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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Neologism"”.
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Neologism production in jargon aphasia
… connected speech is composed almost entirely of neologisms. Despite the general intelligibility of his speech, LT is able to produce discrete responses in picture naming tasks. Neologisms were investigated for their phonemic content. Non word responses maintained the normal English distribution …
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Communication, Information, and Learning
The first chapter of this thesis presents robust neologism proofness, an equilibrium refinement that applies to both cheap-talk and costly signaling games. Robust neologism proofness eliminates equilibria that can be undone by a certain kind of credible communication from the sender to the …
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Ultra-Smooth
… thesis, ultra-smooth, is an invented term -- a neologism defined by the work produced through this study. Through physical prototypes of formwork shaped by gravity for concrete floors and through the observation of gravity’s effect on the generation of such forms through high-speed photography …
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L'ecriture hybride dans le roman francophone African et Antillais : resemblances et differences
… hybridity of their society. African writers use neologism, as a way to say that they can adapt the European political systems to their countries, without mixing the European systems with the African traditional kingdom structures. African hybrid novels contain more literary styles than …
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La manipolazione creativa del proverbio negli usi comici e pubblicitari della lingua italiana
… established yet, we propose to use the Italian neologism “paraproverbio” to refer to all those intentional alterations of an existing proverb, particularly with comic or advertising purposes. A preliminary definition of the proverb revealed to be necessary to cut off from our analysis those …
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Humanising climate change through climate fiction: A literary examination of New York 2140 (2017) by Robinson and the Drowned world (1962) by Ballard
Cli-fi is a neologism that is accredited to Dan Bloom, and it is used to refer to novels, short stories and films whose main focus is on the consequences of climate change (Svoboda, 2016). This thesis employed a qualitative desktop literary analysis and purposively sampled two cli-fi novels, New …
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Tackling the barriers to achieving information assurance
… in the context of the increasing use of the neologism of cybersecurity, contributing to knowledge through historical research. Discourse analysis of predominantly UK government reports, policy direction, legislative and regulatory changes, reviewing texts to explore the functions served by …
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Digital Porosity and Its Impact on the Mediation of Networked Images
… description of everyday life in ‘Naples’, is a neologism that I devised to describe one of the consequences of the Internet since web 2.0. As the area afflicted by digital porosity is potentially large, I use my creative practice to investigate a specific aspect, that is, the interaction with …
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Noodle, Noodle, Cat: Extra-Subjective Agency in Web-based Art practice
… entities and processes. I offer the neologism ‘extra-subjectivity’ to reflect on this emerging form of production, in which the ultimate manifestation of the artwork often exceeds the author’s intentions. As well as the written thesis, it comprises seven artworks that represent a …
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Organisational phylogenesis : Developing and evaluating a memetic methodology.
… adaptation operates. The popularity of the neologism 'meme' initially grew through rather ad-hoc non-scientific usage on the Internet. For some time, this geekish tendency has tarnished the idea of memetics and impeded serious academic investigation into the subject. A more rigorous …
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Chemistry in a new key: Surplus, soy, and the history of sustainable enterprise in the United States, 1934-1950
… Under the banner of this hard-to-pronounce neologism, automaker Henry Ford and soil scientist George Washington Carver united in unlikely friendship and a quest to find new industrial applications for already existing plants, especially the soybean. Historicizing the futures that chemurgy’s …
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Enclosed Edens, Contested Waters & Failed Utopias: An Ecocritical Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature
… (Fournier 2; 2-3). Building on Frank Davey’s neologism “regionality” (15), this dissertation observes the region as an ideologically diverse space where many voices communicate what Laurence Buell terms “a terrain of consciousness,” through which humans may ponder their relationships with the …
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Live Materials: Womens Work, Pauline Oliveros & the feminist performance score
… what constitutes a feminist performance score, a neologism that emerged from working with Oliveros’ works of the early 1970s and my resulting encounter with Womens Work. I argue that the feminist performance score is at the heart of any shared feminist aesthetics within this constellation of …
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The interior, the experiencer, kokoro – Towards the essence of place
… Essence of Place, because the ‘experiencer’, my neologism, is central to my design process and kokoro is a Japanese term that can be translated as heart of things, spirit or feeling. I believe that it is kokoro and its intangibility in relation to aesthetics that draws me to Japan and I …
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Toward a Curatorial Praxis of Planetarity
… at poet Kamau Brathwaite’s eponymous connective neologism inspired by the movement of the waves, evoking the Middle Passage as well as climate change. Sensing Nature (2021–22), the Momenta Biennale, centers embodiment and nonhuman sensibilities. Sex Ecologies (2021–22) focuses on long-term …
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How Can Solastalgia Restore a Lost Sense of Belonging to the Image? An autotheoretical attempt to return to a documentary practice and recover a filmic voice
Solastalgia is a neologism created by the Australian environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht to designate the pain or sadness provoked by the loss of solace and the subsequent yearning for a lost sense of belonging to a place that could be called ‘home'. In clinical psychology, Albrecht first used …
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Produktivität und Akzeptanz von Wortbildungsmustern bei Neologismen der 2000er Jahre
… von Wortbildungsmustern die Akzeptanz von Neologismen beeinflusst und inwiefern die Produktivität der gebildeten Neuwörter zu ihrer Lexikalisierung beiträgt. Dazu wurden in den 2000er Jahren im Deutschen aufgekommene Neologismen der Bereiche Bildung & Gesellschaft, Politik, Technik sowie …
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The Material Language of Protest: Textile Art and Clothing Craftivism, Britain 1970-2018
… Although craftivism is a twenty-first-century neologism, it is nonetheless historically familiar, having been drawn on for centuries by women and marginalised groups as a strategy of empowerment, advocacy and protest (McGovern, 2019). Textile art and clothing took on renewed socio-political …