He focused, so to speak, on the pragmatics of the signifier rather than on the vicissitudes of the signified. |
The author renders the word tradition into a signifier of doubtful intentions, a glyph whose meaning has yet to be ascertained. |
In language, a lone signifier would be an utterly meaningless sound or concatenation of sounds. |
The human animal monster, as the traditional signifier of sin and inhumanity, reflects the internalisation of the myth of the Fall of Man. |
The representative signifier stands in for the signified signator only on the condition that there is an effective distinction between the two. |
Here a pearl-gray homburg is a signifier of dapperness, there a totem of an affair. |