According to Ferdinand de Saussure, a linguistic sign is arbitrary and consists of a

concept(signified) and sound-image(signifier). Signifier has no natural connection with a signified.

However, onomatopoeia and interjections might be used to prove that the choice of the signifier is
not always arbitrary, but their symbolic origin is in part open to dispute. The signifier being
auditory is unfolded solely in time from which it gets the following characteristics: it represents a
span, and the span is measurable in a single dimension; it is line. In author’s opinion, the
characteristic role of language is to serve as a link between thought and sound. Their combination
produce a form. Moreover, language is a system of interdependent terms in which the value of
each term resists solely from the simultaneous presence of the others. So, the conceptual side of
value is made of relations and differences with respect to other terms of language. Also, author
emphasizes that arbitrary and differential are two correlative qualities. What is more, in language
there are only differences without positive terms. Language has neither idea nor sounds that existed
before the linguistic system, but only conceptual and phonic differences that have issued from the
system. Relations and differences between linguistics terms fall into two distinct groups:
syntagmatic and associative relations, each of which generates a certain class of values. The
opposition between two classes gives a better understanding of a nature of each class.
According to Claude Levi-Strauss, myth is a language: to be known it has to be told; it is
part of human speech. A myth always refers to events that alleged to have taken place a long time
ago; but what gives a myth an operational value is that the specific described pattern is timeless.
The substance of the myth lies in its story which it tells, not in syntax, style or music. Myth is
language, functioning on an especially high level where meaning succeed particularly from the
linguistic ground. The confusions and platitudes which are the outcome of competitive mythology
can be explained by the fact that the multi-dimensional frames of reference are often ignored or
naively replaced by two- or three-dimensional ones. What’s more, according to Levi-Strauss,
myths do have a logic based on binary oppositions, and this logic is myth’s structure. Relationality
or differential structure has had a considerable influence on literary criticism.