Cultural Reader

Interpretive anthropology is an approach to studying culture that emphasizes the importance of understanding the symbolic meanings that peop...

Conversational implicature is a concept in pragmatics, which refers to the meaning that is implied by a speaker's utterance, rather than...

In pragmatics and speech act theory , Illocutionary force refers to the intended effect or force of a speech act, i.e., the intended purpose...

Strategic essentialism is a key term in postcolonial theory, introduced by Indian thinker and literary critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in ...

Methodical Doubt (or  Cartesian Doubt)  is a philosophical method developed by the philosopher René Descartes . The question that preoccupie...

In linguistics , the denotative meaning or signified, denotation, is opposed to the connotative meaning or signified, connotation. Here is a...

According to Carl Jung , the collective unconscious is the structure that has the most impact on our personality, it includes all the treas...

Symbolic violence  (also called   soft violence  or  symbolic force  ) is a concept coined by the French sociologist  Pierre Bourdieu. What ...

Moral panic  is a  sociological  phenomenon  that the British researcher  Stanley Cohen  dealt with  , and which he first described in his b...

A locutionary act , or a locutionary speech act in JL Austin’s definition, is the part of an utterance which is the thing which is actually ...