The active condition of any sign system is quite similar to the condition of tools.

Instead, he relies on his ear and his own sign system to learn operatic scores.

In many ways, the final test of any sign system is that of its built-in assumptions.

All of them, somehow, seem to be involved with your hidden road sign system and Mekstrom's Disease.

Once sexual experiences are appropriated by culture, they become themselves a sign system, a symbolic domain, a language.

The really interesting level of language, and of any other sign system, is not the referential level but the level of constituting new worlds.

Both start as limited experiences, open to the initiated few, and expand from a reduced sign system on interactions to very rich multimedia environments.

Be this as it may, expression, communication, and signification, the fundamental functions of any sign system, regardless of its logic, are endowed with replicative qualities.

Adapted to the scope of the conceived practical experience, such a sign system, when put into practice, will change the world, will "move" it.

It also leads to establishing relations between language and non-language sign systems.

Do literacy, language, or sign systems affect this basic equation of life?

Under which circumstances is language's mediating function assumed by other sign systems?

This interaction involves other sign systems, too: images, sounds, movements, texture, odor, taste.

Assumptions are a component of the functioning of sign systems.

The possibility of using sign systems other than language is far from being a novelty.

Language plays an important role, together with other sign systems, subordinated to language or not.