global-journal-of-human-social-science-g-linguistics-education Global Journal of Human-Social Science - G: Linguistics & Education 0975-587X 2249-460X Global Journals Publishing Group Incorporated 75979 The Application of Arbitrariness in Semiotics to PBL Teaching YingxueZheng CHINA, Guangzhou Pearl-river Vocational College of Technology 23 04 2013 13 17 1 4

The greatest fruit left by Saussure and Peirce is the arbitrariness of language signs through the comparison between their theories. Through this comparison, we found how the arbitrariness can settle out the problems in language teaching and instruct the linguistic research. Especially we can get the method how to apply the arbitrariness in PBL teaching.

 sign; signifier; signified; semiotics; iconic. Full Text

The greatest fruit left by Saussure and Peirce is the arbitrariness of language signs through the comparison between their theories. Through this comparison, we found how the arbitrariness can settle out the problems in language teaching and instruct the linguistic research. Especially we can get the method how to apply the arbitrariness in PBL teaching.