| As musical semioticians would be first to point out, music is nothing if not a field rich in signifiers. |
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| Phonology was of linguistic interest only to the extent that sound patterns functioned as signifiers. |
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| Punk motifs, in particular, recur again and again, but only as hollow signifiers on pre-slashed and distressed clothing bought from boutiques. |
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| The cinematic image is freed from its traditional image character through the exchangeability and simulation of its signifiers. |
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| As a deconstructor, a postmodernist is fascinated not by the signified but by their free signifiers. |
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| Social meaning and communication derive from a variety of signs and signifiers. |
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| The I of her narrative is a masquerade, and her identity is never more than a metonym for an endless chain of signifiers. |
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| Shoes have an uneasy relationship with feminism, because of their role as sexual signifiers. |
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| There is a perpetual shift in the relationship between signifiers and signifieds. |
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| They draw attention to contingent referents, the signifiers and the sign-systems that position subjects as such. |
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| To interpret is thus to contribute to the analysand gaining access to these signifiers, in so far as they elude him. |
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| Which cannot be said of Arbus, to the extent in which her photographs are but signifiers of her own phantasies or projections. |
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| Imitating the tropes and ciphers of Western heavy metal, there was a fascinating disconnect between signifiers and signified. |
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| In the nineteenth century they were adapted into signifiers that typified regions and were exalted to the status of cantonal emblems. |
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| Children read these messages and meanings from a range of signifiers, which frame the cultural context of the environment. |
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| It is also revealed in the production of common signifiers of reality in the form of culture and in the design and use of the built-up space. |
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| They were the material signifiers of ideas that were intended to be immortalized. |
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| Black-white relations had signifiers other than the overt events of the civil rights movement. |
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| Identify any equivalences that may be established between signifiers that are not equivalent at any fundamental linguistic level. |
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| But: in the great equality of wiki, how does one bestow such signifiers without creating special accounts? |
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| They are then more the implicit signifiers of his own subject position than they are his explicit analysis or representation of such contradictions. |
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| The role of ceramics in building chronologies and as signifiers of cultural similarity single this artifact category out as a prime focus for archaeometric research. |
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| But is it not the case that literature supersedes history, as one of the ultimate signifiers in a universe literate in necessary layers of meanings? |
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| They are emergent, multivalent signifiers in search of an open interpretation, one related to the building task, the site and the language of the particular architecture. |
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| The question is, how can the protagonist break through this selectivity, this view that already-defined meanings are univocally fixed to signifiers? |
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| I have reevaluated my collection of necklaces, most of them unworn, many of them gestures intended by my mother to fertilize the stunted signifiers of my femininity. |
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| What worries me is that the designed world might become so hermetic and the signifiers of functionality so appropriated that the opportunity for that fascination never arises. |
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| Big-name chefs in top hotels normally stick to a formula: modern French cuisine, luxe ingredients, tippy-toe service – the international signifiers of the fine dining experience. |
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| We should know who the carriers are of the new signifiers upon which collective progress is built, as well as how the process, through which so many values end up being imposed on the social whole is brought about. |
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| In the popular imagination his vessels become everchanging signifiers that shape cultural identities and embody spiritual aspirations and emotional longings. |
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| As we continue to watch the monitors we see that the compilation of footage collages a series of images to create multidimensional signifiers of mother, father and child. |
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| Possessing nothing but a personality projected by the owner and a redundant female body from visual culture, these real women-objects are nothing other than empty visual signifiers. |
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| In 2009, moral opprobrium quickly attached itself to excessive executive bonuses, but that distasteful phenomenon is part of capitalist culture, since the signifiers of worth are precisely profit and growth. |
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| And, further, does accepting the translator's visibility necessarily imply that we take into account that subjectivity supported by the chain of signifiers, the unavoidable mark and textual presence of the translator? |
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| The Lyttelton is a huge space where the signifiers – the ways in which the body behaves – have to be different to reach the back of the auditorium. |
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| They did so, however, wearing heels. As clear signifiers of female gender, high heels helped to counter arguments that new freedoms could only be gained at the loss of femininity. |
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| References are the language of shared experience, and Ansari traffics heavily in cultural signifiers, from movie titles and celebrity name-drops to a bit about the dubiousness of bed-sheet thread counts. |
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| The signifiers we use to name objects have an arbitrary relation to what they signify, a relationship forged by excluding other possible signifiers from naming the object in question. |
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| Levi-Strauss says, there always remains an inexpungible residue of signifiers to which we can never give adequate meanings. |
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