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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"textual meaning"”.
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Crime and subversion in the later fiction of Wilkie Collins
… their views are subverted by a level of sub-textual meaning at which the inadequacy of the narrators and their ideologies is revealed. Sub-textual meaning in the novels reveals tensions and anomalies within ideas of criminality, the Victorian ideal of womanhood, medical discourses and the …
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Improving Topic Tracking with Domain Chaining
… limitations of lexical chainers to represent textual meaning.
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In Search of the Constitution: How the Constitution Generated the Public Power in South Korea (1963-1979)
… constitutional scholarship has focused only its textual meaning and assessing the relative weight of individual statutes or articles of the Constitution. This has narrowed scholarly inquiry into the political significance of the Constitution into a dispute over the source of sovereignty. The …
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Higher Than God
… movies. The end result is a totality of intra-textual meaning, as well as a bittersweet portrait and psychological examination of the protagonist.
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The validity of the propositional theme in expository preaching
… chapter confirms that the author's intention as textual meaning is proper to be expressed in the propositional form. Chapter 4 reveals the homiletical validity for the propositional theme in expository preaching. It observes that expository preaching seeks and practices persuasive communication. …
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Differences in written language between Japanese EFL learners with different proficiency: From Systemic Functional Linguistic perspectives
… this thesis is to gain a cross-sectional view of meaning-making strategies in writing between Japanese EFL learners of different proficiency levels. By adopting Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) as its theoretical framework, the thesis also aims to explore the potential of SFL to clarify what …
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The Convergence of Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Criticism in Luke 3-5
… to elucidating the writer’s intended meaning. However, both approaches differ in orientation and may be perceived as offering differing interpretive outcomes, thereby encouraging the notion that they are theoretically and practically incongruent. Such a posture is assisted by the …
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Sociological Tragedy: Simmel and Weber on Selfhood and Action
… like books constitute outlets for struggles over textual meaning. The dissertation examines the early translation, publication, and institutionalisation of Simmel’s and Weber’s writings at the University of Chicago and Harvard University during the interwar period. It finds that rival schools of …
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The boundary between "us" and "them": readers and the non-English word in the fiction of Canadian Mennonite writers
… and the impossibility of accessing a stable textual meaning coincidental with the author's intention, the challenge of the non-English word to the concept of universality, and the distinction between proper “English" and non-institutional "english". Chapter two examines some readers' …
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Communication, Relevance, and Power in Montaigne's 'Essais'
… sparse evidence of the communicator’s intended meaning. The addressee must engage in a series of inferential processes to fill in the gaps and arrive at an interpretation of the utterance, gesture, or text, as the case may be. Relevance theory’s attention to the cognitive mechanics and …
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New practice–based methodologies for naturalistic contemporary drama translation
… task and not the translator’s role to decode sub-textual meaning in the dialogue. The aim of this methodology is to offer new working concepts for the foreignising contemporary drama translator. This thesis and reflective work will claim and defend the view that in order to achieve a foreignised …
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The subject of television: a methodology of subject-oriented textual analysis
… televisual texts and the scholarly practice of textual analysis via the politics of subjectivity. Because subjects are formed in symbolic and representational systems that pre-exist them, subjectivity is an inherently political phenomenon, bound up in questions of power relations and meaning. …
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The tension of national allegory: the search for Chinese identity and modernity – an analysis of Chinese literature in the post-Mao era in the context of globalization
… Said’s Orientalism), Julia Kristeva’s intertextuality, the carnival theory and the idea of polyphony put forward by M. M. Bakhin, the theories of Michel Foucault, Wilhelm Reich’s character analysis, and Sigmund Freud’s theories of psychoanalysis. The dissertation provides a focused textual …