historicism
[Th]A general and increasingly ambiguous term meaning a number of different things to different people. At its heart, however, is the idea that a society and its culture exist mainly in their dynamic ...
metalanguage
Language used to describe or analyse language. Linguistics can be seen as a metalanguage (a ‘second-order’ language) for describing natural language. Barthes, following Hjelmslev, saw myth as a ...
reductionism
[Th]The general principle that complicated phenomena can be explained by conceptually reducing them to a set of simple variables. This is often linked to essentialist or socio‐biological approaches.
text
The actual wording of a written work, as distinct from a reader's (or theatrical director's) interpretation of its story, theme, subtext, etc.; or a specific work chosen as the object of analysis. ...
