L'univers de la métamorphose se signalait par de multiples manifestations intellectuelles, culturelles et sociales en Grèce ancienne. De nombreux mythes, des pratiques rituelles diverses circonscrivaient un monde quotidien de la transformation. Apparitions ou métamorphoses divines, fables ou légendes de héros transformés, danses masquées, farces costumées, etc., constituèrent autant d'éléments et de motifs qui participaient à la construction de l'identité de l'Homme grec et de son imaginaire. Il est notable que les mythes de métamorphoses dont la Littérature et les Arts figurés se sont abondamment faits l'écho, aient tenu dans ce processus une part importante compte tenu de leur grande élasticité depuis au moins l'époque mycénienne. Cet ensemble mythologique accompagnait l'Homme grec tout au long de son existence et pendant le dur exercice de la quotidienneté en introduisant à la réflexion sur le monde du caché et du dissimulé. Il témoigne aussi des efforts constants de placer une réflexion sur le corps au cœur de la pensée et de l'imaginaire des hommes au cours de la longue période de l'histoire grecque antique. / The universe of the metamorphosis recovers multiple fields of the thought and the social reality of the ancient Greece. Numerous myths, diverse ritual practices confine a daily world of the transformation. Apparitions or divine metamorphosis, fables or legends of transformed heroes, dance masked, stuffings, etc., establish so many elements and motives which participate in the elaboration of the identity of the Man and his imaginery. It is considerable that the myths of metamorphosis among which the Literature and the Figurative Arts abundantly made the echo, held in this process an important part considering their big elasticity since at least the mycenaenan period. The universe of the metamorphosis confers a part of sense on the hard exercise of the everyday nature by introducing on second thought on the world of the hidden but also shows of constant efforts to think the body during the long period of the antique Greek history.

Cette thèse propose un discours théorique sur la médiation fictionnelle, notamment dans les romans de notre corpus. Dans une perspective rhétorique, la recherche consiste à étudier le processus de mise en œuvre de la signification dans les œuvres littéraires. La communication y apparaît non pas comme une donnée stable et simple que l’on pourrait réduire à des manifestations formelles ou encore à des contenus sociohistoriques, mais comme un ensemble d’exigences cohérent qui définissent les termes, sinon les modalités d’une coopération entre l’écrivain et le lecteur. La réflexion s’organise en trois parties.La première partie consiste à identifier la question dont l’énoncé romanesque est la réponse. Elle permet d’arborer, sous forme de thème, les grands axes de l’argumentation narrative, partant les enjeux de la communication dans chaque roman.Dans la seconde partie, il s’agit d’analyser les choix formels de l’énoncé et de montrer sur quels modes et à quelle fin idéologique la contribution du lecteur est sollicitée. En fait, c’est la stratégie discursive qui définit la modalité de communication et caractérise le régime de fonctionnement de la médiation dans une œuvre littéraire.L’idée centrale de la troisième partie consiste à montrer la compétence épistémologique qu’un écrivain confère à l’œuvre littéraire et la capacité du lecteur à l’identifier. Les théories qui deviennent des viviers épistémologiques de la littérature apparaissent comme des réductionnismes et de véritables obstacles au plaisir de lire ou de faire résonner avec justesse la signification d’une œuvre d’art. / This thesis proposes a theorical discourse on the fictional mediation, more particularly in the novels of our corpus. From a rhetorical perspective, the research consists in studying the process of implementation of the signification in the literary works. The communication appears to it not as a stable and simple datum which we could reduce to formal appearances or still to sociohistorical contents, but as a set of coherent requirements wich specify the terms, otherwise the modalities of the argumentative cooperation between the writer and the reader. The thiking is composed of three parts.The first part consists in indentifiying the question of wich the fiction statement is the answer. It allows to raise, in thematic form, the main axes of the narrative line of argument, consequently the issues of the communication in each novel.The second part deals with the analysis of the formal choices of the statement and it shows on which modes and what ideological end the contribution of the reader is requested. In fact, it’s the discursive strategy wich defines the method of communication and characterizes the functioning of mediation in a literary work.The central idea of the third part is to show the epistemological skill that a writer gives to the literary work and the reader’s ability to identify it. The theories wich become epistemological pools appear as reductionisms and as real obstacles to the pleasure to read or to make pertinently resound the significance of a work art.

This essay compares the figurative language of Bob Dylan’s albums The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964) and Highway 61 Revisited (1965), with a focus on how Dylan remained engaged with societal injustices and human rights as he switched from acoustic to fronting a rock ‘n’ roll band. The essay argues that Dylan kept his critical stance on social issues, and that the poet’s usage of figurative language became more expressive and complex in the later album. In the earlier album Dylan’s critique, as seen in his use of figurative language, is presented in a more obvious manner in comparison to Highway 61 Revisited, where the figurative language is more vivid, and with a more embedded critical stance. / Uppsatsen jämför det figurativa språket i Bob Dylans skivor The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964) och Highway 61 Revisited (1965), med ett fokus på hur Dylan fortsatte vara engagerad inom samhällsfrågor och mänskliga rättigheter när han gick över från akustisk solomusik till att leda ett rockband. Uppsatsen argumenterar för att Dylan behöll sin kritiska syn på samhällsfrågor, och att poetens användning av figurativt språk blev mer expressivt och komplext i det senare albumet. I det tidigare albumet är Dylans kritik, som den framstår i hans användning av figurativt språk, presenterad mer direkt i jämförelse med Highway 61 Revisited, där det figurativa språket är mer levande och innehåller en mer förtäckt kritik.

A presente dissertação está inserida na área de Estudos Comparados de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa em razão de dialogar com a produção artística de várias culturas e tem o objetivo de analisar a manifestação cultural, histórica e comunicativa, chamada de História em Quadrinhos (HQ), principalmente no que concerne a leitura da imagem e sua relação com diferentes sociedades. Para tanto, realizou-se um levantamento em diferentes linhas de pesquisa das diversas concepções a respeito da História em Quadrinhos, suas distintas nomenclaturas em cada país, bem como de seus limiares e estruturas heterogêneos. A HQ se utiliza tanto de ícones figurativos quanto linguísticos para transmissão de ideias, pensamentos e sentimentos, que pode ocorrer entre uma ou mais pessoas, e utilizar-se de uma ou mais imagens em vários suportes, temáticas e estéticas, na forma de texto para uma ampla gama de intencionalidades. Para um objeto de estudo tão atual e peculiar permitiu-se que ele próprio, o objeto, fosse apontando a metodologia para a pesquisa. A princípio, foi elaborado um perfil espaço-temporal para ressaltar que os fatores que consolidaram os elementos da HQ (como sua linguagem e temática, por exemplo) em dado contexto se deveu mais a fatores externos, mercadológicos ou censores, do que a limitações linguísticas, estéticas ou relativas a necessidade de suportes específicos. Acompanhando a história da História em Quadrinhos é possível perceber sua elasticidade, pois suas relações fundamentais foram construídas de formas tão diversas que poderiam parecer antagônicas. Isso nos levou à segunda parte, um estudo da estrutura da História em Quadrinhos em suas aplicações práticas. Com base em teóricos que estudaram as características da linguagem dos quadrinhos, empregamos suas concepções nas diversas manifestações encontradas, sem traçar fronteiras restritivas nas potencialidades do meio. / The present dissertation is inserted in the area of Comparative Studies of Portuguese Language Literature in order of a dialogue with the artistic production of various cultures and has the objective of analyzing the cultural, historical and communicative manifestation called \"Comics\", mainly in what concerns the reading of the image and its relation with different societies. Therefore, it was realized a survey of the diverse conceptions regarding Comics, its distinctive nomenclatures in each country, as well as of its thresholds and heterogeneous structures. Comics uses both figurative and linguistic icons to transmit ideas, thoughts and feelings, between one or more people, with one or more images in various supports, thematic and aesthetic, in textual form for a wide range of intentions. For an object of study so current and peculiar, it was allowed that the object itself indicated the methodology for the research. At first, a space-time profile was elaborated to emphasize that the factors that consolidated the elements of the HQ (such as their language and thematic, for example) in a given context were due more to external factors, marketing or censors, than to linguistic limitations, aesthetic or relating to the need for specific supports. Accompanying the history of comics is possible to perceive its elasticity, since their fundamental relations were constructed of forms so diverse that could appear antagonistic. This led us to the second part, a study of the structure of comics in its practical applications. Based on theorists who studied the characteristics of Comics language, we used their conceptions in the various manifestations found, without drawing restrictive boundaries in the potentialities of the medium.

The autobiographical nature of my work deals with the space between the innocence of childhood and the wisdom of adulthood. I explore the complexities of personal experience, old and new landscapes and the scar tissue of memory. The work deals with beginnings and departures, relationships and conflict of power and vulnerability in the quest to make sense of life. My work connects with moments of childhood that I try to retain as a touchstone for authentic experience. The images are derived from personal and familial experiences, moving through to the universal to tell the human tale, using the human body as a metaphor. The body becomes the subject matter for expressing ideas about our universal and personal concerns. I explore the gulf between the real and the unreal through examining themes such as identity, vulnerability, anxiety, fear, alienation, abandonment, loss, corruption of innocence, love and death within a contemporary urban framework. These emotions are played out against the backdrop of daily domesticity and reflect the physical reality of the world around us, often exposing the contrast between the orderly veneer of our daily lives and our emotional reality. My work methodology uses narrative found in books, films, fairy tales or fables to explore the conflicting emotions which structure human identity and interaction. I use the stories as a way of approaching ideas or emotions and exploiting the story as a focus of cultural knowledge. In the search for emotional truth I draw parallels between my art practice and the search for authenticity within the theatre. My work is an attempt to explain my own creative process in relation to the artists who have influenced me, my childhood, its rich tradition of storytelling and my passion for theatre and literature as well as a search for meaning in my own relationships and life's journey. This is conveyed through a series of paintings and works on paper.

Il presente lavoro prende in considerazione la comprensione dell'ironia verbale in bambini di età prescolastica e scolastica alla luce del suo legame con la teoria della mente (capacità di attribuire stati mentali a se' e agli altri e di prevederne il comportamento sulla base di tali stati) e con le abilità linguistiche dei soggetti. L'obiettivo è verificare quali fattori di tipo relazionale, contestuale e informativo aiutano i bambini nell'interpretare l'ironia verbale prima e dopo l'acquisizione di abilità mentalistiche complesse. Il primo studio si sofferma sulla differenza di status tra gli interlocutori (rapporto simmetrico e asimmetrico) e sulla qualità del legame di attaccamento del bambino con i suoi caregiver. La seconda ricerca approfondisce il ruolo delle conoscenze pregresse che i soggetti hanno a disposizione per comprendere l'enunciato ironico (conoscenze enciclopediche o episodiche) e il tipo di affermazione ironica (costituita da eco o allusione) in rapporto alle abilità mentalistiche e linguistiche. I risultati mostrano che i bambini si avvalgono di alcuni dei fattori individuati per comprendere l'ironia verbale anche prima dell'acquisizione di abilità mentalistiche complesse. / This work considers the verbal irony comprehension in school and preschool age children in the light of its link with theory of mind (the ability to impute mental states to the self and to the others as a way of making sense and predicting behaviour) and linguistic competences of subjects. The aim is to identify the relational, contextual and informative factors helping children to interpret verbal irony before and after the complex mentalistic abilities acquisition. The first study deals with status difference between talkers (symmetric and asymmetric relation) and characteristics of children relationship attachment with their caregivers. The second research elaborates on the role of previous knowledge of subjects to understand irony statement (encyclopaedic or episodic knowledge) and of ironic claim type (echoic or allusional) and the link with mentalistic and linguistic abilities. The results show that children use some of the detected factors to understand verbal irony also before the acquisition of complex theory of mind.

Exquisite is defined as carefully selected or sought out. I believe myself to be a selected soul placed in a body of circumstance. My work is self-explorative and telling of those circumstances in hopes of evoking empathy. Our bodies function and exist on many different levels. What I understand as normal for most differs vastly from what is normal for me. I aim to offer my perspective on the world, establish understanding, and blur the lines of normalcy.

A reflective essay to accompany the thesis exhibition, the Wanderer, installed in the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, 2013. An exploration of the questions and concepts informing the process of developing and refining the visual vocabulary of my practice. Images of women, topographical maps, floral imagery and astronomical maps provide the vocabulary of the language and syntax that I am developing to enunciate the interrelationships between the construction of self and lived experience, with concepts of identity, body and gesture, history and place.

<p>Abstract</p><p>The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the way George W. Bush used moral metaphors to intensify the language in his statements on Operation Iraqi Freedom. Three moral metaphors are presented within two different models that are applied on the data.</p><p>The collected material for the metaphors is constituted of cognitive linguistic books from prominent linguists, such as George Lakoff, Alan Cruse and William Croft, and the data is collected from the official White House website. The scientific method used in this study has been qualitative text analysis where the hermeneutic approach has been an essential part of it.</p><p>The main question: In what way did George W. Bush use moral metaphors in his statements to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom?, resulted in use of moral metaphors that sermons people’s moral values, depict Saddam Hussein’s characteristics as immoral, activate people’s moral priorities to help the Iraqi people, and addresses both conservatives and liberals in America.</p><p>The conclusion of my study is that President Bush deliberately intensified the language in his statements through moral metaphors to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom.</p><p>Keywords: Cognitive Linguistics, Metaphor, Figurative Language, Operation Iraqi Freedom, War on Terror, George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein, USA, Iraq, Qualitative Text Analysis, Hermeneutics.</p>

Un film problématise en images et en sons ce dont il traite. Le type d’analyse faisant apparaître cette relation étroite entre les formes du contenu et les formes de l’expression est l’analyse figurative. En voici la méthode exposée par Nicole Brenez en 1998 dans De la figure en général et du corps en particulier. Tout d’abord, il doit être admis que le film prime sur son contexte. Ensuite, les composantes d’un film sont des éléments. Puis, ces éléments sont autant de questions. Enfin, le cinéma problématise ce dont il traite. Seulement, ces quatre présupposés ne vont pas de soi. Ils induisent un double mouvement : le film pose des exigences à l’analyse que seule l’analyse rend visibles. Ce double mouvement dépasse le film pour questionner le cinéma. Cette thèse a pour but de démontrer que, d’une part, l’analyse figurative trouve ses fondements dans l’histoire du cinéma et que, d’autre part, grâce à des analyses figuratives, nous pouvons mettre à jour des changements dans le fonctionnement des images, du montage, des personnages. La méthodologie de l’analyse filmique repose par conséquent sur une étude historico-esthétique des formes cinématographiques. Or, ces formes sont autant de façons de penser le cinéma et de penser au cinéma. C’est précisément la circulation entre les formes du contenu, les formes de l’expression et les formes de l’analyse qui rend visible ce champ sensible d’expérimentations qu’est le film – une pensée-cinéma. / What is a cinematographic thought? A film theorized with images and sounds what it is dealing with. The methodology of film analysis which reveals that close relationship between images, sounds and thought is figurative. It was exposed in Nicole Brenez De la figure en général et du corps en particulier in 1998. First, the analyst must consider that the film is more important than its context. Next, its components shall be understood as elements. Then, those elements are regarded as questions. Finally, the film has to be considered as an interrogation of its subject. However, those four steps aren’t necessarily clear. They lead to a double thought: the film forces the analysis to include elements that are only made visible with the analysis. This double thought goes beyond the film and questions cinema itself. This study’s aim is to prove that a figurative analysis finds its foundations within the history of cinema, and due to these analyses, the changes regarding the construction of the image, editing, and character can be revealed. This methodology lies on an historical and aesthetic study of the cinematographic forms. Those forms are the way cinema thinks. Emerging from this relationship of a form, its expression, and its analysis is a sensitive field of experimentations: a cinematographic thought. / Thèse réalisée en cotutelle avec l'Université de Provence au sein du département d’études cinématographiques, U.F.R. Lettres et Arts, L.E.S.A. École doctorale Lettres, Langues et Arts. Soutenue publiquement à l'Université de Provence le 16 juillet 2010. Mention très honorable, félicitations du jury