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Form and content
A distinction sometimes equated to Saussure's distinction between the signifier (seen as form) and the signified (seen as content). However, the metaphor of form as a 'container' is problematic, tending to support the equation of content with meaning, implying that meaning can be 'extracted' without an active process of interpretation and that form is not in itself meaningful.
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