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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Semiotic analysis"”.
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Semiotic Analysis of Workforce Diversity
… and positivism. Thus, this thesis adopts semiotics, effectively shifting diversity from empiriometric paradigm to Peirce’s semiotic realism. Peirce held that humans are themselves signs, dynamically acting as mutual interpretants from their individual frames of reference. The data will be …
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A semiotic analysis of print beauty advertisements
… highly interlinked. These are advertising and semiotics. As semiotics is the research of signs and motifs and their meanings, and as it is going to be portrayed in this essay, advertisements have a sufficient amount of signs, this merger of the two topics is constructive enough to analyse their …
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Semiotic analysis of a Versace visual myth
… imagery of Gianni Versace through a visual semiotic analysis. The image being examined has characteristics of the religious martyrdom of St. Sebastian. Analyzing the St. Sebastian image via semiotics allows the visual message, produced by Gianni Versace, to be examined at multiple levels. …
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"Cerulean Skies" by Maria Schneider: A Formal and Semiotic Analysis
… Schneider’s music by combining aspects of formal analysis with concepts from music semiotics. The centerpiece is an analysis of “Cerulean Skies” (2006), the longest work to date in Schneider’s oeuvre with a duration of approximately twenty-two minutes. “Cerulean Skies” is distinct in its …
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CONSTRUCTING THE WEST IN CHINESE MAGAZINE ADVERTISING: A CONTENT AND SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS
… advertising. It utilizes quantitative content analysis, facilitated by semiotic analysis to approach issues of race, gender and power reflected in the images of the West. Methodologically, this study sees quantitative content analysis and semiotics as two complementary methods in the study of …
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The dialectics of corporate reporting:a semiotic analysis of corporate financial and environmental reporting
… to explore this perceived dialectic and, through analysis, to show that it does not exist and that there is not incompatibility. This exploration and analysis is based upon an investigation of the inherent inconsistencies in such corporate reports and the analysis makes use of both a statistical …
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The remarkable everyday lives of people with hidden dis/ability: a material-semiotic analysis
… webs of connections. I composed the 6D material-semiotic network practice to offer a new ontological ‘seeing’ of how the associations and significations of hidden dis/ability are produced, represented and thus consumed. I found that exploring the everyday performances of hidden dis/ability with …
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A structural, semiotic analysis and interpretation of L.Z. Sikwane's play Matshediso, with emphasis on didascalies
… characters and setting. In chapter three an analysis and interpretation of Matshediso from the perspective of the importance of didascalies is undertaken. This analysis focuses on the plot; didascalies and characters; didascalies and space; and didascalies, props, and set. Limitations …
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Gamechangers: A content and semiotic analysis of Super Bowl commercials during recession and non-recession years
… study examined the topic through both content analysis and semiotic analysis. For the content analysis, commercials were viewed and coded to address the question of whether commercials change based on economic conditions. For the semiotic analysis, one commercial from each of the four selected …
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Signifying the autobiographical memory on social media a semiotic analysis of food-themed imagery on Instagram
… experiences and memories. To do so, I apply a semiotic analysis to a data set of online images selected from three Instagram hashtag categories. In conducting a semiotic analysis of various posts shared on Instagram, it is confirmed that food-themed images form an inherent part of a user’s …
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A multimodal social semiotic analysis of lecturer pedagogy for the physics concept of angular motion in physiotherapy education
… Specifically, I use a multimodal social semiotic perspective to describe what and how she uses the affordances of multimodal language − verbal talk, written text, images, symbols and symbolic equations, gestures, and objects − to give presentational, organisational and orientational …
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Through the looking glass: a semiotic analysis and experimental test of pace and angle effects in television advertising
… ads? The first question was addressed through a semiotic analysis of ad form, the second question through an experiment that tested for pace and angle effects on brand learning and brand attitudes. The semiotic analysis built upon the work of C.S. Peirce, Christian Metz, Gerard Genette, and …
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Beautiful Things in the World: A Semiotic Analysis on Disney and Japanese 2D Feature-Length Animation through Creative Practice
… representation of animated images. As such, the analysis on the characteristics of the signification system of Disney and Japanese feature length animations that this thesis centrally deals with eventually examines the aesthetic characteristics and value of these two animations. Moreover, this …
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MEN'S MAGAZINES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY IN TAIWAN
… this study sees in-depth interviews, content analysis, and semiotic analysis as complementary methods in the study of construction of masculinity in Taiwan. Results of the interviews showed that multiple types of masculinity exist in Taiwan and traditional Chinese masculinity has evolved and …
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Reading Clouds: An Analysis of Group Tag Clouds on Flickr
… displayed in these tag clouds. By applying a semiotic analysis, this thesis found that tag clouds are sign systems that are made meaningful through the codes and conventions constituting these clouds and in doing so was able to interpret the social “realities” group tag clouds construct. …
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Investigating flow facilitated by art-making, and potential implications on identity, conflict and wellbeing
… University of Salford students, where thematic analysis revealed the development of themes from initial negative feelings and assumptions toward the out-group; comfort with the initial in-group; a sense of responsibility/respect for all; a need to express; unity/togetherness; and change in …
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Space, place and the communicative (re)production of Christian practices.
… Model of CCO (Putnam & Nicotera, 2008) and semiotic analysis (Sebeok, 2001) this study examines how the meaning and interpretation of architecture and artifacts of a sacred space, such as a Christian church, can constitutively shape the practices of church members. Using ethnographic …
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The rise of the ‘new’ lad in men’s lifestyle magazines : an analysis of GQ front covers throughout the last five decades
… as the content of the magazine front covers, a semiotic analysis is carried out in order to reveal these changes which have led to the emergence of the ‘new lad.’ Apart from this, this dissertation analyses whether the representation of masculinity in men’s lifestyle magazines affects or not …
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Revisiting girlhood : defining a postmodern/popular feminist culture /
… popular feminist theories and a discourse alld semiotic analysis of musical lyrics, performance and style, in addition to magazine reading and advertisements, this thesis highlights the use of active media reading and being by girls to gaill an understanding with regards to social positioning …
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