{"id":9070,"date":"2019-05-22T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/signs_-linguistics\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:14:36","slug":"signs_-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/signs_-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs (linguistics)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A type of signifier or representational vehicle consisting of arbitrary sound sequences (or hand movements, as in American sign language) that represent shared meanings within a given linguistic community. Signs are generative in the sense that they can be effortlessly combined to generate novel meanings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See American sign language, British sign language, <a href=\"communication\">Communication<\/a>, <a href=\"culture\">Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"mutual_gaze\">Mutual gaze<\/a>, <a href=\"special_gift\">Special gift<\/a>, <a href=\"symbols\">Symbols<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A type of signifier or representational vehicle consisting of arbitrary sound sequences (or hand movements, as in American sign language) that represent shared meanings within a given linguistic community. Signs are generative in the sense that they can be effortlessly combined to generate novel meanings.&nbsp; See American sign language, British sign language, Communication, Culture, Mutual &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/signs_-linguistics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Signs (linguistics)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}