I mean, there is an emptying out of positive meaning in the very awareness that, after all, the red light could mean "go" I'm about to go on and give more examples.

这就事我们不能主动赋予符号意义,但是是要认识到，红灯也有表示，出发，的意思“,我会用更多例子来说明它。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Whatever the convention is within a system of differences, that's what makes the sign intelligible.

这些惯例存在于一个有差别的系统中，这就让符号变得有意义了。

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And I want to describe both the syntax, what we're doing, and then the semantics of how do we use it and what does that mean.

现在我想解释一下语法，我们在做什么,还有我们使用时的符号,以及意义。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It may mean something different and this is sort of just stupid re-use of syntax although frankly it wouldn't really be much fun to have yet a symbol so they went with the same symbol which is pretty reasonable in the context *a of a function prototype this just means *a expect A to be the address of an int and expect B to be the address of an int.

这里的意思有点不同,这是为了重使用的目的,虽然这个符号没有什么意义,所以在函数原型中，他们就使用了相同的符号,这只是表示，期望,是一个int型的地址,期望b是一个int型的地址。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

That's the crucial thing: if they're not willing, the use of the sign doesn't work, which confirms the idea that nothing can be changed simply by individual agency in and of itself.

这很关键：,如果他们自己不愿意使用，符号就没有意义，这也就应证了我们的观点,没有人能单独改变一个群体符号的使用方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Okay. So the intelligibility of sign systems is their conventionality.

所以符号的意义来源于它的惯例。

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Now a sign traditionally understood is self-sufficient, self-contained.

传统意义上的符号是自给自足的。

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He says: he signification "sign" has always been comprehended and determined, in its sense, as sign-of, signifier referring to a signified, signifier different from its signified.

他说，“符号“的意义“,总是被理解和决定的，在符号这个意义上，能指指向所指，能指与它的所指不同。

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