sign
The signis a medium helping the work of mind acts such as communication or a thought / feelings / the art. In a narrow sense, a letter or a mark point at a figure referred a meaning to, but include the list goods, a fashion and various acts (and, as a result) in a wide sense. Sign it in itself is only ink on the paper and a molded object, vibration of the air, but is formed as a sign because a human being relates these to some kind of meanings. And I show anything I become large amount of aggregate with other signs or and the sign acts mutually. From the the 19th century latter half to the 20th century, the human accomplished a big leap with aspects such as science and technology, politics / economy, the thought, but the sign played an important role in that. In the natural science, I encoded a natural phenomenon and deepened new recognition by operating them and came to control an ideal method of the human among other things. When, by this, every recognition comes true only by a sign; it is just; was broken. A study originates in the semiology common to today for the same period. The semiology came out from linguistics, but I went the many action that a sign brought to the human as a study not only I studied the work of the sign in merely language, and it was it with the one of the big pillars in the philosophy. I call the symbolic thing of the character a sign by an animated cartoon and the criticism of comics (an example)： Stick) of the magic girl. In addition, there is a thing saying that "encoding went ahead" through the situation that a character design becomes much the same even if works are different. It is often that a commentator affected by the modern thought boom of 1980's uses it (Hideshi Otsuka, Toshio Okada). Such a use is based on semiotic interpretation, but it is thought that it is very likely that the use that was different from the in future original meaning is born without understanding such a background because there are many used examples.