You may come across such terms as “the vocabulary of film” or “the grammar of TV documentaries,” and of critics/theorists talking about “reading fashion.”
Why, you may wonder, are these linguistic and literary terms used to describe media that in their final product may not necessarily employ language?
Well, some structuralist scholars took Saussure to heart when [...]
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Going beyond linguistic texts
December 5, 2007What to do with signs?
November 28, 2007What to do with signs? Same thing you, as creative writers, do with words (for words are signs, after all). But doing something with words/signs may not be easy as some of you think. Not after the “linguistic break,” anyway.This linguistic break occurred sometime in 1915 when two students of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de [...]
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