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Abstract
names are not neutral, simple handles on things, but conceptual instruments by which we create an organised picture of the world. Names create understanding, and it is againstthe background of the organised picture of the world already given to us by language and culture that theorisation begins. (Hillier 1996:70).
It is the relations between different elements of language which constitute the meaning of signs.