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单词 signifier
释义
signifier
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.faɪ.ər/us
/ˈsɪɡ.nɪ.faɪ.ɚ/
something thatrepresentsaqualityoridea:
符号，标记，象征
TheimageofSantaClausis aculturalsignifier ofChristmas.圣诞老人的形象是圣诞节的文化象征。
languagespecialized
aphysicalsign, forexamplea word or asound, that hasmeaning
示意的人（或物），示意动作
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Signs, signals and symbols
  • beacon
  • breadcrumb
  • cryptanalyst
  • delimiter
  • digital badge
  • ideogram
  • indicator
  • lagging indicator
  • leading indicator
  • litmus test
  • logograph
  • marksomething/someoneoff
  • prompt
  • semiotics
  • signboard
  • signing
  • SOS
  • status symbol
  • the all-clear
  • totem pole
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(Definition ofsignifierfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsignifier

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Would her life and her home become empty signifiers - fragments of the literary past interpretable only by a select few?
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First, physical marks were both signifiers of difference and a means of understanding it.
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All these signifiers make clear that this work is characterised by an apparently knowing uncertainty as to the symbolic order.
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Ideological struggles are, therefore, struggles over the filling out of such empty signifiers.
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The piece explores metaphors based upon recurrent anecdotal events - the recorded signifiers of the source.
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No slippery signifiers here, only language as the vital creation of shared meaning.
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There are, however, important distinctions between gift and commodity as social signifiers.
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Instead, any number of ' floating signifiers ' can be used to build an identity, any one of which may be valid under certain conditions.
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Family closeness, honour and shame, and even local dialects, are all considered to be signifiers of southern backwardness.
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Perhaps best of all is the section on the generic signifiers of indie guitar rock (pp. 57-90).
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I have chosen to discuss the data according to the signifiers in order to stress the medical dimension of the text.
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The system of signifiers rather than the precise significations enable us to say something general about the forms of knowledge.
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1945, the material signifiers of the experimental game will have turned into something that they, at the time, could not (yet) have been.
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Inter-group variations are treated not merely as agg regate differences, but signifiers of abnormality.
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In the first moment these arrays of 'proto-ideological' signifiers are manifold and fluid; they are 'non bound'.
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