LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -In each case, the sign can be broken into two parts, the signifier and the signified. The signifier is the thing, item, or code that we ‘read’ – so, a drawing, a word, a photo. Each signifier has a signified, the idea or meaning being expressed by that signifier. Only together do they form a sign.

Detailed explanation-2: -The signifier is what you call something (the word “tree” for tree), whereas the signified is the concept of the thing itself, and all other related concepts: all iterations of “tree, ‘’ plus “bush” and “shrub” and anything else tree-like.