This study investigates the ways that children engage with a repeatedly viewed film in domestic settings. The research questions focus on the children's language, their multimodal behaviours while viewing and the understandings they form about a film. The study aims to provide insights for educators by demonstrating the range and nature of the educationally significant understandings, about film, that children construct. An initial survey of 9 and 10 year olds produced 17 children who nominated Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Columbus, 2002) as a favourite film that they had viewed at least 10 times. A video illustrating the research procedures was used to inform and to stimulate discussion with these children, to ensure that they were able to give educated consent. Observations of pairs of children viewing the film in their homes, followed by a series of activities to elicit discussion, created a set of rich data on the children's engagement practices and understandings of the film. Framed within the interpretivist paradigm, social semiotics and a sociocultural model of learning informed the generation and analysis of the data. A viewing practices engagement framework adapted existing frameworks in literature, literacy and critical literacy to better analyse viewing behaviours, responses and understandings. The engagement practice categories (literal, connotative, aesthetic, structural and critical) enabled multimodal and transcribed verbal data to be meaningfully linked. Several analytic approaches (including multimodal analysis and discourse analysis) were used to provide a full description of viewing engagement. The findings revealed variable levels of overt behaviour during viewing which did not relate to levels of understanding about the film. The range of understandings included aspects of characters, narrative, causation in the film and special effects. Discourse analysis revealed a range of viewing positions taken and social languages used, as well as gender differences in the balance of language used to attribute the film’s emotional effects. The findings provide evidence that children construct a range of educationally relevant understandings through their repeated home viewing of favourites, although structural and critical engagement was not well developed in this group. The findings are relevant to children's learning, audience research and the culture of childhood. The study has implications for parents, for primary school teachers and for education policy.

Thesis (MA (Visual Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Agradecemos a compreensão. on 2018-08-27T12:14:11Z (GMT) / Submitted by Tiago Pereira Rodrigues (tiago7.letras@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-09-03T08:41:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Uma análise das criações lexicais mais frequentes na tradução da série Harry Potter para o português brasileiro.pdf: 1792723 bytes, checksum: 551f7e2255c41b6b705113f3f731b7ed (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Priscila Carreira B Vicentini null (priscila@fclar.unesp.br) on 2018-09-03T17:03:22Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigues_tp_me_arafcl.pdf: 1770741 bytes, checksum: b69dcfaabf6ce98df5538767b9e050a9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-03T17:03:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigues_tp_me_arafcl.pdf: 1770741 bytes, checksum: b69dcfaabf6ce98df5538767b9e050a9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-27 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Esta pesquisa lida com a morfologia, os sentidos e as simbologias de 35 criações lexicais mais frequentes na versão britânica da série Harry Potter e de seus correspondentes linguísticos pertencentes à versão brasileira. Nesse sentido, um dos objetivos da pesquisa foi identificar os processos de criação lexical mais recorrentes entre os vocábulos de ambas as versões. Outro objetivo foi verificar se os processos criativos dos vocábulos que não foram mantidos no texto de chegada influenciaram as escolhas morfológicas e lexicais da tradutora da série no Brasil, na criação de novas formas lexicais e no emprego de palavras já existentes em português em novos contextos ou com novos significados, no texto de chegada. Para tanto, foram descritos os processos criativos e os sentidos primários dos vocábulos em tela. A fim de facilitar a consulta das criações lexicais analisadas e de contextualizá-las, foi elaborado, também, um glossário bilíngue. Além disso, entre os dados obtidos, foram selecionados os vocábulos Dumbledore, Malfoy e Quirrell, que foram mantidos na tradução, com o intuito de realizar uma análise comparativa e detalhada acerca das relações simbólicas envolvendo os três vocábulos, nos textos de partida e de chegada. Em termos teórico-metodológicos, considerou-se a tradução como uma atividade interpretativa produtora de significados que nunca escapa da hierarquia de valores culturais da língua de chegada. Além disso, foram empregados os pressupostos da Linguística de Corpus e dos Estudos da Tradução Baseados em Corpus, bem como aqueles advindos de teorias de cunho lexical-morfológico que são relevantes para o entendimento e a descrição de fenômenos de criação lexical. Para a extração dos dados, foram utilizados um corpus paralelo contendo os textos de partida e de chegada da série, o software WorldSmith Tools (versão 6.0), obras lexicográficas e os corpora British National Corpus (World Version) e Lácio-Ref. No que concerne aos resultados, constatou-se que, entre as 35 criações lexicais mais frequentes no texto de partida, os processos criativos mais recorrentes são a composição por justaposição e a passagem de nome comum para nome próprio. Constatou-se, também, que entre essas criações, a maioria (19) foi mantida no texto traduzido. Quanto aos 16 vocábulos do texto de chegada que não são manutenções, identificou-se que os processos criativos mais recorrentes entre eles são a passagem de nome comum para nome próprio e outros processos que não foram encontrados na bibliografia consultada. Ao comparar esses 16 vocábulos com seus correspondentes no texto de partida, observou-se que tal comparação não permite verificar se as escolhas morfológicas e lexicais da tradutora foram influenciadas pelos processos criativos desses correspondentes. Os vocábulos mostraram que outros fatores podem ter influenciado essas escolhas, que são: sentidos do vocábulo de partida, o fato de o vocábulo de partida ser ou suscitar o étimo do vocábulo de chegada, estrutura do vocábulo de partida, determinada característica do referente, sistema da língua de chegada. Por meio das análises simbólicas dos vocábulos Dumbledore, Malfoy e Quirrell, verificou-se que o texto traduzido rompe redes simbólicas ao mesmo tempo em que mantém relações e sentidos, gera novos significados e novas relações e veicula traços culturais da língua de chegada. / This research deals with the morphology, the meanings and the symbologies of 35 most frequent lexical creations in the British version of the Harry Potter series and of their linguistic correspondents belonging to the Brazilian version. In this sense, one of the aims of the research was to identify the most recurrent lexical creation processes among the words in both versions. Another aim was to verify whether the creative processes of the words that were not maintained in the target text influenced the morphological and lexical choices of the translator of the series in Brazil, in the creation of new lexical forms and in the use of words already existing in Portuguese in new contexts or with new meanings, in the target text. For both aims, the creative processes and the primary meanings of the words in question were described. Also, to facilitate the consultation of the analysed lexical creations and to contextualise them, a bilingual glossary was elaborated. Furthermore, among the obtained data, the words Dumbledore, Malfoy and Quirrell, which were maintained in translation, were selected, in order to carry out a comparative and detailed analysis about the symbolic relations involving these three words, in the source and target texts. In theoretical and methodological terms, translation was considered as an interpretative activity that produces meanings and never escapes the hierarchy of cultural values existing in the target language. Furthermore, the presuppositions from Corpus Linguistics and Corpus-Based Translation Studies, as well as those from lexical and morphological theories that are relevant to understand and to describe lexical creation phenomena, were employed. To extract the data, a parallel corpus containing the source and target texts of the series, the software WordSmith Tools (version 6.0), lexicographical works and the corpora British National Corpus (World Version) and Lácio-Ref were used. In respect of the results, composition by juxtaposition and the change from common name to proper name were found to be the most recurrent creative processes among the 35 most frequent lexical creations in the source text. Also among these creations, most (19) was found to have been maintained in the translated text. Concerning the 16 words in the target text that correspond to the other 16 lexical creations belonging to the source text, it was identified that the most frequent creative processes among them are the change from common name to proper name and other processes that were not found in the consulted bibliography. When comparing these 16 words with their correspondents in the source text, it was observed that this comparison does not permit to verify whether the translator’s morphological and lexical choices were influenced by the creative processes of these correspondents. The words showed that other factors can have influenced these choices, namely: meanings of the source word, the fact that the source word is or arouses the etymon of the target word, structure of the source word, a certain characteristic of the referent, system of the target language. Through the symbolic analyses of the words Dumbledore, Malfoy and Quirrell, it was verified that the translated text breaks symbolic nets, whilst maintaining relations and meanings, generating new meanings and new relations and conveying cultural features of the target language. / CNPq: 132918/2016-1 / FAPESP: 2016/03328-5

The flourishing city of East London has received but scant attention from historians. Its importance has been overshadowed by that of Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth, each with a foundation bordering on the romantic. The introduction to this thesis indicates traces of the existence of primitive man in these parts. The historical survey will commence with notices taken of the region by nautical and land expeditions in search of either shipwrecked sailors, or news of native races. The first serious notice of East London taken by the white people came in the time of Sir Benjamin D'Urban who sought a seaport for his new province of Queen Adelaide. Our port was opened in 1836 under the appellation of Port Rex, but faded into temporary insignificance, almost oblivion, with the reversal of Sir. B. D'Urban's frontier policy by Lord Glenelg and the abandonment of the new province in 1837. It was not destined to remain forgotten, for Sir Harry Smith at the end of 1847, saw in the mouth of the Buffalo River the same possibilities as had struck the advisers of Sir B. D'Urban. To him it was the future London of the East, and the connecting link between British Kaffraria and the world outside. From that time East London has grown steadily, and of recent years very rapidly. It is not proposed to carry this survey much beyond 1866 in which year British Kaffraria was annexed to the Cape Colony.

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Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-27T18:26:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-08-07. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2018-07-27T18:30:31Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000869205.pdf: 1067197 bytes, checksum: dfb8b7697516bf4587ba49259e23cb65 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / In order to describe and verify the most common resources used in the creation of Harry Potter fanfictions in Brazil, this study presents the movement of consumers towards a more participative culture in the last two decades, its implications to debates on intellectual property and the impact of technological evolution on the production and circulation of media content. The work also examines the history of fanfiction and the existent mechanisms of reinterpretation of original narratives, as well as the expressive numbers that represent the success of J.K. Rowling's books both as an editorial phenomenon and fandom on the internet. Given the significant production inspired in the Harry Potter series by Brazilian fans, three representative fanfictions are analyzed, in the light of the specific ways the original is rewritten. Alternative universe, focus on secondary characters, slash and timeline expansion, which were found to be the most recurrent procedures in the rewritings, evince partiality for personal creation on the part of authors and readers

Hermione Granger is the most prominent female character in the Harry Potter series. She is also the only one in the trio of herself, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley who is muggle-born. She is, therefore, most likely to be discriminated against in two aspects – on the basis of her sex and race. This essay examines Hermione with the help of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Edward W. Said’s Orientalism to show how she is represented and portrayed as “the Other” in these two aspects. In which aspect is she more likely to suffer from discrimination, or is it the combination of the two that is essential? As discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, and other aspects continues to grow in Western societies, it is important to look at how this widely popular literary series handles these issues.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-12-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:06:50Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 takeuchi_tm_me_ia.pdf: 10619974 bytes, checksum: 140e20cef8b06f6d2a72d65f75ce6082 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / Esta pesquisa consiste na análise do aspecto literário na produção artística do artesão e artista irlandês do início do século XX, Harry Clarke, e a sua habilidade em lidar com suportes diferenciados ao interpretar plasticamente obras literárias; inicialmente com a pintura em vitrais e, depois, com a ilustração de livros, sem abandonar o trabalho com os vitrais. Partindo do pressuposto de que o artista não é apenas um artesão especializado, mas comprometido com os novos desafios que a sociedade contemporânea apresenta, este texto objetiva apreciar alguns conteúdos que permitam o diálogo próximo entre pintura e poesia, ilustração e diferentes gêneros de obras literárias clássicas, reforçando a idéia de que as artes plásticas e as artes gráficas, interagindo com o texto literário, é um exercício para a leitura do mundo de maneira significativa e ao mesmo tempo lúdica. / This research involves the analysis of the literary’s aspects of artistic production of the Irish artist and craftsman of the early twentieth century, Harry Clarke, and his ability to deal with different media to interpret plastically literary works; initially with the stained glass and then with the illustration of books, without abandoning the first work. Based on the principle that the artist is not only an expert craftsman, as well as commited to the new challenges that contemporary society presents, this text aims to assess some contents that permit a close dialogue between painting and poetry, illustration and different genres of literary classics, reinforcing the idea that the fine arts and graphic arts, interacting with the literary text is an exercise in order to read the world in a meaningful way and at the same time in a playful way.

This essay will examine the youth novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling. The aim of this essay is to find tendencies of how the novel favours non-stereotypical male behaviour and characteristics. Using gender criticism, the novel and its most central male characters are analysed to highlight their gender characteristics. Symbols and metaphors constitute a part of the analysis for a more comprehensive examination. The results of this essay show that the male characters are divided into two factions, the good side and the evil side. It is evident that the male characters on the evil side are characterised by stereotypical male gender behaviour and the male characters on the good side tend to show a lack of stereotypical masculine traits. The Fantasy genre, which dictates a strong good versus evil storyline, extends this polarisation. The stereotypical male gender roles are therefore opposed and non-stereotypical male behaviour is promoted in the narration by favouring male vulnerability and ridiculing stereotypical masculine traits.