期刊名称：Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
印刷版ISSN：1411-2272
电子版ISSN：2407-6899
出版年度：2011
卷号：13
期号：2
页码：386-389
语种：English
出版社：University of Indonesia
摘要：A person perceives his environment as a series of signs and acts accordingly. We live in a world of signs made up of natural elements or of our own making. The meanings of our lives are also bound by conventional rules on values enveloped by signs, which circulate, evolve, and are being manipulated and processed. Signs so to say have a life of their own because of people’s endless reinterpretations. Yet whatever happens in the world of signs, their meanings have structure, whether framed by the dualistic relations between signifier and signified (de Saussure) or the triadic relations between representamen, object, and interpretant (Peirce). Thus, for semioticians the meaning of signs can never be settled and each personal or societal interpretation is just a short repose in a certain place at a particular time, only to be abandoned to move o.
