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There was a court case just over a year ago where a judge ruled that a series of texted emoji constituted a valid agreement to rent an apartment. A law professor has found that it was far from alone: ...

What if every film, novel, and artwork followed invisible rules? From Saussure’s linguistics to Barthes’ semiotics, structuralism revealed the deep systems shaping how we create and interpret meaning ...