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Peer reviewedSkupien, Janet – Language & Communication, 1997
Presents accounts of theories locating the sources of the signifying capacities of words in their imbrication with nondiscursive structures and practices. Points out that a tradition of philosophical, linguistic, and semiotic theorizing has attempted to clarify what it is for words to have the meanings they do in terms of the relation of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis, Language Research
Boix, Christian – Francais dans le Monde, 1985
The use of a semiotic approach to foreign language literature appreciation and criticism at the college level is advocated as a means of analyzing texts. What is sought first of all is the meaning of the text with the semiotic-linguistic levels of organization that produce the meaning. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, French
