Semio Glossary - Chandler
Semiotics for Beginners
Daniel Chandler
Glossary of Key Terms * Abduction: This is a term used by Peirce to refer to a form of inference (alongside deduction and induction) by which we treat a signifier as an instance of a rule from a familiar code, and then infer what it signifies by applying that rule. * Aberrant decoding: Eco's term referring to decoding a text by means of a different code from that used to encode it. See also: Codes, Decoding, Encoding and decoding model of communication * Absent signifiers: Signifiers which are absent from a text but which (by contrast) nevertheless influence the meaning of a signifier actually used (which is drawn from the same paradigm set). Two forms of absence have specific labels in English: that which is 'conspicuous by its absence' and that which 'goes without saying'. See also: Deconstruction, Paradigm, Paradigmatic analysis, Signifier * Address, modes of: See Modes of address * Addresser and addressee: Jakobson used these terms to refer to what, in transmission models of communication, are called the 'sender' and the 'receiver' of a message. Other commentators have used them to refer more specifically to constructions of these two roles within the text, so that addresser refers to an authorial persona, whilst addressee refers to an 'ideal reader'. See also: Codes, Encoding and decoding model of communication, Enunciation, Functions of signs, Ideal reader, Transmission models of communication * Aesthetic codes: Codes within the various expressive arts (poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, music, etc.) or expressive and poetic functions which are evoked within any kind of text. These are codes which tend to celebrate connotation and diversity of interpretation in contrast to logical or scientific codes which seek to suppress these values. See also: Codes, Connotation, Poetic function, Realism, aesthetic, Representational codes
Daniel Chandler
Glossary of Key Terms * Abduction: This is a term used by Peirce to refer to a form of inference (alongside deduction and induction) by which we treat a signifier as an instance of a rule from a familiar code, and then infer what it signifies by applying that rule. * Aberrant decoding: Eco's term referring to decoding a text by means of a different code from that used to encode it. See also: Codes, Decoding, Encoding and decoding model of communication * Absent signifiers: Signifiers which are absent from a text but which (by contrast) nevertheless influence the meaning of a signifier actually used (which is drawn from the same paradigm set). Two forms of absence have specific labels in English: that which is 'conspicuous by its absence' and that which 'goes without saying'. See also: Deconstruction, Paradigm, Paradigmatic analysis, Signifier * Address, modes of: See Modes of address * Addresser and addressee: Jakobson used these terms to refer to what, in transmission models of communication, are called the 'sender' and the 'receiver' of a message. Other commentators have used them to refer more specifically to constructions of these two roles within the text, so that addresser refers to an authorial persona, whilst addressee refers to an 'ideal reader'. See also: Codes, Encoding and decoding model of communication, Enunciation, Functions of signs, Ideal reader, Transmission models of communication * Aesthetic codes: Codes within the various expressive arts (poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, music, etc.) or expressive and poetic functions which are evoked within any kind of text. These are codes which tend to celebrate connotation and diversity of interpretation in contrast to logical or scientific codes which seek to suppress these values. See also: Codes, Connotation, Poetic function, Realism, aesthetic, Representational codes