What is dichotomy? - a difference between two completely opposite ideas or things: There is often a dichotomy between what politicians say and what they do.Various theoretical dichotomies can be extracted from Saussure’s work. This has become a tradition. He made a clear distinction between several new concepts: signifier/signified langue/parole, synchronic/diachronic studies, and syntagmatic/paradigmatic studies.Semiotics The shortest definition: semiotics is the study of signs.- tendency to be...