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The physical form of a sign—such as a sound, image, or word—is called this in Saussurean semiotics.
Difficulty: Easy- Signified
- Signifier
- Symbol
- Referent
In Barthes's later work, he distinguished between two types of textual pleasure: the comfortable pleasure of familiar texts and this more intense, disruptive pleasure.
Difficulty: Medium- Plaisir
- Catharsis
- Sublimity
- Jouissance
In Greimas's generative trajectory of meaning, this deepest level contains the fundamental semantic categories and elementary structures of signification.
Difficulty: Hard- Deep structure
- Surface structure
- Narrative structure
- Discursive structure
In semiotics, the mental concept or meaning that a sign represents is known as this.
Difficulty: Easy- Signifier
- Denotation
- Signified
- Index
Barthes distinguished between texts that are easily consumed and those that require active production of meaning. The latter type he called this.
Difficulty: Medium- Readerly text
- Writerly text
- Open text
- Plural text
Greimas's concept of 'narrative program' describes the fundamental transformation where a subject moves from a state of this to a state of conjunction with an object of value.
Difficulty: Hard- Separation
- Absence
- Lack
- Disjunction
The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation is called this field.
Difficulty: Easy- Semiotics
- Semantics
- Syntax
- Phonetics
This Russian theorist developed the concept of dialogism and argued that all language is fundamentally social and filled with others' voices.
Difficulty: Medium- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Roman Jakobson
- Viktor Shklovsky
- Yuri Lotman
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