ABSTRACT
Term formed from sign-and -eme, which is used to refer to all distinctive elements at the various levels of linguistic description.
Distinction established by F.de Saussure between the form of a linguistic sign and its content, wherein both aspects are of a mental nature and the relation between these two sides of the (linguistic) sign is arbitrary ( arbitrariness, sign). ( also expression2, and cf. meaning, denotatum)
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arbitrariness, sign
