| He focused, so to speak, on the pragmatics of the signifier rather than on the vicissitudes of the signified. |
| In language, a lone signifier would be an utterly meaningless sound or concatenation of sounds. |
| 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. |
| The representative signifier stands in for the signified signator only on the condition that there is an effective distinction between the two. |
| Linguists might call the monster on the ice-floes a floating signifier, a lexeme whose meaning varies contextually. |
| The author renders the word tradition into a signifier of doubtful intentions, a glyph whose meaning has yet to be ascertained. |
