[humanmarkup-comment] Signs, Referents and Semiote

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Title: Re: [humanmarkup] PSB: posts

Is referent in the primary schema?  I remember it being part of the sign experiment,

thus, not something that has to be defined for the PSB.  Am I wrong?

 

A referent in the sign experiment DTD element type I posted is a real world

instance of the thing signified.   If the sign signifies a curve in a road, a

real curve on a real road can be a referent.

 

Sign - mostly just a wrapper element for descriptive purposes in the

DTD, an abstraction otherwise or the container.   A sign may be

symbolic, iconic or indexical, sometimes combinations of these.

 

Signifier - the sign, perhaps a glyph for example, the wavy glyph on the road sign for Curves Ahead

Signified - the concept of the sign, eg, curveness

Referent - a real instance of a sign, eg, a curve on a real road.

 

Semiote:  a processor capable of emitting and/or producing signs.   It may be

living or artificial for purposes of this specification.  

 

len