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Language As A Special Symbolic System

This document discusses language as a special symbolic system compared to other sign systems. It notes that language has several key characteristics that make it unique, such as being a natural rather than artificial system, combining expression and meaning, and allowing concepts to be expressed differently across languages. Language is also described as the most powerful means of forming thoughts and all other sign systems can be conveyed through language. The document contrasts language with other non-verbal forms of communication and sign systems.

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Language As A Special Symbolic System

This document discusses language as a special symbolic system compared to other sign systems. It notes that language has several key characteristics that make it unique, such as being a natural rather than artificial system, combining expression and meaning, and allowing concepts to be expressed differently across languages. Language is also described as the most powerful means of forming thoughts and all other sign systems can be conveyed through language. The document contrasts language with other non-verbal forms of communication and sign systems.

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Language as a

special
symbolic
system
Different systems of signs
are studied by a special
science semiotics
● the main characteristics of a sign are
materiality;
● its use to indicate something that is outside
of it, informativeness;
● the sign is not connected to it by a natural
connection;
● the same sign can be used in different sign
systems and have a different meaning.
in traffic
dangerous

!
signals means
road

in mathematics
the sign factorial

in punctuation exclamation
point
Signs:

● replaces the real object.


● does not exist separately.
● communicates with other signs within the system.
● fixed in human consciousness.
● combines the plan of expression - the form in which it is
embodied, and the plan of meaning - signified
information.
● the same sign can have different meanings in different
systems.
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o o o---o o o

соc
Not familiar ● sound (does not carry information)
with the ● a morpheme (a semi-sign, because it
does not realize its meaning on its
language: own, but only points to it: table,
table-a, table-u, etc.)
● a sentence (because a sentence in
itself is not a complete sign, but a
system of them).
Linguistic signs do not have an
organic connection with the
signified phenomena, and
therefore the same concept is
expressed differently in different
languages.
➢ language is a natural symbolic
system. All others are artificial. Features of
➢ any other sign system can be language as
conveyed in language, the
opposite is impossible.
a sign
➢ language is the most powerful system
means of forming thoughts.
signification — a set of
referent — a single object features of a class of
(for example, a chair) objects.
Unlike other sign systems that are
artificial, it is a special, very
complex natural sign system. This
feature concerns not only its
structure, which has a multi-level
organization, but also the richness
of its functions.
Non-verbal forms of communication
(mimicry, gestures) are auxiliary,
accompanying means of speech. they are
studied by the science of paralinguistics

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