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Redundancy

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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').

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 ...

Reality

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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 ...

Signification

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In Saussurean semiotics, the term signification refers to the relationship between the signifier and the signified.

Sign vehicle

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A term sometimes used to refer to the physical or material form of the sign (e.g. words, images, sounds, acts or objects). For some commentators this means the same as the signifier (which for ...

Signifying practises

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These are the meaning-making behaviours in which people engage (including the production and reading of texts) following particular conventions or rules of construction and interpretation.

Signified

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For Saussure, the signified was one of the two parts of the sign (which was indivisible except for analytical purposes). Saussure's signified is the mental concept represented by the signifier ...