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Verbal Signs and Artificial

Ways of analysis
HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL AXES
Syntagm
Culture as ‘garment system’ (Barthes 1967)
THE PARADIGMATIC DIMENSION
Communication Test
Paradigmatic vs syntagmatic
Oppositions
MARKEDNESS
Semantic marking
ALIGNMENT
THE SEMIOTIC SQUARE
SPATIAL RELATIONS
Metaphors we live by

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