undercode

A subtext; ideas or information that are assumed or implied but not explicitly coded.

The anthropologist will tend to react more in terms of denotative overcoding, while the mass audience may respond more to connotative undercodes in terms of the ideological perspectives.

Kier Elam, in distinguishing these undercodes from generally understood dramatic codes, describes them as the "potent dramatic and theatrical conventions ruling the structure and understanding of plays and performances ..."

A secret message included in another message or stream of data.

Cannon was up there in orbit, talking to her ship in a dead language that existed mostly in undercode running on ancient infrastructure and its more modern copies.

I couldn't afford not to answer a valid Civitas inquiry or communication, but after all the inquiries and research, an unknown undercode suggested yet another branch of Civitas or an attacker using a Civitas cover.

A code (which represents a datum) that is grouped with other codes into a final encoding.

Here you can see that on the undercodes the relevant items of labour and material have been combined together and conversion factors can be inserted to convert the unit of measurement to the different units required for billing.

Just as the construction details 'held' on a standard drawing can be tested and become more certain of success as time passes, the undercodes held by an overcode can be confirmed in accuracy.

To communicate using codes that do not convey the entire message, but which rely on the recipient's construction of meaning through connotation or subtexts.

The immature committee — possibly a zero-history group — may express itself simply and emotionally, and thereby undercodes.

Unlike the case of overcoding, undercoding occurs when the receiver somehow attempts to interpret an unfamiliar or unknown message without knowing the necessary codes.

To use or convey (a message) in a way that requires the recipient to construct part of the meaning.

To officers and dispatchers it also connotes "good police work" and "crime work" that is honorable and important. Each message is undercoded in respect of police ideology (Eco 1979:135ff., Manning 1986).

In another sense it provides a deficit: some key knowledge necessary to read a word correctly is missing. One might alternatively say that the syllabary simultaneously undercodes and overcodes the spoken language, making it particularly ripe as a location for local language ideology.

To communicate (information) indirectly, by means of an undercode.

Thus theology is also a logocentric system that undercodes mythology.

Instead of either stylizing the violence out of sight or repressing representation entirely, she undercodes the violence so that its presence in the resulting work, which is partly representational and partly anti-representational, is all the more tenacious and acute.

To encode a secret message that is masked by a surface message or stream of data.

Just as she'd needed him to undercode a message into the financial routing she prayed someone with exceptional eskills would find.

To represent by a code that indicates a lower level of service than what was provided.

Generally, physicians "undercode" defensively as routine practice. That is, a physician may indicate a level of service less than that actually rendered due to the difficulties in documenting the visit properly for the appropriate service level.

It is estimated that medical groups undercode 50% to 60% of the time.