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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Filmic meaning : the semantics-pragmatics interface

Buckland, Warren Stephen January 1992 (has links)
No description available.
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Deconstructing western myth: Real estate website advertising within post-colonial discourse

Hsu, Chih-Hsuan 08 February 2010 (has links)
Advertising plays an important role in the modern society. It influences not only the development of business concretely, but also sharpness of culture abstractly. The commercial advertisement of real estate is a communication of media industry, and a financial origin of media industry as well. The great investment to commercial advertisement from real estate client will obtain more exposure. However, there are many specific values in the advertising text, and the values will shape culture and habitus in the wake of advertising exposure. Following that, people start to drink STARBUCKS, watch the western movie, put on thee NIKE shoes, learn English and concern the stock market in U.S.A. by being educated from advertising. Westernization and modernization bring progress of technology and politics, but they could be able to fade away culture identity. The main point of this research is to deconstruct and exposure the western myth that is disguised in real estate advertising text, and to decode how the western is constructed to be an superiority and connect with hierarchical society. Furthermore, by observing a great deal western signs in real estate advertising, this research also analyzed the organization and operation of signs to realize the process of self-culture exclusion and self-colonization from the post-colonial point of view. The research method is qualitative semiology analysis. This research gathered twenty samples from numerous real estate advertising on the basis of western index and manifold content, in order to reveal the underlying meaning by analyzing the selection, composition and arrangement of sign. Two results have found from this research. Firstly, real estate website advertising rebuilds that west is superior, ideal and aspirational, and regards west as pronoun of success and happiness. For example, ¡§Watch child English drama at Christmas, Have a tea time break.¡¨ The advertising brings the western holidays, western way of education and western tea time culture into the context of life to naturalize western culture and value into daily life. Secondly, real estate website advertising represents self-colonization. For example, ¡§The San Sia old street, Baroque architecture.¡¨ The San Sia old street that is made of red brick is symbol of Eastern architecture. But, the advertising lay emphasis on the arch configuration to represent the San Sia old street as a kind of western architecture. After reviewing the analysis, this research declared two suggestions. The first, real estate advertising producer should increase the amount of the eastern sign, meanwhile, use eastern sign within eastern cultural context as well, in order to weaken self ¡Vcolonization. The second, audiences should have an ability to deconstruct and criticize real estate advertising to dig underlying meaning and reveal hierarchical representation, and also awake rethinking of eastern subject.
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Constructing Canadian citizens: a textual analysis of Canadian citizenship guides in English - 1947-2012

Sobel, Nora 02 April 2013 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to analyze Canadian Citizenship Guides as a proxy for an official policy voice of the Canadian government about what it means to be a Canadian citizen and what is expected from a Canadian citizen. This study analyzed six Canadian Citizenship Guides in the English language developed between 1947 and 2012 and identified how the selection of historical, governmental and social topics, and the use of different words and rhetorical strategies within each contemporary historical context constructed a narrative about what constitutes a Canadian citizen. To construct the narratives of Canadian citizen present in each Canadian Citizenship Guide, the study analysed the narratives about Canada, adaption to Canadian culture, and expected citizenship participation present in each guide. The study also sought continuities and disruptions in the narratives to explore how the narratives changed over time. The study concluded that while the narratives constructed by each guide (good character citizen, responsible citizen, wholesome citizen, politically active citizen, citizenship student, and loyal citizen) had unique elements, at the macro-level it could be said that from 1947 to 2012 there seemed to be more continuities than disruptions in the construction of the narratives of the Canadian citizen, and the narratives about Canada, adaption to Canadian culture, and expected citizenship participation.
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Constructing Canadian citizens: a textual analysis of Canadian citizenship guides in English - 1947-2012

Sobel, Nora 02 April 2013 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to analyze Canadian Citizenship Guides as a proxy for an official policy voice of the Canadian government about what it means to be a Canadian citizen and what is expected from a Canadian citizen. This study analyzed six Canadian Citizenship Guides in the English language developed between 1947 and 2012 and identified how the selection of historical, governmental and social topics, and the use of different words and rhetorical strategies within each contemporary historical context constructed a narrative about what constitutes a Canadian citizen. To construct the narratives of Canadian citizen present in each Canadian Citizenship Guide, the study analysed the narratives about Canada, adaption to Canadian culture, and expected citizenship participation present in each guide. The study also sought continuities and disruptions in the narratives to explore how the narratives changed over time. The study concluded that while the narratives constructed by each guide (good character citizen, responsible citizen, wholesome citizen, politically active citizen, citizenship student, and loyal citizen) had unique elements, at the macro-level it could be said that from 1947 to 2012 there seemed to be more continuities than disruptions in the construction of the narratives of the Canadian citizen, and the narratives about Canada, adaption to Canadian culture, and expected citizenship participation.
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Ancient drama : stagecraft and signcraft

Plant, Irene Elizabeth January 1999 (has links)
No description available.
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(Plano do) conteúdo musical: reflexões acerca da espacialidade do sentido na música / (Plan of the) musical content: reflefexões about the spatiality of meaning in music

Baulé Junior, Diocleyr 08 July 2015 (has links)
Esta dissertação é composta de quatro capítulos. O primeiro, de caráter lexicográfico, explora os campos semânticos de oito termos capciosos comuns às teorias linguística, narrativa, semiótica e musical. O Segundo faz uma analogia entre sistema musical e língua natural segundo oito princípios que delimitamos do pensamento saussuriano. O terceiro cuida do sentido musical imanente defendido pelos analistas de música, afilhados do pensamento de Hanslick, da escola formalista dos séculos XIX e XX. O quarto, e último capítulo, intitulado hermenêutica, trata das linhas que criativamente extraem sentido semântico de estruturas musicais. / This dissertation consists of four chapters. The first of lexicographical nature, explores the semantic fields of eight specious terms common to linguistic, narrative, semiotic and musical theories. The second is an analogy between music system and natural language according to eight principles that delimit the Saussurean thought. The third takes care of the immanent musical sense advocated by music analysts, godchildren of Hanslick\'s thought, the formalist school of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The fourth and final chapter, entitled hermeneutics deals with lines that draw creatively semantic sense of musical structures.
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(Plano do) conteúdo musical: reflexões acerca da espacialidade do sentido na música / (Plan of the) musical content: reflefexões about the spatiality of meaning in music

Diocleyr Baulé Junior 08 July 2015 (has links)
Esta dissertação é composta de quatro capítulos. O primeiro, de caráter lexicográfico, explora os campos semânticos de oito termos capciosos comuns às teorias linguística, narrativa, semiótica e musical. O Segundo faz uma analogia entre sistema musical e língua natural segundo oito princípios que delimitamos do pensamento saussuriano. O terceiro cuida do sentido musical imanente defendido pelos analistas de música, afilhados do pensamento de Hanslick, da escola formalista dos séculos XIX e XX. O quarto, e último capítulo, intitulado hermenêutica, trata das linhas que criativamente extraem sentido semântico de estruturas musicais. / This dissertation consists of four chapters. The first of lexicographical nature, explores the semantic fields of eight specious terms common to linguistic, narrative, semiotic and musical theories. The second is an analogy between music system and natural language according to eight principles that delimit the Saussurean thought. The third takes care of the immanent musical sense advocated by music analysts, godchildren of Hanslick\'s thought, the formalist school of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The fourth and final chapter, entitled hermeneutics deals with lines that draw creatively semantic sense of musical structures.
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O fenômeno tradutório à luz da distinção semiótico/semântico na relação entre línguas : proposta de uma semiologia da tradução

Hainzenreder, Larissa Schmitz January 2016 (has links)
Este trabalho tem por objetivo defender a viabilidade de uma Semiologia da Tradução a partir dos princípios semiológicos reservados à língua pelo renomado linguista Émile Benveniste. Para tanto, o fenômeno tradutório não é considerado senão pela relação entre línguas que o tradutor estabelece no exercício de seu ofício, sobre a qual a Semiologia da Língua e, por conseguinte, a própria Enunciação, frutos da reflexão benvenistiana acerca da linguagem, dão testemunho. A primeira o faz através do princípio de unidades significantes atestado nos modos de significação da língua, a saber, o semiótico e o semântico, cuja significância cede à língua o status de interpretante da sociedade; a segunda, através das propriedades semânticas que fazem evidenciar as diferenças linguísticas na produção de discurso como manifestação da enunciação. Assim, a hipótese de uma Semiologia da Tradução é sustentada, no primeiro capítulo, pela comprovação de que o fenômeno tradutório é atravessado pela língua de maneira a tomar-lhe emprestado o funcionamento significante que rege suas leis e, no segundo capítulo, pela descrição dos domínios semiótico e semântico que possibilita pensar para a tradução um modo específico de significação, descrito, em pormenores, no terceiro e último capítulo. Com o intuito de produzir um discurso sobre a tese benvenistiana de que o semântico é a possibilidade da tradução, enquanto o semiótico é a impossibilidade, o original e a tradução são tomados como duas línguas-discurso que configuram um sistema cujo mecanismo de significância protagoniza uma relação de interpretância, onde a língua-discurso-alvo é o interpretante da língua-discurso-fonte, fazendo emergirem das diferenças que o tradutor estabelece entre uma e outra as unidades de tradução – uma noção teórica de unidade de significação muito particular pela qual se acredita poder descrever as leis que regem todo sistema tradutório. / This study aims to prove the viability of a Semiology of Translation regarding the semiotic principles reserved to the Language by the well-known linguist Émile Benveniste. The phenomenon of translation is considered as the relationship between languages established by the translator during the translation process, which is attested by the Semiology of Language and, therefore, the Enunciation itself – both as a result of Benveniste’s reflection on language. The first one attests it through the unit of signification principle verified in the two modes of meaning combined in language – the semiotic and semantic modes – whose significance makes the language the interpreting system of society. The second one attests it through the semantic properties that clarify the linguistic differences in the production of speech as a manifestation of the enunciation. Thus, the hypothesis of a Semiology of Translation is sustained in the first chapter by proving that the phenomenon of translation is crossed by the Language so as to copy both its significant mechanism and laws; and in the second chapter by describing both semiotic and semantic modes in order to enable the development of a specific mode of meaning for the phenomenon of translation, which is finally portrayed in detail in the third and final chapter. In order to draw a conclusion about Benveniste’s idea of the semantic mode as the possibility of translation and the semiotic mode as its impossibility, the original and the translation are both taken by the concept of language-speech that sets a translation system whose significant mechanism portrays a interpreting relationship where the target language-speech is the interpreter of the source language-speech, making emerge from the differences that the translator establishes between one and another a theoretical notion of the translation unit which it is believed to describe the laws governing all translation systems.
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Fragmentos de um discurso biográfico : poéticas, políticas e devorações do biografema na comunicação contemporânea

Abreu, Luis Felipe Silveira de January 2018 (has links)
A partir da difusão e fragmentação das escritas de vida pela Comunicação no contemporâneo, esta dissertação busca discutir tal fenômeno à luz do conceito de biografema, conforme elaborado por Roland Barthes. Propomos que as narrativas midiáticas vêm praticando um resgate e um desgaste de tal forma semiótica, calcada na descrição de detalhes e pequenas idiossincrasias de suas personagens – jogo de enunciação biográfica visível desde sua formalização com Plutarco, no Século X, até a corrente definição de espaço biográfico, fendido pelo crescente interesse em detalhamentos e escritas menores. Identificado tal cenário em dispersão, a pesquisa tomou como seu objetivo geral distinguir os usos do biografema pelos discursos comunicacionais contemporâneos por meio do mapeamento de suas diversas funções semióticas, observáveis na análise de fragmentos narrativos. Tal distinção é organizada aqui, metodologicamente, a partir da arqueologia de Michel Foucault, na tentativa de localizar os regimes de dizibilidade que instauram e modelam as formas semióticas de enunciação da vida e o modo como se alteram em seu trânsito. Desse painel, partimos para uma observação de certas escrituras concretas capazes de encarnar as forças formativas, levando a uma investigação sobre discursos midiáticos como Caetano estaciona carro no Leblon nesta quinta-feira e Bela, recatada e ‘do lar’, contrapostos ao dispositivo crítico dos livros Anjo noturno, Inverdades, La literatura nazi en America, O concerto de João Gilberto no Rio de Janeiro, Um homem burro morreu, Vida e Vésperas. Desmontados a partir da sua enunciação de traços biografemáticos, tais textos são remontados em nossa análise a partir da identificação de três estratégias semióticas que animam a circulação do biográfico pelos meios de comunicação. Foi possível ler aí três principais usos estratégicos a modelizar a palavra biografemática: a palavra de ordem, voltada a tomar a descrição do biografado como realização de injunções de poder; a palavra mítica, forma de organização sígnica específica desse uso, dedicada a naturalizar os intuitos estratégicos a que serve; e a palavra fágica, que apropria para a mídia a forma crítica do biografema, mas também opera o movimento inverso, reiniciando essa semiose. Na disposição dessas formas de lidar com os traços biografemáticos, podemos inferir o caráter volátil da linguagem envolvida na constituição do biografema e das biografias; linguagem cujo uso desvela uma condição parasita da Comunicação, estruturada pela produção de signos e de regimes poéticos e políticos. / Based on the diffusion and fragmentation of the life’s writings by Communication in the contemporany, this dissertation seeks to discuss such phenomenon in light of the concept of biographeme, as elaborated by Barthes. We propose that the media’s narratives have been practicing a rescue and a detrition of this semiotic form, based on the description of details and little idiosyncrasies of his characters – a game of biographical writing visible since its formalization with Plutarch, in the Xth century, to the current definition of biographical space, cracked by the growing interest in smaller writings and details. Identified the dispersion of such scenario, the research took as its general objective to distinguish the uses of the biographeme by the contemporary communicational discourses, mapping its diverse semiotic functions, observable in the analysis of narrative fragments. Such distinction is methodologically organized with the arche-genealogy of Michel Foucault, in an attempt to locate the regimes of readability that establish and model the semiotic forms of enunciation of life and how they change in their transit. From this panel, we set out for an observation of certain concrete writings capable of embodying this formative forces, leading to an investigation into media discourses such as Caetano estaciona carro no Leblon nesta quinta-feira and Bela, recatada e ‘do lar’ opposed to the critical apparatus of the books Anjo noturno, Inverdades, La literatura nazi en America, O concerto de João Gilberto no Rio de Janeiro, Um homem burro morreu, Vida e Vésperas. Disassembled in their enunciation of biographematical traces, in our analysis these texts are traced back to the identification of three semiotic strategies that animated the circulation of the biographical in the media. It was possible to read in these three main strategic uses modeling the biographematical word: the word of order, aimed at taking the description of the biography as concretion of injunctions of power; the mythical word, an specific form of symbolic organization, dedicated to naturalize the strategic purposes that it serves; and the phagic word, which appropriates to the media the critical form of biographeme, but also operates the reverse movement, restarting this semiosis. Laying out these ways of dealing with the biographematical traces, we can infer the volatile character of the language involved in the constitution of the biographeme and the biographies; the language whose use unveils a parasitic condition of Communication, structured by the production of signs and poetic and political regimes.
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Language: A Bridge or Barrier to Social Groups

Corke, Adina 01 August 2019 (has links)
Language acts as either a bridge or a barrier to social groups dependent upon the individual’s effective use of a social group’s language. The individual uses the language of the group in order to join the group and to be understood by the group. This suggests that language is behavioral in part and can be treated as a form of social norms which delegate who is a part of the group and who is not. By utilizing the language of the group effectively, an individual is able to join the group. This group language may be temporary, and the dynamics of the group’s language can be held only within specific situations, such as with inside jokes, or can be more lasting, such as the language of a discourse. Examples of group language include the use of academic jargon in the academy, key terms specific to an academic field, and the standardization of the English language. To formulate an interdisciplinary study of social epistemic rhetoric, this thesis looks at the crossovers between two fields of study through a comparative analysis of social epistemic rhetorical theory and psychological research concerning language production and perception, the effect language has on understanding, and social mirroring processes that may be generalized to language production. This rhetorical theory now grounded in psychological science calls for experimental testing to find the limitations of group dynamics involving language.

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