sign
The basic unit of interest for *semiotics. It is perhaps best apprehended as a unit of meaning whose principal point of distinction is the fact that it is not meaningful in itself, but is only ever a sign of (or pointer to) a theoretically ‘full’ meaning that lies elsewhere. Although the two principal ‘fathers’ of semiotics, ... ...
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