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“‘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

1. a. The symbolic value of something. b. The significance of a thing, as "the meaning of life"
2. The definition or connotation of a word.

[1] [Apr 2007]

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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