It's a piece of language but it also belongs to other sorts of semiotic systems as we'll immediately see.

它是一种语言,它属于一个特殊的语义系统,下面我来解释一下。

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I could use any example but I'm going to use something which plainly does move around among various semiotic systems.

这个例子很平凡,随处可见。

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All of that somewhat complicates the picture, but at the same time, I think you can see that there is a connection between those semiotic systems.

这理解起来可能很复杂，但是你们还是能看到,这些符号系统间的一些联系。

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Other systems: the gestures that mimes use, semaphores, are all semiotic systems.

其他的系统，比如手势，模仿，信号，他们都是符号系统。

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