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Very high levels of complexity have been reached in the social sign systems used in the late twentieth century. Because of this complexity, the systems are very difficult to alter, and they tend to take on a life of their own. They have been termed “pseudo codes” (Williams, 1976) because they seem to take on the characteristics of organic codes—that is, stability across time and space.
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Williams, R. (1983). The Impact of Informatics on Social Sign Systems. In: Bain, B. (eds) The Sociogenesis of Language and Human Conduct. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1525-2_21
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