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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"cultural meaning"”.
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The sign models of Sassure and Pierce and the glossematic model of Hjelmslev: an analysis of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
Cultural meaning has been a critical dimension of landscape design over several thousands of years. Recent literature submits that the strength of cultural meaning has waned over the last century. It is also suggested, however, that the landscape architect is in a unique position to strengthen the …
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Town form
… Towns, and offers several interpretations of the cultural meaning recorded in town form.
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Designing at the edge : exploring the interface between the built and natural environment
Architectural form embodies layers of cultural meaning which reveal people's attitude about their connection to their world. Architectural form has the capacity to contain a plethora of statements about the individual identity of the builders and occupants, as well as a general statement about …
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Continuity and change in the cultural landscape of Table Mountain
… and natural landscape that also holds deep cultural meaning, symbolism and value for generations of Capetonians, past and present. The first detailed accounts and artistic representations of Table Mountain come from the early European discoverers, sailors and colonists who travelled to the …
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Continuity and change in the cultural landscape of Table Mountain
… and natural landscape that also holds deep cultural meaning, symbolism and value for generations of Capetonians, past and present. The first detailed accounts and artistic representations of Table Mountain come from the early European discoverers, sailors and colonists who travelled to the …
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The Historic Canal System in Bangkok, Thailand: Guidelines for Reestablishing Public Space Functions
… The study examines the historic value and cultural symbolism of the canals through evolutionary morphological analysis, establishing that the canals are primary structural elements in the city, since they have retained the integrity of their physical form over time, and have come to hold …
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Whoever Said Change Was Good: The Transforming Body of the Disney Villainess
… Disneys villainesses reflect and/or perpetuate cultural imaginaries of women. I identify the influence of several cultural tropes of femininity, including fairy-tale archetypes, ballet conventions, and the Hollywood femme fatale, and explore how they constellate social understandings of age, …
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SCROLLING CRITICALLY: MOMFLUENCERS AS SITES OF COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, AND PEDAGOGICAL INSIGHT
… concept of heteroglossia to analyze how meaning is constructed across platforms. Chapter 2 investigates the rhetorical and compositional strategies Momfluencers use on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, highlighting how authenticity, professional obligations, and audience …
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The secret nature of seeds: science & seed improvement c.1520-1700
… of the seed have been captured in botanical, agricultural, economic and garden history, what the seed also carries is a social history. The human relationship with the seed is complex, with the seed itself invested with different social and cultural meaning over time, place and periods in history. …
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Development of Biculturalism In Cross-Cultural Managers In Multinational Corporations: A Cultural Participation Approach
… to function in, and benefit from, multiple cultural environments and to coordinate culturally diverse subunits. Biculturalism, understood as the internalization of two cultural meaning systems, addresses this issue by focusing on how individuals use and cognitively manage two cultures. …
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Designing building skins
… of the facade as an important signifier of cultural meaning. Homogeneous and minimally articulated skins have become silent and passive masks, creating anonymous and unresponsive urban environments. In contrast, the decorated facades of post-modem architecture have failed to address …
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A commentary on Quintinus' Insulae Melitae Descriptio
… illustrating the text in its historical and cultural meaning. Under the latter are included allusions and references to Classical writers. These indeed show the general background of Quintinus' Classic education, especially when he is clearly echoing the Classics, as in his repeated use of …
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Consumption of furniture and furnishings for the home in the West Midlands using local suppliers 1760-1860
… culture of the home, its physical reality and cultural meaning. Homes during the period 1760-1860 are the focus for study. During this period homes changed considerably. At the outset interiors were relatively bare despite the gradual accumulation of consumer goods during the eighteenth …
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Cultural Characteristics of Western Educational Structures and Their Effects on Local Ways of Knowing
… Western educational structures and Native cultural structures function in the daily operations of a privately owned school in a Native community, how these functions have evolved, drawbacks and strengths of both Western and Native cultural structures, and current challenges in relating to …
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Cultural Characteristics of Western Educational Structures and Their Effects on Local Ways of Knowing
… Western educational structures and Native cultural structures function in the daily operations of a privately owned school in a Native community, how these functions have evolved, drawbacks and strengths of both Western and Native cultural structures, and current challenges in relating to …
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Understanding Lists: Umberto Eco's Rhetoric of Communication and Signification
… concurrent to his commentary on the social and cultural implications of the algorithmic-obsessed Internet age. To understand his argument, this project collects hints of insight through his corpus. In Eco’s cultural aesthetics, he celebrates the notion of openness that invites and encourages …
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Byzantine Enamel and the Aesthetics of Technological Power, Ninth to Twelfth Centuries
… how cloisonné enamel became infused with cultural meaning in Byzantium through the rarefied technical knowledge employed in its making.</p> <p>The medieval Greek vocabulary for enamel, χυμευτός/χειμευτός (chymeutos/cheimeutos) and ἔργα χυμευτά/χειμευτά (erga chymeuta/cheimeuta), derives …
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Bodies That Struggle: A Study of the Use of Illness in Spanish Women's Writing, 1880--1920
… esthetic productions of illness. She ridicules cultural esthetics that idolize the sick or dead female body by pointing to the necrophilic tendencies in these representations and by uncovering the imbedded fear of female sexuality inherent to decadentist portrayals of dead women. Her parody …
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The Representation of Gender in Contemporary Chinese Television Advertising: An Analysis of Content, Meaning, and Production
… how these representations reflect the social and cultural contexts of their production and the institutional practices of advertising production personnel. To date, while there have been a plethora of studies on gender representation in advertising in western contexts only limited attention has …
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