Mostly, it's still the same old story, the fight between form and meaning, although there are some new wrinkles.
A deliberate contrast between indirect and direct meaning to draw attention to the opposite.
This is one aspect of the relationship between meaning, markedness, and choice.
The relationship between meaning and structure is different for language and discourse.
We wanted stories that embodied that tension between meaning and chance.
The links between sound, language and meaning can be complex and sometimes apparently arbitrary.
Rather it is a set of selected correspondences between the form and meaning of a sign.
It is therefore essential to distinguish between effect on the one hand, and meaning or 'cognitive structure' on the other.
"I am trying to walk a line between narrative meaning and nonsense," he said.
By 9 months most babies begin to make the link between sounds, gestures, and meaning.