In our point of view, the concept of the signifier and signified which put forward by Saussure can be applied to the rhetoric field in some condition.

我们认为，索绪尔提出的能指和所指的概念与理论在一定的条件下可以移用到修辞学上来。

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The concept he calls a "signified" and the sound image he calls a "signifier."

事物被称为所指,声音形象被称为能指“

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I mean a blanket term, a guiding concept, a transcendental signified, something that explains the nature of the structure and something also, as Derrida says, which allows for limited free play within the structure; but at the same time the structure has this kind of boundary nature.

是一个概括性称呼，一个引领概念，一个超验所指，它解释了这个结构的内涵，正如德里达所说，它允许在结构内有限的自由游戏;,但同时这个结构也有限性。

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