In our last lecture, I was talking about language as part of our semiotic system.

上次我们讲到，语言是符号系统的一部分。

2 More recently, however, this rigid view of the linguistic sign has come under increasing criticism.

然而, 最近, 这种对语言符号的僵受到了越来越多的批评。

We might also call this " symbolic" language.

我们也可以称其为“符号”语言。

But how do you design a symbol in a way that will last across generations and languages?

但是，您如何设计一种能够跨越几代和各种语言的符号？

So a manual alphabet is sort of a subsystem within a sign language that is used to represent a written language.

手语字母是符号语言中的子系统，而符号语言用于代表书面语言。

To survive in such an environment, a person must become familiar with abstract symbolic languages.

要在这样的环境中生存，一个熟悉抽象的符号语言。

We’ve talked a lot about the things that make a culture a culture – things like norms and symbols and languages.

我们已经谈了很多关于使一种文成为一种文的事情——比如规范、符号和语言。

In our last lecture, I was talking about language as part of our semiotic system, and today I am going to move onto another topic.

在我们上一堂课中，我谈到了语言作为我们符号系统的一部分，今天我将转移到另一个话题。

In summary, diacritics play an important role in linguistics by providing a way to represent and distinguish different linguistic features and variations in writing and speech.

总之，变音符号在语言学中发挥着重要作用，它提供了一种表示和区分书写和言语中不同语言特征和变的方法。

It's no wonder that in the 1990s computer scientists kind of gave up on so-called symbolic  language processing in favor of a new strategy: statistical language processing.

难怪在 1990 年代计算机科学家放弃了所谓的符号语言处理，转而采用一种新策略：统计语言处理。

For example, while entity-related perceptual features like colors and shapes are more easily and accurately represented within the pictorial system, temporal dynamics and contingencies are better represented within the linguistic semiotic system.

例如，虽然与实体相关的感知特征（如颜色和形状）在图像系统中更容易和准确地表示，但时间动态和偶然性在语言符号学系统中得到了更好的表示。