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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Social meaning"”.
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John Tenniel and Technology: Anachronism and Social Meaning
… threefold lenses of Material Culture Studies, Social Constructivism, and Nostalgia Studies in an attempt to link Tenniel's treatment of medieval iconography and depiction of modern technology with the nostalgic past.
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A new body of order: designing social meaning through performance
… identifies an absence of order in contemporary social life and offers a design-based response to that absence, theorising order as a living phenomenon of regulation, meaning and authority that may be generated through the participatory, symbolic, embodied, creative and relational practice of …
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The design and social meaning of Australian type specimen books, 1880-1901
… explore these issues, I carry out a multimodal social semiotic analysis, which shows how their design and meaning is inseparable from their commercial and social contexts. The specimens' language is shown to reflect dominant discourses of institutional power, colonisation and industrialisation, …
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The social meaning of domestic space : notes on a suitable research methodology for southern African architectural studies
… argued, has become separated from the study of social systems and human behaviour. It is suggested that architectural research needs to be grounded in a coherent theoretical framework of a sociological nature if the meaning of buildings in society is to be adequately understood. By combing Bill …
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Ethnicity, social practice and phonetic variation in a Sheffield secondary school
… an ethnographic study of phonetic variation and social practice in a multiethnic secondary school in Sheffield, UK. I analyse the use of phonetic variation by adolescents in this school with the aim of advancing recent debates surrounding indexicality, social meaning, and language and ethnicity …
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Language and identity in the Cockney Diaspora: A sociophonetic and variationist study
… publications exploring variation, change and the social meaning of phonetic features in the context of ongoing linguistic and social change in South East England as related to the Cockney Diaspora. This term refers to the large-scale 20th century relocation of white, working-class East Londoners …
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Channel Choice as a Relational Message
The process of communicating relational meaning is complex and involves the interplay of relational goals, messages, and frames. Relational meaning is often sent through nonverbal cues, which are important sources of social meaning and exist in many forms. This study addressed multiple components …
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The Madrileño ejke : a study of the perception and production of velarized /s/ in Madrid
… investigation sought to learn more of the social meaning and perception of the velarized /s/, utilizing the matched guise language attitudes technique to do so. It is found that the velarized /s/ is a marker of Madrileño identity, and that it is mainly associated with negative connotations, …
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Beyond lip service : an analysis of labrets and their social context on the Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia
… thesis provides an analysis of the history and social context of the labret (lip plug) on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia over the last 5,000 years. Although labrets have typically been characterized as markers of ‘status’ with connotations of gender, the variability in observations made …
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Boxing the Boundaries: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries in the United State, 1882-1913
… research topics. My dissertation illuminates the social meaning of prize fighting between 1882 and 1913 considering interactions between culture and power relations. My dissertation understands prize fighting as a cultural text, structured in conjunction with social relations and power struggles. …
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Warring opinions: an investigation into the sublime aesthetic narratives of contemporary warfare.
… endeavor versus war as the destruction of social meaning. These opposing opinions reflect different aesthetic and narrative strategies: different ways of representing one's position in the world and of managing overpowering forces and emotions. Opinion itself is built and supported through …
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'THE LOCAL' IN THE HUMANITARIAN PSYCHE: HOW EMOTIONS OF HUMANITARIAN WORKERS MEDIATE THE EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF PARTICIPATION
… practices – patterns of behavior endowed with social meaning. However, the same pattern of behavior may be endowed with different meanings by different actors, thereby altering the nature of the practice. Emotions can explain how practices become differently meaningful to different actors in …
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Sociolinguistic constructions of identity among adolescent males in Glasgow
… and these negative associations impact on the social meaning of Glaswegian Vernacular as used by working-class adolescent males. There have been, however, no studies which have made a systematic attempt to uncover the role fine-grained phonetic variation plays in indexing these associations. …
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Constructing, Construing, and Communicating: Intercultural Communication in La Paz, Bolivia
… will use different discourse cues to signal social meaning and that these differences will sometimes result in miscommunication. Although I find instances where differences in the discourse cues could have led to misunderstanding, it is not always that clear-cut whether they did or not. The …
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Google AdWords as a Network of Grey Surveillance
… the content to do more of the work of assigning social meaning traditionally done by the ads themselves. And the AdWords pay-per-click ad auction system greatly increases the level of mechanization within the advertising and content production system, replacing the historical human bureaucracy of …
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The use of peer-group slang in young adult fiction /
… It is a tool in communication that gives us social and personal identity. This means that with our individual communication and speech we can identify with a group and its speech. Since humans are social animals, we enjoy informal language, such as slang, because of its casual, vivid, racy, …
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The duality of corporate political activity: impact of institutions on lobbying and campaign contributions
… in political activities. Considering growing social pressures over corporate use of political activities, however, there is a need to pay more attention to social and institutional environments that are likely to affect corporate political activity. Thus, I build upon the institutional theory …
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Regional Dialect Levelling and Language Standards: Changes in the Hønefoss Dialect
… Oslo are also found. This study shows that the social and political context of language must be taken into account in the study of loss of linguistic features. The social meaning of language is crucial in informing us about the social mechanisms behind dialect change.
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Mapping sculpture and power: symbolic wealth in early medieval Scotland, 6th-11th centuries AD
… Aspects of material culture invested with social meaning are termed ‘symbolic wealth’. Traditional manifestations of symbolic wealth, such as imported pottery, glass vessels and fine metalworking are considered. The main body of evidence comes from a new methodological approach to sculpted …
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