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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Ideograph"”.
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The Brain Scan as Ideograph
… become an example of Michael Calvin McGee’s “ideograph,” a language term that subtly takes on outsized political and symbolic meaning to enforce state power. In conversation with theories of new materialism, I situate the brain scan as an ideograph within Jenny Edbauer’s model of rhetorical …
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Jihad as an Ideograph: Osama bin Laden's rhetorical weapon of choice
… of Saudi Arabia. Using Michael Calvin McGee’s “ideograph” (1980), I argue in this thesis that bin Laden’s usage of fulfills the characteristics of an ideograph through the employment of cluster words and narratives. I illustrate my argument through a textual analysis of The Declaration of Jihad …
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Jihad as an Ideograph: Osama bin Laden's rhetorical weapon of choice
… of Saudi Arabia. Using Michael Calvin McGee’s “ideograph” (1980), I argue in this thesis that bin Laden’s usage of fulfills the characteristics of an ideograph through the employment of cluster words and narratives. I illustrate my argument through a textual analysis of The Declaration of Jihad …
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VIRGIN POLITICS: AN IDEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF "VIRGINITY" IN THE EGYTPIAN VIRGINTY TESTS
… tests, through the theoretical framework of the ideograph. I argue that "virginity" functioned to stifle public dissent in Egypt. I utilize both a synchronic and diachronic analysis of the ideograph "virginity" in Egypt, and argue that it is structured in both a religious and patriarchal …
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Preventing guilt by association: Mindfulness and susceptibility to evaluative conditioning
… pictures were paired with neutral Chinese ideographs. Then, they completed ideograph likability ratings. In Study 1, a measure of trait mindfulness was inversely associated with conditioning of negative attitudes, but not after accounting for negative state affect. In Study 2, there was no …
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NATURALLY STRIATED MUSCLE: EXAMINING THE IDEOGRAPHIC CRYSTALLIZATION OF
… what natural (which I argue functions as an ideograph) should mean in contexts that seem to call for a formal, enforceable definition. In this study, I use the vocabulary of Deleuze and Guattari (1987) and the context of bodybuilding to work towards a theory of how ambiguous ideographs become …
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The Conscience of Poverty: Rhetoric, Phenomenology, and Work in Contemporary Welfare Reform Debates
… aid in this analysis: Michael Calvin McGee's ideograph, and the phenomenological hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger, with particular emphasis on Michael J. Hyde's deployment of Heidegger. Coupling McGee and Heidegger to synthesize a phenomenological account of ideology, I conclude by suggesting …
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Doing Spontaneity
… analysis of the term “spontaneity” as an ideograph in improvisational theatre, a social practice in which enactment of spontaneity is treated as criterial to identity and recognition of the practice. In this ideographic analysis, I consider both a set of popular improv method texts and a …
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Chemistry of rhenium(I) tricarbonyl complexes of biomedical relevance
… style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; text-indent:.5in'><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>fac</i>-[</span><span class=SpellE>Re<sup>I</sup></span>(CO)<sub>3</sub>L]<sup>n</sup> complexes serve as models for short-lived <i …
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Capturing the Chimera: Ideology and Persuasion in the Rhetoric of Soulforce
… website based on the foundation of McGee’s ideograph. The ideographs presented throughout the discourse coalesce to form the overarching ideology of Soulforce evidenced in the discourse. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals experience unwarranted <suffering>, <injustice> and …
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In The Pink: The (Un)Healthy Complexion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
… life conditions that narrowly define the central ideograph breast cancer awareness, and how the symbolic image of the pink ribbon works to recall and reiterate these specific messages and ways of understanding breast cancer. Ultimately, I argue that NBCAM discourse constrains how women think about …
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In The Pink: The (Un)Healthy Complexion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
… life conditions that narrowly define the central ideograph breast cancer awareness, and how the symbolic image of the pink ribbon works to recall and reiterate these specific messages and ways of understanding breast cancer. Ultimately, I argue that NBCAM discourse constrains how women think about …
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A rhetorical analysis of ideographs in a community relations campaign: the symbolic construction of eight mile road
… questions: (1) How effective is the use of ideographs in a community relations campaign in redefining a symbolic marker such as Eight Mile Road? (2) Can a rhetorical evaluation be a sensitive indicator of the success of a community relations campaign? This study examines community relations …
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The Rhetorical Dimensions of Radio Propaganda in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
… rhetoric and ideology is explained with McGee's "ideograph" theory. </p><p> The construction of a new language suited to the goals of the Nazis is analyzed by examples of Burke's unifiers and McGuire's close textual work on Mein Kampf. </p><p> Marcuse divides the language into pragmatic and …
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The Effect of Instructional Embodiment Designs on Chinese Language Learning: The Use of Embodied Animation for Beginning Learners of Chinese Characters
… of characters (i.e., pictograph, indicative, and ideograph). Therefore, findings revealed the positive effects of embodied animation on CCL. In addition, the HAL group showed promising retention rate by constantly performing the second best in all tasks. The study also revealed that pictographs …
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Sympathy for the Devil : American imperialism in film.
… regards soldiers and soldiering as a point of ideographic support. In exploring how these orientations manifest, I seek a deeper understanding of how post-9/11 war media, whether escapist fiction or dramatized reenactment, participate in information systems that, intentionally or not, …
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Das Sprachsystem der Naxi
Die Naxi verwenden eine Sprache, in der Segmente und Suprasegmente in komplexer Weise in Wörtern zum Ausdruck kommen. Im Satz wird die Grammatik grundsätzlich in analytischer Weise durch Partikeln strukturiert. Die Naxi verwenden einzigartige Zeichen, die entweder stilisierte Umrisse von der Natur …
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Salud, Dignidad, Justicia: Articulating "Choice" and "Reproductive Justice" for Latinas in the United States
This investigation explores the rhetorical evolution of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. The author argues that the rhetors of the reviewed texts reveal the organization’s dual goals of both altering and resonating with the values and attitudes of Latinas regarding their …
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Salud, Dignidad, Justicia: Articulating "Choice" and "Reproductive Justice" for Latinas in the United States
This investigation explores the rhetorical evolution of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. The author argues that the rhetors of the reviewed texts reveal the organization’s dual goals of both altering and resonating with the values and attitudes of Latinas regarding their …
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Progressive Paradox in Political Rhetoric: The Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965
… in U.S. narratives, and illuminate the ideographic function of the key concepts <em>land</em>, <em>family</em>, and <em>work</em>. These terms serve as conduits for conveying complex systems of meaning, which are entrenched in societal assumptions and concretized through political …