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Connected Education's Andy Goff said the system had been tried in 20 UK schools, with applications such as sema codes printed alongside the text in Shakespeare plays that triggered an audio recording of the scene in question.
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Connected Education's Andy Goff said the system had been tried in 20 UK schools, with applications such as sema codes printed alongside the text in Shakespeare plays that triggered an audio recording of the scene in question.
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Connected Education's Andy Goff said the system had been tried in 20 UK schools, with applications such as sema codes printed alongside the text in Shakespeare plays that triggered an audio recording of the scene in question.
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Yet the imaginary phonotext — pulling the symbolic field part of the way back toward the real, and thereby obtruding the fact of sound back into the circulations of sema — eludes Dolar's post-Derridean model, with its arrest of all embodied vocality by an abstracting semiosis.
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The Whirling Dervishes are a Muslim Sufi order who are known for their famous practice of performing their dhikr remembrance of Allah in the form of a whirling "dance" and musical ceremony called the sema.
The Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi Whirling Dervishes of Damascus William Harryman 2007
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In general, semantics from the Greek semantikos, or "significant meaning," derived from sema, sign is the study of meaning, in some sense of that term.
Archive 2005-04-01 Torill 2005
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In general, semantics from the Greek semantikos, or "significant meaning," derived from sema, sign is the study of meaning, in some sense of that term.
Semantics Torill 2005
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But in both cases it addresses the sign, the sema.
Semantics Torill 2005
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Just waiting to open presents – which is sort of a sema [...]
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It meowed delightedly, sema-phoring with its striped maroon tail.
The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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