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Conventionalism
Language; General language
This term is used by realists to describe a position which they associate with epistemological relativism and the denial of the existence of any knowable reality outside representational conventions.
Converse opposition
Language; General language
Pairs of mutually-exclusive signifiers in a paradigm set representing categories which do not together define a complete universe of discourse (relevant ontological domain), e.g. sun/moon (Leymore).
Cultural relativism
Language; General language
Cultural relativism is the view that each culture has its own worldview and that none of these can be regarded as more or less privileged or 'authentic' in its representation of 'reality' than ...
Conventionality
Language; General language
This term is used by realists to describe a position which they associate with epistemological relativism and the denial of the existence of any knowable reality outside representational conventions.
Copenhagen school
Language; General language
This was a structuralist and formalist group of linguists founded by the Danish linguists Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1966) and Viggo Brondal (1887-1953).
Denaturalisation
Language; General language
One of the goals of semioticians is denaturalization: revealing the socially coded basis of phenomena which are taken-for-granted as 'natural'.
Deconstruction
Language; General language
This is a poststructuralist strategy for textual analysis which was developed by Jacques Derrida.
