Category: Science
Created by: 2la
Number of Blossarys: 16
English (EN) The smallest unit of meaning. Anything that can be used to communicate or to tell a lie. Linguistic communicators study the use of signs but the extended meaning of "sign" covers all kinds ...
Signs where the relation between signifier and signified is purely conventional and culturally specific, e.g., most words.
Signs where the signifier is caused by the signified, e.g., smoke signifies fire. The signifier makes you think of the signified because the two are frequently physically connected in the real world ...
The most basic or literal meaning of a sign, e.g., the word "rose" signifies a particular kind of flower. It is the surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition ...
A kind of connotation where in one sign is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military ...
A kind of conotation in which part is used for the whole (as for sailor). Collections of related connotations can be bound together either by paradigimatic relations or by syntagmatic relations.
It is a relation that holds between elements of the same category, i.e. elements that can be substituted for each other. It is where signs get meaning from their association with other signs.
By: 2la