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Paris school

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This is a school of structuralist semiotic thinking established by Algirdas Greimas (1917-1992), a Lithuanian by origin. Strongly influenced by Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1966), it seeks to identify ...

Transmission model of communication

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Everyday references to communication are based on a 'transmission' model in which a 'sender' 'transmits' a 'message' to a 'receiver' - a formula which reduces meaning to 'content' (delivered like ...

Translatability

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Linguistic universalists argue that we can say whatever we want to say in any language, and that whatever we say in one language can always be translated into another. For linguistic relativists ...

Transparency

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We become so used to familiar conventions in our everyday use of various media that the codes involved often seem 'transparent' and the medium itself seems neutral. The medium is characterised by ...

Russian formalism was a structuralist, anti-realist aesthetic doctrine whose proponents included Victor Shklovsky (see Denaturalization). The Prague school linguists were also structural formalists. ...

Form and content

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A distinction sometimes equated to Saussure's distinction between the signifier (seen as form) and the signified (seen as content). However, the metaphor of form as a 'container' is problematic, ...

Functions of sign

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In Jakobson's model of linguistic communication the dominance of any one of six factors within an utterance reflects a different linguistic function. referential: oriented towards the context; ...