The Communicative Function of Signs

Communication is one of sign's basic functions.The communicative function endows great power to the sign world. In the sense of significs,human' s communicative behaviors indicate the communication and sharing processes of mutually conveying massages. In the process, there are rules for the coding and decoding of various signs.The signifying situations refer to the particular situations of human's cognition and communication by various signs that have restraining and explaining functions.