Sign, object, interpretant.
Peirce held that there are exactly three basic semiotic elements, the sign, object, and interpretant, as outlined above and fleshed out here in a bit more detail: A sign (or representamen) represents, in the broadest possible sense of "represents".
Roland BarthesElements of Semiology (French: Éléments de sémiologie) is a compendium-like text by French semiotician Roland Barthes, originally published under the title of "Éléments de Sémiologie" in the French review Communications (No.
'Semiology' was the term used by Ferdinand de Saussure to characterize the science that, he asserted, would study both verbal and nonverbal signs and sign-using behavior.
Saussure thus envisioned semiology as the study of all kinds of signs in the same manner that linguistics studied verbal signs.