Concept

To interpret meaning by its mirror image

What is meaning?Word having a kind of mind reflection/ understanding / concept

Theories Sign theory of Ferdinand De Saussure

The Ogden and Richards (1923) semiotic triangle

De Saussure’s Sign Theory

“The linguistics sign consists of a signifier and a signified”

What is this link between signifier and signified?

De Saussure’s theory Sign

Theory

signified

signifier

De Saussure’s theory Signifier

Language Word

Sound image

Signified World

Object Things

Language-[associative bond]-World

Sound [associative bond]Object

The Ogden and Richards (1923) semiotic triangle

“There is no direct link between symbol and referent.”

“Classification need not be natural or universal but conceptual.”

The Ogden and Richards (1923) semiotic triangle

A psychological associative bond

When we think of a name we think of a concept and vice versa.

Meaning consist of our ability of association.

It means the word ‘tree’ refers to the concepts ‘tree’.

Visualization; utterly impossible

Tree

Why visualization is not possible?Visualization at every word is impossibleIt is a very slow process when you visualize

every spoken wordIt is unnatural and impossibleVisual picture can be different in everyone’s

mind

VisualizationAbstract Concept- we are not concerned with

a particular meaning of a wordHorse in the lawnGhost in the machine

Three reasons of rejection:

Nothing can be said by moving meaning back one step to the brain or the mind.

Three reasons of rejection:Subjective view (Personal, inaccessible)There is no permanent concept regarding a word sound.

Every one can develop his own concept according to his mind and experience about the same word.

There is no scientific investigation of mind what does it think about a word.

Three reasons of rejection:The arguments about Intuition and introspection are irrelevant.(every body have not the intuition)

Conclusion Mirror image is not fixed one.It vary according to understandingAll concepts are very deeper