Discourse: Socially-based belief structures. The viewer brings discourses to the reading of the television text, which contains discourses that match or clash with the viewer's.

 

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Discourse: Socially-based belief structures. The viewer brings discourses to the reading of the television text, which contains discourses that match or clash with the viewer's.

Free Indirect Discourse: A style of third-person narration that mingles within it traits from first-person narration, often shifting pronouns, adverbs, tense, and grammatical mode. The term comes from the French 'st . . . View Full Definition

Metaphysical Poets: John donne (1572-1631) and his imitators, including george herbert, andrew marvell, abraham cowley, richard crashaw, and henry vaughan, whose works are characterized (not exclusively) by col . . . View Full Definition

Poetic License: The freedom to depart from correctness and grammaticality sometimes extended to poets by generous readers who believed that the poets knew better but needed such effects to be true to their subject.

Dead Language: In linguistics, a dead language is one that does not change any more over time--it is 'frozen' historically because it is no longer used in everyday discourse, but is instead learned only fo . . . View Full Definition

Verse Paragraph: A group of verse lines that make up a discourse unit, the first verse of which is sometimes indented, like a paragraph in prose.

Feminism: A critical approach which concentrates on gender discourse, the manner in which the male-female relationship is portrayed.

Ideological Criticism: An area of television criticism, concerned with class and gender representation, that studies society's competing discourses and the position of the individual within society.

Cultural Studies (Ethnography): A critical approach which argues that viewers decode television texts based on their specific ideological position in society: it looks at the interaction between the ideological discourses . . . View Full Definition

Aposiopesis: An interruption of an expresion without a subsequent restarting. See also anacoluthon.