单词 | significatum |
释义 | significatumn. Chiefly Linguistics and Semiotics. A thing which is signified or indicated; (in later use) spec. = signified n. Opposed to significans n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [noun] significationa1398 signatum1666 significatum1684 signifié1939 signified1939 1684 J. Howe Redeemer's Tears 169 Is in an insignificant sign? a sign that signifies nothing? or to which there belongs no correspondent significatum? 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 331 The contradictory admission, that Regeneration is the significatum, of which Baptism is the significant. 1865 S. H. Hodgson Time & Space ii. 44 It is of the utmost importance in reasoning to distinguish which kind of object or significatum it is which is expressed, or concealed, by a word or set of words. 1917 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 7 114 We are to take the ‘meaning’ of a word or sentence as being that of which the word or sentence is a sign. It is a significatum. 1964 E. Palmer tr. A. Martinet Elements Gen. Linguistics i. 24 Every linguistic sign comprises a significatum, its meaning or value..and a significans through which the sign is made manifest. 1993 C. Lehmann in W. A. Foley Role of Theory in Lang. Descr. 335 The phonetic substance is formed into a significans, and the cognitive substance is formed into a significatum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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