signifier

基本解释

And as much as of nationality, perhaps, it is a signifier of (working) class.
就像国籍一样，或许他也是（工人）阶级的象征。
Physical movements embody the intended meaning of the event, so the whole environment becomes a signifier.
身体举止体现了茶艺有意传达的意义，所以整个氛围都变的意味深长。
On French TV, Opel car adverts are now broadcast with the voiceover in German, now a signifier of efficiency even in Paris.
法国电视上现在播出的欧宝汽车的广告配上了德语的画外音，就连在巴黎德语也已经成为效率的标志。

The concept he calls a "signified" and the sound image he calls a "signifier."
事物被称为所指,声音形象被称为能指“
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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.
这就是索绪尔所贡献的了,能指和所指的关系,也就是符号的组成方式,是任意的，有差别的。
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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.
他说，“符号“的意义“,总是被理解和决定的，在符号这个意义上，能指指向所指，能指与它的所指不同。
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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.
进一步，广告形象同时又是一个能指，所指则是我们深藏于无意识中的种种欲望。
语言学
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.
语言符号中含有对立与统一:能指与所指、不变性与可变性;语言维面中也体现着对立与统一:组合与聚合、抽象与具体、一致与不同。
心理学
信号物