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The glossematic conception of the linguistic sign and its meaning is, as was to be expected, a purely formal one. OSG gives as Hjelmslev’s definition of the linguistic sign: “the unit consisting of content-form and expression-form and established by the solidarity1) that we have called the sign function” (OSG p. 53).
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Cf. what Robins says with regard to Bloomfield’s conception of meaning: “It is within the context of the “whole man”, however intractable some parts of this context may be to “scientific” treatment, that words have meaning in the sense of “meaning” that a descriptive linguist has to understand, and state”. (R. H. Robins, A Problem in the Statement of Meanings. Lingua III, 2, 1952, p. 129).
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Siertsema, B. (1955). The Linguistic Sign: The Sign in Itself. In: A Study of Glossematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6671-5_8
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