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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Semiotic approach"”.
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Meaning(s) in “Sustainable Tourism”: A Social Semiotic Approach
… thesis addresses this gap by applying a social semiotic approach to exploring the meanings attributed to “sustainable tourism” by various stakeholder groups. Social semiotics is a theory that studies meanings created in groups, and is applied in this thesis as an analysis of “sustainable …
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A multimodal social semiotic approach to jewellery design pedagogy
This thesis presents a multimodal social semiotic theoretical framework to explore jewellery design pedagogy. The role of the designer, meaning making and the semiotic functions of resources used within the practice of jewellery design are analysed.
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A Semiotic Approach to Russian Military Map Symbology and Terms
… these questions is through the application of semiotics—the study of signs and the process through which they produce meaning. This study has leveraged the works of the pioneering theorists of semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, and their successors in the relatively …
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Toward a Semiotic Approach to Analyzing the Trombonist's Repertoire
… performance, illuminating mental similarities in approach to performance as well as physical similarities in sound production between brass instrumentalists and vocalists to apply current research in vocal gesture (Frith 1996, Burns 2001, Heidemann 2016) to the trombone. This theory extends into …
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Redesigning landscape architecture in higher education: a multimodal social semiotic approach
… finds resonance with a multimodal social semiotic approach. Instead of labelling students as (in) competent or (under)prepared, a multimodal social semiotic approach emphasises the interest, agency and resourcefulness of the student as meaning-maker. The research thus reframes landscape …
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Patient-centred communication and patient education: a multimodal social semiotic approach
… and patient education: a multimodal social semiotic approach This study explores the phenomenon of patient-centred communication within the South African health context. Patient-centred communication involves several distinct but interlinked elements, namely, taking a holistic approach to …
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Printmaking pedagogy: a multimodal social semiotic approach to the intaglio hardground process
This thesis presents a novel approach to printmaking theory and pedagogy, focusing in particular, on the intaglio hardground process. It is a qualitative study that gives an account of a group of second year graphic design students who encounter the hardground process for the first time. A …
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A multimodal social semiotic approach to the analysis of manga : a metalanguage for sequential visual narratives
… of sequential visual narratives, how different semiotic resources may be employed to construct a visual narrative and how sequence of images may be developed. Over the years, extensive research has been undertaken in the area of still images. However, the particularities of meanings made in …
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A SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF BODYBUILDING: THE IMPORTANCE OF MALE BODY IMAGE AND ITS INDICATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN SOCIETY
… toward male body image, this paper utilizes a semiotic approach. Drawing upon social semiotics as an analytical framework, it examines the articulation of the modern “male body image ideal” in the United States. The current ideal popularly conveyed is one of a lean, muscular physique. The role …
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Aspirational Homeownership in a Time of Crisis: An ethnography of new homeowners in an Ottawa suburb
… in Ottawa called Findlay Creek and a Peircian semiotic approach, this thesis looks to translate the deeper meaning of homeownership and the experience of the perceived housing crisis. It argues that the phrase ‘the housing crisis’ is a symbol that has come to represent new homeowners’ financial …
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A critical social semiotic study of the word chav in British written public discourse, 2004-8
… between 2004 and 2008. Taking a critical social semiotic approach, it discusses how chav as a semiotic resource contributes to particular ways of using language to represent the world – Discourses – and to particular ways of using language to act on the world – Genres – suggesting that, though …
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The Construction of Tang Wei as a Star in contemporary China: Performance, Context, Reception and Politics
… Based on Richard Dyer?s (1979) ?sociological-semiotic? approach , I will also draw on the relevant theoretical discourses in the field of performance studies. The thesis employs Erving Goffman?s notion of ?social performance? (1959) and Richard Schechner?s concept of ?in-between identities? …
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Skylines and hemlines : a visual exploration of expatriate women’s negotiation and definition of appropriate dress in the changing cityscape of Doha
… and colour. Basing my analysis on a social semiotic approach, I draw upon post-colonial theory and ideas of intercultural encounters and integration to navigate broader contexts of discourses and images of expatriate women.
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Imagining a New Belfast: Municipal Parades in Urban Regeneration
… fund and organize such events through a material semiotic approach, this dissertation sketches an outline of the process that produces parades, and examines the motivations and intentions behind them. It finds that parades function within a negotiated process of "place-making" to convey idealized …
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Žaidimas avangardiniame mene: hermeneutinis ir semiotinis požiūriai /
… space. The game is conceptualised from a semiotic approach - from the perspective of cultural semiotics and from the approach of hermeneutic philosophy. This paper analyses the piece of "Fluxus" art – "Fluxus Wedding" using these two methods. The work reveals that the semiotic and …
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Sound design for nonlinear artefacts: models for sound design in the transformation between linear and nonlinear artefacts.
… synchrony between sound and visual elements. A semiotic approach to nonlinearity is connected to the architecture of adaptive systems. From there concepts for sound design are formulated. The resulting framework that is provided from the point of view of the maker can form a counterpoint to the
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La questione percettiva in semiotica. Linee fondamentali e sviluppi della ricerca
… with the problems and the opportunities of a semiotic approach to perception. Is perception, seen as the ability to detect and articulate an coherent picture of the surrounding environment, describable in semiotic terms? Is it possibile, for a discipline wary of any attempt to reduce semiotic …
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Early Greek and Homeric Conceptions of Domestic Space
… architectural syntax, which is informed by the semiotic approach to architecture in that the symbolism of architecture can be read like a text. In the final analysis, I compare the results of both analyses within a framework that is derived from architectural theory, specifically from theorists …
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Enacting recovery in an English NHS 'arts for mental health' service
… mental health needs. Drawing upon the material-semiotic approach of feminist technoscience studies and its concept of enactment, I ask: What are the practices of recovery here? What forms of evidence are appropriate in demonstrating recovery? What does recovery as set of a socio-material …
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