Across
- 3. Conceptualizing experiences in terms of polar opposites, each of which we understand by means of its opposition to the other. Theoretical framework that involves contrasting pairs of ideas or concepts, such as on and off, up and down, or left and right. It's a system of language and thought that defines and sets these opposites against each other.
- 5. A critical approach that analyzes texts and ideas to expose contradictions and inconsistencies, and to challenge traditional notions of meaning, language, and truth.
- 6. Language refers to neither things in the world nor to our concepts of things but only to the play of signifiers of which language itself consists. Language whose subjects don't really seem to refer to anything in the world very clearly.
Down
- 1. Meaning seems to reside in words or things when we differentiate their meanings from one another.
- 2. We seek meaning that is solid and stable, but we never really find it because we can never get beyond the play of signifiers that is language.
- 4. A linguistic sign- a sound, image, gesture, etc.