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Daniel Chandler defines the term as "a signifier with a vague, highly variable, unspecifiable or non-existent signified". [4] The concept of floating signifiers originates with Claude Lévi-Strauss, who identified cultural ideas like mana as "represent[ing] an undetermined quantity of signification, in itself void of meaning and thus apt to receive any meaning".
An 'empty' or 'floating signifier' is variously defined as a signifier with a vague, highly variable, unspecifiable or non-existent signified. Such signifiers mean different things to different people: they may stand for many or even any signifieds; they may mean whatever their interpreters want them to mean. [27]
Today, the signifier is often interpreted as the conceptual material form, i.e. something which can be seen, heard, touched, smelled or tasted; and the signified as the conceptual ideal form. [ 6 ] : 14 In other words, "contemporary commentators tend to describe the signifier as the form that the sign takes and the signified as the concept to ...
The marker interface pattern is a design pattern in computer science, used with languages that provide run-time type information about objects.It provides a means to associate metadata with a class where the language does not have explicit support for such metadata.
The test depends on substitution: a particular signifier is chosen, then the effect of substituting alternatives is considered to determine the extent to which the value of the sign is changed. This both illuminates the meaning of the original choice and identifies the paradigms and code to which the signifiers used belong.
To 'mean' anything, a signifier must presuppose a signified already-always outside it. This is what Derrida terms as the "transcendental signified": as a signified, it belongs to the realm of language, but by being invariable, and by refusing any movement, it remains outside it [A word, if immovable, can mean nothing, or even exist.
Pancasila is an open space for the constructive interpretation of its meaning for life of the state and the nation. [33] In the context of globalization today, which is characterized by multiculturality, the openness of the ideology of Pancasila also includes openness in accepting foreign cultural elements, as long as it does not conflict with ...
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