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signifier [Brit ˈsɪɡnɪfʌɪə, Am ˈsɪɡnəˌfaɪ(ə)r] N LING

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Over time, each individual in the audience develops a cognitive framework of codes which will recall the denotative meaning and suggest possible connotative meanings for each signifier. en.wikipedia.org

This level of conceptual difficulty stems from indeed, seems, to have been intentionally inscribed within the selection of the signifier, signification. en.wikipedia.org

To mean anything, a signifier must presuppose a signified already-always outside it. en.wikipedia.org

The sign is thus the combined association of signifier and signified. en.wikipedia.org

By changing the collocation between two of the existing signifiers, and so changing their original relationship, the relative significance of each signifier can be considered. en.wikipedia.org

Sometimes the "nda-sphoa" distinction is posited in terms of the signifier-signified mapping, but this is a misconception. en.wikipedia.org

The pachuco and pachuca style became a signifier for a racialized other and was therefore considered un-American. www.npr.org

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