Essays about: "Peirce"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word Peirce.

  1. 1. The Uncanny and AI: Reimagine Goya's Deaf Man's Villa

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Puqiao Liu; [2023]
    Keywords : The uncanny; AI; Midjourney; Goya; Black Paintings; Deaf Man s Villa; Quinta del Sordo;

    Abstract : In the uncanny feeling I experienced from Goya’s Deaf Man’s Villa, an estranged Deaf Man’s Villa was created but also repressed in my subconscious and thus invisible. How can I use AI to derive this Deaf Man’s Villa hidden in my subconscious? The aim of this project is, with AI Midjourney, to deduce the uncanny feeling I experienced from Goya’s Deaf Man’s Villa to an architectural design. READ MORE

  3. 2. On Cultural Forms : The sensemaking and expression of cybersemiotics

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Jonathan Madeland; [2022]
    Keywords : cultural forms; transdisciplinarity; pragmaticism; cybersemiotics; case study; consonance management; mixed methods; Ernst Cassirer; C.S. Peirce; Søren Brier;

    Abstract : This study contributes to the understanding of cultural forms, inspired by Cassirer’s notion of a general function manifesting in the many particular expressions of human culture. The special case of cybersemiotics (a newly established scientific discipline) is studied as a social system to make sense of how it operates as a viable cultural form. READ MORE

  4. 3. Doubt in Postmodernity : The Communicative Process of Fixating Beliefs

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Marcus Enochsson; [2021]
    Keywords : truth; meaning; postmodernity; American pragmatism; religion; podcast; communication; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how ideas of truth and knowledge are created, maintained, and negotiated within the context of a community through means of communication. This is achieved by conducting a case study which highlights the social processes of deconstructing and reconstructing ideas of truth. READ MORE

  5. 4. Language requirements for Swedish citizenship : Adult language learners' attitudes towards the Swedish language test for immigrants

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Fredrik Johnsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Language tests; attitudes; investment; ideologies; capital; identity; participatory parity; linguistic citizenship.;

    Abstract : In line with the global trend of increased language requirements for naturalization, the Swedish government decided in 2019 to introduce a language test for citizenship. Drawing on Norton Peirce’s (1995) notion of investment and Fraser’s (2000) definition of participatory parity, this study investigates adult second language learners’ attitudes towards the test and analyzes how investment in language learning and perception of possibilities for participatory parity influence their views. READ MORE

  6. 5. Language requirements for Swedish citizenship : Adult language learners’ attitudes towards the Swedish language test for immigrants

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Fredrik Johnsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Language tests; attitudes; investment; ideologies; capital; identity; participatory parity; linguistic citizenship;

    Abstract : In line with the global trend of increased language requirements for naturalization, the Swedish government decided in 2019 to introduce a language test for citizenship. Drawing on Norton Peirce’s (1995) notion of investment and Fraser’s (2000) definition of participatory parity, this study investigates adult second language learners’ attitudes towards the test and analyzes how investment in language learning and perception of possibilities for participatory parity influence their views. READ MORE