overcoding

overcoding

1. present participle and gerund of overcode

overcoding (countable and uncountable, plural overcodings)

1. (semiotics) The use of established codes to take on new meanings, often thereby obscuring distinctions.
   • 1994, The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism, →ISBN, page 107:

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

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

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

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

     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.

2. (semiotics) An instance of overcoding.
   • 1987, Occasional Papers in Translation and Textlinguistics: OPTAT.:

     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).

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

     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.

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

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