Saussure’s View of Language as a System of Arbitrary Signs  

作　　者：Marcel Danesi 

机构地区：[1]University of Toronto,Canada

出　　处：《Language and Semiotic Studies》2022年第1期16-23,共8页语言与符号学研究（英文）

摘　　要：Saussure’s view that signs stand for their referents in an arbitrary fashion reflects a view of semiosis that separates sensory-bodily processes from cognitive ones.It remains Saussure’s most controversial assertion within semiotics,even though it is a perspective that is found as an axiom in various cognitive sciences.This paper revisits Saussurean arbitrariness theory,showing how it breaks down in various ways when considering concrete semiotics phenomena.Nevertheless,as a model of semiosis,it has provided a basis on which to discuss and research semiosis in real-world terms.

关 键 词：ARBITRARINESS SEMIOSIS motivated modeling modeling systems embodiment theory 

分 类 号：H0[语言文字—语言学]