| The intimacy of signifier and signified in the iconic sign negates the distance which defines phonetic language. |
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| He focused, so to speak, on the pragmatics of the signifier rather than on the vicissitudes of the signified. |
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| The representative signifier stands in for the signified signator only on the condition that there is an effective distinction between the two. |
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| Linguists might call the monster on the ice-floes a floating signifier, a lexeme whose meaning varies contextually. |
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| Even if skin color were taken as a signifier for race, a metonym for some racial homunculus, all it would prove is a trope, not an index. |
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| In language, a lone signifier would be an utterly meaningless sound or concatenation of sounds. |
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| Here a pearl-gray homburg is a signifier of dapperness, there a totem of an affair. |
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| A potent feminine signifier, bustles exaggerate and prettify the rear without offering a conspicuous come-on. |
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| On the contrary, the relationship between signifier and signified is arbitrary. |
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| The connection between signifier and signified is loosened and exposed as arbitrary, allowing for alternative interpretations of the sense. |
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| The human animal monster, as the traditional signifier of sin and inhumanity, reflects the internalisation of the myth of the Fall of Man. |
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| In Saussure's theory of linguistics, the signifier is the sound and the signified is the thought. |
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| For painters, naturalism was the greatest signifier of mortality, and Caravaggio was the greatest naturalist. |
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| The sign emerges at the conjunction of the signified and the signifier, both of which are in parole, or a language's concrete properties. |
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| The author renders the word tradition into a signifier of doubtful intentions, a glyph whose meaning has yet to be ascertained. |
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| Derrida insisted that the very way in which language functions, that is, signification, necessitates an unbridgeable gap between the signifier and the signified. |
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| This shift suggests a kind of semiological skinning of photography where the signifier is separated from the signified to be reconstituted as a sign itself. |
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| Children used to learn to read from primers that showed pictures of things with their names underneath, to teach them what the written signifier meant. |
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| The grapheme is to the graphic linguistic signifier as the phoneme is to the phonic linguistic signifier. |
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| The eggbeater hair is probably the most crucial signifier that the wearer has better things to do than primp for you. |
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| For instance, an ad for a video game can locate the game in an arcade or a theme park, to be a signifier for authenticity or gregariousness. |
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| The identity of the signifier and the signified exists on the level of a set of differentiations within the same media. |
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| The passport has become the key signifier of identity and an elemental requirement of full participation in the global marketplace. |
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| Such a culinary obscenity – not so very unrealistic – becomes an exclusive signifier of social superiority. |
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| If commentators have concurred on the characterization of Reagan as a synecdoche, they have also noted his status as a signifier. |
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| In the '60s South, long hair was a signifier and a deal breaker for men. |
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| This abusage is now so widespread that, in 2015, Instagram banned search results for photographs tagged with an aubergine emoji, fearing it could be used as a signifier of nudity. |
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| The passport document itself has evolved, becoming a key signifier of identity and a basic requirement of participation in the global marketplace. |
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| Rene Magritte repeatedly used such symbols from the world of comics in order to demarcate the divide between signified and signifier. |
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| It is this manoeuvre that prevents Lacanian linguistics from being a simple logocentrism since what is referred to as the 'concept' would easily become another signifier. |
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