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SEMIOTICS: THE BASICS<br />

ask, ‘What does transparency keep obscure’ (Butler 1999, xix).<br />

Semiotics helps us to not to take representations for granted as reflections<br />

of reality, enabling us to take them apart and consider whose<br />

realities they represent. As the linguist Edward Sapir famously<br />

remarked, ‘all grammars leak’ (Sapir 1921, 38). Those who would<br />

learn from <strong>semiotics</strong> should search for structural leaks, seams and<br />

scaffolding as signs of the making of any representation, and also<br />

for what has been denied, hidden or excluded so that the text may<br />

seem to tell ‘the whole truth’.

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