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The Integration of the Signification and the Semiosis

This study handles two important semiotical concepts, i.e., signification and semiosis, within the framework of theoretical semiotics. We have called the academic field ‘semiotics’ as a science of signs, which consist of two elements like the signifier and the signified. According to Saussure (1916) and Hjelemslev (1943), the signified means a mental meaning and the signifier means its material. In general, the signification can be understood as the connection of mental meaning with its material and the semiosis as the process of signs. For Peirce (1931/1935) the semiosis means the action of signs which must be interpreted. The signification and semiosis seem to be not conceptional differentiated, but correlated with each other. In this study we attempt to find out the clear interaction between the signification and the semiosis. Moreover, on the basis of this interaction we propose the integral semiotic program for the communication, which is composed of signification and semiosis.