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Kayy · Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 3

Hello!

I don't have a clue Shocked

Could you please help me?

Brix · Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 21

I've never heard this word.

I've never heard it; never spoken it; never read it.

Wind up....

Lorikeet · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:53 pm Post subject:

Perhaps it's a coined word by some company? Without ever having heard it, I'd probably pronounce "representamen" with the heavy stress on "sent" and a secondary stress on "men" and it sounds like some superhero representative to me. Heh

Kayy · Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 3

here is a sentence with this word:

A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect ...

I thought it might be pronounced represenTAmen, like representation Question

but I'm not a native speaker. I don't know Sad

Lorikeet · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:20 am Post subject:

Kayy · Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 3

yes, the word really exists. it's a specific term in semiotics.

darimana · Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 18

i have never heard of the word either, so sorry don't know how to pronounce it, but looked it up, read the following link and still don't really understand what it means..... hope someone can help you soon!

http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/terms/representamen.html

Lorikeet · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject:

Don McChesney · Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 11 Location: Zhengzhou

The site quoted above has extracts from 1903 and earlier Sad

This was before semiotics was thought of. I think 'signifier' is the current term, but could be wrong