ABSTRACT
My concern now is mainly with the application of this tripartition to linguistics - in fact, to put things right with regard to history , the first two terms were borrowed from linguistics; Morris borrowed them from the stoic theory of language.2 From a semiotic point of view, we can then distinguish, within linguistics, a syntactic level (including phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax3 ), a semantic level and a pragrna tic level (contextual and pragma ticallinguistics).
