索绪尔认为,语言是一种符号系统。让·米特里没有否认这种观点,而是区分了电影语言与语言学所定义的语言之间的异同。语言学对于语言的定义大多侧重于它的工具性,而让·米特里对于电影语言的认知则更偏向于符号学对于语言表意性的重视。只不过相比较于符号学,让·米特里关于影像符号表意的相关论述更为具象化,突出强调了影像符号的语境和解码者的重要性。这就意味着电影因其表意功能,而成为一门可以被欣赏的艺术。但这种 Saussure believes that language is a system of symbols. Instead of denying this view, Jean Mitterrand distinguished the similarities and differences between the languages ​​defined by cinema and linguistics. Linguistics mostly focuses on the instrumentalism of the definition of language, while Jean Mitrell’s cognition of the film language is more inclined to focus on semiotic ideological attention. In contrast to Semiotics, Jean Métélie’s more elaborated statement of the notion of a pictorial symbol emphasizes the context of the pictorial symbol and the importance of the decoder. This means that the movie becomes an art that can be appreciated for its ideographic function. But this