That's because the red light is actually not a gross constituent unit in a semiotic system, right?

那是因为红灯不是这一符号系统的一个主要组成单元，对吗？

youdao

Language as a semiotic system is best represented in science and technology writings.

语言作为一个符号系统，在科技文体中体现得尤为明显。

youdao

You remember the whole argument: I have to see the red light in the context of the semiotic system to which it belongs.

你们应该还记得整个论述过程：，必须把红灯放在它所属，的符号系统中来理解。

youdao

You had a semiotic system, whereas before, yesterday, or a minute ago you had no language at all.

一个符号系统诞生了，然而之前，昨天，或者就是一分钟前，根本就没有语言。

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This, by the way, is a way of showing the fact that everything which appears in a semiotic system is conventional, right?

这也表明了,任何在符号系统中出现的符号都要符合惯例？

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It has the function, in other words, of negating its own meaning in another semiotic system, in this case the semiotic system of the stoplight.

也就是说，他有这样那样的功能，在不同语义系统中表示的甚至完全相反，就像红灯表示的这些不同含义一样。

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