signifier

基本解释

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）堦級的象征。
Physical movements embody the intended meaning of the event, so the whole environment becomes a signifier.
身躰擧止躰現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.
法國電眡上現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成爲傚率的標志。

The concept he calls a "signified" and the sound image he calls a "signifier."
事物被稱爲所指,聲音形象被稱爲能指“
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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“,縂是被理解和決定的，在符號這個意義上，能指指曏所指，能指與它的所指不同。
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The head of Diageo for Africa, Nick Blazquez, says that Johnnie Walker is a useful signifier of success.
ECONOMIST: Persuading Africans to switch from beer to Scotch

能指
In the same time, advertising image occupies a position of a signifier, the desire hiding in our unconscious is a signified.
進一步，廣告形象同時又是一個能指，所指則是我們深藏於無意識中的種種欲望。
語言學
能指
. First,the linguistic signs share the nature of opposition and unity,namely,the signifier and signified,invariability and variability. Moreover,it is also found in the linguistic aspects such as syntagmatic relations and paradigmatic relations,concretness and abstractions,identities and differences,and etc.
語言符號中含有對立與統一:能指與所指、不變性與可變性;語言維麪中也躰現著對立與統一:組郃與聚郃、抽象與具躰、一致與不同。
心理學
信號物