Essays about: "Semiotik"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 41 essays containing the word Semiotik.

1. 21. Metaphors and their Making: Bodily, conventionally and contextually motivated metaphors in inter- and intra-generational conversations

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

   Author : Björn Torstensson; [2019]
   Keywords : cognitive semiotics; iconicity; Motivation and Sedimentation Model; conventionality; embodiment; metaphor identification; signs; polysemy; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis examines and compares spontaneous metaphor usage in conversations within and between generations. It investigates to what extent they can be seen as motivated by bodily, conventional and situated factors with the help of the Motivation and Sedimentation Model (MSM), which operates with these three levels of meaning. READ MORE

3. 22. Choice Awareness and Manipulation Blindness: a cognitive semiotic exploration of choice-making and memory

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

   Author : Alexandra Mouratidou; [2019]
   Keywords : Cognitive Semiotics; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : “Choice blindness” (CB) refers to a certain tendency to accept a choice that is presented to us as if it were our own, even when we have never made it. In the last decade, CB has been treated as a research tool in a series of experiments in different domains and modalities (e.g. Johansson et al. READ MORE

4. 23. 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. 24. Referential iconicity in music and speech within and across sensory modalities

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

   Author : Veronica Giraldo Valencia; [2018]
   Keywords : Keywords: Cognitive semiotics; iconicity; ideophones; multimodality; music; music cultures; semiotics; semiotics systems; signs; sound symbolism; primary and secondary iconicity; unimodality.; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Musical meaning is multifaceted: both highly sensory and yet often abstract, able to cross cultural boundaries and yet embedded in specific traditions. For the most part it is not denotational (Monelle, 1991). READ MORE

6. 25. Visuelle metaforer i Mammas Hår - brugen af visuel metafor i kommunikation af komplekse emner til børn

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Signe Gabriel; [2018]
   Keywords : metafor; illustration; billedbøger; depression; semiotik; visuel kommunikation; børns udvikling; kognition; visuel retorik; visuel metafor; metaphor; picture books; semiotics; visual communication; child development; cognition; visual rhetoric; visual metaphor;

   Abstract : Opgaven tager udgangspunkt i en undersøgelse af, hvordan illustrator Svein Nyhus i billedbogen Mammas Hår, skrevet af Gro Dahle i 2007, benytter sig af visuelle metaforer til at kommunikere bogens depressionstema til børn. Formålet er at finde ud af, på hvilken måde visuelle metaforer kan bruges som kommunikationsværktøj af visuelle kommunikatører generelt. READ MORE