According to the semiotic tradition, communication is _______ mediation of signs.

In the semiotic tradition, communication is the inter-subjective mediation of signs shared between minds.

Meaning is not private but is jointly built as sign-users draw on a common code.

Extra-subjective wrongly places meaning outside all participants, ignoring the shared act of signification.

Non-subjective wrongly strips meaning of any human interpreter, treating signs as bare objects.

Macro-subjective wrongly scales meaning to a whole society while missing the between-persons character of signs.

Semiotics after Peirce and Saussure stresses that a sign works only through this shared, between-minds understanding.