| 单词 | sign design |
| 释义 | > as lemmassign design sign design n. (a) a plan or drawing of a sign (esp. in sense 7a); the action of designing a sign; (b) Philosophy and Semiotics a pattern or structure by which sets of actual words, gestures, etc., function as a group to convey meaning, e.g. the structure of a sentence; cf. sign-event n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > unit of meaning > [noun] > sign > sign-design sign design1942 1904 A. Williams Decorative & Sign Lighting (National Electric Light Assoc.) 6 The illustrations show possible varieties..in sign design. 1942 R. Carnap Introd. Semantics §3.5 The word ‘sign’ is ambiguous. It means sometimes a single object or event, sometimes a kind to which many objects belong. Whenever necessary, we shall use ‘sign-event’ in the first case, ‘sign-design’ in the second. 1967 Winnipeg Free Press 25 Mar. 15/1 Winnipeg designer..has been named one of the winners in the 21st annual sign design competition. 1974 M. Taylor tr. C. Metz Film Lang. iii. 90 Between words—pure ‘sign events’ as they are called in American semiotics, events that never occur twice..and language..there is room for the study of ‘sign designs’, sentence patterns. 2002 Q. Newark What is Graphic Design? 142 Sign design is driven more by..function than almost any other area of graphic design. < as lemmas |
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