de Saussure on Signifier – Signified – Signs
Structural Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure posited that any sign – any thing that is meaningful, a word, an emoji, a picture, etc. – can be broken in...
Category: Big Theories
These theories extend beyond stand-up, and try to explain a number of different phenomena.
Kenneth Burke on Terministic Screens: Reflections – Selections – Deflections
As I said in a previous post, we have to realize, along with Kenneth Burke, that any discourse, any story, description or set of terms (“woman,” ...