Gergana Dacheva
University of Sofia
https://doi.org/10.53656/bel2025-3-5D
Abstract. The present article is part of a larger study related to the current and interesting topic of the sign nature of sign languages and in particular the Bulgarian sign language. The main aspects of the study are to outline the sign rebirth of sign languages and the main relationships between sign types. The reasoning leads to the triadic model of C.S. Peirce, which is fully applicable to sign languages in contrast to the dyadic model of F. de Saussure, which is applicable to natural languages. The emphasis in this article is on the types of signs (indexical, iconic and symbolic) and their hierarchy in the particular sign. A modern semiotic hypothesis is also proposed, which presents the three types of signs in a traditional figure for linguistics, namely the triangle. It is insisted on the thesis that the Bulgarian sign language has its own system and its own vocabulary, like other sign languages.
Keywords:communication; sign language; semiotics; types of signs
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