sonsign

English

Etymology

Blend of sonic +‎ sign

Noun

sonsign (plural sonsigns)

  1. (film theory) Particularly in Gilles Deleuze's cinematic philosophy, a pure sound that exists independently of any immediate action or narrative progression.
    Coordinate terms: hyalosign, opsign, chronosign, lectosign, noosign, tactisign
    • 2009 July, Irini Stamatopoulos, “Time as visualized by the cinematic medium”, in offscreen, volume 13, number 7:
      Opsigns and sonsigns are direct presentation of time.
    • 2015 November 10, Marcello Garibbo, “Deleuze’s Philosophy of Cinema: Reflections on Subjectivity, Images, and Visual Artworks”, in THE DARK PRECURSOR International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research: DARE 2015 / Orpheus Institute / Ghent / Belgium / 9-11 November 2015:
      By presenting purely optical and sound situations in which no action is involved, opsigns and sonsigns place time at the centre of the cinematic image.
    • 2025 February 9, Wikipedia contributors, “Cinema 2: The Time-Image”, in English Wikipedia‎[1], Wikimedia Foundation:
      Thus, instead of what Deleuze had described as perception-images, affection-images, action-images, and mental images (all types of movement-image), there are now “opsigns” and “sonsigns” which resist movement-image differentiation.
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