undercode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undercodes
form: undercoding
form: undercoded
form: undercoded
Etymology: From under- + code.
Senses: examples: text: The immature committee — possibly a zero-history group — may express itself simply and emotionally, and thereby undercodes.
ref: 1984, The Journal of the American Forensic Association:
text: Unlike the case of overcoding, undercoding occurs when the receiver somehow attempts to interpret an unfamiliar or unknown message without knowing the necessary codes.
ref: 1996, Kyong Liong Kim -, Caged in Our Own Signs: A Book about Semiotics, →ISBN, page 70:
text: The productive nature of this novel may lie in the uneasy cohabitation of these various discursive fields and in the variability of their coding – it may undercode at times and overcode at others.
ref: 2002, Ken Gelder, Reading the Vampire, →ISBN, page 65:
text: Since musicians do not have native competence in producing the style from which they have appropriated, they have to 'undercode' to some extent. (Eco. 1976: 135—6).
ref: 2013, Jason Toynbee, Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World?, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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).
ref: 1992, Peter K. Manning, Organizational Communication, →ISBN, page 63:
text: 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.
ref: 2002, Margaret Clelland Bender, Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life, →ISBN:
text: By withholding information, thereby abnegating the textual strategies of the storyteller by undercoding the text, Calvino augments the duties of the concerned reader.
ref: 2006, Franco Ricci, Difficult Games: A Reading of I Racconti by Italo Calvino, →ISBN, page 110:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: To use or convey (a message) in a way that requires the recipient to construct part of the meaning.
examples: text: Thus theology is also a logocentric system that undercodes mythology.
ref: 1996 -, Kyong Liong Kim, Caged in Our Own Signs: A Book about Semiotics, →ISBN, page 70:
text: 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.
ref: 2010, Mieke Bal, Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo's Political Art, →ISBN, page 62:
text: Ken Gelder argues in a psychoanalytic reading of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula that the text 'overcodes sexuality at the level of performance, but undercodes it at the level of utterance.
ref: 2013, Samantha George, Bill Hughes, Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: To communicate (information) indirectly, by means of an undercode.
examples: text: Just as she'd needed him to undercode a message into the financial routing she prayed someone with exceptional eskills would find.
ref: 2013, J. D. Robb, Thankless in Death, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: To encode a secret message that is masked by a surface message or stream of data.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2001, Jerome H. Carter, Electronic Medical Records: A Guide for Clinicians and Administrators, →ISBN:
text: It is estimated that medical groups undercode 50% to 60% of the time.
ref: 2005, Carolyn Buppert, The Primary Care Provider's Guide to Compensation and Quality, →ISBN:
text: The CPT code used must represent the exact procedure performed. A code that is only “close enough” will either undercode or overcode the actual service provided.
ref: 2011, Nancy Gardner, Billing & Coding Clear & Simple: A Medical Insurance Worktext, →ISBN:
text: I tended to undercode, as they say. That is, I often charged a lower amount by using a lower code.
ref: 2012, Tony Romack, State: Bored Of Medicine, →ISBN:
glosses: To represent by a code that indicates a lower level of service than what was provided.
examples: text: Coding should be done with great exactness: it is better to "overcode" than to "undercode."
ref: 1972, Alice Schlegel, Male dominance and female autonomy:
text: The Coder should not undercode a document. Because of the diversity of documents likely to be encountered and the likelihood that topics will overlap a given subject discussion will often involve two or more SUBJECT CODES.
ref: 1981, Stephen L. Haynes, Computers and litigation support, page 422:
text: Mothers were found highly inconsistent in their own coding and tended to undercode their children's aversive responses.
ref: 1991, Exceptional Child Education Resources - Volume 23, page 511:
text: Second, incomplete coding is especially problematic for chronic conditions. Good evidence suggests that hospitals undercode chronic diseases, such as diabetes mellitus and hypertension, particularly for acutely ill pateints (Iezzoni et al. 1992; Jencks et al. 1988; Jollis et al. 1993; Malenka et al. 1994).
ref: 2005, Daniel J. Friedman, Edward L. Hunter, R. Gibson Parrish, Health Statistics, →ISBN:
glosses: To use fewer codes than are needed to fully describe something.