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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"topoi"”.
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Homotopy theory and topoi
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1998.
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Homotopy Topoi and Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology
We use the language of homotopy topoi, as developed by Lurie [17], Rezk [21], Simpson [23], and ToenVezossi [24], in order to provide a common foundation for equivariant homotopy theory and derived algebraic geometry. In particular, we obtain the categories of G-spaces, for a topological group G, …
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"The Disappearance Of ""topoi"" In English Rhetoric: 1550-1830"
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Heavenly choirs in early medieval England: A study of topoi in their contexts
… (up to 1116). It does so by tracing changes in topoi, commonplaces that form part of the fabric of visions, hagiographical narratives and ascetic guidance literature. Unlike previous studies that have examined topoi, the thesis both thoroughly scrutinises developments in commonplaces and …
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Good Works: The Topoi of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Travel and Tourism Industry
… of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) topoi in the travel and tourism industry. A sample set of six companies was selected for the study due to their size and prominence in the industry -- namely Disney, Hilton, Intercontinental, Marriott, Starwood, and Wyndham. Topoi were identified …
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Terrorism on Twitter: Using topic models to examine topoi and digital rituals following mass violence
… and given topical form and structure through topoi. In particular, I deploy topic modeling as a computational method to identify linguistic patterns of discourse present in Twitter responses to three highly publicized mass violence events: the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing, the 2015 Charleston …
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Individuelle Identitätskonstitution und kollektive Sinnstiftungsmuster
… typisierte Geschichtenmuster/Geschichtentopoi die Erzähler für ihre Identitätskonstitution verwenden. Der Begriff des Geschichtentopos wird definiert und eine narrationsanalytische Methodik zur Bestimmung von Topoi in Lebenserzählungen entwickelt.
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Motiejaus Kazimiero Sarbievijaus religinė poezija /
… Catholic poetic texts. The use of the topoi associated with the yearning for the heavenly land in Sarbievius’s work reveal an intimate dialogue with God, like in Augustine’s writings. Sarbievius’s epigrams based on the motifs borrowed from The Song of Songs use complex means to convey …
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Epigrammi di Dioscoride. Edizione critica, traduzione e commento
… their linguistic and content peculiarities (e.g. topoi, motifs, ancient models and imitative strategies), aiming at highlighting both the processes of imitatio cum variatione and oppositio in imitando that characterise a large part of Dioscorides’ production, and the influence that this …
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Orientalist representations of Persia in the works of Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Moore and Morier
… a number of relatively similar set of motifs and topoi, mainly derived from classical tradition and contemporary travel writing, circulate in the works of the three Renaissance authors included (Spenser, Marlowe, Milton), they are differently inflected and serve different thematic and ideological …
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The Topography of utopia : Revelation 21-22 in light of ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman utopianism.
… then move to elaborating the various motifs, or topoi, that one finds in this literature. It is through the elaboration of the topoi that the specificity of a given utopia, whether Greco-Roman or Jewish, is given substance. Turning to the task of reading Revelation 21–22, I interpret the text in …
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Irish Institutional Discourses of Illegal Immigration: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach
… in institutional texts and the argumentations (topoi) that are expressed concerning it. This research identifies five key discursive argumentations within which illegal immigrants are represented. These include the topoi ‘control’, ‘danger’, ‘humanitarian’, ‘economy’, and ‘culture’. It is …
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Sprache - Geltung - Recht
… bilden die Grundlage für eine Analyse bestimmter Topoi (z.B. Wortlaut), die in Urteilen verwendet werden. Zusätzlich werden hierfür realistische bzw. nicht-realistische Bedeutungstheorien (Wittgenstein I vs. II) untersucht. Eine exemplarische Analyse ausgewählter Entscheidungen des …
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Unveiling absences, or unsettling multiculturalism, in Antonio Casella's 'The Sensualist' and Venero Armanno's 'Romeo of the Underworld' and 'The Volcano'
… L'effetto parodico e sublime di questi topoi gotici e dell'intertestualità, interpretati nella letteratura dell'arrivant dei due autori come elementi semiotici, decostruiscono le narrazioni monologiche del multiculturalismo australiano. In breve, della Whiteness , dell'etnocentrismo e …
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Wikipedia Conflict Representation in Articles of War: A critical discourse analysis of current, on-going, socio-political Wikipedia articles about war
… as the creation of a Wikipedian argumentation topoi framework useful for further Wikipedia-specific discourse analysis involving the content change-retain negotiation process.
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In praise of carbon: Genre and the 1996 Nobel lectures in chemistry by Christian Fredrick Casper
… scientific <em>stases</em> and scientific <em>topoi</em> of Prelli (1989), this thesis analyzes the three Nobel lectures in chemistry from 1996 to discern the characteristics of ceremonial discourse in science and its relation to scientific ethos. Throughout, the Nobel lectures are analyzed in …
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Spracheinstellungen im Wahlkampf
… Metaphern, Argumentationsstrukturen und Topoi weisen auf kollektive Wissensbestände und Annahmen hin, auf denen die Spracheinstellungen basieren. Diese bilden die Grundlage für sprachliche sowie sprachpolitische Handlungen.
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Der Stein trügt : die Imitation von Skulpturen in der niederländischen Tafelmalerei im Kontext bildtheoretischer Auseinandersetzungen des frühen 15. Jahrhunderts
… Teil werden die wichtigsten bildtheoretischen Topoi erläutert und zur niederländischen Kunst in Beziehung gesetzt. Die Untersuchung kommt zu dem Schluss, dass der neue Bildtypus entwickelt wurde, um eine korrekte Bildrezeption zu begünstigen und der Gefahr von Idolatrie vorzubeugen.
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When cultures collide : a rhetorical history of the Makah whaling controversy.
… and their opponents framed the situation, the topoi and arguments driving each side's claims, and the uses of identification and confrontation strategies, against a larger backdrop of rhetorical history. By examining the case study of Makah whaling controversy, I suggest that we can acquire new …
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Ghost, Animal, Android: Trauma, Posthuman Ethics, and Radical Vulnerability in American Literature, 1940-2010
… The dissertation argues that the literary topoi of the ghost, animal, and android function as ethical categories offering access to traces of trauma that operate beyond the boundaries of the human. The study revises the traditional argument that the literatures of trauma work to heal the …
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