Polysystem

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A group of systems that function together as a system.

    "[…] the fact that the theatre is a polysystem, which brings together signs from a variety of systems such as (as here) the costumic, the gestural, the expressive, the aural and the verbal or linguistic — to formulate its message."

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"[…] the fact that the theatre is a polysystem, which brings together signs from a variety of systems such as (as here) the costumic, the gestural, the expressive, the aural and the verbal or linguistic — to formulate its message."

Etymology

From poly- + system.

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