"mimeme" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mimemes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} mimeme (plural mimemes)
  1. A unit of mimetic information.
    Sense id: en-mimeme-en-noun-gFqukwOx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1955, Leonard Robert Palmer, Achaeans and Indo-Europeans: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 4 November 1954, page 8:",
          "text": "Speech learning is a mimetic process. The linguistic signal is a ‘mimeme’.",
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          "ref": "1978, Ted Polhemus, editor, The Body Reader: Social Aspects of the Human Body, →ISBN, page 276:",
          "text": "Language depends on mimism – the repercussion, in the composition of an individual’s gestures, of ocular mimemes – which takes two forms: phonomimism and cinemimism.",
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          "ref": "2018, Marcel Jousse, translated by Edgard R. Sienaert, Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers: The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionists (Biblical Performance Criticism; volume 15), Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, →ISBN, page 3:",
          "text": "The process of miming however, mimage, is a conscientizing process: the cosmos plays into the anthropos, and, [born] mimer, the anthropos replays its actions in mimemes or mimismic gestures.” These mimemes, and their expression, gestes, are therefore always potentially conscious, and memory, being the sum of our mimemes, is replay, anthropological replay, and therefore always with a degree of consciousness. Through mimage, actions that became mimemes are expressed as gestes:[…]",
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          "text": "In the words of Jean-Marie Schaeffer, a fiction “should be announced as fiction, the function of this announcement being to institute the pragmatic frame that limits the space of the game at the interior of which the semblance can operate without representation induced by the mimemes being treated in the same manner as would be the ‘real’ representations mimed by the fictional device.”",
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