LINGUISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS AS A SECONDARY SIGN (MICRO) SYSTEM

The article focuses on the study of illustrations found in linguistic and language teaching literature from a perspective of their operating as a secondary semiotic system. Such systems can comprise a limited inventory of items and belong to a specific author’s discourse, where their field of reference is determined by the producent’s associations of individual and subjective nature, and therefore generally hidden from the average recipient. Also, they may be related, as their plan de signification, to social communicativefunctional discursive varieties (as those of state politics, ideology, or literary criticism). In both cases, the emergence of such secondary systems results from the conscious intent of the producent.