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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"iconicity"”.
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Explorations of Sound Symbolism and Iconicity
… with smallness, and refers to something small. Iconicity can also exist through direct resemblance, in which a form imitates the meaning to which it refers (e.g., bang, woosh). In Chapter 2 I synthesize the existing sound symbolism literature to arrive at five potential mechanisms that could …
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Rock, Paper, Aliens: Effects of Labels and Iconicity on Non-Linguistic Cognition
… that label form is not always arbitrary. Iconicity describes correspondences between label form and meaning, as illustrated by the Bouba-Kiki effect. Iconicity may affect cognitive processes including label learning, and is underpinned by crossmodal sensory correspondences. This raises the …
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Typology of Signed Languages: Differentiation through Kinship Terminology
… constructed by different strategies including: iconicity motivated by universal human and cultural-specific traits, arbitrary elements, and linguistic economy (semantic derivation). Patterns reveal that kin terms are motivated yet contain degrees of arbitrariness, suggesting a continuum of …
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Cultural Icons: A Case Study Analysis of their Formation and Reception.
… and poorly defined subject area of cultural iconicity. Careful consideration of three specific uses of the term - in the popular media, as a new way of articulating national identity, and in academic publications - reveals the extent to which the term is currently poorly comprehended and …
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Symbolic Understanding of Pictures in Low-functioning Children with Autism and Typically Developing Children.
… picture-object relations is facilitated by iconicity (the extent that a picture resembles its referent) and/or verbal labelling, and study two examines the perceptual cues that direct the generalisation of labels from colour photographs. The third study addresses the factors that influence …
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The Aesthetic Use of Syntax: Studies on the Syntax of the Poetry of E. E. Cummings
… of more general aesthetic effects (i.e., iconicity, focus, emphasis, pace, tension, surprise, ambiguity, development, parallelism, transcendence, and stance) which can also be produced at other levels of linguistic structure (phonetic, orthographic, morphological, or semantic) or by other …
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Virginia Woolf and cinema : Adaptations of Mrs Dalloway.
… alternative intertexts such as the cultural iconicity of Virginia Woolf and the figure of the hysteric. I consider how the merging of fiction, biography and cultural iconicity influences adaptation and its critical reception, promoting an on-going dialogue across the multiple texts present. …
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Sculpted from clay, shaped by power: Feminine narrative and agency in Wonder Woman
… that the Amazonian princess's resilience and iconicity stem from her own narrative's uniquely deconstructive nature: Where the patriarchal story would demand dominance, destruction, and violence, the feminine narrative that Diana models advocates for equality, nurturance, and emotional and …
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Composicionalidade semântica em Libras: fronteiras e encaixes
… in the architecture of the grammar the signs iconicity elapses of the interface between the spatial cognitive module and the articulatory-perceptual component of the grammar, i.e., a delayed, after-syntactic realization, the equivalent of the phonology. The study will be able to give subsidies …
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UN2 : reconfiguring the world city
… while recognizing and reinforcing the existing iconicity of the present structures. This thesis is a proposition to expand and reconfigure the UN (taking into account the increased prominence of Non-Governmental Organizations and decentralized agencies), ultimately reshaping its organizational …
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A Comparison of Chinese and Taiwan Sign Languages: Towards a New Model for Sign Language Comparison
… McKee and Kennedy's approach, it is found that iconicity and iconic motivation play an important role in the comparison of signs. It is also found that since our understanding of the relationship between sign phonology and morphology is limited at this stage, it is hard to make comparisons …
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The Space of Construction: Elemental Prefabrication
… between architecture as a system and the poetic iconicity of the house as a type. A study of the systemic introduced by considerations of prefabrication can offer a deeper understanding of the complex nature of architecture. Finally, can the essence of architecture endure amidst the necessary …
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Gender and style in the translation and reception of Ingeborg Bachmann’s ‘Todesarten’ texts
… work. Bachmann’s extended metaphors, ambiguity, iconicity, transitivity structures and intertextuality suggest that her prose texts, and especially Malina, should be regarded as proto-feminist masterpieces whose contemplation of the post-war human condition and society’s treatment of women were …
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Jacqueline Kennedy and the politics of popularity
… many communication scholars, Kennedy’s cultural iconicity diminishes her legacy as First Lady, and she remains an exemplar of political passivity. Her influence on the American public’s cultural and political imagination, however, demonstrates a need for scholars to assess with greater depth her …
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A cognitive-linguistic study of the causative, agent-deprofiling, and resultative constructions: system internal and external perspectives
… among which, besides metaphor and metonymy, iconicity also plays an important role. The inherently fine-grained nature of cross-linguistic analysis has opened doors for future research into the intricacies of each construction, and by extension, of both languages.
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Serial verb constructions or verb compounds? : a prototype approach to resultative verb constructions in Mandarin Chinese
… semantic and syntactic dependency of the verbs, iconicity, and clause linkage. Through the analysis of the syntactic, semantic, and phonological behavior of various types of serial verb constructions, it is shown that serial verb constructions are on a structural continuum, i.e., from syntax to …
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Advertising Photography: Professional Practice as Commercial Creativity
… driven by practitioner views of creativity, iconicity, and the macro effects of global events, economic cycles and technological development. This approach is tested through the case study of the British information and communications technology industry between 1979 and 2009, drawing on and …
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Visual theologies in Graham Greene's 'Dark and Magical Heart of Faith'
… theological debates regarding idolatry, iconicity and re-enchantment. It will also connect these debates with the works of figures like Jenny Franchot and Grace Davie, who are interested in the cultural importance of religion in contemporary society.
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Translating the form: a process-based approach to translating the poems of Martinus Nijhoff (1894-1953) and Gerrit Achtergerg (1905-1962)
… pausing and breath (Chapter 3), and sound and iconicity (Chapter 4), are inter-punctuated with further commentaries in which these aspects are approached through practical experiments. The commentaries are intended not only to exemplify my own translation process, but also to suggest several …
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The numeral system of Japanese Sign Language from a cross-linguistic perspective
… a decrease in forms motivated by visual iconicity, and increased standardisation of forms due to a reduction in school-based variants. The analysis makes reference to four groups of sign languages and aims to carry out a comparison of each group with JSL. Group 1 consists of the JSL …
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