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1868 C. S. Wake Chapters on Man iv. 43 The idea formed in the mind is first of the individual; but..the language sign—which represents the individual—may, and generally soon does, lose its particular character and become the symbol of a general idea.

1894 G. T. Ladd Psychology xvii. 380 As the mental images become more and more abstract,..the necessity and importance of the language-sign becomes greater.

1946 C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior 350 In this book ‘language sign’ is often used in place of ‘lansign’.

1970 Sci. Jrnl. Jan. 57 In the 1930s C. K. Ogden, I. A. Richards and A. Korzybski, and more recently C. E. Osgood, D. H. Mowrer and others, tried to show how language symbols and signs (lansigns, as they are sometimes called) are associated with their referents in much the same way as conditioned stimulus becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus, as in the classical conditioning theory of Pavlov.

1998 N. Markel Semiotic Psychol. v. 96 A final noteworthy point regarding the domain of paralanguage is the fact that it is always present when humans interact by way of language signs.