The Rhetoric Notebook:
Key Terms for English 980

Semiotic Notes:
Kaja Silverman's The Subject of Semiotics Key Terms

 Semiotics

 1) Subject (male/female)

 2) Sign (signifier/signified/iconic/indexical/)

 3) Parole/langue(connotation/denotation/diachronic/synchronic)

 4) Primary process/secondary process (conscious/preconscious/unconscious; ego/id/superego)

 5) Desire/other

 6) Similarity/contiguity (metaphor/metonymy; paradigm/syntagm; condensation/displacement)

 7) Imaginary/Symbolic order

 8) Phallus (name-of-the-father/symbolic father)

 9) Suture/ideology

 10) Readerly text/writerly text (codes)