Abstract

According to this author, the sign is a semiotic unit, it belongs to the system, the constituent relation dominates, consequently it signifies and that is all. Meaning belongs to the semantic order whose basic unit is the sentence. Between these two orders there is a "hiatus", not a relation, but both are part of discourse. Filling the gap between the two, the word is the institutionalized sum of its contextual values, its status covering up its instability

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