General language

General language

Use this category for general terms related to languages.

Contributors in General language

General language

Modes of address differ in their formality or social distance. Following Edward T Hall, a distinction is often made between 'intimate', 'personal', 'social' and 'public' (or 'impersonal') modes of ...

Functionalism

Language; General language

Functionalism in the broadest sense is a perspective on society and culture which emphasises the interdependent functions of all of the parts in relation to the whole system. It was established by ...

Form and substance

Language; General language

Hjelmslev introduced the notion that both expression and content have substance and form. In this framework signs have four dimensions: substance of content; form of content; substance of expression; ...

Modernism

Language; General language

Modernism refers to a movement across the arts in the West which can be traced to the late nineteenth century, was at its height from around 1910 to 1930, and persisted until around the late 1970s. ...

Mimesis

Language; General language

The mimetic purpose in representation involves an attempt to closely imitate or simulate observable features of an external reality as if this is being experienced directly and without mediation.

Metonymic fallacy

Language; General language

This term refers to a tendency for the represented part to be taken as an accurate reflection of the whole of that which it is taken as standing for. It might more accurately be referred to as the ...

Modality

Language; General language

Modality refers to the reality status accorded to or claimed by a sign, text or genre. Peirce's classification of signs in terms of the mode of relationship of the sign vehicle to its referent ...