signifier

Throughout history, hair has been a signifier of social class.

The smile is so much the international signifier of being American.

In fact, this could be the signifier we've been waiting for.

In the story, you, too, have a complete understanding of those signifiers.

Images, she notes, are signifiers of a different order than language.

A signifier can never be fixed to a particular concept.

The name is not a signifier in a floating world of possible meaning.

In Manhattan, three children can be a potent social signifier.

It was an empty signifier in the emptiness of space.

Most signifiers - even the dead mule - are open to debate.

The relationship between signifier and signified is, however, not quite that simple.

What signifier could he use that was at once traditional and utterly contemporary?

The signifier is the color, brand name, logo design, and technology.

Reluctantly he was forced to discard nearly all of these signifiers.

It's one signifier among many that as a community, we've come of age."

In the last few years, hoods have become a key signifier of something deeper.

Meaning in this case refers to the relation between signifiers and what they stand for.

But certainly a status signifier or two can make a trip more luxe.

Yet all other symbol systems are founded on this chain of signifiers.

These class signifiers have diminished over time particularly in the southeast of England.

However, there is no necessary connection between the signifier and the signified.

The commutation test can be used to identify which signifiers are significant.

"Money," he says, "began to look like a sound signifier of character.

Her sexual habits had changed with the times and, besides, in England all the signifiers seemed different.

The "sign" is thus the combined association of signifier and signified.