It produced an enchanting effect on the listener, mainly when the sounds were recognisable and bore fragments ofsignification.From theCambridge English Corpus
Another example, one drawn from the everyday experience of speaking, can help us better understand how vocal materiality is lost behindsignification.From theCambridge English Corpus
This dualsignificationis underlined by the use of backing vocals on the recording.From theCambridge English Corpus
While the nursing home applies healing, palliative, and custodial technologies, it also provides a framework forsignificationand description.From theCambridge English Corpus
The familiar object carries a set of expectations and culturalsignificationwhich the artist often capitalises on, whereas a novel interfacial object requires explanation.From theCambridge English Corpus
By its very nature, discourse'ssignificationdoes not admit of external appeal.From theCambridge English Corpus
More generally, a great number of descriptors of different levels must be available simultaneously to allow the musicologist to interpret individual and collectivesignification.From theCambridge English Corpus
How can we move in our analytical capacities beyond even the broadest of musical and linguisticsignificationand meaning?From theCambridge English Corpus
He uses sound to illustrate how reinforcing an association createssignification.From theCambridge English Corpus
This only further accentuates the primacy of interpretation over transcendentsignification.From theCambridge English Corpus
Neither self-contained nor self-determining, allegory is marked by a discord between form and content, withsignificationas its primary purpose of existence.From theCambridge English Corpus
Landscapes are active components of the processes of socialsignification.From theCambridge English Corpus
This is a landscape saturated with historicalsignification.From theCambridge English Corpus
We shall see that these significations of textuality were historically contingent.From theCambridge English Corpus
As long assignificationis predominant, and that we play on it, we have literature and not music.From theCambridge English Corpus
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