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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Metonyms"”.
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A Mask Made of Metonyms: Racialized Masquerade
… assemblage of racialized cosmetic and gestural metonyms.
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EDUCATING HUMANIZATION: AN EXAMINATION INTO THE HUMANIZING PEDAGOGIES OF PAULO FREIRE
… commitments in order to demonstrate each as metonyms that stand in for his larger interests in alienating and humanizing cultural action. Finally, I argue that Deanna Fassett and John T. Warren's critical communication pedagogy can be a generative framework through which teachers and …
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The Construction of the Subject in the Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
… signifiers of an illusory "full" subject, both metonyms (the detective, the mesmerist) and metaphors (the artwork, the interior); the symbolic emergence from repression of active female desire, perceived as threatening in the male unconscious ('The Oval Portrait', 'Ligeia'); and the …
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A epidemia de HIV/AIDS no Brasil: um estudo semântico cognitivo sócio-histórico-cultural da conceptualização da morte no século XX.
… relationship between Metaphors and Conceptual Metonyms, enabling the mapping of different forms of conceptualization of death.
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On discourse and materiality: personhood in the Neolithic of the Isle of Man
… By refuting the authority of these metonyms, and by illustrating how they have become sedimented inarchaeological discourse (specifically for the Neolithic on the Isle of Man), the project explores the possibilities for more context-specific interpretations. Finally, this thesis …
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Reimaging the city : the impact of sport initiatives on tourists' images of urban destinations
… holistic city images because of their potency as metonyms and metaphors. However, despite widespread awareness of their implementation, the specific effects engendered by some case study initiatives appear rather limited. Furthermore, the study reveals certain problems.</p>
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Metaphoric perspective theory: Language to action for the self, individuals, communities, and culture
<p>Metaphoric and tropic language have been a hallmark of human communication throughout the ages. From ancient examples and first attempts at scholarly understanding to postmodern lexicons of metaphor theory in two-dozen disciplines, the understanding of this lingual phenomenon has evolved and …