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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"bodily experiences"”.
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Embodied Cultural Cognition: How Culture Is Carried by Our Bodily Experiences
"Inspired by the flourishing volume of research on embodied cognition, I examine in the present research the soft and hard embodiments of culture. In a series of studies, I demonstrate that the perspective or ""camera angle"" we take provides us a psychological representation of the self that …
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Studies of embodied cognition and metaphor
Our bodily experiences can exert an influence on determining how we think, feel, and behave. This is because incidental bodily experiences affect how we understand and process abstract social concepts via the use of metaphors. According to this embodied perspective, bodily states or actions can cue …
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A body in dissonance: young woemn naviagting mental health and living with depression in Cape Town
This dissertation investigates the experiences of young womxn diagnosed and living with depression in Cape Town. The investigation focuses on the relationship between the young womxn and their bodies as they live with depression and move through depressive episodes. The ethnographic findings expand …
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Show-me ambiguity : an ethnographic study of Missouri Civil War reenactment
… which often involves negative or strong bodily experiences. Two regional reenactments are discussed in order to demonstrate how reenactor interpretations of the Civil War are communicated to audiences.
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From the Disordered Mind to the Socialized Lived Body: Agoraphobia Through the Lens of a Radical Feminist Phenomenology
… medicalized understanding of agoraphobic lived experiences. A radical feminist phenomenological framework is developed by reading Iris Marion Young's account of women's bodily existence in a patriarchal society through Sarah Lucia Hoagland's theoretical framework of "protection and predation". …
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"""Going against the flow"": the effects of dynamic orientational metaphors on consumer choice and persuasion"
Past research shows that bodily experiences can activate concepts to which they are metaphorically linked and can influence judgments in other unrelated domains. Although some studies have focused on experiences that have a direct semantic correspondence to the target being judged (e.g., experience …
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The dislocated mind : in the heart of reverie
… highly aware of the fleeting sensuality of its bodily experiences, and in intense absorption of the feeling associated with perception. As memory accumulates, so does the wandering of conscious thought increase, so much so that rarely, if ever, can the conscious mind perceive as it did in …
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Gumball Astronauts: Establishing a Space-Time Vocabulary for Genre Bending in Picture Stories
… paper attempts to redefine genre as a set of bodily experiences rather than a collection of thematic objects. Beginning with the western genre as a whole and ending with my own comics work, I pull apart elements within specific narratives and analyze them as mechanical divides that disrupt the …
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The time(s) of our lives: Exploring and opening up alternative temporalities through the experience of disability
… however, such as those shared by people whose bodily experiences construct their social realities in unconventional ways. Often it is their diagnosis that puts them out of line both with developmental time and fundamentally the neoliberal ethos of a productive life. This study strove to disrupt …
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Intracorporeal Entanglement, and other provocations of the gestating body
… the maternal body. In this research, I ask how bodily experiences of gestation might be articulated without direct representation of the body. I concentrate on three experiences of gestation: the experience of becoming round, of becoming multiple, and of imagining an interior bodily space. …
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Intracorporeal Entanglement, and other provocations of the gestating body
… the maternal body. In this research, I ask how bodily experiences of gestation might be articulated without direct representation of the body. I concentrate on three experiences of gestation: the experience of becoming round, of becoming multiple, and of imagining an interior bodily space. …
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Plants, people and place : cultural botany and the Southwest Australian flora
… thesis argues that it is vital to consider how bodily experiences deepen the appreciation of floristic appearances. Through readings of cultural, literary and historical sources, I propose floraesthesis as an embodied aesthetics of plants. The ancient concept of aesthesis, the root of the modern …
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Understanding the Meanings of Abstract Concepts: Keeping it Grounded and Real
… that abstract meanings might be grounded in our experiences with situational contexts and our bodily experiences. To further assess the extent of grounding for abstract word meanings (Experiment 2), I tested thirty-one pairs of undergraduate students in a variation of the Taboo task, in which …
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From Injury to Silence: Metaphors for Language in the Work of Herta Muller
… force, life, space, touch, silence, and other bodily experiences to make sense of language in the condition of suffering from social oppression. Drawing on conceptual metaphor theory within the framework of cognitive literary studies, I argue that Müller both relies on and estranges the ways in …
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Becoming Japerican And Amerinese: An Ethnographic Study Of Employees At A Multicultural Workplace
… of writing, but also from my own everyday bodily experiences as a sojourner. Although I employed a variety of traditional modern ethnographic methods, my own fieldwork process and texts may resonate with these postmodern ethnographic perspectives or a "postmodern sensibility." I tried to …
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The Other Body: Persons in Viking Age Multiple Burials in Scandinavia and the Western Diaspora
… Age persons, and secondly, that the shared bodily experiences of humans, animals and things suggest that persons were potentially conceptualised as ‘not of one shape’ in Viking Age minds. While this study firmly situates the multiple burial rite within the wider suite of normative burial …
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Mind and World in Literary Modernism: Cognition and Experience in D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
… ‘inward turn’. I ask: does depicting interior experiences entail the view that the mind is an isolated domain separated from the outside world? What is the relationship between the external and internal world that the modernists are seeking to portray? I argue that the writers depict inner life …