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Spanish term
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Academic and Literary Translator
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, Greek to English
categoría sígnica
Spanish to English
Art/Literary
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Still editing the academic text on "silence in cinema", target language US English.
Does anyone know if there such a thing as "sign category"? That is what the author has used for "categoría sígnica" in a draft English translation, but I can't find it as such. It seems to be specific in the first sentence below. Alternatives gladly received. Many thanks.
"Para configurar el silencio, debe accionarse y expresarse no como “negatividad –el no signo, por supuesto verbal, pero también extraverbal–, pero dicha negatividad tiene, a su vez, categoría sígnica”, por tanto, es ideación activa y efable, eso sí, en silencio. En silencio, las palabras no serán oíbles por parte del interlocutor, pero sí interpretables."
Does anyone know if there such a thing as "sign category"? That is what the author has used for "categoría sígnica" in a draft English translation, but I can't find it as such. It seems to be specific in the first sentence below. Alternatives gladly received. Many thanks.
"Para configurar el silencio, debe accionarse y expresarse no como “negatividad –el no signo, por supuesto verbal, pero también extraverbal–, pero dicha negatividad tiene, a su vez, categoría sígnica”, por tanto, es ideación activa y efable, eso sí, en silencio. En silencio, las palabras no serán oíbles por parte del interlocutor, pero sí interpretables."
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | symbolic category |
Muriel Vasconcellos
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| 3 | semiotic category |
neilmac
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| 2 +1 | falls into the category of a signifier |
Barbara Cochran, MFA
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Proposed translations
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
United States
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United States
Each translation a gem!
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Spanish to English, Portuguese to English
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symbolic category
Example from Linguee:
[...] plástica abstracta, su capacidad de **evocación espacial y sígnica**, la austeridad de lenguaje, y la evocación espacial (sonora, [...]
Translation:
[...] "insert into abstract art its capacity for **spatial and symbolic evocation**, the austerity of the vernacular and spatial [...]
I also see 'signic' and 'signical' on the Internet, but neither word is in any dictionary I could find.
[...] plástica abstracta, su capacidad de **evocación espacial y sígnica**, la austeridad de lenguaje, y la evocación espacial (sonora, [...]
Translation:
[...] "insert into abstract art its capacity for **spatial and symbolic evocation**, the austerity of the vernacular and spatial [...]
I also see 'signic' and 'signical' on the Internet, but neither word is in any dictionary I could find.
Note from asker:
| Thank you so much, Muriel. I hope life is treating you kindly. :-) |
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semiotic category
Semiotic (adjective): relating to signs and symbols.
"Semiotics is a term used to reference an investigation into how film meaning is created and communicated through signs that are culturally understood."
"Semiotics is a term used to reference an investigation into how film meaning is created and communicated through signs that are culturally understood."
Example sentence:
...a semiotic category, comprising syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components...
The sign is the most general semiotic category, whose subtypes are symbols,...
Reference:
https://opentext.wsu.edu/theoreticalmodelsforteachingandresearch/chapter/semiotic-theory/
Note from asker:
| Thanks so much neilmac. I hope you are keeping well. :-) |
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
United States
Native in English
Works in field
United States
Laudable Lady Linguist
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
falls into the category of a signifier
Might work, given the context. Saw a reference to silence as a signifier in films in an academic journal when I googled, but I am blocked from accessing the link to the entire article. Sorry.
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Note added at 23 hrs (2022-02-10 00:08:06 GMT)
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It is, it is... Thanks so much for your kind wishes!
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Note added at 23 hrs (2022-02-10 00:08:06 GMT)
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It is, it is... Thanks so much for your kind wishes!
Note from asker:
| Thanks so much, Barbara. I hope all is well with you. :-) |
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