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| '''Meaning''' refers to the the symbolic [[value]] of [[something]], its significance. In semantics it refers to the [[object]]s or [[concept]] that a [[word]] or [[phrase]] [[denote]]s, or that which a sentence says. | '''Meaning''' refers to the the symbolic [[value]] of [[something]], its significance. In semantics it refers to the [[object]]s or [[concept]] that a [[word]] or [[phrase]] [[denote]]s, or that which a sentence says. | ||
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| * [[Meaning (linguistics)]], which is communicated through the use of languages | * [[Meaning (linguistics)]], which is communicated through the use of languages | ||
| * [[Meaning (semiotics)]] has to do with the distribution of signs in sign relations | * [[Meaning (semiotics)]] has to do with the distribution of signs in sign relations | ||
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“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
Illustration: True Portrait of Monsieur Ubu (1896), a woodcut frontispiece for Ubu Roi representing Ubu, a fictional character from Jarry's eponymous play.
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Meaning refers to the the symbolic value of something, its significance. In semantics it refers to the objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
Meaning may also refer to:
- Meaning (linguistics), which is communicated through the use of languages
- Meaning (semiotics) has to do with the distribution of signs in sign relations
- Meaning as a relationship between ontology and truth
- Meaning as a reference or equivalence
- Meaning (philosophy of language)
- Meaning (psychology)
- Meaning as values, a value system or as derived from value theory
- Meaning (existential), as it is understood in contemporary existentialism
- The meaning of life, a notion concerning the nature of human existence
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Titles
- Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (1911) by Henri Bergson
- Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979) by Dick Hebdige
- Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things (1991) by Stephen Bayley
Etymology
From Middle English mening, menyng, equivalent to mean + -ing. Cognate with Scots mening (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian miening (“opinion, mind”), Dutch mening (“view, opinion, judgement”), German Meinung (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish mening (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic meining (“meaning”).
Citations
- 'The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things'
- "Words: Can't say what they mean don't mean what they say" --Tom Tom Club
See also
- Absurdity
- Ambiguity
- Context
- Communication
- Connotation
- Definition
- Denotation
- Dictum
- Dictionary
- Double entendre
- Hermeneutics
- Intention
- Interpretation
- Language
- Linguistics
- Logotherapy
- Man's Search for Meaning (1946) by Viktor Frankl
- Meaninglessness
- Meme
- Metaphor
- Nonsense
- Opinion
- Philosophers encroaching on the province of grammarians
- Polysemy
- Purpose
- Semantics
- Sententiae
- Significance
- Symbolism
- Thesaurus
- Trope
- Utterance
- Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, a painting by Paul Gauguin
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