For decades it has been assumed that every sign system in nature, society and cognition belongs to the domain of semiotics. The literature on the subject is voluminous.
Semiotic studies are increasingly attractive to whoever is interested in signs at large.
At present, however, the attempts to address every instance of semiotics to the general theory of sign systems have unreasonably widened the scope and confines of semiotics. It is impossible to suggest a remedy for the whole of general semiotics. In the 1990s linguists are more concerned about the unity of theory and practice. A sophisticated linguist will no longer state that language is a sign system par excellence . He will no longer indiscrimitately relegate language to the domain of general semiotics.