Meaning is the fungible currency in the economy of our lifeworld, constantly crossing borders between one phenomenon and its neighbors, one location and the next in experience. …
Valences and meanings move among phenomena, stance, and mood; this movement exists within a temporal space that evolves forward in an iterative fashion, expands in accretion, and even rewrites its own history in retrospection.
— Harris M. Berger, Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture, 39, 52.