(1) Since the primary purpose of the script was not to record human speech but to serve as a device for recording economic data, the significative potential of the oldest cuneiform system was rather limited.

(2) Here we encounter the third and final function of symbolic meaning, the significative function, which is exhibited most clearly, according to Cassirer, in the u2018pure category of relation.u2019

(3) Its setting, the courtroom, is a significative and instantly recognizable space, and it relies on a set of props that have been hallowed by centuries of reverential use.

(4) Chlebnikov was an assiduous worker of verbal materials, a relentless excavator in the vocabulary: the sound of a root induced him to imagine in it a significative potential that the common language had not developed.

(5) The artist encircles this cross with a line to mark it off as significative .