In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.
The American mind was not a thought at all; it was a convention, superficial, narrow, and ignorant; a mere cutting instrument, practical, economical, sharp, and direct.
Back in the 1920s, even though red had already become known for stop in traffic lights, the convention in signs wasn't yet established, and there were two major problems with red.
While the small n, they're kind of-- it's just the convention, the notation, that they say, hey, we just want you to get some smaller number, not the entire population.
虽然 n 很小, 但他们有点— — 这只是约定俗成的符号,他们说, 嘿,我们只想让你得到一些更小的数字, 而不是整个人口。
But then he goes on to say, and that's the natural right to property. But then, it seems that property, what counts as property is not natural but conventional defined by the government.
According to Peirce, only one type of sign, which he calls 'symbol', represents a conventionalized relationship with an object, and therefore comes close to Saussure's standard interpretation of the arbitrary sign.