multivalence

In short, the unifying approach disciplines multivalence and ambiguity out of existence; 'despite the interpretive difficulties that one encounters' in hearing certain modal phrases, there will always be a sketch to 'assert' the correct 'structural tonic' (p.

Tinkcom argues, "[W]hat I am calling gay labor is not simply the work of gays expended on a particular commodity but the particular effort to ensure the commodity's multivalence, in that it can be consumed by gay and nongay consumers alike for retaining camp features or not.

Men in Black is a study of male costume since the Renaissance and the multivalence of meaning accorded to colour in clothes -- or rather the absence of colour, for Harvey's theme is the encoding of black, as the colour of power and abstinence, aggression and death.

Its relevance is linked to the multivalence of kupa in referring to body creation, well being, and kinship noted earlier.

Liturgical diversity and multivalence have always existed.

The problem with this argument is surely that it reduces the play to a monovocality that is simply untrue to the theatrical multivalence which differentiates it from Richard II (on which Hardin writes much more convincingly).

As Brown has argued, the advancement of science requires neither parsimonious nor neutral meanings, but the imprecision and multivalence of language (Simons 325).

Ambiguity and multivalence, after all, allow mythic narratives to retain their potency for generations.

Just as a healthy person accepts some ambiguity in deference to the plurality of value systems, so too modern societies derive wholeness from multivalence, expressed in the language of tolerance and dissent.

The split action, in contrast, may create additional tasks, depending on the multivalence of tasks.