Meaning of signification in English
(Definition of signification from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of signification
signification
We love her because she is unsentimental yet evocative, gifted and industrious in technique but open to errors and loose ends in signification.
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Their bodies are historically coded and permanently marked with significations that forces them into categories they can not choose.
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The second and third sections replicate the first in that they reproduce its structure of signification, thereby revealing the content of the poetic self.
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Signification is not a function of synonymy and self-identity but of difference and self-alienation.
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The pattern in this novel is for commodified objects to revert back to gift status, unleashing their power for social signification.
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For some late-nineteenth-century critics, these sites were in danger of losing their significations due to their commodification as tourist destinations.
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There are a few minor problems in this chapter relating to specific significations of logical terms.
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These actions take place in an entirely synthetic world where objects of equal weight may float or fall as necessitated by signification.
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In these circumstances, there was acute sensitivity to the signification of value in claims about mind.
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Within its regimes of signification, life and society were recast as relays of signals and as information systems.
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In summary, the view of speech as a physical phenomenon does not adequately account for the basic features of a relationship of signification.
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The condition of fulfillment that precedes the sense of lack created by the empirical self is anterior to language and signification, inaccessible to consciousness.
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Here, stance provides a framework for the incorporation of audiences into the dynamics of signification.
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It opens up different ways of orienting to cultural content and engaging creatively with cultural signification.
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As mentioned earlier, one of the most potent contrastive strategies of breast signification is absence versus presence.
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