A unit of signifier and signified, in which the linguistic form (signifier) stands for a concrete object or concept (signified). When the notion of sign is extended to include anything which means something to somebody in some respect or capacity, signs could then be used to refer to cultural objects such as honour (micro-sign), as well as to more global structures such as text, genre and discourse (macro-sign), and to even more global structures such as that of the myth.