signifieds

It feels to me like he's still working with signifiers and signifieds -- just that you have multiple signifieds for one signifier, with relative weightings of the relationships between them.

Notes on Notes Hal Duncan 2009

Are we always aiming to flense the rich complexity of connotation and find the bare bones, to parse structures of signifiers into structures of signifieds?

Notes on Notes Hal Duncan 2009

Are we always aiming to flense the rich complexity of connotation and find the bare bones, to parse structures of signifiers into structures of signifieds?

Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009

Acoustic only: no indication as yet that the conceptual side, the signified, is similarly oppositional in its nature – that it too has no positive content, just a value generated by its difference from other signifieds, as claimed in the quote from the Course.

Archive 2009-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

To cultural studies, there are no “facts” — just texts and interpretations and signs and signifieds.

“TASTY AND FOREIGN” » Sociological Images 2009

Acoustic only: no indication as yet that the conceptual side, the signified, is similarly oppositional in its nature – that it too has no positive content, just a value generated by its difference from other signifieds, as claimed in the quote from the Course.

Saussure's ambivalent involvement with Sanskrit Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

There are no signifieds, only an endless chain of signifiers representing the illusion of self resulting from desire-as-lack.

The Four Topics of Law Library Scholarship 2006

Once dead bodies are hollowed out, as mere matter, without a transcendental destiny — signifiers without signifieds — they rise again, as phantasmagoria.

Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology 2005

After a few days stop at an army camp we moved to Westgate on the Kent coast and found signifieds for which we had signifiers but of which we had no direct experience.

languagehat.com: LINKS. 2005

In focusing, like my fellow contributors, primarily on the Box Hill Episode of Emma (volume 3, chapter 7), part of my aim is simply to show its complexity of signification, particularly the degree to which Austen frustrates even the most fundamental acts of interpretation and upsets rudimentary correspondences between signifiers and apparent signifieds.

Unanswerable Gallantry and Thick-Headed Nonsense: Rereading Box Hill 2000