CHAPTER I-V - Digilib UIN Malang

number. Originally, the first Roman numeral “II” is headed on certain direction to
the dormitory building order, such as Mabna Khadijah Al-Kubro building is
Dormitory building A and Mabna Fatimah Al-Zahro bulding is Dormitory
building B. It means that A or B use in the first Roman numeral (I or II) as a
signified of dormitory building, the policy makers signify for every dormitory
building by letters A, B, C and D outside and by Roman numeral I, II, III and IV
inside. And, second Roman number is as a signified of the floor or stairs. For
instance, Ground floor is marked by I, second floor is marked by II, third floor is
marked by III, and Top floor is marked by IV. Thus, if we combine between the
signified of Fatimah Al-Zahro Dormitory Building with the signified of the floor
will become “II.II”. Then, the cardinal numbers “21-30” are signified of the
room’s number. The next step, explicature is tried to add some words, which are
not ambiguous.
Thirdly, the disambiguous words expand the terms meaning and gain the
original utterance “II.II 21-30” in optimal relevance. This utterance can be added
by some disambiguation words “The rooms of Fatimah Al-Zahro…in Number …-
… in the …… … and exactly in the… …”. These additional words do not against
the original meaning of this directional sign. The readers can understand these
additional words, the additional words are added in order to explicate and expand
the implicit meaning of this directional sign which is embedded in the wall beside
the stairs up.
Finally, after considering the additional words, the conceptual constituent
is embedded into the original utterance of directional sign. The explicature of the