| As a deconstructor, a postmodernist is fascinated not by the signified but by their free signifiers. |
| There is a perpetual shift in the relationship between signifiers and signifieds. |
| The I of her narrative is a masquerade, and her identity is never more than a metonym for an endless chain of signifiers. |
| As musical semioticians would be first to point out, music is nothing if not a field rich in signifiers. |
| Punk motifs, in particular, recur again and again, but only as hollow signifiers on pre-slashed and distressed clothing bought from boutiques. |
| The cinematic image is freed from its traditional image character through the exchangeability and simulation of its signifiers. |
