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Significatum

a field of semantic content of a linguistic unit, which includes information characterizing the object designated. The significatum is usually opposed to the denotatum, which is that class of objects of extralinguistic reality to which a given word can be correlated.

The significative and denotative aspects of linguistic meaning are inseparably linked because of the functions of language to both designate objects and phenomena of the external world and simultaneously express the way in which speakers of the language interpret these objects and phenomena. Linguistic units that are identical in denotation may differ in their signification. For example, the words “picture,” “canvas,” and “masterpiece” may all designate one and the same object of reality, but they permit the object to be conceived of in various ways. The concept of the significatum is used in semantic descriptions of linguistic units in logic, semiotics, and linguistics.

REFERENCES

Church, A. Vvedenie ν malematicheskuiu logiku. Moscow, 1960. (Translated from English.)
Kolshanskii, G. V, Logika i struktura iazyka. Moscow, 1965.
Morris, C. Foundations of the Theory of signs. Chicago, 1938.

A. M. KUZNETSOV

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No references found	Hec namque maxime huius voluminis lectores turbant quia, cum aliquid significatum est sub nomine Mercurii, de sermone statim fit transitus ad stellam sub eodem vocabulo. The creation grove in the Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris by Kauntze, Mark / Medium Aevum Lyons provides the following as the essence of Peiree's (1955) general definition of "indexical": "There shall be some known or assumed connexion between a sign A and its significatum C such that the occurrence of A can be held to imply the presente of existence of C" (Lyons 1977: 106). Indexicality and honorific speech level choice in Korean by Strauss, Susan; Eun, Jong Oh / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences	signatory Signature signature file signature stone signature tune signboard signed signed decimal signed field signed integer signed measure Signed Promise Not to Depart Signed Promise to Appear signet-ring cell significance significance arithmetic significance level Significance Level of a Statistical Test significance probability significant architectural feature significant digit significant digits significant figure significant landscape improvement significant wave Significatum Signified Signifier signing signinum signinum opus signless Stirling number signor signora Signorelli Signorelli, Luca Signoret signorina Signorini, Telemaco Signory signum Sigourney, Lydia Sigrid Arnoldson Sigrid Undset Sigsbee, Charles Dwight SIGTRAN Sigtuna sigua Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de Siguiri Sigulda	Significant wave height Significant wave height Significant Wave Heights Significant Weather Significant Weather Chart significantly significantly significantly Significantly Abnormal Blood Test Significantly Different Significantly Not as Described Significantly Revised Down Significantly Revised Up significare significare Significate Significate significatio signification signification signification signification significations significations significative significativeness Significator Significator (astrology) significators Significatory Significatum Significavit Significavit Signifié Signifié signified signified signified signifieds signifieds signifieds signifier signifier signifier signifiers signifiers signifies signifies signifies signifies Signifigance Signifigance Signifigance Signifigance Signifigant Signifigant Signifigant Signifigant signify signify signify

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Hec namque maxime huius voluminis lectores turbant quia, cum aliquid significatum est sub nomine Mercurii, de sermone statim fit transitus ad stellam sub eodem vocabulo.

The creation grove in the Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris by Kauntze, Mark / Medium Aevum

Lyons provides the following as the essence of Peiree's (1955) general definition of "indexical": "There shall be some known or assumed connexion between a sign A and its significatum C such that the occurrence of A can be held to imply the presente of existence of C" (Lyons 1977: 106).

Indexicality and honorific speech level choice in Korean by Strauss, Susan; Eun, Jong Oh / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences