It has also been shown that two dimensions exist side by side in Saussure: the one horizontal, where the signified is reduced to the value of coexisting minimal terms into which the signifier decomposes; but the other vertical, where the signifier is elevated to the concept corresponding to the acoustic image that is, to the voice, taken in its maximum extension, which recomposes the signifier value as the opposite of the coexisting terms, but also the concept as the opposite of the acoustic image).