Is the metaphorical meaning different from the literal meaning?

Perhaps only four signantes, four signifying elements are enough.

The server provides the signifier(s) to the mobile device.

They are no longer either significant or signifiers: they are a-signifying traits.

These frozen and “imperative” signifiers are pseudo-signifiers, “cut off” from the subject's history (diachrony).

Tolkien then divides the ‘facts’ of his own life into three distinct categories, namely the ‘insignificant’, the ‘more significant’ and the ‘really significant’:

Some other moments would seem far more significant.

Besides which it does distort some of the meaning.

The destruction of underlying networks of signification

I found the following paragraphs particularly meaningful.

A: Sectionalized zone of significant marker compounds.

the destruction of underlying networks of signification

The mechanism of signifying elements is based on differences.

It cannot be further divided into meaningful components.

Every aspect of this painting is eerie with meaning.