LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Onomatopoeia, Nim Chimpsky, Chief Operating Officer

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: pankratz

Document Summary

Semiotics- the study of signs/ symbols in communication. Humans became humans, after using signs on communication. All words are signs that substitute real objects. It should be material must be able to hear it, see it or touch it. It serves as a means of communication. A plant, having a trunk with leaves and/or needles. Signifier form that we should reach our senses, and perceive. A signifier is that part of a sign that stimulates at least one sense organ of the receiver of a message. For example, the pronunciation of the word tree [tri:]. The signified component of the sign refers to both the real world object it represents and its conceptual content. Individual instances of signs are called tokens (individual representative of functions). All signs can act as signals when they trigger a specific action on the part of the receiver of the message, as do many traffic lights, words in human language ( take" or bring", etc. )