0 something that represents a quality or idea:
Would her life and her home become empty signifiers - fragments of the literary past interpretable only by a select few?
First, physical marks were both signifiers of difference and a means of understanding it.
All these signifiers make clear that this work is characterised by an apparently knowing uncertainty as to the symbolic order.
Ideological struggles are, therefore, struggles over the filling out of such empty signifiers.
The piece explores metaphors based upon recurrent anecdotal events - the recorded signifiers of the source.
No slippery signifiers here, only language as the vital creation of shared meaning.
There are, however, important distinctions between gift and commodity as social signifiers.
Instead, any number of ' floating signifiers ' can be used to build an identity, any one of which may be valid under certain conditions.
