published_or_final_version / Chinese / Master / Master of Arts

This thesis contextualizes the three series of work that I have produced for my MFA. My chief concerns are with the dynamic between the individual and the collective, and how this is symbolically represented in lists of names. I also suggest that an underlying sense of communitas, or equality, is evoked through lists of names. I explore this idea further in an examination of various memorials where the naming of those commemorated is a major element of the work. I then describe the work that I have made, and connect it to other artworks that also use lists of names in order to explore the idea of what it is to be both an individual and a member of a group. I suggest that artworks and memorials are potent as carriers of symbolic meaning because they allow space and time for contemplation. In addition to the use of names, I also look at artworks that use items that have belonged to people as substitutes for those people, and as metaphors for humanity. My work utilises human hair and socks, but other artists use different types of contiguous possessions as stand-ins for individuals. The examples are chosen to investigate the variety of tropes available for memorial designers and artists, and in order to see the way diverse materials can be used to investigate similar concerns.

Inaug.-diss.--Tübingen. / Lebenslauf. Bibliography: p. 4-6.

Inaug.-Diss--Bonn. / Lebenslauf. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Linguistics, December 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Subject of investigation is the name of the colour. Task of investigation: to disclose refinements of using the colour names, the meaning added by colour to collocation of phraseological units and function of the colour in the phraseological units and collocations by comparing Russian and Lithuanian collocations and phraseological units having colour name in their composition. In order to perform the task, 80 prhaseological units in Russian, 135 in Lithuanian and 200 collocations in the both languages were collected. In the practical part we analysed usage of the colour names found in the phraseological units and collocations, established the meaning and connotation granted by colour meaning in a word combination. Phraseological units were allocated into the following four groups: 1. Phraseological units, similar in their meanings and component compositions; 2. Phraseological units, similar in their meanings but differing in component compositions; 3. Phraseological units, different in their meanings but similar with component compositions; 4. Phraseological units, different in their meanings and component compositions. Collocations were allocated as follows: 1. Collocations with the meaning, describing human feelings; 2. Collocations, describing life realities; 3. Collocations, describing appearance of a person; 4. Collocations, describing nature; 5. Collocations, describing historical past or today’s topicalities; 6. The rest collocations (specific to a single language... [to full text]

The thesis underpinning this dissertation was that, as in previous times of major social and historical change, naming practices amongst the Zulu have undergone significant changes since the advent in 1994 of a democratic govemment in South Africa. Since the democratisation process entails freedom for all, it was suspected that a differentiation process was developing within the Zulu group itself and that there were at least three broad economic groups: rural, 'rich-urban', and 'poor urban'. Fieldwork was undertaken in terms of these groups and the data obtained, analysed, and then compared and contrasted in order to identify differences and similarities and to measure shift away from traditional practices. What is apparent from the research is that while there is clear evidence of shift, the shifts that do exist, differ from group to group. The group which shows the least change is the rural, as was expected. The urban groups are fragmented into several sub-groups, most of whom differ from one another in their motivations for the changes they are making, although these seldom appear to have been made consciously. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2000.

This thesis contextualizes the three series of work that I have produced for my MFA. My chief concerns are with the dynamic between the individual and the collective, and how this is symbolically represented in lists of names. I also suggest that an underlying sense of communitas, or equality, is evoked through lists of names. I explore this idea further in an examination of various memorials where the naming of those commemorated is a major element of the work. I then describe the work that I have made, and connect it to other artworks that also use lists of names in order to explore the idea of what it is to be both an individual and a member of a group. I suggest that artworks and memorials are potent as carriers of symbolic meaning because they allow space and time for contemplation. In addition to the use of names, I also look at artworks that use items that have belonged to people as substitutes for those people, and as metaphors for humanity. My work utilises human hair and socks, but other artists use different types of contiguous possessions as stand-ins for individuals. The examples are chosen to investigate the variety of tropes available for memorial designers and artists, and in order to see the way diverse materials can be used to investigate similar concerns.

Inaug.-Diss.--Leipzig. / Vita.

Inaugural-dissertation--Munster. / Vita. Bibliography: p. viii-xi.