Sema

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ William Harryman (2007)

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. ❋ Torill (2005)

But in both cases it addresses the sign, the sema. ❋ Torill (2005)

Just waiting to open presents – which is sort of a sema [...] ❋ Unknown (2002)

It meowed delightedly, sema-phoring with its striped maroon tail. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1990)

The probable source of this view is the Orphic “soma - sema,” the body is the prison (of the soul). ❋ JACQUES CHORON (1968)

The body is our tomb (soma, sema); we must strip ourselves of the leaden weights, the earthy incrustations of life: the true life is an exercise in death, a homoiosis to theo, as far as may be; like the swans we sing when dying, "going away to God", whose servants we are; "death dawns", and we owe sacrifice to the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"Nataka sema qua heri (I want to say good-bye)," said this astonishing individual. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

On the one hand, therefore, the union of soul with body was necessary for the realisation of the former ((Greek) _soma, body_, being as it were (Greek) _sema, expression_), even as the reality of God was not in the Odd or Eternal Unity, but in the Odd-Even, the Unity in ❋ John Marshall (1880)

Nay, there are philosophers who maintain that even in life we are dead, and that the body (soma) is the tomb (sema) of the soul. ❋ 427? BC-347? BC Plato (1855)

Aztec or Mexican; yetl: Algonkin; sema: Huron; oyngoua. ❋ Unknown (1851)

The ghoul of eastern nations is but the same being, altered to suit habits and localities; and the sema of the Scandinavians is but the vampyre of a more primitive race, and a personification of that morbid imagination which has once fancied the probability of the dead walking again among the living, with all the frightful insignia of corruption and the grave about them. ❋ Unknown (1847)

You doubtless remember the little mound, called Cynos-sema? ❋ Lydia Maria Francis Child (1841)

Conference information can be found at www. sema.org/RaceGoneGreen ❋ Frank Filipponio (2010)