The phrase "expressing meaning" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the words or phrases in a sentence that convey a specific message or idea. It can be used in any context where you want to describe the purpose or content of a sentence. Example: The bolded words in the following sentence are expressing the main meaning of the passage.
But expressing, meaning what?
He believed that religious phenomena must be understood as uniquely and irreducibly religious, as expressing meaning on a religious plane of reference.
According to Halliday, choice is the core mechanism for expressing meaning whose nature must be interpreted semiotically.
Greenlandic has several purely derivational devices of expressing meaning related to aspect and aktionsart, e.g. sar expressing "habituality" and ssaar expressing "stop to".
In spoken language, meaning is produced when sounds become part of a system in which some sounds can contribute to expressing meaning and others do not.
By expressing meaning, as it manifests itself in the recovery process, it is possible to become aware of patients' needs in order to plan for proper after care.
It's the most efficient way to express meaning.
Ms. Plumb's choice of film medium, and her use of old-fashioned musical accompaniment, exaggerated acting gestures to express meaning, makeshift low-tech props and ridiculous wigs, all combine to give these works the overall look and atmosphere of early, silent, slapstick and pantomimelike films.
Mr. Wellman has never been a linear storyteller, and his interest in language has always had as much to do with exploiting the properties of its fundamental units -- letters, syllables, words -- as it has with using them to express meaning in its conventional sense.
Though he dismisses with a wave of the hand my suggestion that US cinema often favours story over visuals in contrast to Europe, he is one of the finest examples we have of a film-maker who expresses meaning through aesthetics.
And the data in the message that moves through the service interface expresses meaning semantically in the message.
