Signification: luxuriates in free play of associated rhetorical and semantic relations.signification: depends for order and coherence on the exclusion of unconscious associations of a given word.Signifyin is the chaos of “associative relations,” which can be seen as the playful puns on a word that occupies the paradigmatic axis of language and which a speaker draws on for figurative, but often humorous substitutions that tend to function to name a person or a situation in a telling manner.Signification remains homophonically identical: 1) to show that a simultaneous but negated parallel universe exists within the larger white discursive universe 2) to argue that black-white differences are most poignant at the level of meaning (“signification”).Standard English: signification = signifier = conceptīlack vernacular: Signification = rhetorical figures

Black vacated their signifier “signification” and substituted as its concept a signified that stands for the system of rhetorical strategies peculiar to their own vernacular tradition.

This term existed in black vernacular for 200 years before, at least.

Standard English signification: the meaning a term conveys or is intended to convey (Saussure).

Argument over nature of the sign: black vernacular discourse proffering its critique of the sign as the difference that blackness makes within the larger political culture and its historical unconscious.

Confrontation of two discursive universes: black and white linguistic circles.

Black “Signification” and English “signification” are a relation to difference inscribed in a relation of identity.

Will define a carefully structured system of rhetoric, traditional Afro-American signification, and show how a figure becomes a trope of literary revision.

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