Linguacultural Study of Signs and Symbols

Abstract

It is shown that F. de Saussure, regardless of C. Peirce, distinguished three classes of linguistic signs corresponding to the triad "symbols - icons - indexes" by Pierce. The meaning of the lexeme symbol in general (non-special) use is relatively close to the philosophical and aesthetic ideas about the symbol traditional in European culture, but it differs significantly from the meaning of this term in C. Pierce's semiotics. The expediency of the analytical interpretation of the semantics of the term symbol in the special literature is shown.