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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"semiology"”.
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Pasolini's Cinema of the Outside and the Problem of the Renewal of Marxism: Ontology, Semiology, Semiotics and Pedagogy
My thesis explores Pasolini’s work with a twofold purpose, historical and philosophical. It extracts for the first time a consistent political philosophy from his multifaceted activity as an intellectual, literary critic, poet, journalist, and cinema director, spelling out the specific relevance of …
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The visceral screen: Between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg, a Barthesian perspective
… of the visceral. His re-evaluation of Saussurean semiology as a method of analyzing and undoing ideologically-imposed meanings informs readings of sequences from Cassavetes and Cronenberg’s films. Following Barthes, the thesis suggests that the existence of the visceral is realized as a resistance …
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Almost Trued: An Urban Exploration
… as points of entry into explorations of semiology, materiality, and identity. This project seeks to offer alternative ways of thinking about the man-made urban environment and the capacity for those spaces to encourage human thriving.</p>
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Space, place and the communicative (re)production of Christian practices.
… CCO schools of thought, materiality and CCO, semiology, and religious literature on sacred spaces. Following the literature synthesis, participant-witness methods, interview structure, and the coding process for post-data collection are presented.
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You Matter To Me; Mattering, Materialising and Unmattering.
… to the human condition. Materialising uses semiology to discuss the material world, the matter of matter, including how material is valued. Unmattering is an affair of falling apart, finding beauty in decay, and observing how folds and unfolds occur.
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Sense of Style: constructing identity and managing impressions on Lookbook.nu
… perceive and portray identities on the site, semiology and multimodal discourse analysis were employed. It is important to keep in mind that while the media content in this thesis is as current as possible and while a great deal of content still exists on Lookbook, the platform is continuously …
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La Primavera: Concertino for English Horn and Chamber Orchestra
… Jean J. Nattiez's Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music.
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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
… axioms for understanding meaning. Semiotics or semiology, the science of signs and symbols, offers one systematic approach for analyzing and understanding cultural meaning. This approach, executed extensively in a number of cultural disciplines, has no recognized foundation in 'the discipline of …
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Structured evaluation of attitudes to dwelling environments : people’s subjective assessments of preference satisfaction and meaning as indicators of architectural design performance
… designing the built-environment. The Theory of Semiology is summarised as a model for the semantic theory of the architectural environment. A series of five Basic Theoretical Assumptions, is drawn from this theoretical discussion and leads to both the General Thesis - Aspect A, which, regarding …
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The mythical speech of Janine Antoni
… of myth is not enough to discredit it. The semiology of myth, according to Roland Barthes (1915-1980), simply absorbs this confrontation by placing the artist in the position of a signifier of the myth itself. Paradoxically, in order to discredit myth the artist must "speak the myth," in …
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Political Violence in South Africa: A Case Study of "Necklacing" in Colesberg
… were subjected to a qualitative hermeneutic semiology, as articulated by Hugh Silverman (1994). In brief, the texts were interrogated as to how it made meaning of the event. From this analysis, a broader tension, reported on in the literature review, was echoed; on the one hand psychological …
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Biosemiotics as systems theory: an investigation into biosemiotics as the grounding for a new form of cultural analysis
… analysis that supersedes the fallacies of semiology. It does so by proposing the following guidelines for the analysis of culture: substituting 'interpretation' with modelling, dispensing of 'representation' in favour of purely objective reality, and recasting 'motivation' in terms of …
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The dialectics of corporate reporting:a semiotic analysis of corporate financial and environmental reporting
… these dimensions. Thus the development of a semiology of corporate reporting is one of the significant outcomes of this thesis. A further outcome is a consideration of the implications of the analysis for corporate performance and its measurement. The thesis concludes with a consideration of …
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The Kenotic Structure of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Secularization
… theology, with particular a focus on the semiology that underpins Calvin’s concept of the fides efficax, and a number of unorthodox theories of secularization that emphasize the sacredness of the secular. Emerging from within the interstices of this inter-textual dialogue is a narrative of …
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Identity through Fashion in Virtual Environments
… and virtual reality by means of language and semiology. The notion of identity through fashion in virtual environments is examined, with fashion as a factor in identity formation through dress as analysed in structuralist terms. The virtual aspect is used both as a literal field, i.e. the …
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Social Acceleration in the Marketplace: Three Essays Exploring the Intersection of Culture and Consumption
… 1, “The Intermingling of Meanings in Marketing: Semiology and Phenomenology in Consumer Culture Theory”, provides a theoretical framework explaining how macro, cultural meanings and micro, individual meanings combine in order to discover how meanings in consumer culture come to constitute a sense …
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Music therapy as discourse and discipline : a study of 'music therapist's dilemma'
… (supplemented by discourse analysis and music semiology) is used to examine the complex interaction between representation, theory and ideology within these various meta linguistic forms. I conclude that any metalanguage of music therapy functions are discourse in the sense that it actively …
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Celebrities at Work: The Symbolic Production of Masculinities in American & British GQ Magazines in 2012
… by tools from compositional interpretation and semiology that followed by using the significant editorial sections as points of entry into the texts, rather than relying on the researcher’s own interests of self-selecting editorial sections for reading. Using content analysis in this way along …
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Children referred with lennox-gastaut syndrome in the Western Cape of South Africa
… onset, etiology, preceding epileptic spasms, and semiology of epilepsy types, management interventions were reviewed to identify key diagnostic indicators to permit early and targeted interventions for children with this epilepsy syndrome. Results; Of 2551 children managed with epilepsy, 110 were …
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Demographic and aetiological factors of paediatric status epilepticus at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital: 2016-2018
… medication in the ED. In their seizure semiology, 82 (71%) children had generalised convulsive seizures and 34 (29%) had focal seizures; with 85 (73%) being prolonged events and 32 (27%) being multiple events. Aetiology according to ILAE classified 74 (62%) as secondary to acute …
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