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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"expressive meaning"”.
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THE LANDSCAPE OF AFFECTIVE MEANING
… For this reason, swear words are often called expressives. Which linguistic mechanisms allow swear words display affective states, and, more importantly, how can such ‘affective content’ be character- ized in a theory of meaning? Even though research on expressive meaning has produced models …
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Innovation and tradition: towards an institutional theory of religion
… of behaviour that have special representative or expressive meaning for a human community. It is demonstrated that the central concepts of religions - religious activities, religious objects and religious experiences - are institutional concepts. The criticisms that an institutional theory will …
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Revisiting the Past: Harmony, Structure and Narrative in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Piano Quintet in C Minor
… of English pastoralism, and explores the dual meaning of Arcadia as it relates to expressive meaning in the second movement. Chapter 4 surveys the use of variations in the last movement and the movement’s relationship to Vaughan Williams’s Violin Sonata in A minor (1953), for which the composer …
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Pursuing the meaning of expressiveness: a holistic, radical contextualist account of lexical expressives
While lexical expressives are a widely recognised linguistic category of expressives, the debate continues as to what items are included under this label and what their contribution to utterance and discourse meaning is. In my search to disentangle and shed light on this debate, I adopt a holistic …
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"Cerulean Skies" by Maria Schneider: A Formal and Semiotic Analysis
… dissertation aims to address the narrative and expressive dimensions of Schneider’s music by combining aspects of formal analysis with concepts from music semiotics. The centerpiece is an analysis of “Cerulean Skies” (2006), the longest work to date in Schneider’s oeuvre with a duration of …
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Projected self: the de se across dimensions and beyond pronouns
… nouns. First of all, it provides evidence that expressives are necessarily de se, which means that non-pronominal expressions, such as nouns, verbs etc. can be de se in a non-assertive dimension. Next, it examines in full detail the landscape of expressive (or as it is more recently known, …