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Signifier
the formal aspect of a linguistic sign. The signifier is inseparably linked to the other aspect of a sign, the signified. The signifier is an abstract unit of language that represents a class of entities—sometimes called signals—of the expression plane. Unlike the signal, which can transmit many concrete “messages,” a given signifier is such only in relation to a single signified. REFERENCESSee references under .Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | 50 Hardcover PS374 Nearly a century after the Indian Removal Act, the Native American returned to the South during the New Deal era in the form of signifiers in the literature of white southerners and as a source of renewed archaeological interest in excavations of cultural artifacts. Language can't function without slippage among signifiers. In trans-identifying subject-positions, then, the dominant or hegemonic group--class, race, and gender relations--of society are viewed as weaving through and sliding between many discursive formations ("trans-discourse" as referred to by Pecheux) and their chains of signifiers and their associated meanings, becoming attached and linking themselves between the larger as well as smaller socially interactive, norm-making, group and identity formations of discourse. |
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