found: Work cat.: An historical and contextual analysis of the use of the Black rhetorical form of signifying in the performances of Black male personality radio disc jockeys and rap musicians, 2002
found: The new negro composer: Duke Ellington's black, brown and beige and the politics of signifying, 2001.
found: Signifyin(g), sanctifyin' & slam dunking: a reader in African american expressive culture, c1999.
found: The birth of Bebop, 1997:p. 397 (the African American rhetorical trope known as signifying)
found: Wikipedia, Nov. 3, 2006(Signifying: African-American rhetorical device featuring indirect communication or persuasion and the creating of new meanings for old words and signs. Signifying, in this sense, includes repetition and difference, implication and association, combining words and meanings to create or associate new ones. In everyday practice it consists of telling people you know what you think about them or their actions, or making some other point, in an indirect way)
