Blank-signs and their in-field domains in literary texts

Abstract In literary texts, blank-signs exist in large numbers, both explicit blank-signs with high perceptual characteristics or obvious visual features and implicit blank-signs that are not easy to detect and identify, similar to ‘psychic symbols’, ‘mental images’, ‘concepts’ and so on. In semiotic activity, the conditions and forms of presence for blank-signs in literary texts differ from those in general carrier domains; their conditions of presence tend to be more flexible, and their forms more implicit. The presence of blank-sign in the field is reflected in the absence of plot structure, the break of logical chain and the stagnation of plot structure at the level of plot structure, and in the hiding of the purpose of writing, the unfinished business and the opposition between the real world and the ideal world at the level of the theme and connotation. In particular, it should be pointed out that the blank-sign in literary texts are the result of the interaction between authors and readers in the ‘triangular relationship’ between authors, texts and readers. Authors cleverly convey their feelings and meanings by creating blank-signs, and readers complete the construction and deconstruction of the semiotics of literary texts together with authors through searching for, recognising and re-interpreting blank-sign. Blank-signs are connected to the author on one side and the reader on the other side, which is a ‘golden key’ for the establishment and interpretation of the meaning of literary texts.