People make meanings through our creation and interpretation of 'signs', signs take the form of words, images, sounds, odours, flavours, acts or objects. if meaning exists things could be considered as signs. linguistic sign is not a link between a thing and a name but between a concept and a sound pattern. Louis Hjelmslev used terms 'expression' and 'concept' to refer to the signifier and signified. Saussure argued that signs only make sense as part of a formal, generalized and abstract system. His conception of meaning was purely structural and rational. For Saussure, signs refer primarily to each other 'within the language system, everything depends on relations'. No sign makes sense in its own but only in relation to other signs.
For example, French word moutonmay have the same meaning as English word sleep but it does not have the same value. I also believe that the language is socially constructed.
