Meaning is a term whose multiplicity of meanings is too great to be summarized. However, there is a widespread consensus in semiotics that meaning is not an explanatory term, but one that requires explanation.
To understand its meaning, we need to know what signs are and how they work. An important semiotic concept of meaning is that translatability provides the key to explaining the meaning.
The meaning of the sign is present in the innate ability of the sign to be translated into other signs. Another important semiotic approach to this theme can be found in Charles S. Peirce‘s conception of the interpretant of the sign.
The meaning of the sign – this is its ability to create a series of interpretants.
As Peirce distinguishes many types of interpretants, the meaning of the sign becomes a complex knot.
