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code |
 | | In these cases a code becomes a mechanism by which types of behavior can be restricted and regulated into acceptable norms, a set of injunctions prescribing ways to dress, act, or conduct oneself, as in a dress code, code of honor, or ethical code. |
 | | Codes determine a field in which certain meanings are permissible, but cannot be used in themselves to generate an original message, (disregarding for the moment the metal-linguistic message of transgression, of deliberate violation of a code). |
 | | Codes have been capable of recombination and restriction, but as of yet have been restrained from the sphere of semiotic generation--the representation of concepts in themselves, without the mediation of a proper language. |
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