signification
/ˌsɪɡnɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
1The representation or conveying of meaning: film comes closer than other forms of signification to resemblance of reality...
- Derrida suggests that representation or signification is based on both a distance from a signified and a difference among terms.
- The task of representation and signification (the task of culture) is to draw the group together, no matter how widespread or dispersed, to make it coherent and identifiably different from other groups.
- We can recognize a logic of the unconscious only through its representation in the symbolic order, through the effect of signification.
1.1 [count noun] An exact meaning or sense: many words acquired a signification coloured by legal construction...
- Is there any other short word so charged with a multiplicity of meanings and significations, so many disparate elements?
- The key in this definition is to note that an object's status is dependent on other significations of other affects, manifested in the brand names themselves.
- He implies that there is an unconscious substrate of symbolic life which allows new meaning to be created from the multiple significations of existing symbols.
Origin
Middle English: via Old French from Latin significatio(n-), from significare 'indicate' (see signify).
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