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In other words, if placed in the context of Moore's longer development as a poet, the republication of work whose "polysemous complexity" was transformed to "didactic simplicity" does not necessarily celebrate the polysemous as such.

One important characteristic of these films, in terms of the Barthesian typology, is that of the symbolic code, in which depictions of conflicts between good and evil and heroes and villains are open to polysemous interpretation.

(7) "To avoid a loss of meaning of "embodiment" by making it totally polysemous I argue for a use of the term in Cognitive Linguistics in only the first sense: Embodiment means that parts of our conceptual system and therefore some aspects of our language are structured by the features of our bodies and the functioning of our bodies in everyday life.

Ferrell's films are polysemous, yielding multiple interpretations and providing a number of entry points for audience identification.

It is both structured and polysemous in that it is not a stable form but an ongoing process of negotiation (Dyer, p.

Linguists are unanimous that prefixes are polysemous, but the question of their desemantization and grammaticalization is still open.

The Yahwist account of creation (Gen 2.4-3.24) may well be the richest, densest, most polysemous story ever penned.

We cannot exclude the hypothesis that similar compliance rates would have been found if the confederates had initially stated that their grandmother or favorite star was "someone they loved so much." Another limitation is that the concept of love, although very broad and polysemous, finds one of its most prototypical aspects in its romantic and passionate meaning, which was not used in our study.

Nevertheless, we also find the distinctive forms cesme 'source, spring' and cusme 'sun', corresponding respectively to the spellings casma and cysma in Agarunov's dictionary; both forms derive from the polysemous Pers.

The word, with its pretensions to scientific precision, is so vague and polysemous that in the Humpty Dumpty manner it can be made to mean virtually anything--hardly the best hook to hang a disciplined argument on.

This article treats of interality as a polysemous term, explores its rich permutations, and articulates their ethical implications.