Semiotics: A Four Part Method of Inter Personal Communication, in contradiction to Saussere, et al.

 Is it not clear in these models, there is no room for error, and thus, humans being involved, the old models are too simple?

There are two and three part communication models, but here I add an extra bit, in the sense that one can be in error.  And by goodness, by Jove, we can see what we want, and interpret how we want.

Firstly.  There is a subject, or in this case, an object.  We'll make it very subjective, very malleable in the eye of the beholder before we're done, Cheevers.

Say you and a friend are riding along one day, you as the passenger, and the friend would be the driver.  You see a "Curve Ahead" sign of something.  Well.  That's a thing.  A real thing, no matter what you say about it, no matter what you think about it, and no matter whether your friend has seen it or not.  Its there.  It's inserted itself, by existing, into Plato's Formal Universe.

That's Number One.

On to Number Two.

Number Two is how the speaker interprets what he sees, and when I says this give a nod to Jung and Freud, because here we encompass so many biases and prejudices and even might go back to potty training itself, as the squiggle graphic on the sign reminds the speaker of bemusedly seeing his own feces in the toilet bowl.

So Number Two is not the first thing, but a subjective interpretation in the mind of the speaker, our Person A.

Number Three is what the speaker(Person A) says about the signage.  And in the respect he's not alone, our model is sound, otherwise we're back properly indebted to Saussere, in the case of either reading a book, or driving along alone glancing at the traffic signs.

What the speaker says to communicate what he wants is subjective too, and filtered through its own interpretive matrix of either social nicety, need or what have you.  Proper decorum.

"Lover's Lane is this way."

Number Four, then, if Number Three is the whatever objectively is communicated from Person A, then number four is Person B's interpretation of what is communicated, that object.

Four Parts.

Two objects.  One subject.  Two interpretations.  Two actual communications in a dialogue, in the signage and the action of Person A.

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