differ in their narrative point-of-view. Written narratives may employ third-person ominiscient narration ('telling') or ...

Narrative

Language; General language

A narrative is a representation of a 'chain' of events. In the orderly Aristotelian narrative form, causation and goals turn storey (chronological events) into plot: events at the beginning cause ...