Floating Signifier

Floating Signifier

Floating signifiers or empty signifiers is a term used in semiotics to denote signifiers without referents, such as a word that doesn't point to any actual object or agreed upon meaning.

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Famous quotes containing the word floating:

    Eftsoones the Nymphes, which now had Flowers their fill,
    Ran all in haste, to see that silver brood,
    As they came floating on the Christal Flood,
    Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)