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Abel Jaramillo
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This document discusses meaning in language and culture. It explains that language can mean through what it refers to as an encoded sign (semantics) or through what it does as an action in context (pragmatics). The chapter will focus on how language means as an encoded sign. It also discusses the linguistic sign, noting that what distinguishes humans from animals is their ability to create signs that mediate between them and their environment. A sign is defined as the relation between a given word as linguistic signifier and a signified object.

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Universidad nacional de Chimborazo LANGUAGE AND CULTURE MEANING AS SIGN AND THE LINGUISTIC SIGN GroupMembers: Tania Jarrin Luis Abel Basantes
Meanig as sign Language can mean in two fundamental ways, both of which are intimately linked to culture: through what it says or what it refers to as an encoded sign (semantics), through what it does as an action in context (pragmatics). We consider in this chapter how language means as an encoded sign.
The linguistic sign The crucial feature that distinguishes humans from animals ishumans capacity to create signs that mediate between them and their environment. The signifier ( soumd or word) in itself is not a sign unless someone recognizes it as such and relates it to a signified Every meaning-making practice makes use of two elements: a signifier and a signified. A sign is therefore neither the word itself nor the object it refers to but the relation between a given word as linguistic signifier and a signified object.

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  • 1. Universidad nacional de Chimborazo LANGUAGE AND CULTURE MEANING AS SIGN AND THE LINGUISTIC SIGN GroupMembers: Tania Jarrin Luis Abel Basantes
  • 2. Meanig as sign Language can mean in two fundamental ways, both of which are intimately linked to culture: through what it says or what it refers to as an encoded sign (semantics), through what it does as an action in context (pragmatics). We consider in this chapter how language means as an encoded sign.
  • 3. The linguistic sign The crucial feature that distinguishes humans from animals ishumans capacity to create signs that mediate between them and their environment. The signifier ( soumd or word) in itself is not a sign unless someone recognizes it as such and relates it to a signified Every meaning-making practice makes use of two elements: a signifier and a signified. A sign is therefore neither the word itself nor the object it refers to but the relation between a given word as linguistic signifier and a signified object.