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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"indexicality"”.
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Propositional attitudes and indexicality : a cross categorial approach
… develop a theory of propositional attitudes and indexicality that captures these facts, and treats all three categories on a par. First, we extend the notion of 'Sequence' phenomena from tense to person. In Russian, the tense of a direct discourse can be preserved in reported speech, but in …
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Early Greek Indexicality: Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
This thesis is concerned with early Greek literary history and the nature of archaic Greek allusion. It examines how our earliest Greek poets self-consciously marked and signalled their interactions with other texts and traditions, often in a deeply antagonistic fashion. In recent years, scholars …
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"Purple People": "Sexed" Linguistics, Pleasure, and the "Feminine" Body in the Lyrics of Tori Amos
… as Norma Mendoza-Denton and Elinor Ochs discuss indexicality and shifting through <em>salient variables</em>, a process called <em>entextualization</em>. Further, French feminists such as Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva use the linguistic concept of intertextuality to explain certain poetic uses …
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Distributed Cinema: Interactive, Networked Spectatorship In The Age Of Digital Media
… and interact with digital media. The loss of indexicality, or the potential infidelity between an image and its source, contributes to a distrust of images. The ubiquity of interactive media changes aesthetics of images, as viewers begin to expect interactivity. Networked media changes not …
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Reading the Lines: Edo period nyohitsu and the construction of meaning through script form
… an interdisciplinary approach, the thesis uses indexicality to arrive at a far more nuanced and complex description of what nyohitsu does in written communication. Indexicality proposes that meanings are not fixed, but contextual: depending on who wrote it, to whom, and in what situation, …
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THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF CITIZENSHIP IN SINGAPORE
… together and become typified into the field of indexicality (Jaffe, 2016) of the metasign (Gal, 2016) of citizenship. The findings show that the new citizens’ perspective can help us understand how dominant discourses on citizenship are circulated and reproduced in Singapore society.
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Virtual Nature: A practice-led enquiry into the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of the painted monotype
… images, through shared notions of virtuality and indexicality. This research is informed by the work of Édouard Vuillard, Mamma Andersson, Peter Doig, David Hockney and the landscapes of Gustav Klimt. These painters interrogate the territory between painting and lens-based images in very specific …
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Virtual Nature: A practice-led enquiry into the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of the painted monotype
… images, through shared notions of virtuality and indexicality. This research is informed by the work of Édouard Vuillard, Mamma Andersson, Peter Doig, David Hockney and the landscapes of Gustav Klimt. These painters interrogate the territory between painting and lens-based images in very specific …
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An examination of the physical and temporal parameters of post-physical printmaking practice: exploring new modes of collaboration, distribution and consumption resulting from digital processes and networked participation.
… artistic practice were examined, as well as the indexicality of the print itself in augmented and virtual contexts. The research employs dynamic triangulation between critical contextual review and direct qualitative and practice-based research; to develop a taxonomy framing the contextual …
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Embodied Responses to Materiality in the Making and Reading of Comics
… This includes retheorisations of the notions of indexicality and trace in comics, leading to revised models of iconic solidarity, the role of embodied trace in establishing storyworlds, and the function of materiality in the structure of visual metaphor. As reproduction technologies continually …
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"You" and "I", "now" and "then", and some related thoughts
… within this broad theme. Chapter 1 concerns indexicality. On classical accounts, indexicals like I, you, and now invariably refer to elements of the actual context of speech. This feature sets indexicals apart from definite descriptions like the best soccer team in Europe. I argue that the …
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Containing Meaning: Miniature Pottery on Bronze Age Crete
… Peircean understandings of iconicity and indexicality to these two categories, and investigating the cognitive effects of miniaturization and ritual material culture, the use and significance of Bronze Age miniature vessels are further illuminated, in ritual and beyond.
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Imagining multilingual spaces through scripted 'codeswitching' in multilingual performance: a case study of '7de Laan'
… and case studies that examine Afrikaans and its indexicality in our contemporary society, the conventions of soap opera in representing reality to society, the role of codeswitching in multilingual mass communication, the policies and ideologies that govern post apartheid television and finally …
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Mirroring Ghanaian society through slice-of-life radio advertisements
… 1 0-60 seconds. I adopt the notion of 'designed indexicality' as a major analytical concept, arguing that this is a key strategy in designing a persuasive text. Producers, according to this view, deliberately harness culturally-salient indexical resources in the design of adverts, conveying …
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Uncanny Bodies: an arts practice-based exploration of strategies to embody thresholds between life and death
… brings together research on the uncanny, indexicality, the phantasmagoria of pre-cinema and the nature of the media screen in relation to video installation. This will be of interest to artist practitioners and researchers who are exploring similar terrain.
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Ethnicity, social practice and phonetic variation in a Sheffield secondary school
… the aim of advancing recent debates surrounding indexicality, social meaning, and language and ethnicity (Silverstein 2003; Eckert 2008a,b; Campbell-Kibler 2011b). I report quantitative and interactional analyses of two phonetic variables: word-final /i/, which has both a regionally enregistered …
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To bry or not to bry: the social meanings of Afrikaans rhotic variation in the South Cape
… Theoretically, I make use of the concept of indexicality, following Silverstein's (2003) indexical orders and Eckert's (2008) indexical fields. To date, there is no previous study that explores Afrikaans variation from these perspectives. The study therefore contributes to the development of …
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Collective Actions: Co-Creation in Documentary
… turning to documentaries in seeking accuracy and indexicality in the representation and simulation of reality, especially in the context of the climate crises, rising authoritarianism, AI and for cultural and political meaning-making. Co-creation offers a network of navigational lights to …
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The myth of a homogeneous speech community: The speech of Japanese women in non-traditional gender roles
… and strategic uses of polite language as an indexicality of their occupational status and identity rather than as a marker of powerlessness in conflict talk.
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What is it 'to move' a photograph? Artistic tactics for destabilizing and transforming images
… to the functioning of images as much as the indexicality (image content). Through a focus on the materiality of images, this enquiry has provided new, nuanced insights on the issue of the agency (and resistance) of images, on the images that challenge the categories still and moving image, …
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