Understanding Signs and Their Types in Communication

Signs and Their Types:

A sign is any perceptible element that represents an idea, a feeling, or a reality.

The sign is a structure that is:

• Significant: The part that the recipient receives through any of the senses.
• Meaning: The concept associated with the significant.
• Reference: The external reality to which the sign refers.

Signs are classified as:

• Visual: A picture.
• Acoustic: A whistle.
• Olfactory: A scent.
• Taste: A wine taster.
• Touch: A tactile sensation.

According to the relationship between the signifier and the signified, signs are classified as:

• Indications: The signifier and signified bear a causal relationship.
• Icons: The relationship of resemblance or similarity.
• Symbols: The signifier and signified are associated by convention.

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Communication is an exchange of signs in which the transmitter sends information to the receiver for interpretation.

Elements of communication include:

• Sender: The person sending the message.
• Receiver: The person targeted by the message.
• Message: The content being communicated.
• Reference: The actual subject of the message.
• Channel: The physical medium through which the message is transmitted.
• Code: The system of signs that make up the message, which must be shared by the sender and receiver.
• Communicative Situation: The spatial and temporal circumstances where communication occurs.

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Sign Language: These are words whose properties allow the expression of thought.

Properties of the Linguistic Sign:

• Arbitrariness: The relationship between the signifier and signified is established by convention; it is an arbitrary relationship.
• Discontinuity: The linguistic sign is broken because it can target.
• Linearity: The sounds are emitted so that they arrive at the receiver in sequence.
• Immutability and Mutability: A linguistic sign is immutable because its shape and meaning are given to us.

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Language: A system of signs that are related to each other with few rules.

Linguistic Units:

• Phonemes: Meaningless linguistic units.
• Morpheme: The smallest unit of meaning or grammatical vocabulary.
• Word: A unit written in blank that has autonomy and independence.
• Phrase: A set of words together that play a role.
• Set: The minimum unit of communication, divided into:
  • Prayer: Having a person.
  • Verb Phrase: A phrase that has a verb.
• Speech: A set of statements with full consciousness.