Key concepts in semiotics.
Peircean terms:
- sign — a triadic relation among representamen, object, and interpretant
- representamen — the form a sign takes (the sign vehicle)
- interpretant — the meaning produced by a sign
- semiosis — the process of sign-mediated meaning-making
- icon — a sign that resembles its object
- index — a sign connected to its object by causal or spatial relation
- symbol — a sign connected to its object by convention
Saussurean terms: