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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"language and meaning"”.
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Echoes of Earth
… this collection discuss themes of math and science, the constantly evolving and at times unflattering nature of humans dealing with emotions, the speaker's unique experience as a follower and practitioner of punk rock in her hometown of Branson, Missouri as a youth, and the ineffable …
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Discursive Diversity Strategy: Signaling Theory and Implications for Firm Value
… what scholars now call discursive strategy–the language and meaning that shape phenomena–has shaped the diversity landscape. Over the past 75 years, we have witnessed a pattern of strategic maneuvering of the discursive strategy concerning diversity from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the Equal …
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Growing Things: An Investigation in the ways that plant-growth may inform the process of painting
My project interrogates traditional Western landscape painting in light of the contemporary understanding that ‘nature’ has been rearticulated, even plasticised and hence rendered malleable, through human action. The idea of a plasticised natural environment is concomitant with the age of the …
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Translation after Wittgenstein
… peripheral to the field of translation studies and I argue that his later work, because it deals with the nature of language and meaning, is potentially of great significance: the story that Wittgenstein tells can change the field. It can rid translators of pictures of translation that are …
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Caregiver Emotion Socialization and Adolescent Meaning Making about a Devastating Tornado
… override, punish, acknowledge, argue, and direct to interviewer) could be identified in and reliably measured during a task in which adolescents who were at-risk for aggression at a young age and their female caregivers discussed a shared tornado experience. The second aim of the study …
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Meaning : multiple representations, computation & instruction
… processes, an account of the foundations of language and meaning--any of these may inform theories of learning and instruction. Sources for ideas about education are legion; some are complementary, and others conflicting. We can develop models from multiple perspectives, applying a range of …
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Insights and disclosures: a study of the philosophical theology of Bernard Lonergan and Ian Ramsey
The thesis compares and contrasts some aspects of the philosophical theology of Canadian Jesuit Bernard Lonergan (1904 - 1984) and Anglican Bishop Ian Ramsey (1915 - 1972). We ask whether the views of two theologians from very different backgrounds can be compatible. Lonergan and Ramsey both …
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An existential formulation of transformative experiences in nature
… experiences in nature. The aim was to explore and describe these experiences and reflect on their place and impact from an existential perspective, considering implications for psychotherapy and counselling theory and practice. This research was a heuristic study, born from the researcher's …
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Choose Your Words: Refining What Counts as Mathematical Discourse in Students' Negotiation of Meaning for Rate of Change of Volume
… university honors calculus students negotiate meaning and language for conceptually important ideas through mathematical discourse. Mathematical discourse has been recognized as an important topic by mathematics education researchers of various theoretical perspectives. This study is written …
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Language and metaphor in postmodern architectural meaning: an interpretative model
… model of, or mode of response to, postmodern and in particular, poststructuralist architecture. The existing lacuna of interpretation in this area is the result of the disfiguring, but ubiquitous, 'language of architecture' formulation which is formally challenged here as part of the …
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Negotiating Environmental Relationships: Why Language Matters to Environmental Philosophy
The medium of language is important to environmental philosophy, and more specifically, to the establishment and understanding of environmental relationships. The differences between animal and human language point to our unique semantic range, which results from our neuro-linguistic process of …
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Grisilience: An Interpretivist Qualitative Case Study Of Indigenous Employees’ Success In Reaching Management And Professional Positions Within The Gaming Industry In Canada: Contributing Factors And Barriers
… critically examines Indigenous representation and advancement within Canada’s gaming industry, focusing on the Saskatchewan Gaming Corporation (SaskGaming), with comparative insights from the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA) and U.S. Tribal gaming operations. Although Indigenous …
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The contributions of posterior lateral temporal cortex to language and control networks
Within cognitive neuroscience, understanding how the brain supports the flexible use of language and meaning remains an ongoing challenge. In recent years, the Controlled Semantic Cognition framework has offered an account of the neural correlates of representation and control of meaningful …
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Resolute readings of later Wittgenstein and the challenge of avoiding hierarchies in philosophy
… did not entail any claims about the essence of language and meaning? This question is discussed with reference to “resolute” readings of Wittgenstein. I discuss the readings of James Conant, Oskari Kuusela, and Martin Gustafsson. I follow Oskari Kuusela’s claim that in order to fully appreciate …
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By way of the highway: a collection of towers
… separated both from his surrounding environment and his divinity. A sense of alienation from such a universe forced him to search beyond his immediate environment. The role of architecture thus became a mediator, a departure point where man could dwell between heaven and earth. Sanctity, purity, …