Most women stabilize any water retention weight within a few months. However, if weight gain is excessive, check with your doctor to make sure hormone and blood sugar levels are normal, as excessive abdominal fat increases the risk of heart disease and high blood pressure.
Semiotics is the study of signs. In language, signs are part of the existing structure that we use to communicate. That structure is called la langue. Each sign is made up of the signifier (the word) and the signified (the concept).
In semiotics, the general theory of signs, sign systems and sign processes, Saussure introduced the notion of arbitrariness according to which there is no necessary connection between the material sign (or signifier) and the entity it refers to or denotes as its meaning (or signified) as a mental concept or real object.