Definitions
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- noun An inner message that could be
inferred orimplied from a message.
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Examples
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Once I got over pondering the fates of the individual characters and focused on them collectively, I fixated on the show's really metamessage.
The Myth of Cuselof 2010
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Once I got over pondering the fates of the individual characters and focused on them collectively, I fixated on the show's really metamessage.
The Myth of Cuselof 2010
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The massive screen seemed to emit a metamessage: Leave entertainment to the professionals, and be sure to buy the products advertised!
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But sarcasm is not even specifically linguistic, nor is it specific to mass mediated culture; the metamessage that (in some sense) "this isn't for real" is one of the features which defines artworks, games, rituals, and drama wherever they occur, and these are surely not limited to TV cultures.
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And if you saw Bush stumble over the word “tyrrany” a couple of weeks ago, you’d understand the metamessage.
Think Progress » Sen. Graham’s Strategy To Restore Bush’s Detainee Policy Is Unconstitutional 2006
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There’s a metamessage the message behind the message itself or subtext of some kind.
ONESIES FOR TRANSNATIONALLY ADOPTED INFANTS » Sociological Images 2008
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I think that porn ought to be subject to criticism like other media is when it’s crap, when its elements or metamessage move us backwards which is overwhelmingly the case with mainstream porn, as the article says.
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