Specialization

特化

A suggested defining property of semiotic systems, such as human language, referring to the extent to which the use of a signal and the behaviour it evokes are directly linked. Animal communication is said to lack specialization, in that a signal triggers a behaviour; language, by contrast, is highly specialized, as the behavioural consequences of using a linguistic signal are less predictable (and often unpredictable).

一般认为是人类谱言这类符号系统的一个定义特性，指一个信号的使用和其引发的行为之间联系的程度。动物的信递被认为缺乏特化，因为一个信号引发一个行为；相反语言则高度特化，因为使用一个语言信号引起的一系列行为后果是很难预测的（经常是不可预测的）。