Sunday, January 31, 2010

How Meaning Is Formed

This is a reading response to: "How Meaning Is Formed".

"In a language state everything is based on relations."

Meaning is put into the form of a sign. We know this from theories and writing from Charles Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, reguarding semiotics. Peirce defined three categories of a sign: an icon, an index, and a symbol.

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