What is meaning 'one' and'others' in the sentence? What is meaning 'one' and 'others' in the sentence? Its main effect there was to offer new ideas about literature and to make one signifying practice among others.This pragraph within this sentence is.... In Litarary Studies, structuralism promites a poetics interested in the convention that make literary works possible; it seeks not to produce new interpretation of works but to understand how they can have the meanings and effects that they do. But it did not succeed in imposing this project- a systemic account of literary discourse - in Britain and America. Its main effect there was to offer new ideas about literature and to make it one signifying practice among others. (This sentence from Literary Theory-A very short introduction- by Jonathan Culler)