"generate meaning" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to producing a specific understanding of a concept or thing. For example, "The author's words generate meaning only if they are read in context."
He depends on crosscutting and montage to generate meaning, which is always tricky.
Dennett doesn't see that, for most people, science and philosophy does not generate meaning, as it does for him.
Humans can generate meaning by combining words in various ways, building them into clauses and inserting those clauses into sentences.
Improvisation is conceptualized as a responsive, partnered activity through which teachers and children generate meaning and knowledge together.
That's too bad, because "thanks" is a word that bonds people together and helps generate meaning in their lives.
Our findings demonstrate that gardeners' aesthetic experiences generate meaning that encourages further engagement with activities that may lead to positive health outcomes.
The objects and figures that inhabit the arcades - gamblers, whores, mirrors, dust, wax figures - are to Benjamin emblems, and their interactions generate meanings, allegorical meanings that do not need the intrusion of theory.
What theatre, especially, presents to the philosopher of language, is that no such (particular) rule exists; in the moment of theatre, the only rules that generate meanings that I, myself, comprehend are the rules that I create and ultimately follow.
As a comment on translation Mr. Yeh's project certainly has a place here, but tensions between materialism and abstraction, the visual and the digital, and the hand and the machine, generate meanings that resonate beyond the simple illustration of immigrant experience.
But repetition whether in the sequence of events which makes up a story or in the patterning of the textual discourse which presents that story is also a powerful means of generating meaning in fiction.
We may all be taught that form follows function, but for the ever-brilliant Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, form generates meaning.
