Re: fort - da: an appropriation
erespess@inil.com
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:16:25 -0400
>The referent -- a physical thing like a tree or a dog.
>The signified -- imprint of the referent upon the human mind
>The sign -- the word "tree" or "dog"
>
>But this is just a very basic starting point and it gets pretty complicated
>from there.
Okay, I'm following you. What if the dog inspires an emotion? What is
that? I don't mean what we call the emotion, (happy, misty-eyed, scared,
etc.) but the feeling itself, before we categorize it?
Elizabeth