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Meaning of signaletic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Related to or involving the Bertillon system of anthropometry.
    historical
  2. Pertaining to signs or signifiers.

Examples

“The wording of the legislation was somewhat open-ended in that it authorized not only the Bertillon signaletic system, but also "any measurements, processes or operations sanctioned by the Governor in Council having the like object in view."”
“If the foundation of this semiotic is the forming of movement-images as a signaletic material, what is the logic of this forming?”
“The production of electricity, a silent and 'invisible' production of asignifying signaletic events, cannot be accounted for in these terms.”
“The narrative of a film, its spoken and visual language, comes about by an interpreter reacting to the signaletic material in terms of quality and possibility and thereby transforming it in and through linguistic and other modalities. The emphasis on signaletic material gives Deleuze a way to show how a film's signifying effects arise out of a matrix of components that signal signifying capacities without yet tipping into signification.”
“That Flows of energy are intimately mixed with signaletic Flows is an everyday experience (one need only think of the use of bank cards, which trigger the physical effect of distributing money, or the connection with P and T.)”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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