signifier

常見例句

And as much as of nationality, perhaps, it is a signifier of (working) class.
就像國籍一樣，或許他也是（工人）階級的象征。
Physical movements embody the intended meaning of the event, so the whole environment becomes a signifier.
身體舉止體現(xiàn)了茶藝有意傳達的意義，所以整個氛圍都變的意味深長。
On French TV, Opel car adverts are now broadcast with the voiceover in German, now a signifier of efficiency even in Paris.
法國電視上現(xiàn)在播出的歐寶汽車的廣告配上了德語的畫外音，就連在巴黎德語也已經(jīng)成為效率的標志。

The concept he calls a "signified" and the sound image he calls a "signifier."
事物被稱為所指,聲音形象被稱為能指“
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So that what's new in Saussure's thinking about the relationship between signified and signifier is that the sign tied up in this relationship is both arbitrary and differential.
這就是索緒爾所貢獻的了,能指和所指的關(guān)系,也就是符號的組成方式,是任意的，有差別的。
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He says: he signification "sign" has always been comprehended and determined, in its sense, as sign-of, signifier referring to a signified, signifier different from its signified.
他說，“符號“的意義“,總是被理解和決定的，在符號這個意義上，能指指向所指，能指與它的所指不同。
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