Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-9: Labour Power, Productive Forces, Class Conflict
10 Dec 2016
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A linguistic sign is not a link between a thing and a name, but between a concept and a sound pattern. A sound pattern is the hearer"s psychological impression of sound, as given to him by the evidence of his senses. The sound pattern may thus be distinguished from the other element associated with it in a linguistic sign; this other element is generally of a more abstract kind: the concept. The linguistic sign is a 2 sided psychological entity. The 2 elements are intimately linked and each triggers the other. In our terminology, a sign is the combination of a concept and a sound pattern. We propose to keep the term sign to designate the whole, but to replace concept and sound pattern respectively by signification and signal. The word symbol is sometimes used to designate the linguistic sign, or more exactly the part of the linguistic sign which we are calling the signal.
