signification

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Saussure held that there were structural laws that define how linguistic signification operated; the semiotics of Saussure and Pierce were the means of discovering these laws.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The apartment signs of L.A. announce location through flair, decadence, strangeness, absurdity, signification.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2022

A National Security Council spokeswoman told The Associated Press that the U.S. “will send a signification amount of additional doses to Haiti soon,” but further details were not immediately available.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2021

Homeless people and those who were sick or older make up a signification portion of the death toll.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2021

A language extremely deficient in words of general and abstract signification renders the use of figures indispensable; and it is from this cause, above all others, that the flowers of Indian rhetoric derive their origin.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis