... "#. He focused on the linguistic sign and "phoncentrically privileged the spoken word"#. He accepted that the entire system of signs existed in a personal understanding or interpretation of sound-images and their concepts, yet felt that this was arbitrary. Never did he broach the field of sociology whilst determining the cultural inflictions that formed the arbitrary relationships between signifieds and signifiers, yet it is this ... and expressed through the text. Religion formed a central structure and set of rules for members of the state to follow, as is reflected throughout much of ...

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