signifier

Whole Foods replaced Mrs. Gooch’s, but after being deracinated by Amazon, it became passé, less and less a signifier of status.

This inverted perception: Where status once begot the signifier, the signifier now begot the status.

I do hope that color in this book loses its power as that kind of a signifier and instead, is an empowering statement.

If the web makes it easy to uncouple sights and sounds from their sources, what will people remember of stations’ four-letter identifiers, those signifiers of pride and place, the call signs?

What are the signifiers of a Disney adult?