Gates: "The Afro-American rhetorical strategy of Signifyin(g) is a rhetorical practice that is not engaged in the game of information-giving, as Wittgenstein said of poetry"
qt'd by Hejinian, 205
Hejinian notes: "Signifying requires that every utterance be accorded more than one interpretation."
and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan suggests a listener may be "constrained to attend to all potential meaning-carrying symbolic systems in speech events--the total universe of discourse"