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Sign (semiotics)

About: Sign (semiotics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4080 publications have been published within this topic receiving 70333 citations. The topic is also known as: semiotic sign.


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TL;DR: The authors explored the use of lexical units of analysis to measure growth in writing ability and found that good writing displays greater diversity in vocabulary than does poor writing, which is a sign of growth in the ability to express complex meaning in writing.
Abstract: As students improve as writers, what changes in their writing can we detect? This question has long stimulated research on ways to measure growth in writing ability. As part of the effort to develop and refine useful measures, many studies have investigated the value of syntactic units of analysis, such as sentence length and clause length. Although these measures have often proven to be reliable indicators of syntactic differences between writers at different grade levels and between good and poor writers at one grade level, they do not always shed light on the kind of growth these writers achieve over time. 1 Unfortunately, few studies have explored the use of lexical units of analysis to measure growth in writing ability. Those studies that have done so have tended to look only at the number of different words a writer has used in a specific text, or at their frequency of occurrence in the English language, in order to determine how varied or how easy or difficult a vocabulary the writer has used.2 These studies have found that good writing displays greater diversity in vocabulary than does poor writing. Apparently, the use of a larger number of different words is one sign of growth in the ability to express complex meaning in writing. But it is not clear from these studies exactly what the use of larger numbers of different words reveals about growth in writing ability or how it contributes specifically to the quality of writing. Moreover, the measures used in these studies do not provide information on how words are used to create meaning in written texts; they tell us, instead, only what words are used to create meaning. As a result, we have a limited understanding of how students grow in their ability to construct meaning with written language. Recently, two different approaches have been proposed for examining how words are used to create meaning in written discourse. One approach examines the subject of each clause in a text in order to explore how meaning is con-

22 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review of the concept of genre and taking judgments as one type of genre in legal settings is presented, which provides a corpus-based insight into the nature of genre.
Abstract: Genre has been a critical issue in discourse analysis as well as in other disciplines. Based on a literature review of the concept of genre and taking judgments as one type of genre in legal settings, the present study provides a corpus-based insight into the nature of genre. The literature review per se reveals that genre has one typical feature of a sign, that is, being subject to multiple and alternative interpretations; in other words, genre as a sign may have various interpretants. The present study unravels the actual generic structures, distinguishes different types of generic structures within the given genre, and then defines the dominant generic structure of judgments in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. This study also examines and contrasts the generic structure potential of judgments in each jurisdiction. In addition, the variation of Mainland China's judgments over time is briefly discussed. Comparing the generic structures of judgments among the three jurisdictions, as well as the structures of judgments in Mainland China over time, the paper argues that genre also has the essential features of a sign, that is, the characteristics of temporality and spatiality.

22 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
01 Mar 2006-Langages
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw some new specifie aspects of the interjections semiotic functions and suggest that two levels of formation exist and that the distinction operated between them will reveal the semiotic specificity of this enigmatic sign -ce canard boiteux... des signes.
Abstract: Georges Kleiber: Semiotics of Interjection The aim of this paper is to draw some new specifie aspects of the interjections semiotic functions. This analysis will allow us to comprehend in a better way the type of category we are dealing with. Within this perspective, our investigation is based on the semiotic comparison between interjections and onomatopoeia. We suggest that two levels of formation exist and that the distinction operated between them will reveal the semiotic specificity of this enigmatic sign -«ce canard boiteux... des signes» -that interjection is.

22 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 1978
TL;DR: Sign language interpretation is an integral part of the general study of interpretation and no description (practical or theoretical) of interpretation which fails to take account of sign language interpretation can be regarded as complete as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The practice of interpretation of sign languages dates back many, many years, though the practice is just now struggling to achieve the status of a profession — shifting from a more-or-less clinical focus to a more-or-less linguistic one. Research on sign languages, which is itself very recent, has convincingly demonstrated that at least some sign languages are indeed languages in the linguistic sense, thereby forcing us to expand our conceptions of the nature of language and to re-examine our approaches to the study of language. Experiments on the simultaneous interpretation of sign languages are contributing to our knowledge and understanding of language and communication in general as well as to the resolution of problems dealing specifically with sign language interpretation. These are the major points that we have gained from the presentations by Domingue and Ingram, Tweney, and Murphy. The relevance of their discussions of sign language interpretation to the general subject areas of language, interpretation, and communication is largely self-evident. Essentially, we are all saying that the interpretation of sign languages is an integral part of the general study of interpretation and that no description (practical or theoretical) of interpretation which fails to take account of sign language interpretation can be regarded as complete. I have set myself the task of demonstrating this point beyond any doubt. The papers by Domingue and Ingram, Tweney, and Murphy have called attention to a number of problems in interpretation of sign languages. My approach will be to explore some of these problems further in relation to language, interpretation and communication in general.

22 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
15 Jul 2013
TL;DR: This paper presents a new approach for automatically interpreting a sign language notation using avatar technology, and depicts the more suitable method that could satisfy the deaf needs than other notations and which is being taught formally in some schools.
Abstract: For deaf and hard hearing people, learning any spoken language is not a natural or automatic process, it is rather a long and intensive task. As a matter of fact, the important differences between signed and oral languages significantly affect the ability of these individuals to develop their literacy skills and thus their knowledge and potential. To address that issue, a number of systems for representing SLs in written form have been proposed. Most have become widely used among academics for linguistic research, while a few others have begun to be used as educational tools in some countries. Typically, these notations may inadvertently create confusion for novice readers because of their static nature and the special symbols that they use, so, displaying its contents in the form of video or animation of humanlike character would be beneficial to their users. In this context, we present in this paper a new approach for automatically interpreting a sign language notation using avatar technology. Sign Writing will be the focus of our work because it depicts the more suitable method that could satisfy the deaf needs than other notations and which is being taught formally in some schools.

22 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20222
2021178
2020196
2019188
2018186
2017177