Semiosis means to represent an object with another object.
符号是一个对象对另一个对象的指代。
Adopting a systemic functional view of semiosis, which states that meaning comes from choices from semiotic systems, we formulate the framework of how non-linguistic resources make meaning.
本文在系统功能语法关于意义是符号系统中的选择的理论基础上,建立了非语言资源的表意系统。
Then we realize once again that we can only know what it is if we come to understand--in this case, probably, it's best to say a cultural system, understood as a semiosis, within which it appears.