Signs

Signs

The word sign is derived from the Latin word signum . It is a term that describes an element, phenomenon or material action that, by convention or nature, serves to represent or replace another . A sign is also what gives indications or signs of a certain thing ( "The president blushed, a sign of his shame" ) and a figure used in writing and printing.

Starting from that meaning in which the sign is synonymous with a sample or indication of a certain issue, it must be emphasized that it is common to use that term in the police field. An example of this that we are exposing may be the following: "The corpse had signs of violence, which came to show that the murderer and the victim had confronted each other before the death of the victim".

A sign of linguistic character is a reality that can be perceived by one or more human senses and that refers to another real plane that is not present. It is composed of a signifier , a meaning and a referent , linked inseparably by meaning .

The punctuation marks are, on the other hand, tools of Western writing that arose with the purpose of making the texts easier to understand. They are usually used to indicate pauses. Since writing is a form of communication that involves a linear construction, punctuation marks allow you to separate ideas, hierarchize them and put them in order.

In this context, it is also interesting to keep in mind the characteristics of the diacritics , graphic signs that give considerable value to written signs. The orthographic accents, the umlaut and the tilde of the ñ, for example, are some of the diacritics.

In the same way, we can not ignore the signs that are used in the field of Mathematics and that are fundamental when developing those. In particular, we must highlight the plus and minus signs to perform addition and subtraction, or the signs of a number that determine whether it is positive or negative.

For medicine , on the other hand, a clinical sign is any concrete manifestation that may be associated with a disease or disorder that alters health . In this way, the disease becomes evident in the biology of those who have contracted it.

In the cinematographic field, the term that occupies us in films like, for example, The six signs of light has also been given a lot of prominence . In 2007, the production was premiered around the world, directed by David L. Cunnigham and starring Alexander Ludwig, Christopher Eccleston and Frances Conroy.

Specifically said film, inspired by the novel The Dark is Rising by the writer Susan Cooper, tells the story of a young man (Will Stanton) who discovers a good day that is the last of a series of immortal warriors who have as mission to fight against the different forces of evil to prevent the world from falling into its clutches.

Finally, it is worth mentioning the zodiacal signs , which indicate the place of the zodiac where the Sun appears ascending at the time of the birth of a person . The traditional western signs are twelve.