ABSTRACT
Human relations are primarily based on ‘communication’, i.e., on mutual understanding. Every understanding is based on shared communicational behaviour with shared messages. The transmission of messages is generally performed by overt language signs which are received by the physical senses of the addressee. But the final understanding is the outcome of a two-step process. The first step requires that an aural or visual sign is acknowledged as a language-sign. The second step requires that a certain meaning is attributed to the observed sign.
