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Showing 1 to 20 of 310 for “"Semiotics"”.
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Semiotics & Syringe Pumps
Semiotics can be a useful paradigm in HCI research and yet the cognitive process of semiosis is difficult to uncover and empirically study. Thus in the domain of HCI semiotics has largely remained a descriptive theory, able to provide a theoretical basis for the study of interfaces and interaction, …
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Getting Located: Queer Semiotics in Dress
… art that looks at the rupture of legible bodily semiotics, this show wonders what new modes of expression form in their wake. Cruising the archive, what legacies and genealogies do artists engage, which ones will they willingly forget? What does the embodiment of queerness through dress look like …
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The semiotics of visible face make-up: The masks women wear
… framework used to underpin this research is semiotics and this study examines the sign of make-up using two different semiotic perspectives previously not used together. The significance of this process is that by combining these perspectives a richer and more in-depth understanding is …
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The semiotics of non-verbal communication in the attorney, client consultation process
… and ubiquity of the different sign systems (semiotics) that regulate human interaction. The growing body of knowledge about non-verbal communication has illustrated that it is the main sign system that parallels verbal communication in the human interactive process. The aim of this study was …
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Musical semiotics and color : contextual roles of color in Scriabin and Schoenberg.
Stemming from the larger topic of multimedia, this thesis examines the interrelation of music and color. Color will be explored as a metaphysical entity—beyond visual or aural connotations—as a symbol for inner reality beyond time and space. This analysis will be achieved through the primary case …
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In Principio Erat Signum: Dueling Dionysianisms & Sacramental Semiotics In Thomistic & Mystical Franciscan Poetry
… critique, his fundamental recourse to a semiotics grounded on the theories of Eric Gans and René Girard ensures that the adversarial ontology underlying postmodernity also underlies performatism, thus making of performatism a non-identical repetition of the paradigm it wishes to escape. …
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A rhetorical legacy: the art of memory's place in literature and semiotics
… Cicero's three terms, this study investigates semiotics (as an offshoot of memoria) and representative literary works, and provides that the art of memory has a multitude of heirs and forms. This dissertation touches on many aspects of memoria, eventually linking the art to metacognition and …
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A study of environmental semiotics in the production of a mixed-income housing complex
Our present society does not actively promote ideas of segregation. We all confront one another at some point in time, regardless of race, sex, or financial status. However, the majority of designs for today's housing complexes does not reflect the balance of the societal structure. Residential …
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The Soviet Empire of Signs: A Social and Intellectual History of the Tartu School of Semiotics
"As such, the Tartu School stands as a revealing case for understanding the informal public sphere, subversive practices and myths, as well as patterns of elite struggles in Soviet academia and society. Beyond having purely historical significance, the findings of this dissertation have …
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Bande Dessinée Récit de Voyage: Shifting History, Semiotics, Authorship, and Representation in Autobiographical Francophone Comics Travel Narratives
This work classifies and critiques several aspects of Francophone travel narratives in the comics medium according to four parameters. First, this analysis identifies a history of the usage of 'travel' as a theme, as an integral character, and as a narrative construct. Second, this project …
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Pasolini's Cinema of the Outside and the Problem of the Renewal of Marxism: Ontology, Semiology, Semiotics and Pedagogy
My thesis explores Pasolini’s work with a twofold purpose, historical and philosophical. It extracts for the first time a consistent political philosophy from his multifaceted activity as an intellectual, literary critic, poet, journalist, and cinema director, spelling out the specific relevance of …
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"Through the Language of Food: Creating Linguistic and Cultural Value through Basque (Euskara) Semiotics to Market Local Gastronomic Products"
… the use of the Basque language and other semiotics can be seen in local, national, and international markets. The second chapter will lay a foundation for this dissertation by introducing various dimensions of the Basque gastronomic society. It will provide a timeline of the milestones and …
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Semiotics and strategies of property marketing in a post-apartheid South Africa: a case of three selected areas in Cape Town.
… inequalities. This study focuses on how semiotics is used in the different advertisements presented on Property24 by the marketing agents. This research examines ways in which real estate companies create their brand identity, make use of devise differential messages, and refine their …
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Semiotics and Christian Discipleship in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s <em>Crime and Punishment</em> and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s <em>The Cost of Discipleship</em>
<p>The literary and philosophical theory of semiotics considers signs and symbols. Pragmatics is the branch of semiotics that explicates the practical effects of a given interpretation according to its context. Through analyzing the pragmatic context of <em>Crime and Punishment</em>, one can begin …
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Image analysis for translating English multimodal texts into Greek : a multimodal semiotics approach to translation training in a Greek higher education context
… for developing this role. Visual literacy, semiotics, and translation theories provided the conceptual framework for this multimodal semiotics approach to translation training, which guided my examination of the way the trainees described semiotic resources, how they used verbal and visual …
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