A human being, as a physical reality, needs the living environment for the self-existence. The environment, then, is classified into physical and social one. For a human being is social, and becomes a member of the society that he belongs to for himse...
A human being, as a physical reality, needs the living environment for the self-existence. The environment, then, is classified into physical and social one. For a human being is social, and becomes a member of the society that he belongs to for himself. This process needs the way of living appropriate for the given environment, and the way of living is called 'culture.' Culture, thus, has all the kinds of information about its prototype and application, because it is learned through the living-experience in the given environment. Then, culture can be explained in terms of semiotic nature : Sign is defined as something that serves to indicate the presence or existence of something. The sign has the segmental, dual, arbitrary, symbolic, social, conventional, and transmissible nature. The nature of sign should be also learned as well as learning culture. In this study, the semiotic nature of culture can be verified by observing the real living-experience based on semiotics.