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signifier

[...] the signifier (Fr. signifiant) is the expressive, externalized component or aspect of a linguistic sign, as opposed to the signified (Fr. signifié) [...] The signifier can be vocal (phonic) or graphical. In Saussure’s terms the signifier is defined as the acoustic image which the participants in a semiotic situation have in mind, through its association with a stretch of phonic substance, mainly insofar as this coincides with a word.. (Swiggers, Pierre. "Linguistic sign". 1. Halbband: Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbildung, edited by Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, Wolfgang Kesselheim and Stavros Skopeteas, Berlin • New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2000, pp. 210-224. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110111286.1.4.210)

But provided the information on which signifier A is based is valid the translator can use internal and external resources to transpose it into signifier B. (Mayorcas-Cohen, 1985)
For simplicity we focus mostly on the first signifier yet we leave implementing other signifiers into the dataset for future work. (Grigoreva, Ivanova, Alimova & Artemova, 2024)
In semantic phrasemes the signified is free (it is constructed unrestrictedly; however it is not constructed regularly) and the signifier is not free. (Fonseca, Sadat & Blondin Massé, 2014)
In semantic phrasemes the signified is free (it is unrestrictedly constructed although it may not be regularly constructed) and its signifier is not free. (Fonseca, Sadat & Lareau, 2016)
Near-synonym or the paired-off signifiers is an increasingly important area in linguistics. (Tao & Tao, 2021)

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