| 释义 |
ˈsupersign
1. [super- 3 a.] A diacritical mark written or printed above a letter.
1947H. Jacob Planned Auxiliary Lang. 40 Supersigns were introduced to make Esperanto fully phonetic. 1958J. Berry in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 745 The supersigns interfere with spacing and involve ‘kerning’.
2. [super- 6 b] A combination of letters, figures, etc., forming a unit.
1976J. J. White in Visible Lang. X. 81 It is possible to view them as iconic ‘supersigns’; i.e., as collections or configurations of symbolic signs (viz. words). Ibid., Whether iconicity occurs at the sign or supersign level would be something which semiotic analyses would have to consider. |