Signification

A character’s signification can represent a multitude of different meanings to the audience.

If the signifier is the foundation of the Symbolic, the signified and signification are part of the Imaginary order.

In Messages and Meanings: An Introduction to Semiotics, Marcel Danesi (1994) suggested that semioticians' priorities were to study signification first, and communication second.

Philosophy of language pays more attention to natural languages or to languages in general, while semiotics is deeply concerned with non-linguistic signification.

Signaling and communication between the Astatotilapia burtoni * Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917–1992) developed a structural version of semiotics named, "generative semiotics", trying to shift the focus of discipline from signs to systems of signification.

So, while natural signs serve as the source of signification, the human mind is the agency through which signs signify naturally occurring things, such as objects, states, qualities, quantities, events, processes, or relationships.

Structuralism in anthropology main According to structural theory in anthropology and social anthropology, meaning is produced and reproduced within a culture through various practices, phenomena and activities that serve as systems of signification.

Symbols and semiotics Semiotics is the study of signs, symbols, and signification as communicative behavior.

Theologians and philosophers of the 17th Century began to give a different signification to the words..

The sign does not function as its own goal, but its purpose lies in its role as a signification (res significans, DDC 3.9.13).

Today's laziness and the total lack of technique have reached their paroxysm in the psychological signification of the current use of the college" ( collage ).