| 词汇 | example_english_signifier |
| 释义 | Examples of signifierThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. 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. Family closeness, honour and shame, and even local dialects, are all considered to be signifiers of southern backwardness. Perhaps best of all is the section on the generic signifiers of indie guitar rock (pp. 57-90). I have chosen to discuss the data according to the signifiers in order to stress the medical dimension of the text. The system of signifiers rather than the precise significations enable us to say something general about the forms of knowledge. 1945, the material signifiers of the experimental game will have turned into something that they, at the time, could not (yet) have been. Inter-group variations are treated not merely as agg regate differences, but signifiers of abnormality. In the first moment these arrays of 'proto-ideological' signifiers are manifold and fluid; they are 'non bound'. Treating particular elements of a production as quasi-textual signifiers usually produces only confusion. To 'hear back', then, not only requires the ability to determine characters' identities correctly, but also rests upon being able to interpret aural signifiers properly. Semiotic resources, of all types, offer "differing degrees of arbitrariness between the signifiers and the signifieds" (59). She would put a stop to the play of signifiers. The day-to-day provision of care is organised according to an array of signifiers that function to reassure care workers, relatives and the wider organisation of the quality of care. However, unlike labour migrants in many other parts of the world, they do not carry the superficial signifiers of difference that might make them ready targets for xenophobic discrimination. Their genius, we shall show, does not lie in their being empty, or emptied, signifiers, just as their meaning does not derive from their relations to other, equally empty, signs. What is at issue is a cultural unconscious which can be invoked, led to the couch and encouraged to speak (through interpretations of its textual signifiers) but not reliably documented. Thus, the most effective (because politically transparent) avant-garde art both engages with, and intervenes in, pre-existing signifiers of social reality in order to reconstruct their ideological messages. Theatrical privilege, then, is not only about the accurate interpretation of aural and visual signifiers, but is also a function of the way verbal cues construct imaginary space. As the discussion above suggests, policemen became increasingly sensitized to the visual signifiers that allowed them to differentiate the importuning man or soliciting woman from the crowd. Typically, this mode is used to describe how one listens to a language; the sounds coming from another speaker are understood as signifiers which bear meaning. The ability to identify them is a signifier of the progressive rock fan. The loss of mobility is the worst experience for the ageing body as it is an ominous signifier of helplessness and dependency. If the symbolic is a set of differentiated signifiers, the real is in itself undifferentiated: it is without fissure. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There is effectively an act of translation involved in extracting a significaton from the signifiers of language. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Derrida argues that language is inescapably metaphysical because it is made up of signifiers that only refer to that which transcends them the signified. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The location of this drama was itself a signifier. The par ticular signifier we choose is always a sign for us, as well as for whatever we choose to represent with it. However, there are other plausible alternatives for the construction of a signifier space for this passage. With the fading of the political role it held in the late 1980s, rock's power as signifier has been compromised. The interconnection automatically reveals spaces that are left unconnected or silenced under the abstract machine of signifiers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In terms of linguistic theory, one may say that the signifier is not sufficiently "demotivated"; in other words it resembles the signified too closely. The hooks, or key signifiers, are not able to be predicted before the videos become viral. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Additionally, it fails to recognize that economic function is only one signifier of class. The cloth is principally a referent in which value resides; it functions only to a minimal degree as a signifier. In semiotic terms, they are the physical embodiment (signifiers) of speech signs, which are gestural by nature (see below). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In effect, jazz became the paradigmatic object of the avant-garde slummer, the new signifier for bohemian life. As glissandi and more 'human', momentarily out-of-tune 'misses' are obscured, pitch changes become decidedly jolty and 'robotic' - perhaps the vocoder's most recognisable signature and signifier. The railways remain a potent signifier of national unification in the early twenty-first century. Construction grammar reunites syntax and semantics, the signifier and the signified. On one hand, the word refers to the signified concept that is indicated by the signifier, the word itself. The ultimate collapse of the analogy is, in fact, suggestive in that it reveals a startling reciprocity between reference and referent, signifier and signified. The signifiers can slide over the top of this bar, with the signified elements beneath. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They link signifiers with signifieds not by historical significance and that specific word choice, but to meanings that resonate personally with them. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Structuralist divisions of language, such as signifier/signified or langue/parole, would fall into this notion of the said. Rather, she seems unable to settle on any stable signifier for her body-colors: her hair, her eyes and even her skin. Of these three varieties, the urban variety enjoyed most prestige as a signifier of modernity. Accordingly, it is necessary to distinguish between 'local music' as a cultural signifier, and 'locally made music'. Music videos are an example of syntagm, which interacting signifiers form a meaningful whole. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The analyst then compares and contrasts the set with absent signifiers, i.e. with other signifiers that might have been chosen. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The collage brings these still-recognizable signifiers (or fragments of signifiers) together, in a kind of semiotic collision. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Donning a wardrobe ranging over a spectrum of ethnicities, classes and genders, she finds that her dress is often an unquestioned signifier of identity. Reader and text, viewer and viewed, signifier and signified had a co-eval existence. The basic distinction in these approaches is not between mathematical syntax and semantics but rather between structure and function, symbol and meaning, signifier and signified. I shall elaborate on the medical part of the analogies and ignore the biblical verses, which usually link the signifier and the signified. Interpretation has always been to seek a signified for each signifier, to seek for what lies outside the space of writing. The significance of understanding language as writing rather than speech is that signifiers are present in language but significations are absent. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Under the guidance of the therapist, defense mechanisms are bypassed by the use of signifiers and semiotic processes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The author notes that his approach has implications both as a cultural signifier, and for the method of integrating the computer with the orchestra. Upon their naturalization, these commodities could disappear, because the desiring subject itself became a signifier for them. What has been initially sought as the objective signifier of nature's absolute integrity now seemed more like a reproach to the claim of transcendental understanding. Paradigmatic analysis compiles a list of the signifiers present in the text. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By the virtue of trace, signifiers always simultaneously differ and defer from the illusive signified. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Thus, meaning is forever deferred or postponed through an endless chain of signifiers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Obviously, there are still many issues that require further elucidation; not least, the convoluted multidimensionality of signifier space. As a system of signs the signifiers are present but the signification can only be inferred. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Hairstyles are markers and signifiers of social class, age, marital status, racial identification, political beliefs and attitudes about gender. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A crucial point here is that the production of signs and the construction of signifier/signified relationships is deliberate. Instead, a more generic and unspecified material that remains materiality rather than becoming a signifier, is what is needed. The book itself transforms into the slamming of a heavy door; a strong signifier for closure. If opera seria has a crown jewel, a signifier that transcends and gives meaning to the others, this is it. Here the signified has been crossed out and the reference itself has become a signifier - which is the essence of narration. Laclau identifies the basis of populism in the creation of empty signifiers: words and ideas that constitute and express an equivalential chain. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. How then should we read the work of ideology in the compound signifier 'twentiethcentury music', and in this, the eponymous journal? Evidence that this is the correct view comes from the fact that each language can encode signifiers with whichever signified they wish to communicate. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The presence or absence of science and technology has been taken as a signifier of many different questions. Her use of cosmetics to achieve this disjunction reinforces makeup's role in the text as a signifier of the breakdown of social hierarchies. Colonial signifiers of authority only acquire their meanings after the traumatic scenario of colonial difference, cultural or racial, returns the eye of power to some prior archaic image or identity. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The effect is to focus on the systematic relationship between signifiers that is characteristic of language in general. The point here is that the surrealist signifiers in" allegory" are real, are already referents. The point here is that these surrealist signifiers in" allegory" are real, already referents. Transcendental signifiers do not allow of theatrical embodiment. The register's focus is on portraying certain signifiers as bearing a relation of simultaneous foundational identity and destructive incompatibility with their signifieds. Taken together, all three elements work as signifiers of identity. What interests me principally is how and to what extent these signifiers of redemption take a musical form. Amateur photography, even more than studio photography, shows how the private self-the individual-finds its signifiers in commodities. Many of these texts contain references to women as agents of men's domination and as true signifiers of masculinity in their confirmation of male domination. They are also cultural signifiers, physical embodiments of symbolic concepts and ideology as expressed through the orientation of doorways towards the sunrise. More important, perhaps, than audible stylistic signifiers are the arrangements and the kind of music making represented on the albums. My putative dictionary of theatrical signifiers would indeed be useful, especially for readers not familiar with a wide range of plays. The notion of a dictionary of theatrical terms or signifiers therefore remains attractive but elusive. Kinship terms are part of a language and operate as signs with signifiers and signifieds- usage of kinship terms indicates membership of a language group. In a poststructuralist development of the idea, it is claimed that the most literary texts can offer is the endless" free play of signifiers". These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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