Definition of Signifiers

1. Noun. (plural of signifier) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Signifiers

1. signifier [n] - See also: signifier

Lexicographical Neighbors of Signifiers

significant digit
significant figure
significant other
significant others
significantly
signification
significations
significative
significativity
significator
significatory
significs
signified
signifieds
signifier
signifiers (current term)
signifies
signifiest
signifieth
signify
signifying
signifying chain
signifyings
signing
signing in
signing off
signing on
signing out
signing up
signings

Literary usage of Signifiers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Praxis of Alain Badiou by Paul Ashton, A J Bartlett, Justin Clemens (2006)
"The inscription of such a lack (void) in a linguistic chain of signifiers is what makes the subject's ability to relate to the world through the shifting of ..."

2. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"Reality is unavoidably mediated by signifiers. ... This means that a written word or a picture are signifiers that have meaning in their own right, ..."

3. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"A similar aestheticization of experience and breaking down of the ordered chain of signifiers can be detected in the writings of their followers where one ..."

4. The Praxis of Alain Badiou by Paul Ashton, A J Bartlett, Justin Clemens (2006)
"The inscription of such a lack (void) in a linguistic chain of signifiers is what makes the subject's ability to relate to the world through the shifting of ..."

5. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"Reality is unavoidably mediated by signifiers. ... This means that a written word or a picture are signifiers that have meaning in their own right, ..."

6. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"A similar aestheticization of experience and breaking down of the ordered chain of signifiers can be detected in the writings of their followers where one ..."

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