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The nature and role of indexicality in language and culture using the data of three of the authors read on the course.
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The nature and role of indexicality in language and culture using the data of three of the authors read on the course. According to Charles S. Pierce, we as human beings are 'meaning- makers' and we 'think only in signs'. Therefore meanings are created through our interpretation of signs in the form of words, images, sounds, smells, flavours, acts or objects. These words have no inherent meaning and only become signs when we attach the meaning to them (Pierce, 1931-58, 2.302). Pierce also suggested that it is the interpretation of a sign that signifies something or stands for something other than itself. It is by our unconscious interpretation of signs and associating them with a particular system of rules that makes signs meaningful (Pierce, 1931-58, 2.172). The two important models of what make up a sign were those of linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and philosopher Charles Sanders Pierce. Saussure suggested a dyadic...
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