We invite you to think of any word.
Ready! We assume that you've thought of the word “home”, but if it's not true, that's fine. What first comes to our minds when we perform this procedure, is represented something like this:
The mental image we make refers to the meaning
The idea we have is = housing, which is equivalent to a space built by the human being, whose function is to shelter and protect it in every way. So when this happens we are referring to the meaning.
Now let's continue our task, whose proposal is you, in just a second, imagine how you would write this word, that is:
/c/a/z/a – know that when transcribing a word phonetically, the letters must be represented in slashes. Why z and not s? Because, according to the rules, s has a z sound.
Well, because it is about letters and phonemes, we say that we are facing the significant, that is, the materialized, written part of the word we imagine.
In this way, understand that the linguistic sign it is formed by the signifier and the signified.
By Vânia Duarte
graduated in letters
