sign situation
chiefly Linguistics and Semiotics
noun
A situation or context in which a sign is interpreted by one or more interpreters with respect to a particular set of reference points.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Charles Kay Ogden (1889–1957), psychologist.
- mom-and-pop
- Mombasa
- mome
- moment
- momenta
- momental
- momentaneity
- momentaneous
- momentaneously
- momentaneousness
- momentarily
- momentariness
- momentary
- moment axis
- moment critique
- moment generating function
- momentless
- momently
- momento
- momentoes
- moment of inertia
- moment of silence
- moment of truth
- momentos
- momentous