The word ‘silhouette,’ we are told, ‘was satirically derived from the name of the parsimonious mid-eighteenth century French finance minister É tienne de Silhouette, whose hobby was the cutting of paper shadow portraits (the phrase à la Silhouette grew to mean ‘on the cheap’)’...
Keywords: semiotics, positivism, education, curriculum, meaning, law
04/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter