Towards a Perfect Definition of the Term Sign

Published: Dec. 20, 2010, 1 p.m.

Towards a Perfect Definition of the Term \u201cSign\u201d; by Louis Capet; From Volume I, Number 3 of Better Words and Morphemes, The Journal of the Linguistic Society of South-Central New Caledonia, May 1991. \u2014 Saussure defined the sign as the union of the signifier and the signified. Steinmetz emphasized the importance of the interactional element. Burma-Shave proposed that a sign could only be understood in the context of adjacent signs. Modern linguistics has elaborated the concept of the sign system. (Read by David J. Peterson.)