overcoding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of overcode

plural overcodings

1. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe use of established codes to take on new meanings, often thereby obscuring distinctions.

   Stylistic and ideological conventions are examples of such rules used in overcoding.

   1995, Winfried Nöth, Handbook of Semiotics, →ISBN, page 212

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   The reason lies in the peculiar efficacy of the state in utilizing overcoding and rendering its principles and categories society-wide.

   1994, The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism, →ISBN, page 107

   The scientific world (Welt, as opposed to the Umwelt of the animal) is the translation of all of the flows, particles, codes, and territorialities of the other strata into a sufficiently deterritorialized system of signs, in other words, into an overcoding specific to language.

   2004, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, EPZ Thousand Plateaus, →ISBN, pages 69–70

2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesAn instance of overcoding.

   The story of Sade reminds us of the overcodings of eroticism and politics, particularly in turbulent times and acrss highly contested political terrain.

   2002, Samuel Lyndon Gladden, Shelley's Textual Seductions: Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works, →ISBN, page 1

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   Identification of the semantic status of overcodings is a necessary preliminary to translation because it serves to identify those inferences which it will be necessary to supply in the shape of informal translation (in this case, in the shape of supplementation of the formal translation).

   1987, Occasional Papers in Translation and Textlinguistics: OPTAT.

   Representation is established through successive overcodings, and the meaning of a phenomenon is given by the dominant overcoding, through a process of one code (or signifier) replacing another.

   1996, Philip Goodchild, Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire, →ISBN