Essays about: "abstractness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word abstractness.

  1. 1. Somebody should do something : A qualitative study to determine challenges that politicians face in decsion-making to mitigate climate change

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Miljövetenskap

    Author : Sandra Melander; [2022]
    Keywords : Decision-making; Challenge; Politicians; Parliament; Åland; Climate change; Mitigation;

    Abstract : Climate change is known to cause more frequently occurring extreme events which threaten both natural and human systems as we know them. Island nations are particularly vulnerable to these climate-induced changes, and the Åland Islands are no exception to this rule. READ MORE

  3. 2. STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS AT A SWEDISH HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION : The case of Malmö University

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DVMT)

    Author : Nándor Ruzsbánszki; [2022]
    Keywords : Education; Future; Media Technology; Organization; Planning; Strategy; University;

    Abstract : Education plays an essential role in people’s lives, throughout history institutions have been made for the better development of knowledge to the society. Contemporary challenges like, digital revolution, demographic changes, and data economy navigates civilization to the so-called knowledge society (Smidt, 2010). READ MORE

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. 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

  6. 5. Challenging the dual coding theory : Does Affective Information Play a Greater Role in Abstract Compared to Concrete Word Processing?

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Ingrid Almgren; [2018]
    Keywords : abstract word-processing; DCT; ERP; semantic representation; concreteness effect; imageability; recognition task; categorization; emotional valence;

    Abstract : It has long been held that concrete material has a processing advantage over abstract material, as predicted by Dual Coding Theory (Paivio,1991), although this has been challenged. For example, based on evidence for behavioural and neuroscientific studies, Kousta,, Vigliocco, Vinson, & Del Campo, (2011) proposed that emotional valance had a greater influence in the processing of abstract words, and that under some circumstances there may be no concreteness effect and might even be an abstractness effect. READ MORE