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Showing 1 to 20 of 277 for “"signifying"”.
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Signifying practices : Amaxhosa ritual speech
… environments. Adapting to new contexts, the signifying practices of ukuthetha maintain the integrity of amaXhosa religion. By focusing on the meaning and power of ritual speech in different ritual settings and social contexts, this thesis hopes to contribute to our understanding of the …
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Mind the gap : absence as signifying function in comics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. English, 2010
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Signifying against antiblackness: Black Rhetoric in early African American writing
My dissertation, Signifying Against Antiblackness: Black Rhetoric in Early African American Writing, theorizes “Black Rhetoric” as a literary and theoretical tradition, distinct from the Anglo-American canon, that interrogates language as an apparatus of power. Through sermons, political pamphlets, …
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Signifying Ruins: The Wreck and Rebirth of Modernity, Language, and Representation
This study explores formal and thematic representations of ruins in twentieth century literary texts, including James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck.” Analyzing these texts and concepts of ruins in the …
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Signifying Autobiographical Intimacies of Woman, Mother, and Daughter in Alice Munro’s Short Stories
Alice Munro’s reception of the Nobel Prize in 2013 jointly positioned the short story genre and female narrative at the forefront of literature, suggesting or perhaps confirming a deep connection between women’s experience and vision, and short fiction. Her work can be broadly contextualised within …
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Signifying on the Greeks: the use of rhetorical devices in jazz improvisation analysis
Rhetoric is the art of effective and persuasive communication. Building upon and bringing together musical and rhetorical scholarship from both Western and Afrological perspectives, this study lays out a theoretical framework and analytical process for applying the principles and devices of …
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Signifying nothing: intelligence and intellectual disability in modern British literature and culture, 1919 – 1969
Signifying Nothing: Intelligence and Intellectual Disability in Modern British Literature and Culture, 1919-1969 investigates the confluences between literary and scientific approaches to intelligence in the mid-twentieth century. It stages two central arguments. First, it argues that in multiple …
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Signifying the autobiographical memory on social media a semiotic analysis of food-themed imagery on Instagram
During the last decade, digitisation has become a pervasive influence on social culture, a trend largely due to the widespread emergence inter-alia, of the Internet, personal computers, smartphones and other devices as affordable and effective means of mass digital communication. As people spend …
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Signifying in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Harriet Jacobs' Use of African American English
Research on Harriet Jacobs' slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl exploded after 1981, when Professor Jean Fagin Yellin discovered textual evidence for refuting then-current claims that Lydia Maria Child was the author of this engrossing story. Child was indeed the book's editor, …
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Signifying creative engagement : what is the influence of professional identity on the values that people ascribe to creative partnership projects in education?
This qualitative study examines the relationship between professional group belonging and what individuals deem valuable within the creative partnership projects they carry out together in schools. There were three consecutive stages to the research. The first stage was the phenomenographic …
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African historical religions and Africana spirituality in the Caribbean literature: an analysis of Afro-Caribbean philosophical archetypes in contemporary Caribbean literature using Ifá philosophy as a signifying system
… Yoruba mythology, and Africana religions, as signifying systems. The research considers the religious foundations of the Ewe-Fon, Kongo and especially, Yoruba traditions, with a focus on the Yoruba Oracle as Literary Corpus as well as the basis for the analysis of the following novels: Of Love …
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The rhetorical structure of disability : bridging the gap between what is 'spoken' and what is 'said' with song - over-signifying with personhood against the backdrop of disease-centric discourse.
This paper investigates the rhetoric surrounding disability, specifically focusing on how such rhetoric is deployed in legislative texts which attempt to promote the equality of people with disabilities throughout society. In criticizing "disease-centric discourse" within legislative texts the …
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Comics in education. The link between visual and verbal literacy: how readers read comics
… level of the diegesis by switching between signifying systems. The research findings suggest that the reading of comics requires visual and verbal intermediate literacy skills and that textual coherence occurs for readers when they reach the critical point in their own reading. The coherence …
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The postcolonial lesbian text: readings of four novels by Renée
… the question: “How might a text, written in a signifying relationship to the postcolonial nation Aotearoa New Zealand, be read as a lesbian text?” Part One addresses the possibility of the reading postcolonial lesbian text in four novels by Renée. It begins with an overview of humanist and …
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Multi-Scale Effects of Poling on Structure-Property Relationships in Lead Magnesium Niobate-Lead Titanate Single Crystals
… the average significance of the superlattice, signifying a structural contribution to the super-structure. The effects of poling on domain and crystallographic structure, and on phase transformation behavior, are reported. The use of PMN-PT piezoelectric crystals is dependent on successful …
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Closing the gateways of democracy : cities and the militarization of protest policing
… directed against peaceful protest in US cities, signifying that important avenues for democratic participation may indeed be closing.
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Uncovering the Address of the Eye: The Unconscious as Consciously Experienced in Tarkovsky’s <em>Mirror</em>
… “full speech,” disclosing its relation to the signifying chain through an introceptive image that the viewer simultaneously appropriates as their own, another “introceptive image.” This correspondence confers upon the viewer a supervisory function: through the overlapping processes of …
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A Semanalytic Approach to Modern Poetry: Examining Elizabeth Bishop Through the Theories of Julia Kristeva
… in identity and signification in “subversive” signifying practices. Specifically, I'm interested in the ways modern poetry (such as Elizabeth Bishop) defies traditional patriarchal discourse as dominant literary devices while embracing plurality and inherent virtues of the female voice. My …
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Cinema's Poetic Function: Creating an Amorous Distance
… a message toward itself, highlighting its own signifying status to bring attention to the process through which it acquires meaning. Kristeva’s distinction between the Semiotic and Symbolic modes illuminates the scope of that process, the former mode referring to the preverbal bringing together …
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