Meaning
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
“In the illusory babels of language, an artist might advance specifically to get lost, and to intoxicate himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd intersections of meaning, strange corridors of history, unexpected echoes, unknown humors, or voids of knowledge… but this quest is risky, full of bottomless fictions and endless architectures and counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only meaningless reverberations.” --Robert Smithson
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- 'The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things'
- “‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things’” (Lewis Carroll).
- "Words: Can't say what they mean don't mean what they say" --Tom Tom Club
Noun
- a. The symbolic value of something. b. The significance of a thing, as "the meaning of life"
- The definition or connotation of a word.
Titles
- Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979) - Dick Hebdige
- Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things (1991) - Stephen Bayley
- Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (1911) - Henri Bergson
- Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema (1989) - David Bordwell
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context - communication - connotation - definition - denotation - dictionary - interpretation - language - linguistics - literal - metaphor - name - semantics - significance - thesaurus - term - tropes
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