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Social codes

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Whilst all semiotic codes are in a broad sense social codes, social codes can also be seen as forming a major sub-group of codes, alongside textual codes and interpretative codes. Social codes in ...

Symbolic order

Language; General language

The Symbolic Order is Lacan's term for the phase when the child gains mastery within the public realm of verbal language - when a degree of individuality and autonomy is surrendered to the ...

Social semiotics

Language; General language

Whilst some semioticians have retained a structuralist concern with formal systems (mainly focusing on detailed studies of narrative, film and television editing and so on), many have become more ...

Symbolic

Language; General language

# A mode in which the signifier does not resemble the signified but which is arbitrary or purely conventional - so that the relationship must be learnt (e.g. the word 'stop', a red traffic light, ...

Ferdinand de Saussure, the founder of modern linguistics, was a pioneer of structuralist thinking - his was the linguistic model which inspired the European structuralists. Other key structuralists ...

Structural determinism

Language; General language

This is the stance that the pre-given structure of some signifying system - such as language or any kind of textual system - determines the subjectivity (or at least behaviour) of individuals who ...

Psycholinguistics

Language; General language

Language psychology or psychology of language; emerged the early 1960s in opposition to behaviorism, especially on operant conditioning and processing of meaning. In Europe, psycholinguistics would ...