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Showing 1 to 20 of 427 for “"semiotic"”.
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Semiotic Analysis of Workforce Diversity
… and positivism. Thus, this thesis adopts semiotics, effectively shifting diversity from empiriometric paradigm to Peirce’s semiotic realism. Peirce held that humans are themselves signs, dynamically acting as mutual interpretants from their individual frames of reference. The data will be …
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Semiotic Analysis of Workforce Diversity
… and positivism. Thus, this thesis adopts semiotics, effectively shifting diversity from empiriometric paradigm to Peirce’s semiotic realism. Peirce held that humans are themselves signs, dynamically acting as mutual interpretants from their individual frames of reference. The data will be …
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Semiotic machines : software in discourse
This study develops new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of software as a medium of communication. This study analyses voting software, educational software, search engines, and combat and narrative in digital games. In each case it investigates how proprietary software …
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A Semiotic Model for Teaching Television Criticism
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A semiotic analysis of print beauty advertisements
… highly interlinked. These are advertising and semiotics. As semiotics is the research of signs and motifs and their meanings, and as it is going to be portrayed in this essay, advertisements have a sufficient amount of signs, this merger of the two topics is constructive enough to analyse their …
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Semiotic analysis of a Versace visual myth
… imagery of Gianni Versace through a visual semiotic analysis. The image being examined has characteristics of the religious martyrdom of St. Sebastian. Analyzing the St. Sebastian image via semiotics allows the visual message, produced by Gianni Versace, to be examined at multiple levels. …
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Memory: A Semiotic Ontology Of The Self
<p>In the semiotic movement of our minds we find evidence of influences from previous events, histories, and arguments. So, we find influence of memory. Memory influences the normatively defined measure for thinking correctly. The same measure is inherent in evaluations of one’s character and the …
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Le Bel Inconnu: A Semiotic Topography (France)
This study is a Greimasian semiotic reading of the twelfth-century French romance. The analysis describes the syntactic structure of the text in terms of narrative programs and narrative progression, actantial arrangement and duplications and manipulation as a narrative technique. The semantic …
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Meaning(s) in “Sustainable Tourism”: A Social Semiotic Approach
… thesis addresses this gap by applying a social semiotic approach to exploring the meanings attributed to “sustainable tourism” by various stakeholder groups. Social semiotics is a theory that studies meanings created in groups, and is applied in this thesis as an analysis of “sustainable …
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DISTILLING SUBURBAN MYTH: SEMIOTIC DESIGN FOR DENSER SUBURBAN LIVING
How can understanding the semiotics of American suburbia inform the design of more sustainable and culturally resonant housing models in communities experiencing unsustainable development pressure? Despite being the most preferred housing type in the U.S., detached single-family housing is …
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A multimodal social semiotic approach to jewellery design pedagogy
This thesis presents a multimodal social semiotic theoretical framework to explore jewellery design pedagogy. The role of the designer, meaning making and the semiotic functions of resources used within the practice of jewellery design are analysed.
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