Sentence examples similar to blank signifier from inspiring English sources
The Queen is a blank master-signifier, something that structures our national discourse without ever having to point toward anything other than itself.
The Queen is a blank master-signifier, something that structures our national discourse without ever having to point towards anything other than itself.
For Halliday (1994), lexical metaphor constitutes a relationship between signifier and signified in which there is one signifier, different signified.
Rather, Dune's deserts function eloquently as metaphor and topographical signifier, empty enough of conventional geographical features – the frontispiece map is a blank page barely sullied by dotted-lines showing occasional features – to provide an uncluttered aesthetic and imaginative space.
Among the signifiers of a New York summer — the Mister Softee jingle, air-conditioner droplets messing up your hair — is the sound of blank verse.
Connectedness is now a crucial social signifier.
This is a class signifier.
It is an empty signifier.
"The money is a signifier.
