Grice: representamen ("the cricket team represents England" -- does for England what England cannot do for herself: engage in a game of cricket"

Incidentally, Seth Sharpless is another renowed American pragmatist from which I learned much about the Peirceian in Grice.

Dale quotes in "Theory of Meaning", from Peirce:

"A sign," Peirce notes, "or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign" (Peirce (1955a), p. 99).

If that's not a beautiful quote I don't know what is