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Showing 1 to 20 of 218 for “"signification"”.
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Signification and political economy in Baudrillard.
… a critical assessment of the relation between signification and political economy in the work of Jean Baudrillard. It argues that Baudrillard's work should be read as an important but flawed contribution to critical theory rather than as an exemplar of a postmodern semiotic nihilism. …
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Understanding Lists: Umberto Eco's Rhetoric of Communication and Signification
… Umberto Eco’s Rhetoric of Communication and Signification</em>, begins and ends with an observation and warning suggested throughout Eco’s work: lists are the origin of culture and the Internet as the Mother of All Lists threatens to end culture. To understand this warning, I turn to Eco’s …
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Ombra music in the eighteenth century : context, style and signification
Ombra is a term which has been used for an operatic scene involving the appearance of an oracle or demons, witches or ghosts. Such scenes can be traced back to the early days of opera and were commonplace in the seventeenth century in Italy and France. Operas based on the legends of Orpheus, …
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The signification of speech and writing in the work of Charles Dickens
Drawing upon the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Jacques Derrida, this study examines the representation of speech and writing in selected novels and journalism of Charles Dickens. The initial chapter describes the differing attitudes of Bakhtin and Derrida to language, writing and literature. A purely …
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Entre sensibilité et discours : structuration et signification de l'américanité québécoise.
Abstract Not Available.
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The Social Re-Signification of Housing: A Design Guide for Santiago de Chile
The thesis argues against the neoliberal low-income housing and urban planning policies applied in Santiago de Chile since 1979. Although successful in meeting the historical housing deficit by providing widespread access to homeownership, the lack of including social services, infrastructure, and …
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Thèmes, structure et signification dans Le jour est noir de Marie-Claire Blais
… pencherons sur le sens global du roman, sur sa signification profonde."
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Whiteness and the Movement of Signification: Toward a Deconstruction of Ontologies of Absolute Difference
… formation operating within a movement of signification. Deconstruction allows for an understanding of how whiteness arises out of a process of constructing meaning. This thesis uses four novels as case studies: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, Jean Toomer’s Cane, and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and …
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"Words Are No Good": The Curse of Signification and the Curse of Faulkner's South
… Absalom!, Faulkner takes this same critique of signification and applies it to the social structure of the Southern plantation system. He depicts the South’s caste system as upheld by an edifice of symbols that attempts to mask class, race, and gender oppression. Eventually, Faulkner suggests, …
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"Words Are No Good": The Curse of Signification and the Curse of Faulkner's South
… Absalom!, Faulkner takes this same critique of signification and applies it to the social structure of the Southern plantation system. He depicts the South’s caste system as upheld by an edifice of symbols that attempts to mask class, race, and gender oppression. Eventually, Faulkner suggests, …
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Hearing the Sublime: Signification of the Sublime in Solo Piano Literature of the Nineteenth Century
… and music theorists have admitted the signification of the sublime in music as a possibility, the nature and mechanism of that signification has not yet been treated at length with a methodology familiar to musicians or native to music theory. Within this dissertation I have conducted a …
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Le degré d'interférence mesuré par différents niveaux de signification et d'apprentissage pair-associé
… dépendente du niveau d'apprentissage et de signification."
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Through the Mangrove Tunnels, for String Quartet, Piano, and Drum Set, and “Musical Signification in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest”
… ensemble and an article discussing musical signification in Thomas Adès’s opera, The Tempest.</p><p>Through the Mangrove Tunnels is a forty-five minute composition inspired by my experiences growing up in the swamps and bayous of Florida. Its eight movements for string quartet, piano, and …
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Variation linguistique et signification sociale chez les jeunes Bruxelloises issus de l’immigration maghrébine. Analyse socio-phonétique de trois variantes non standard.
… issus de l’immigration maghrébine, ainsi que les significations méso-sociales attachées à ces dernières. Le niveau méso-social est défini ici comme celui des profils ou personnages sociaux (Coupland 2001). Mon hypothèse est que des locutrices macro-socialement homogènes utilisent de façon …
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Postmodern tourism as signification: definitional constructs of authenticity in the context of tourism and their influence on the urban tourist experience
This research examined how individuals define authenticity and how their different definitions affect their preference for urban tourism and preferred urban attractions, employing quantitative methodology. Authenticity has been explored in a wide range of tourist activities, from traditional …
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Beautiful Things in the World: A Semiotic Analysis on Disney and Japanese 2D Feature-Length Animation through Creative Practice
… such, the analysis on the characteristics of the signification system of Disney and Japanese feature length animations that this thesis centrally deals with eventually examines the aesthetic characteristics and value of these two animations. Moreover, this thesis examines how the animated …
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Respite, relationships and re-signification : a study of the effects of residential schooling on children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, with particular reference to the pupils' perspective
… contact are also noted. The concept of ‘re-signification’ is introduced to describe the process whereby the schools, through organizational and interpersonal means, promote improvements in pupils’ self images and the development of non-deviant identities, in contrast with the negative …
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Les attributions causales des enfants en milieu scolaire: effet du sexe, du niveau scolaire et de l'issue de la situation
… des attributions causales et de leur signification (selon les dimensions causales) en situation scolaire, chez les enfants de deuxième, quatrième et sixième année. Les résultats démontrent que le sexe de l'enfant n'a pas d'effet sur le type d'attributions fait par les enfants. L'issue …
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