French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

French word list

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	signe (linguistique)
	signe-occurrence
	signe-type
	signifiance
	signifiant1
	signifiant2
	significatif
	signification
	signification naturelle
	signification non-naturelle
	significativité
	signifié
	signifier
	similaire
	similarité

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(linguistic) sign

Fr    signe₁

nS

Related term(s): semiology, signifiant, significans, signification, significatum, signifié, signified, signifier, system

Domain: Functionalism

Source(s): Benveniste 1971[trans.]: 43; Colapietro 1993: 180; Crystal 2003: 418; Dineen 1967: 201f.; Eco 1984: 23; ELL: 3885; ERC: 673; ES: 573; Finch 2000: 6, 27-28; Greimas 1983[trans.]: 12; Hamp 1963: 53; Matthews 1997: 210 (also "language sign"); Nöth 1990: 79, 88; Pei & Gaynor 1954: 197 (#2); Richards etal. 1992: 334; Saussure 1959[trans.]: 67; Wales 1989: 420 (#3); Weinreich 1980: 4

Sub-entries:

• arbitrariness of the sign
• arbitrary nature of the sign
• complex sign
• immutability of the sign
• mutability of the sign
• sign system
• sign vehicle
• zero sign

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English word list

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	(linguistic) assimilation
	linguistic geography
	linguistic insecurity
	linguistic knowledge
	linguistic legitimacy
	linguistic market
	linguistic semantics
	(linguistic) sign
	linguistic theory
	linguistic universals
	linguistic variable
	linguistically
	linguistically significant generalization
	linguistics1
	linguistics2

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