Essays about: "Mimesis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the word Mimesis.

  1. 1. Using Noise as a Compositional Tool with Different Perspectives

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

    Author : Merve Erez; [2020-06-04]
    Keywords : noise; everyday life; composition; extended techniques; japanoise; sound mimesis; daily life; futurism;

    Abstract : This thesis shows my approach to musical composition in relation to the usage of noise as a tool with a narrowed-down perspective. In contemporary art music, our ears got accommodated to noise. Noise also is everywhere in daily life. It is daily life itself. READ MORE

  3. 2. Image schemas, mimetic schemas, and the development of Swedish children’s gestures

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Klara Sif Skarphédinsdóttir; [2019]
    Keywords : Gesture; Communication; Language; Image Schema; Mimetic Schema; Mimesis; Sign; Sign function; Cognitive Semiotics; Viewpoint; Mode of Representation; Semiotic Grounds; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Language and gesture are two semiotic systems that work together in close integration during communication. One issue in particular, that of image schemas, has been studied in relation to gestures, though most often in adult gesture and communication (Williams, forthcoming; Cienki, 2013; Mittelberg, 2006, 2018). READ MORE

  4. 3. Impoliteness in language and gesture: a cross-cultural study of impolite behaviour in Russian and Swedish

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Vladislav Zlov; [2019]
    Keywords : impoliteness; politeness; cognitive semiotics; language; gesture; conventionality; culture; mimesis; face; directness; frequency; evaluation; semantics; pragmatics; context; sign; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Impoliteness has been considered as a marginal phenomenon for scientific research for some time, although as a type of behaviour it has always been around us. The field of impoliteness studies is currently growing, but there are clear gaps in the research that concerns the conventionality of expressions, different semiotic systems through which impoliteness is expressed and cross-cultural comparisons. READ MORE

  5. 4. From Unisemiotic to Polysemiotic Narratives: Translating across semiotic systems

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Karoliina Louhema; [2018]
    Keywords : bodily mimesis; cognitive semiotics; co-speech gestures; embodied narratives; experientiality; iconicity; ideophones; intersemiotic translation; language; mimetic schema; multimodality; narratives; phenomenology; pictorial semiotics; pictures; polysemiotic communication; semiotics; semiotic systems; sensory modalities; signs; sound symbolism; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Human communication is both polysemiotic and multimodal; it is comprised of ensembles of representations from different semiotic systems in different sensory modalities. These semiotic systems, such as language, gestures, and pictures consist of signs and relations between signs, with system-specific affordances (Kendon, 2004; Zlatev, 2009; Sonesson, 2014). READ MORE

  6. 5. More Than A Helping Hand: Male Masturbatory Aids and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Abigail Phillips; [2018]
    Keywords : Heterosexual Masculinity; Masturbation; Heterosexual Desire; Intimacy; Sex Toy; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : In this paper, I explore the construction and articulation of heterosexual masculinity through male masturbatory aids, and how these aids manipulate and interact with heterosexual desires, pleasures and intimacies. The first chapter of this paper is given over to historically contextualising attitudes and perceptions of male masturbation and entwining this with a history of masculinity. READ MORE