Example sentences of "[prep] mean as a " in BNC.

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1 I have talked of the negotiation of meaning as a function of the convergence of schematic knowledge , achieved by the conversion of symbol to index .
2 For example , an account of group decision-making couched in a logical context of rational deliberation might seem pleasingly adequate at the level of meaning as a reconstruction of how groups decide .
3 There is a rigid exclusion of considerations of meaning as a method of defining classes .
4 The value of the model is not only in recasting the traditional notion of the Co-operative Principle ( from Grice 1975 ) , but also in describing the resolution of meaning as a principled negotiation between text and reader .
5 For BSL interpreters there is often the added complication of role conflict between their social work/educational job and their impartial relay of meaning as an interpreter .
6 A conversation analytic approach to code switching , on the other hand , gives priority to dialogical meaning , that is , to meaning as a negotiated property of interaction .
7 Similarly , questionnaire designers are keenly sensitive to questions about meaning as a prerequisite for framing their questions appropriately , constructing attitude scales , as well as interpreting the results .
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