Abstract Meaning generation reaches beyond the convenient code-based distinction between the encoding versus the decoding of information. What we need is a more comprehensive perspective that can encompass code-based communication and agency-oriented interpretation, both of which are treated as two subordinate mechanisms of meaning generation or signification. Based on a close reading of Saussure, there are only forms in signification; signs and signification are one. Given the complexity of its usage over the years, the term sign should be reevaluated. In its stead, the present article proposes using Sebeok and Danesi’s term model, although with some modifications, in order to shed a new light on meaning generation. The present article also demonstrates that cultural memory, or culture understood in the sense proposed by Lotman and Uspensky, coupled with emotions and human agency, act as three determinants of the process of meaning generation and make it a semi-autonomous process.

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意义产生

摘要含义生成超出了信息的编码和解码之间基于代码的便利区分。我们需要一个更全面的视角，可以涵盖基于代码的沟通和面向代理的解释，这两种方法都被视为意义生成或含义的两个从属机制。根据对Saussure的仔细阅读，只有形式表示含义。标志和指称是其中之一。考虑到多年来使用它的复杂性，应重新评估“标志”一词。取而代之的是，本文提出使用Sebeok和Danesi的术语模型（尽管进行了一些修改），以便为含义生成提供新的思路。本文还展示了文化记忆，或从洛特曼和乌斯别斯基提出的意义上理解的文化，