To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Literary metaphors.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Literary metaphors'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Literary metaphors.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Lei, Yan Bo. "Metaphors in Chinese literary translation : a case study of Fortress Besieged." Thesis, University of Macau, 2011. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2525529.
Full text
2
Coonan, Emma Marya. "Senses of theory : conceptual metaphors and manoeuvres in 20th-century literary criticism." Thesis, University of York, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431650.
Full text
3
Popplestone, Catherina Aletta. "Metaphors of vision and blindness in contemporary critical thought." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23355.
Full text
4
Trimarco, Paola Marie. "The interpretation of literary metaphors and symbols : a study of EFL students' needs." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20254.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis reports on an investigation of some of the skills needed by EFL students in order for them to interpret literary metaphors and symbols found in poems written in English. This exposition is divided into four parts. Part I contains two chapters which introduce this investigation. Part II provides a theoretical description of the recognition and interpretation of literary metaphors and symbols; this description is based on Eco's interpretive schema and my extension of that schema which includes an account of contextual features used for interpretation. Part III discusses subjects' responses to poems with respect to two specific hypotheses; namely, when reading poems written in English, non-native English speakers are less likely than native English speakers to 1) use intertextual referents when producing interpretations, and 2) comprehend the distinctions between literal and metaphorical levels of a poem. And finally, Part IV concludes this exposition with pedagogical implications of my experiments and suggestions for further research.
5
Najjar, Sumaya Ali. "Metaphors in translation : an investigation of a sample of Quran metaphors with reference to three English versions of the Quran." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2012. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/6184/.
Full textAbstract:
This study aims to investigate the challenges of translating metaphors of the Quran. It examines English speakers' understanding of a number of Quran metaphors which are selected from three well known English versions of the Quran translations. In addition, the study highlights the root causes which may be deemed to be a source of misunderstanding Quran metaphors. The study also aims to find out to what extant metaphors of the Quran can maintain their sense in today's context. Translation in today's globalised world is gaining relevance as a means to enhance communication among multicultural nations. Translation studies have contributed significantly in bridging the linguistic and the cultural gap among languages. However, the key literature of this study suggests that, translating metaphors and translating metaphors of the Quran in particular have been under researched as they are very often overlooked in translation studies. The conclusion that can be drawn from the predominant literature related to translation studies is that the on-going debates over the faithful, loyal approaches of translating vs. the free and dynamic methods have generated in parts insightful explanations and interesting and useful, but they have fallen short of providing a general consensus. This study takes the view that there is no master plan for translating and that a word for word approach often leads to stilted translation particularly when dealing with metaphors. Given the nature of the topic under consideration, this study combines both qualitative and quantitative methods. The advantage of the use of both methods for collecting data is highly considered and recommended. Utilization of this combination enhances the trustworthiness of findings as well as reduces limitations. The qualitative method in this study represents scholars' interpretations and views and a questionnaire as a data collection instrument is adopted to enhance the result of this study. The findings suggest that the three selected English versions of the Quran have fallen short of conveying the meaning of Quran metaphors. The findings also indicate that the meaning is often mistranslated or misleading or misunderstood by English readers.
6
Harrison, Nicholas. "Circles of censorship : La Censure and its metaphors in history, psychoanalysis and literary culture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307985.
Full text
7
Kalpakidis, Charalabos. "Metaphors, Myths, and Archetypes: Equal Paradigmatic Functions in Human Cognition?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3284/.
Full textAbstract:
The overview of contributions to metaphor theory in Chapters 1 and 2, examined in reference to recent scholarship, suggests that the current theory of metaphor derives from long-standing traditions that regard metaphor as a crucial process of cognition. This overview calls to attention the necessity of a closer inspection of previous theories of metaphor. Chapter 3 takes initial steps in synthesizing views of domains of inquiry into cognitive processes of the human mind. It draws from cognitive models developed in linguistics and anthropology, taking into account hypotheses put forth by psychologists like Jung. It sets the stage for an analysis that intends to further understanding of how the East-West dichotomy guides, influences, and expresses cognitive processes. Although linguist George Lakoff denies the existence of a connection between metaphors, myths, and archetypes, Chapter 3 illustrates the possibility of a relationship among these phenomena. By synthesizing theoretical approaches, Chapter 3 initiates the development of a model suitable for the analysis of the East-West dichotomy as exercised in Chapter 4. As purely emergent from bodily experience, however, neither the concept of the East nor the concept of the West can be understood completely. There exist cultural experiences that may, depending on historical and social context, override bodily experience inclined to favor the East over the West because of the respective connotations of place of birth of the sun and place of death of the sun. This kind of overriding cultural meaning is based on the “typical, frequently recurring and widely shared interpretations of some object, abstract entity, or event evoked in people as a result of similar experiences. To call these meanings ‘cultural meanings' is to imply that a different interpretation is evoked in people with different characteristic experiences. As such, various interpretations of the East-West image-schema exist simultaneously in mutually exclusive or competing forms, as the analysis of Gatsby and the reversal of the values of East and West in the context of colonizing and counter-colonizing attitudes suggests.
8
Gupta, Nijay K. "Worship that makes sense : a cognitive and socio-literary approach to the theology of Paul's non-atonement cultic metaphors." Thesis, Durham University, 2009. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1351/.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis examines Paul's use of temple, priesthood, and (non-atonement) sacrificial metaphors from a cognitive and socio-literary perspective. The final conclusion of a number of scholars in this area of research is that Paul's cultic metaphors have the theological and rhetorical purpose of encouraging community formation and moral living. Such evaluations, however, often take place without paying sufficient attention to the complexity of Paul's cultic imagery as well as, from a methodological standpoint, what metaphors are and how they are used in thinking and communicating. Utilising the tools and insights of conceptual metaphor theory, this study seeks to approach this topic afresh by attending to how metaphors constitute a necessary platform of cognition. Thus, they have world-constructing and perception-transforming utility. In this study, we conclude that, far from being merely about ethics or ecclesiology, Paul's cultic metaphors act as vehicles for communicating his ineffable theology. Indeed, his use f such tropes illuminate such broad areas as his anthropology, pneumatology, and epistemology, as well as his understanding of holiness, purity, judgment, suffering, death, and obedience to God. By anchoring his converts' new experiences in Christ to the world of ancient cult, and its familiar set of terms and concepts, he was attempting to re-describe reality and develop a like-minded community of faith by articulating logike latreia - 'worship that makes sense' (Romans 12.1).
9
Lindsay, Karen Martin. "Types, metaphors and symbols for baptism in the catechetical, artistic and liturgical genres of the early Church : a literary-aesthetic approach to the study of typology in early Christian hermeneutics." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368225.
Full textAbstract:
In the historico-critical paradigm typology was defined in terms of prefiguration and identified with corresponding events in `salvation history. ' In contrast, Frances Young identifies typology as a hermeneutic which has its roots in the literary structure of texts. The object of this thesis is to explore the phenomenon of typology within the hermeneutics of the early Church and to assess typology's contribution to the formation of Christian identity and culture. The thesis proposes an integrated approach to the study of type, metaphor and symbol across literary and aesthetic genres, and within a limited context, i. e., Christian initiation. The introduction to the thesis surveys typology within the historical and literary paradigms. Section one considers varied uses of typology in the catechetical homilies of the Fathers. Section two looks at typology in the artistic programmes of some early Christian baptisteries. Section three surveys uses of typology in some prayers of early baptismal liturgies. By redefining typology in terms of mimesis, multi-valence and multi-culturalism we are able to demonstrate the way in which early Christians forged imaginative links between their own worshipping community and the world of Scripture, through typology.
10
Elkhalifa, Mohamed Amani Elmahi. "Cultural challenges in translating Tayeb Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North (1969) from Arabic into English : a comparative and analytical study with a focus on metaphors and similes." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78218.
Full textAbstract:
This study investigates how and to what effect metaphors and similes from Tayeb
Salih‘s novel Mawsim al-Hiǧra ilā ash-Shamāl (1966) were translated into English –
a worthy topic, given the many linguistic and cultural differences between Arabic and
English, and the difficulty of translating figurative language.
The novel depicts aspects of the life and culture of the Sudanese people.
Initially banned in the Arab world, it was voted, in 2001, the most important Arabic
novel of the twentieth century. This brought Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) fame and
recognition, and translation into more than twenty languages. Season of Migration to
the North (1960), the English translation by Canadian-born orientalist Denys Johnson-
Davies (1922–2017), is the object of this particular study.
This qualitative study employs descriptive translation studies (DTS) as the
main theoretical framework, supplemented by insights gained from equivalence
theories, theories of culture, the functionalist approach and cognitive studies.
Following a textual approach, the study investigates the Arabic source text, the
English target text, applicable translation theories and secondary literature on
metaphors and similes as sources of information and/or data. It discusses the
aforementioned translation theories, definitions, components and types of metaphors
and similes in Arabic and English, as well as strategies and procedures of translating
metaphors and similes. The researcher identifies, describes and analyses a selection of
similes and metaphors in the Arabic source text, and how they were conveyed in the
English target text. The study concludes with a discussion of the effects of the
translation choices made and the strategies used.Dissertation (MA (Applied Language Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
African Languages
MA (Applied Language Studies)
Unrestricted
11
Huang, Mimi Ziwei. "Metaphor, Salience and Literary Discourse." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518831.
Full text
12
Larsson, Kalle. "Punning Exploiting External and Internal Metaphors : A Study of Groucho Marx's Use of Metaphor Reversal." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of English, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6664.
Full textAbstract:
The aim of this study has been to analyse metaphorical strings which have been interpreted literally, a process referred to as metaphor reversal. This was first described by Löflund (1999:18) and the specific term was later coined by Alm-Arvius (2006:6). Metaphor reversal is basically a subcategory of the broader term polysemy punning.
When a metaphor unexpectedly is interpreted literally, a humorous effect takes place and a pun is created. Especially if the metaphorisation in question has an entrenched figurative meaning, the unexpectedness of the literal interpretation is greater and the pun more obvious. The examples of these puns exploiting metaphor reversal have been taken from films featuring the verbal comedian Groucho Marx (GM), who frequently used this type and other kinds of puns in his films.
The terms internal and external metaphor, coined by Alm-Arvius (2003:78), have been used in order to distinguish between two different types of metaphorisations. Internal metaphor refers to metaphors with obvious internal collocational clashes and external metaphor refers to metaphors without such clashes, which can thus be given a literal as well as a figurative reading. However, this is not a clear-cut distinction and occasional overlapping between the two categories is common. Therefore, a continuum has been given which shows the overlapping category ‘more figurative external metaphors’. These are metaphors without collocational clashes, but with entrenched figurative meanings which make them metaphorical and not literal.
GM does not only revert external metaphors; he also reverts internal metaphors although this category contains collocational clashes which should make a literal interpretation impossible. Internal metaphor puns tend to be more absurd than external metaphor puns due to the collocational clashes which make the literal interpretation less probable. Reverted external metaphors are referred to as REM and reverted internal metaphors as RIM.
Most examples analysed are metaphorisations with idiom status with clearly preferred figurative meanings. Consequently, their figurative meanings are deeply entrenched and should not be altered. However, these figurative meanings are altered by GM in his punning; they are reverted and interpreted literally. This indicates that one of the few occasions when it is accepted or even possible to interpret a metaphorical idiom literally is in punning.
13
Chamberlain, Louise. "Materiality and metaphor : environment and place in contemporary poetry." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30674/.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis considers literary and critical reverberations of environment and place in order to reframe conceptions of what nature might mean for contemporary poetry. It attends to the timeframe of 1990 – present, assessing how developments in socio-political context and critical thought correspond or conflict with poetic responses. The interdisciplinary reach of the thesis brings together literary geography and ecocriticism, both of which established their roots during this period, putting conventional understandings of place and environment under pressure. The approach encourages a geographical attention to socio-cultural concerns whilst maintaining critical awareness of recent ecocritical focus on materiality, emphasising the potentially productive friction between cultural representation and physical reality. The thesis responds to earlier Romantic paradigms, granting marginalised contemporary poetry a stronger critical agency whilst still accepting the transformations and metamorphoses of literary convention. Taking a thematic approach, each chapter engages with key binaries found in environmental and geographical thinking to reveal how contemporary poetics unsettle and challenge such dualisms. The study looks at the work of twelve writers: Thomas A. Clark, John Burnside, Alec Finlay, Roy Fisher, Philip Gross, Barry MacSweeney, Robert Minhinnick, Alice Oswald, Frances Presley, Jo Shapcott and Zoë Skoulding. As a result, it compares and contrasts the poets’ engagements with the key threads in the thesis, suggesting that contemporary poetry of place and environment is united through its recognition of the paradox or gap between the material world and linguistic representation. Ultimately, the thesis concludes that contemporary poetry of environment and place is deliberately unstable, as it metamorphoses forms, modes and legacies, encouraging an understanding of such work as simultaneously responsive to and yet distinct from conventional paradigms of nature poetry.
14
Zonglin, Chang. "Schemata, metaphor and literary readings : a case study of Chinese EFL learners reading poems." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391430.
Full text
15
Highley, Thomas A. "Agents of Influence: A Metaphor Analysis of Middle Level Students’ and Teachers’ Conceptualizations Surrounding Blended Learning." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1535702776334066.
Full text
16
Friström, Bala Paula. "A cognitive approach to figurative language : Translating conceptual metaphors and hyperboles." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-44856.
Full textAbstract:
The present study combines quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate translation strategies applied in a translation of a few chapters in Cat Counsellor, which is a book about cat behaviour. A cognitive approach and translation strategies are the focus of this essay, which arrives at the conclusion that figurative language in general, and conceptual metaphors and hyperboles in particular, are used to manipulate, or rather convince readers of Cat Counsellor of a certain outlook. The translation strategies investigated in this essay are literal translation, transference translation and meaning translation. Of these translation strategies literal translation was applied 70% of the time, which indicates that similar cultures use similar figurative language. It also indicates that the target text and language often benefit from new figurative language rendered in the source language and source text. An important conclusion is that metaphorical language, such as conceptual metaphors and hyperboles may seem easy to translate, while in fact concepts can vary across cultures, which indicate that the translator carefully has to consider his or her translation choices in order to produce an accurate translation.
17
Todd, Kate Zazie. "Mapping poetic space : a psychological study of differences between tropes." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325710.
Full text
18
Georgecink, Susan Hrach. "Practices of writing : early modern metaphors of literacy and the function of composition, past and present /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9389.
Full text
19
Wilson, Richard James. "A Davidsonian Response to the Dead Metaphor Problem." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32647.
Full textAbstract:
In his article, â What Metaphors Mean,â Donald Davidson presented his own unique theory of metaphor. While this theory has proved to be influential, there seems to be one problem which a Davidsonian theory cannot account for: the dead metaphor problem. Due to certain aspects of Davidsonâ s theory of metaphor, critics argue that it is impossible for Davidson to explain how dead metaphors form. In this thesis, I will show why Davidsonâ s account should be chosen over other prominent theories of metaphor, and how a Davidsonian might be able to bypass the dead metaphor problem.Master of Arts
20
ARMSTRONG, SONYA L. "BEGINNING THE LITERACY TRANSITION: POSTSECONDARY STUDENTS' CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF ACADEMIC WRITING IN DEVELOPMENTAL LITERACY CONTEXTS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1195948915.
Full text
21
Little, Catherine Anne. "A study of metaphor development in young gifted children." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154117.
Full text
22
Sharier, Jason A. "Conceptualizing Composition: How College-writers (and Instructors) Use Figurative Thinking to Conceptualize, Acquire, and Enact Literacy." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586450855261568.
Full text
23
Willison, John W. "Classroom factors affecting student scientific literacy: tales and their interpretation using a metaphoric framework." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2000. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=12881.
Full textAbstract:
The scientific literacy of four students in Year 8 was the main focus of one year of participant observer research. An interpretive research methodology was employed to generate tales about each student, in order to provide rich descriptions of the participation of these students in Science classes and in non-Science classes.A major theme was the complementarity of epistemological referents for scientific literacy. Objectivism, personal constructivism and social constructivism were identified as major referents for scientific literacy, and therefore as underpinning factors for the diversity of definitions of scientific literacy. Some authors have called for these referents to complement one another. In this study, I used the conceptual tool of metaphor to facilitate the holding together, in dialectical tension, of these often competing ideas.No a-priori notion of scientific literacy was adopted for the research, but an emergent theoretical framework for scientific literacy evolved. This metaphorical framework was shown to be a viable way of organising a diversity of literature-based definitions of scientific literacy. It was subsequently utilised to interpret the tales about the four students, and helped reveal significant themes.Foremost amongst the emerging research themes was equity of access into scientific literacy. Ten major assertions from the research provide different considerations of the ways that students access, or are denied access to, scientific literacy. Finally, implications of the three-metaphor framework for research, and speculations about its place in informing classroom practice are presented.
24
Willison, John William. "Classroom factors affecting student scientific literacy : tales and their interpretation using a metaphoric framework /." Full text available, 2000. http://adt.curtin.edu.au/theses/available/adt-WCU20030702.104943.
Full text
25
Bauer, Laurie B. "Digital Divides and Literacy Learning: A Metaphor Analysis of Developmental College Students’ and Teachers’ Conceptualizations of Technology." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342729325.
Full text
26
Nikolausson, Elenore. "Translating the Western Wear of the Singing Cowboy and Cowgirl : A Study on the Translation of Terminology, Metaphors, and Similes." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-36883.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this paper is to discuss different translation strategies that may be used in translation from English to Swedish of a text on Country & Western costuming. The focus will be on terminology, metaphors, and similes. In order to discuss the terminology, the metaphors, and simile, an English text has been translated into Swedish. To ensure a correct understanding of the source text, different dictionaries, encyclopaedias, various search engines and viewing services online have been very useful throughout the translation process. Corpora together with retailers’ web sites have also been valuable sources in providing variation and nuances to the translated text. Different sources on translation theory have also been reviewed; Newmark (1988) and Vinay and Darbelnet (1995). Terms have been selected out of their typical characteristic of being Western wear, and metaphors and simile out of their context to Western wear clothing. The results of the analysis show that a translator does not make use of one translation procedure when translating, but several. Which procedure that will be carried out is dependent on the context of the source text, the readership of the target text, the source text’s degree of specificity of the terminology, the source text’s imagery of the metaphors and simile, and the translator’s interpretation of the source text.
27
ANDRADE, VIVIANE LUCY VILAR DE. "ON THE IDENTITY OF LITERARY METAPHOR: A STUDY OF ROMANCE DA PEDRA DO REINO E O PRÍNCIPE DO SANGUE DO VAI-E-VOLTA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12376@1.
Full textAbstract:
Esta dissertação reflete sobre a identidade da metáfora
literária. Toma
como base a teoria geral da metáfora inaugurada por
George
Lakoff e Mark
Jonhson na década de 1980 - o que equivale a conceber a
metáfora como um
princípio cognitivo básico, como um mecanismo
estruturador
do conhecimento e
da experiência que em muito ultrapassa os domínios da
literatura. Reconhecendo
com Lakoff e Johnson a onipresença do fenômeno metafórico
em nossas vidas,
interessou-nos refletir sobre o que poderia distinguir a
sua manifestação no campo
específico da literatura. Tivemos por objetivo central
aqui
contribuir para o teste
de hipóteses cognitivistas levantadas por George Lakoff e
Mark Turner, em uma
obra especificamente voltada para a manifestação
literária
da metáfora, a saber,
More than cool reason (1989). Analisamos com o aparato
teórico e descritivo ali
oferecido um conjunto de metáforas presentes em um texto
literário específico - o
Romance d`A Pedra do Reino e o Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-
e-
Volta, de Ariano
Suassuna. A análise empreendida fala em favor das
hipóteses
de Lakoff e Turner,
para quem a maioria das metáforas literárias resulta de
explorações criativas e
inusitadas de mapeamentos metafóricos bastante arraigados
em nossos sistemas
conceptuais - extensões, combinações ou elaborações das
metáforas ontológicas,
estruturais e orientacionais que governam, em um nível
básico e de forma geral, a
nossa linguagem, pensamento e ação.This dissertation analyses the identity of the literary metaphor. It is based in the general Conceptual Theory of Metaphors started by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in the 80`s decade - they set the metaphor as a basic cognitive principle, as a mechanism that structures the knowledge and the experience which goes beyond the literature field. Recognizing along with Lakoff and Johnson the presence of the metaphorical phenomena in our lives, this study interested us to think about what could distinguish the presence of the metaphor specifically in literature. Our central objective here was to contribute to test the cognitive hypothesis showed by George Lakoff and Mark Turner, in a specific book which studies the literary metaphor, More than cool reason (1989). We analyzed a set of metaphors in the Romance d`A Pedra do Reino e o Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e- Volta, by Ariano Suassuna. This analysis shows that Lakoff and Turner hypothesis, which the generalizations governing poetic metaphorical expressions are not in language, but in thought: they are general mappings across conceptual domains; they are creative extensions of these mappings. As the locus of metaphor is not in language at all, but in the way we conceptualize one mental domain in terms of another. The literary metaphors are extensions, combinations or elaborations of the ontological, structural and orientational metaphors that lead, in a basic level and in a general way, our language, thought and actions.
28
Bicicgo, Cleber. "Ler o pol?tico no modo como se l? as met?foras de leitura no discurso da cr?tica liter?ria." Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, 2014. https://localhost:443/handle/prefix/90.
Full textAbstract:
Submitted by Diego dos Santos Borba (dborba@uffs.edu.br) on 2017-04-13T20:24:22Z
No. of bitstreams: 1
BICICGO.pdf: 888938 bytes, checksum: 9e08aa182a91775247bea991fadc01bc (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-13T20:24:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BICICGO.pdf: 888938 bytes, checksum: 9e08aa182a91775247bea991fadc01bc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-25
A partir do conceito de met?fora e da no??o de efeito metaf?rico fundamentados no trabalho do franc?s Michel P?cheux, esta disserta??o prop?e analisar as met?foras de leitura no discurso da Cr?tica Liter?ria, para compreender o funcionamento do pol?tico-ideol?gico no discurso metaf?rico. A disputa ideol?gica na produ??o do conhecimento, segundo P?cheux, est? na materialidade das met?foras que uma ci?ncia usa para ?compreender e se fazer compreender?. Questionando, ent?o, as met?foras de leitura, como est?o formuladas no discurso da Cr?tica Liter?ria, o presente estudo leva a considerar que a constitui??o hist?rico-discursiva das met?foras n?o possui uma origem, e sim diferentes formas de funcionamento, conjunturalmente tomadas pela disputa entre diferentes concep??es de leitura. A partir desse entendimento, surgem duas considera??es: a primeira ? que n?o existe uma mem?ria homog?nea que estaria na ?origem? da met?fora; a segunda ? que a met?fora ? produzida conforme o contexto de produ??o, podendo se deslocar para dentro de diferentes forma??es discursivas. O funcionamento do discurso metaf?rico marca um posicionamento pol?tico-ideol?gico, cujo resultado aponta para a rela??o entre uma pr?tica cient?fica e uma pr?tica pol?tica, materializadas nas met?foras de leitura. Trata-se, dessa maneira, de um estudo que problematiza o discurso metaf?rico a partir do posicionamento pol?tico-ideol?gico que o sujeito cr?tico liter?rio assume ao interpretar. Esta pesquisa traz uma contribui??o importante para os estudos sobre a met?fora, na perspectiva da An?lise de Discurso, al?m de subsidiar a pr?pria Cr?tica Liter?ria, na compreens?o do processo hist?rico que marca as met?foras que ela usa para compreender o funcionamento dos sentidos numa obra liter?ria.
From the concept of metaphor and metaphorical effect?snotion based on Michel P?cheux?swork, this dissertation proposes to examine the metaphors of reading on the discourse of literary criticism to understand the functioning of the political-ideological discourse in metaphorical discourse. The ideological struggle in the production of knowledge, according to P?cheux, is the materiality of metaphor that a science uses ?to understand and be understood?.So, questioning the metaphors of reading, as they are formulated in the discourse of literary criticism, this study leads to the conclusion that historical and discursive constitution of metaphors does not have a source, but different ways of working, conjuncturally taken by the dispute between different conceptions of reading. Based on this understanding, two considerations arise: the first is that there is no homogeneous memory that would be the ?origin? of metaphor; the second is that the metaphor is produced according to the context of production and can move within different discursive formations. The functioning of metaphoric discourse marks a political-ideological stance which the results points to the relationship between scientific practice and political practice, embodied in the metaphors of reading. It is, thus, a study that discusses the metaphoric discourse from the political-ideological stance that the literary critic subject assumes when he interprets. This research makes an important contribution to studies on metaphor, from the perspective of discourse analysis, in addition to supporting the literary criticism itself on understanding the historical process that marks the metaphors it uses to understand the functioning of the senses in a literary work.
29
Sugi, Akiko. "Semantics of New Kingdom iconography : a case study of the nh-symbol as a paradigm of understanding the interaction between pictorial metaphor and literary expression." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272835.
Full text
30
Winberg, Christine. "The comprehension of figurative language in English literary texts by students for whom English is not a mother tongue." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002649.
Full textAbstract:
This study applies Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory to the comprehension of figurative language in poetry. Students' understanding of metaphor as a linguistic category and comprehension of metaphorical texts are analysed in terms of the principle of relevance. Patterns of comprehension in English first language (Ll) and English second language (ESL) students' analyses of metaphorical texts are discussed and through an analysis of similarities and differences in these patterns of comprehension an attempt is made to develop a pedagogy around relevance theory. Relevance theory's particular emphasis on the role played by "context" in cognition is seen to have significance for the teaching of literature in South African universities. Relevance theory's account of cognition generates a range of educational principles which could be specifically applied to the teaching of metaphor. An appraisal of the strengths and difficulties students experience in expressing their understanding of metaphor in an academic context is included. This was done to further develop relevance theory into a pedagogical approach which takes into account the academic context in which writing occurs. The investigation of the particular difficulties that English metaphor poses for ESL students entailed acquiring a working knowledge of the ways in which metaphor is taught and assessed in DET schools. The interpretations of students of different linguistic, social and educational backgrounds reveal unifying elements that could be incorporated into a pedagogy based on relevance theory. Such a pedagogy would be appropriate to the multilingual/multicultural/multiracial nature of classes in South African universities and would be a more empowering approach to the teaching of English metaphor.
31
Lehman, Margaret. "Student Interactions, Attitudes and Engagement During Literacy Events in a Second Grade Classroom: A Case Study of Five Struggling Readers." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1353088414.
Full text
32
Davis, Hope Smith. "Student and Teacher Conceptualizations of Reading: A Metaphor Analysis Study of Scripted Reading Interventions in Secondary Classrooms." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1240938743.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Dr. of Education)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.Advisor: Eric J. Paulson. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 23, 2006). Includes abstract. Keywords: scripted reading; metaphor analysis; corrective reading; rewards plus; secondary; reading intervention; reading conceptualizations; reading; high school; middle school; qualitative research; ethnography. Includes bibliographical references.
33
Machado, Maria Celeste de Castro. "A Poética de Adélia Prado: espaço de articulação entre língua portuguesa e língua literária." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2955.
Full textAbstract:
A tese estuda a obra poética de Adélia Prado sob o ponto de vista da Estilística. Mostra que a metáfora é o recurso mais afeito a construir a língua literária e, no caso da poetisa, modelá-la em português. O estudo atesta que a linguagem conotativa da poetisa alcança os três níveis da língua e promove o inesperado e o distante da expressão comum. Afirma a importância da polifonia e da intertextualidade , além da excelência do discurso indireto livre na criação literária, não só da poetisa, mas de todo uso da língua portuguesa como ferramenta de expressão poética, principalmente se a intenção do autor é criar o discurso surrealista. A pesquisa mostra que há, na obra, um grande número de poemas em que predomina a linguagem religiosa católica. Ocorre a expressão da alma feminina , marcada com orgulho pela poetisa. A autora cria prosodemas, inaugura neologismos ,aproveitando todos os processos de criação vocabular. Assim, a obra se notabiliza pelo aproveitamento da sonoridade das palavras, pela escolha lexical inédita, por uma estrutura frasal apositiva, evocativa, sucinta e nominal, não escravizada às regras do registro culto como padrão literário. A tese reconhece que a autora lida eficientemente com as classes de palavras, com a construção nominal e com uma estruturação sintática peculiar, em que sobressai a oração adjetiva com função de sujeito, apesar de conter verbo: a oração adjetiva subjetivada. A essência da pesquisa são os conjuntos metafóricos, verdadeiros modelos universais, que permitem reconhecer a possível existência de uma língua literária em português. No mesmo contexto, focaliza um grupo de poemas chamados de telegráficos, curtos e de teor filosófico. Tal qualidade metafórica mostra a importância da poetisa Adélia Prado para a articulação da língua literária em língua portuguesaThe thesis studies the poetry of Adelia Prado in the view of the stylistics. It shows that the use of metaphor is more used to construct the literary language and in the case of the poet, model it in Portuguese. The study shows that the connotative language of the poet reaches the three levels of language and promotes the unexpected and far from the common expression. Emphasizes the importance of polyphony and intertextuality, and the excellence of free indirect discourse in literary creation not only of the poet, but all use the English language as a tool of poetic expression, especially if the author's intention is to create the surreal speech. Research shows that there is in the works, a large number of poems in the language that dominates religious Catholic. Is the expression of the feminine soul, marked with pride by poet. The author creates prosodemas inaugurates new words, taking advantage of all the processes of creation vocabulary. Thus, the work is distinguished by the use of the sound of words, the lexical choice unprecedented, for a test patch phrasing, evocative, succinct and nominal, not enslaved to the rules of registration as a cult literary standard. The thesis acknowledges that the author deals effectively with classes of words, with the building face and a syntactic structure peculiar in that it highlights the relative clause which functions as subject, although it contains verb: the relative clause subjectivized. The essence of the research is the sets metaphorically true "universal models" for recognizing the possible existence of a literary language in Portuguese. In the same context, focuses on a group of poems called "telegraph", short and philosophical content. This metaphorical quality shows the importance of the poet Adelia Prado for the articulation of the literary language in Portuguese
34
Lewinsohn, Ana Caldas 1979. "Metáforas de trabalho no território de criação : provocações do corpo-em-arte na preparação do ator." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285293.
Full textAbstract:
Orientador: Renato FerraciniTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T17:41:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lewinsohn_AnaCaldas_D.pdf: 17862786 bytes, checksum: 592ed99d4b1b8c5539de36718a49b46c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014
Resumo: Cada sala de ensaio, cada grupo e processo de criação utiliza, em suas práticas, o que podemos chamar de metáforas de trabalho. As metáforas de trabalho são ideias, ações, imagens, comandos verbais utilizados em práticas de ensaio, aulas ou processos criativos para auxiliarem os atuantes a entrarem em um estado de experimentação. A utilização de metáforas de trabalho em práticas teatrais possibilita a construção de um corpo-em-arte, gerando e potencializando estados de criação, repetição, atualização e manutenção de ações-matrizes físico-vocais no contexto poético ficcional e espetacular. Essa pesquisa investiga a potência dessas provocações, na busca de criar uma relação mais íntima entre conceitos e a prática artística, e de uma reflexão teórica cada vez mais próxima do processo criativo, utilizando seus paradigmas, sua linguagem e terminologia para discutir questões pertinentes sobre o trabalho do ator contemporâneo
Abstract: Each rehearsal room, each group and each creation process engage in their practices, what we call work metaphors. Work metaphors are ideas, actions, images, verbal commands used in rehearsal practice, in classes or in creative processes to help actors achieve a state of experimentation. The use of work metaphors in theatrical practice enables the construction of a body-in-art, generating and expanding states of creation, repetition, revision and maintenance of physico-vocal template actions in the poetical, fictional and scenic context. This research investigates the potential of such provocations, searching to produce a more intimate relationship between concepts and actual practice and hence to produce a theoretical reflection that approximates the creative process, employing its paradigms, its language and terminology to discuss questions relevant to the work of the contemporary actor
Doutorado
Artes da Cena
Doutora em Artes da Cena
35
OLIVEIRA, Gustavo Ponciano Cunha de. "O Entrelugar em Borges: fragmentos de uma poética." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2011. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2416.
Full textAbstract:
Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:19:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
GUSTAVO PONCIANO CUNHA DE OLIVEIRA.pdf: 871527 bytes, checksum: 5c06bb6674b686683e468c73b394ea6e (MD5)
Previous issue date: 2011-02-18This study, presented as an essay, starts from the indeterminacy of meaning as a critical assumption in an attempt to seize possible fragments of a poetics in the work of Jorge Luis Borges. Thus, its outcome is not the definition of the poet and his creation, but a possible critical reading. The study connects specific fragments of Borges work with different support texts, critical and philosophical ones, by Joseph Hillis Miller, Antoine Compagnon, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Gilles Deleuze. This contact enables the perception of the author s dissatisfaction before a couple of binary or polar oppositions (metaphysical paradigms inheritance), and consequent imposition of order favoring one of the words: literature/criticism, reading/writing, poetic/antipoetic, self/ one another, totality/suggestion. Such dissatisfaction is expressed in the borgesian creation through a metaphor which I call in-between. Its fundamental characteristic is the refutation of discourses that present themselves as having a fixed and unshakable truth through a reversion of the hierarchy which establishes them. Borges is, therefore, understood here as an inquirer who employs the language, testing its limits and strength. The inquiring feature assigned to his texts, his inflection, is reflected in this essay. Starting from a quotation from El Aleph and from the fissured reading of such fragment, always highlighting the partiality of the study accomplished here, this essay presents the defense that Borges lies in an in-between when discussing fundamental questions like authorship, text, authenticity and self.
Este estudo, apresentado na forma de ensaio, parte da indeterminância de sentido enquanto pressuposto crítico na tentativa de apreender possíveis fragmentos de uma poética na obra de Jorge Luis Borges. Assim, seu resultado é uma possível leitura crítica, não a definição do poeta e de sua criação. O estudo toma específicos fragmentos da obra de Borges e os relaciona a textos de apoio diversos, críticos e filosóficos, de Joseph Hillis Miller, Antoine Compagnon, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Gilles Deleuze. Este encontro possibilita a percepção da insatisfação do autor diante de algumas oposições binárias ou polares (herança de paradigmas metafísicos), e com a consequente imposição de ordem que privilegia um dos termos: literatura/crítica, escrita/leitura, poética/antipoética, eu mesmo/um outro, totalidade/sugestão. Esta insatisfação é expressa na criação borgiana por meio de uma metáfora que chamo de entrelugar. Sua característica fundamental é a refutação de discursos que se apresentam como portadores da verdade, fixa e inabalável, por meio de uma reversão da hierarquia que os institui. Borges é, portanto, entendido aqui como um questionador que emprega a linguagem, testando seus limites e potências. O caráter investigativo atribuído aos seus textos, sua inflexão, reflete-se neste ensaio. Partindo de uma citação de El Aleph e da leitura fendida deste fragmento, sempre destacando a parcialidade do estudo que aqui se realiza, apresento a defesa de que Borges situa-se em um entrelugar ao discutir questões fundamentais como autoria, texto, autenticidade e eu.
36
Pan, Lina. "Poetic Labor: Meaning and Matter in Robert Frost's Poetry." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1401.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis examines Frost’s conception of poetry as the labor of human value. It investigates how Frost consciously shaped his notions of “sound of sense” and metaphor, which he deemed fundamental elements of poetic labor, in contradistinction to the Modernist poetics of Eliot and Pound. The author closely examines a representative sample of Frost’s poetry and prose as critiques of Modernist poetic theory and its implications for what Frost deemed the essential human function of poetry. The thesis will interest scholars studying strains of English poetic thought that developed concurrently with and against Modernist poetic thought. More broadly, it will interest those who seek a serious and thoughtful challenge to Modernist literary trends that prevail even today.
37
Le, Rouge Mary Frances. "How Literate Responses to Technical Communication Can Promote Practical Responses to Environmental Change." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1622204365670828.
Full text
38
Boas, Gislaine Aparecida de Vilas. "Metáforas conceptuais de tempo, vida, morte na construção colaborativa das leituras de um texto literário." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14161.
Full textAbstract:
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:24:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
Gislaine Aparecida de Vilas Boas.pdf: 1501739 bytes, checksum: 79e8a5cd9d5f40a715f64f0ab10260e5 (MD5)
Previous issue date: 2010-08-06Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
This work is part of a larger project developed by the research group GEIM (Research Group of Indeterminacy and Metaphor) coordinated by Prof. Dr. Mara Sophia Zanotto. To contribute to the development of the group, this study investigates a practice of reading as a social event (Bloome, 1993; Street, 1993) in a real context of language use, with real readers. Therefore, this work fits in the Applied Linguistics, as this area is concerned with the real problems of language use (Celani, 1998; Moita Lopes, 2006). Thus, the objective was to discuss the role of conceptual metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) in the process of interpreting a literary text, within a practice of reading in which it admits to making sense of the text by the reader, validating, thus, the multiple readings. Metaphor, under socio-cognitive paradigm, is one of the pillars of the constructions of meaning, so it is essential the discussion of its influence on reading literary texts. The metaphorical concepts structure our thought and therefore have implications in the way of interpreting a text. Thus, it was addressed in this work, the importance of literary texts in the classroom, offering a reading practice to consider the subjectivity of readers, rescuing the pleasure of literary reading. To this end, this work was developed under the current interpretive, a qualitative chain, in which the research instrument used in this work is part of: the Think-Aloud in Group. That tool is now used by the group GEIM also as a pedagogical practice that has shown influence on reading as social practice (Zanotto, 1997, Zanotto & Palma, 2008). Therefore, the Think-Aloud in Group is considered a practice of literacy, for all practical literacy is a social practice (Street, 1993). Thus, when working with this practice, which focuses on the interaction among readers, it was possible to investigate how conceptual metaphors influence the construction of the readings during the interpretation of a literary text into a social event of reading
Este trabalho faz parte de um projeto maior desenvolvido pelo grupo de pesquisa GEIM (Grupo de Estudos da Indeterminação e da Metáfora) coordenado pela Profa. Dra. Mara Sophia Zanotto. A fim de contribuir para o desenvolvimento do grupo, esta pesquisa investiga uma prática de leitura como um evento social (Bloome, 1993; Street, 1993) em um contexto real de uso da linguagem, com leitores reais. Por isso, este trabalho se insere na Linguística Aplicada, pois essa área preocupa-se com os problemas reais de uso da linguagem (Celani, 1998; Moita Lopes, 2006). Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho foi discutir o papel da metáfora conceptual (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) no processo de interpretação de um texto literário, dentro de uma prática de leitura na qual se admite a construção dos sentidos do texto pelo leitor, validando, assim, as múltiplas leituras. A metáfora, sob concepção sociocognitivista, é um dos pilares das construções do sentido, por isso torna-se imprescindível a discussão de sua influência na leitura de textos literários. Os conceitos metafóricos estruturam nosso pensamento e, consequentemente, terão implicações na maneira de interpretar um texto. Dessa forma, foi abordada, neste trabalho, a importância do texto literário em sala de aula, propondo uma prática de leitura que considere a subjetividade dos leitores, resgatando o prazer da leitura literária. Para isso, este trabalho foi desenvolvido sob a corrente interpretativista, uma corrente qualitativa, na qual se insere o instrumento de pesquisa utilizado neste trabalho: o Pensar Alto em Grupo. Esse instrumento passou a ser utilizado pelo grupo GEIM também como uma prática pedagógica e tem revelado grande influência na leitura como prática social (Zanotto, 1997, Zanotto & Palma, 2008). Desse modo, o Pensar alto em Grupo é considerado uma prática de letramento, pois toda prática de letramento é uma prática social (Street, 1993). Assim, ao trabalhar com essa prática, que privilegia a interação entre os leitores, foi possível investigar como as metáforas conceptuais influenciam a construção das leituras durante a interpretação de um texto literário em um evento social de leitura
39
Johansson, Christer. "Mimetiskt syskonskap : En representationsteoretisk undersökning av relationen fiktionsprosa-fiktionsfilm." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7447.
Full textAbstract:
The dissertation deals with two different subjects: on the one hand the interrelations of narrative prose fiction and narrative fiction film, on the other hand fictional narration and intermediality as such. The first part discusses the concepts of medium and intermediality, and presents some general theoretical models. Of special importance is the three level structure of fictional representations: sign vehicle, meaning and fictional content. The second part focuses on the qualities of the sign vehicle, and on different kinds of meaning and fictional content. The sign vehicle of language and literature is digital, and consists of replicas of types. The film medium is analogue, the cinematic sign is a copy. The conventionality of literary fictions is primary, i. e. literary meaning depends on the conventions of language. The conventionality of film narratives is secondary, mediated by non-conventional meaning. The second part also deals with specific, general, generic, concrete and abstract meaning, and discusses the concepts of metaphor, symbol and expression. Part three focuses on iconic and index relations, i. e. relations of similarity and contiguity, of the fictional representation. Cinematic narratives are characterized by primary iconicity, i. e. all meaning and fictional content are dependent on the iconic relation between the poles of the representation. The iconicity of prose fiction is, by contrast, secondary, mediated by conventional sign relations. Also abductive and performative, fictional and non-fictional indexical signs, and different kinds of implications and lacunas are discussed. Part four deals with the concepts of fictionality and narrative perspective, such as the fictional stance, the narrator and focalization. Four different notions of fictionality are scrutinized and brought together, and narrative perspective is described and analyzed in terms of two different game fictions: epic games and perceptual games. Depending on the semiotic resources, the possibilities and limits of prose fiction and fiction film described in the first three parts of the dissertation, fictional games are shown to be more or less rich and realistic.
40
Smit, Talita C. "The role of African literature in enhancing critical literacy in first-generation entrants at the University of Namibia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1211.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (PhD (Curriculum Studies))--Stellenbosch University, 2009.ENGLISH SUMMARY: In this research project the profile and academic literacy proficiency of a group of First-Generation entrants at the University of Namibia were explored in order to obtain insight into the development of their critical literacy proficiency during the course of 2008. The project was undertaken against the backdrop of a Higher Education sector in Namibia that is facing an increasing influx of first-year students – often students who are the first in their families to pioneer the alien territory of tertiary studies. Such students predominantly come from marginalised and poorly resourced educational environments far from the capital of Namibia. These English second language First-Generation students consequently enter Higher Education with insufficient levels of academic literacy proficiency in English, the medium of instruction in tertiary institutions in Namibia. An important aspect of such under-preparedness is their academic literacy which is often still regarded only as knowing how to speak and act within a particular discourse, and the reading and writing that occurs within the discipline as the only skills through which to facilitate learning in the mainstream; this, however, is not enough to assist them in problem-solving and high levels of critical thinking. In response, the University of Namibia has implemented academic support programmes to address the needs of students who enter university with poor school results. One such support programme is the ULEG course for those students who qualified for admission to the university but whose school-end marks for English were a D-symbol. Survey results showed that the majority of the students in the ULEG course in 2008 were First-Generation entrants into Higher Education. It was thus decided to conduct this project with one class group of ULEG students. Only data collected from the FG entrants were employed in this case study. This qualitative, interpretive inquiry was characterised by multiple data collection methods. Qualitative data concerning the perceptions of the participants were generated via semi-structured interviews, observation and content analysis. In addition, quantitative data were collected and this further contributed to the triangulation of rich, in-depth data. An awareness-raising programme about the use of metaphoric language in order to draw appropriate inferences was designed and implemented, the rationale being to enhance the participants‟ critical thinking proficiency. As source material short stories, novels, a play and poetry by African authors written in English were employed. To establish the value of such a programme a mixed methods research methodology was employed where qualitative and quantitative data were collected concurrently. The results of this case study question prevailing notions about under-prepared students as well as the mainstreaming of students, as all of the participants in the project attested to the significant challenges that entry into the academic community posed for them. The findings of this project, while specific to the context in which it was undertaken, contribute to the growing body of knowledge in the field of academic development within Higher Education and the role of critical literacy in student learning.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsingsprojek ondersoek die profiel en die vlakke van akademiese geletterdheid van „n groep Eerste-Generasie eerstejaar studente aan die Universiteit van Namibiȅ om insig te bekom oor die ontwikkeling van hulle vlakke van kritiese geletterdheid gedurende 2008. Die projek is onderneem teen die agtergrond van „n Hoër Onderwys sektor in Namibiȅ met „n toenemende invloei van eerstejaar studente. Hierdie studente is dikwels ook die eerstes in hul families wat die onbekende wêreld van tersiëre studie betree. Hierdie Namibiese studente kom meerendeels van gemarginaliseerde en swak-toegerusde onderwys-omgewings ver vanaf die hoofstad, en die enigste universiteit in Namibiȅ. Hierdie Engels tweede taal Eerste-Generasie studente betree gevolglik Hoër Onderwys met onvoldoende vlakke van akademiese geletterdheid in Engels, die medium van onderrig in Namibiȅ. „n Belangrike aspek van sulke akademiese onvoorbereidheid is die studente se akademiese geletterdheid wat dikwels steeds beskou word as slegs die vermoë om korrek te praat en korrek op te tree in „n spesifieke diskoers, sowel as om te kan lees en skryf na gelang van die vereistes van verskillende hoofstroom akademiese dissiplines. So „n vaardigheidsbenadering is egter nie genoeg om studente te help met problem-oplossing and gevorderde vlakke van kritiese denke nie. Die Universiteit van Namibia het as teenvoeter teen die akademiese onvoorbereidheid van studente akademiese ondersteunigsprogramme geimplementeer. Een so „n program is die ULEG-kursus vir studente wat kwalifiseer vir toelating aan die universiteit maar met slegs „n D-simbool in Engels. „n Vraelys het getoon dat die meeste van die studente in die ULEG-kursus in 2008 Eerste-Generasie studente was. Daarom is besluit om hierdie projek met „n klasgroep ULEG studente te onderneem. Slegs data van die Eerste-Generasie eerstejaar studente in die klas is gebruik vir die doeleindes van hierdie navorsingprojek. In hierdie gevalle-studie is die hoofsaaklik beskrywende ondersoek gekarateriseer deur meervoudige data-versamelingstegnieke en -instrumente. Kwalitatiewe data vi aangaande die persepsies van die studente in die projek is versamel deur middel van semi-gestruktureerde gesprekke, observasies en die interpretasie van geskrewe en mondelinge bydraes van studente. Kwantitatiewe data is versamel en ge-analiseer om by te dra tot die triangulasie van ryk en gedetaileerde bevindings. „n Program om studente bekend te stel aan die gebruik van metaforiese taalgebruik om meer effektiewe gevolgtrekkings te kan maak is ontwerp en geimplementeer. Die beweegrede was om die studente se vlakke van kritiese denke te bevorder. As material vir die program is kortverhale, romans, „n drama en gedigte geskryf in Engels deur skrywers uit Afrika gebruik. Om die effektiwiteit van so „n program te evaluaeer is gebruik gemaak van „n gemengde navorsingmetodiek waar kwalititatiewe tegnieke en kwantitatiewe instrumente gelyktydig en aanvullende gebruik is. Die bevindinge van die projek bevraagteken die heersende opvattings in verband met swak-voorbereide studente sowel as hoofstroom-onderrig, aangesien al die studente in hierdie projek bewys gelewer het van die aansienlike persoonlike probleme wat toegang tot die akademie vir hulle ingehou het. Alhoewel die bevindinge spesifiek is aan die konteks van die projek, dra dit by tot die groeiende korpus van kennis in die veld van akademiese ontwikkeling in Hoër Onderwys, sowel as die rol van kritiese geletterdheid in akademiese studies.
41
Colin, Nathalie. "English and Swedish Animal Idioms : A Study of Correspondence and Variation in Content and Expression." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-13.
Full textAbstract:
Idioms are found in every language and learning them is an important aspect of the mastery of a language. The English language is no exception as it contains a large number of idioms, which are extensively used. However, because of their rather rigid structure and quite unpredictable meaning, idioms are often considered difficult to learn. Although little research has been done to date on the nature of idioms as well as how they are used, a better understanding of variations in idioms can nevertheless be acquired by looking at some theories and thoughts about their use and their structure.
The aim of this paper is to examine a number of animal idioms, focusing primarily on English idioms and the similarities and differences found in equivalent Swedish idioms, even when the Swedish idioms do not contain an animal. Two types of studies are presented. In the first one, the English and Swedish animal idioms collected are grouped into four categories. The results of such a categorization show that half of the English animal idioms found have an equivalent in Swedish containing an animal. In the second study, the content, structure, wording, semantics and metaphorical meaning of the animal idioms are analysed and compared. The results indicate that the Swedish animal idioms that correspond to the English animal idioms have, for the most part, the same structures and similar variations in degree of literalness, fixity, manipulation and transformation. Furthermore, the use of metaphor, personification and simile appears to be common both in English and Swedish animal idioms. The role of context and literal and figurative translation are also addressed in this study.
42
Alsterdal, Lotte. "The Duke of Uncertainty -Aspects of Professional Skill." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industrial Economics and Management, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3251.
Full textAbstract:
The Duke of Uncertainty - Aspects of Professional Skillis a dissertation whose title is a literary metaphor designedto draw attention to encounters with unforeseen problems anddilemmas at work.
The first part of the dissertation presents the skill andtechnology tradition that has developed over the last twentyyears through explorative case studies. These have covered theskills of various occupational groups, such as processoperators in the paper-and-pulp and chemicals industries,managers and systems engineers working on real timeapplications in specialized knowledge intensive firms as wellas doctors and nurses.
The theoretical perspective is the epistemology of skillfocusing on the phenomenon of tacit knowledge. This has itsroots in Wittgenstein's philosophy of language as developed bythe philosophers Allan Janik and Kjell S. Johannessen.
The methodological framework develops indirect analogicalthinking which is a prerequisite for knowledge based onexperience, through exemplification.
The empirical part of the work shows knowledge offamiliarity among members of an occupational group with lowformal training but extensive practical experience, namelyassistant nurses. A comparative analysis is undertaken inrelation to previous case studies in the field of skill andtechnology aimed at occupational groups with high formaleducational qualifications.
A particular aspect to which attention is drawn is therhythm in work that unites occupational groups regardless ofeducational background. Occupational skill is treated as acapacity developed to find rhythm in action when confrontedwith situations that are hard to handle. The dissertationconsiders aspects that can be tried out in other occupationalarenas and paves the way for identifying phenomena in workinglife that hinder the development of rhythm in work.
The dissertation contributes to the setting-up ofundergraduate-level training for groups of people who have notpreviously had access to higher education, and aims tointroduce new aspects into the development of analoguethinking.
Key words: practical versus theoretical knowledge, skillof epistemology, tacit knowledge, comparative case study,literary metaphor, analogical thinking, indirect method,occupational training.
43
Moura, Carla Brogliato Cardoso de. "O haicai de Paulo Leminski: a busca da forma para sua poesia." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14712.
Full textAbstract:
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
Carla Brogliato Cardoso de Moura.pdf: 887230 bytes, checksum: be64349f56f823181970ad5316e60ab3 (MD5)
Previous issue date: 2013-05-29The main goal of this study is to investigate how the poet Paulo Leminski reveals language awareness under the haiku form, and expresses his sensibility thought it. Particularly questions how far his poetry reveals the haiku s intellectual structure. To guide our research on Paulo Leminski s work, we studied different procedures present in the eastern haiku, like the connection with the Zen gesture, the rhythm and the visual presentation of the letters and words, trying to capture them throughout his poetries. All kinds of poems and different structure options were selected for the analysis, so we could point its plurality. By translating different imagistic procedures, Leminski builds up a form for his own Brazilian haiku, presenting us the craft of his poetry
O objetivo central desta pesquisa é investigar como Paulo Leminski, em sua produção poética, manifesta consciência de linguagem sobre a forma do haicai e expressa nela sua sensibilidade. Especialmente, interroga até que ponto a poesia leminskiana revela a linha de pensamento construtora do haicai. Para orientar nossa reflexão acerca da poesia leminskiana, averiguamos distintos procedimentos presentes no haicai oriental, como a articulação com o gesto Zen, a visualidade das letras e palavras, o ritmo, o movimento, buscando apreendê-los na produção do poeta. A fundamentação teórico-crítica baseouse nos estudos de Caetano Veloso e do próprio Leminski sobre o contexto da época, assim como, para a reflexão sobre o hacai, nos de Ernest Fenollosa, Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz e Paulo Leminski. Selecionamos, para análise, poemas com diferentes procedimentos de construção, para que pudéssemos evidenciar sua pluralidade poética. Ao traduzir diferentes procedimentos imagéticos, o poeta constrói uma forma para o seu haicai brasileiro, ensinando a ver a forma de sua poesia
44
Gomes, Languisner. "ExpressÃes idiomÃticas: explorando as trilhas da geraÃÃo do sentido." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2009. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3910.
Full textAbstract:
As questÃes que nos levaram à investigaÃÃo do tema foram: (i) Quais sÃo os mecanismos envolvidos na geraÃÃo do sentido metafÃrico/literal das expressÃes idiomÃticas (EIs) e suas desconstruÃÃes pictÃricas (DPs)? (ii) Qual à o papel da metÃfora/mesclagem conceptual na geraÃÃo do sentido metafÃrico/literal entre as duas modalidades (EI verbal e DP nÃo-verbal)? e (iii) Qual à o papel das projeÃÃes congruentes e nÃo congruentes de cada uma das modalidades na geraÃÃo do sentido metafÃrico/literal? Para responder a esses questionamentos tivemos como objetivo principal descrever a estrutura interna da rede de integraÃÃo conceptual dos mecanismos responsÃveis pela geraÃÃo do sentido metafÃrico/literal das EIs e suas DPs e como objetivos especÃficos: (i) descrever e propor um modelo que revele a arquitetura interna da rede de integraÃÃo conceptual envolvida nos processos de geraÃÃo do sentido entre as duas modalidades (verbal e nÃo-verbal), (ii) descrever como processos de figuratividade e/ou literalidade participam nas modalidades verbal e nÃo-verbal e interferem na geraÃÃo do significado e (iii) propor um modelo que revele a estrutura interna do percurso gerativo do sentido das EIS e suas DPs nas redes de integraÃÃo conceptual. (RP). Para composiÃÃo do corpus da pesquisa foram selecionadas as seguintes obras: (a) A vaca foi pro brejo â the cow went to the swamp (FERNANDES, 2001) e (b) Pequeno DicionÃrio de ExpressÃes IdiomÃticas (ZOCCHIO; BALARDIN, 1999). Da obra de Fernandes (2001) foram escolhidas as expressÃes (1) âo bom cabrito nÃo berraâ, (2) ânÃo ter papas na lÃnguaâ e (3) âsà falam abobrinhasâ; de Zocchio e Ballardin (1999), a expressÃo âengolir sapoâ. Para atingirmos nossos objetivos, tomamos como base os postulados da Teoria da IntegraÃÃo Conceptual (FAUCONNIER; TURNER, 2003) e da Teoria da MetÃfora Conceptual de Lakoff e Johnson (1980, 1999). A partir das anÃlises, o modelo projetado da estrutura interna das redes de integraÃÃo conceptual revelou que a inter-relaÃÃo entre EI e sua RP permite uma multiplicidade de projeÃÃes que participam na geraÃÃo do sentido. O modelo tambÃm permite ampliar as relaÃÃes conceptuais gerando diferentes mesclagens, de forma que a imagem em relaÃÃo à sua representaÃÃo verbal pode ser parcial ou totalmente congruente. O grau de (in)congruÃncia entre o literal e o idiomÃtico Ã, no continuum, decisivo para a determinaÃÃo do resultado mesclado. Foi possÃvel tornar evidente que hà uma estreita ligaÃÃo entre uma modalidade e a outra. Isso aponta para desvelar que a natureza do processamento da EI pode ser de base metafÃrica ou literal. Ainda com base nas anÃlises, o modelo de mesclagem proposto comprovou ser eficiente para a demonstraÃÃo da organizaÃÃo interna das redes na geraÃÃo do sentido, a partir da inter-relaÃÃo entre a representaÃÃo verbal e nÃo-verbal. Na estruturaÃÃo das redes entram em jogo as vÃrias projeÃÃes criativas e imaginativas, o que possibilita novas configuraÃÃes de sentido (re)construÃdo sucessivamente.We had some questions that have driven our investigation: (i) What are the mechanisms that are involved in the metaphorical/literal meaning generation of the idiomatic expressions (IE) and its pictorial representation (PR)?, (ii) What is the role of the conceptual metaphor/blending in the metaphorical/literal meaning generation between the two modalities (verbal IE and non-verbal PR)? And (iii) What is the role of the congruent projections of each modality in the metaphorical/literal meaning generation? To answer these questions we had a main objective: describe the internal structure of the conceptual integration network of the mechanisms responsible for the metaphorical/literal meaning generation of the idioms and its PRs and some specific objectives: (i) to describe, by use of a model, the internal structure of conceptual integration network and of the mechanisms involved in the generation of meaning of IEs and their PRs; (ii) to describe the figurative and/or literal process that interferes in the meaning generation and (iii) propose a model that demonstrates the internal structure of the IE meaning generation and its PRs in the conceptual integration network.. The following works had been selected to compose the research corpus: (a) A vaca foi pro brejo â the cow went to the swamp (FERNANDES, 2001) and (b) Pequeno DicionÃrio de ExpressÃes IdiomÃticas (ZOCCHIO; BALARDIN, 1999). From the work by Fernandes (2001), the expressions (1) âo bom cabrito nÃo berraâ, (2) ânÃo ter papas na lÃnguaâ e (3) âsà falam abobrinhasâ were selected; from Zocchio and Balardin (1999), the IE âengolir sapoâ. In order to reach our objectives, we based our research on the postulates of the Theory of Conceptual Integration (FAUCONNIER; TURNER, 2003) and on Lakoff and Johnsonâs (1980, 1999) Theory of Conceptual Metaphor. With the analyses as a starting point, the designed model of the internal structure of conceptual integration networks revealed that the interrelation between the IE and its PR allows a multiplicity of projections which contribute to the generation of meaning. The model also allows the expansion of conceptual relationships, generating different blends, so that the image, in terms of its verbal representation, may be partially or totally congruent. The degree of (in)congruence between the literal and the idiomatic is, in a continuum, decisive for the determination of the blended result. It was possible to show that there is a close connection between one modality and the other. This suggests that the nature of the processing of an IE may have a metaphorical or literal basis. Still based on the analyses, our model of blends proved to be efficient to demonstrate the internal organization of the nets in the generation of meaning, from the interrelation between verbal and non-verbal representation. In the designing of the networks, the various creative and imaginative projections come into play, which allows for new configurations of meaning to be successively (re)constructed.
45
Ricci, Adiel Queiroz. "O processamento psicolinguístico da metáfora: um estudo experimental no PB." Niterói, 2017. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/3838.
Full textAbstract:
Submitted by Fabiano Vassallo (fabianovassallo2127@gmail.com) on 2017-05-15T18:29:58Z
No. of bitstreams: 2
license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5)
RICCI_Adiel__O_processamento_psicolinguístico_da metáfora_um_estudo_experimental_no_PB.pdf: 2535918 bytes, checksum: 4c5a972843609c909a1ef4d2a6c087bc (MD5)Approved for entry into archive by Josimara Dias Brumatti (bcgdigital@ndc.uff.br) on 2017-06-12T17:59:31Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) RICCI_Adiel__O_processamento_psicolinguístico_da metáfora_um_estudo_experimental_no_PB.pdf: 2535918 bytes, checksum: 4c5a972843609c909a1ef4d2a6c087bc (MD5)
Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-12T17:59:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) RICCI_Adiel__O_processamento_psicolinguístico_da metáfora_um_estudo_experimental_no_PB.pdf: 2535918 bytes, checksum: 4c5a972843609c909a1ef4d2a6c087bc (MD5)
Universidade Severino Sombra, Letras, Vassouras, RJ
Um estudo experimental, inédito no português brasileiro (PB), do processamento psicolinguístico de metáforas nominais (“X é um Y”, por exemplo: “Irene é um furacão”) foi conduzido com o objetivo de evidenciar, com base em tempos de leitura, o processamento direto de metáforas familiares, high-apt (bem construídas) e convencionalizadas, de acordo com o que preconizam Glucksberg e cols. (GLUCKSBERG & KEYSAR, 1990; GLUCKSBERG, 1998; GLUCKSBERG, 2003) no modelo teórico de Class-inclusion (ou de inclusão em categoria). Na primeira fase da pesquisa, realizaram-se dois norming studies (ou estudos normativos) para o ranqueamento de metáforas (por exemplo: “Algumas mulheres são furacões”) em relação à “Familiaridade”, “Aptness” (ou adequação) e “Convencionalidade”. Na segunda fase da pesquisa, realizou-se um experimento de leitura automonitorada (self-paced, non-cumulative, moving-window reading), recorrendo, para a composição dos estímulos, às metáforas que alcançaram ratings de “muito familiares”, “very high-apt’’ e “altamente convencionalizadas”. Oferecendo evidências do PB de processamento direto de metáforas – conforme preconiza o modelo Classinclusion de Glucksberg e cols. – não se observaram diferenças significativas entre os tempos de leitura das metáforas nominais, expressões equivalentes de significado literal e declarações literais de inclusão em classe, em contraposição aos achados de Janus & Bever (1985), que observaram tempos de leitura de metáforas novas significativamente maiores do que os de expressões literais, de acordo com as predições do Modelo Pragmático Padrão de processamento indireto, em três estágios (SEARLE, 1993 [1979])
An experimental, unprecedented study in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), the psycholinguistic processing nominal metaphors ("X is a Y", e.g., "Irene is a hurricane") was conducted in order to demonstrate, based on reading times, the direct processing of familiar, high-apt (well-constructed) and conventionalized metaphors, according to what Glucksberg et al. (GLUCKSBERG & KEYSAR, 1990; GLUCKSBERG, 1998; GLUCKSBERG, 2003) defend in the theoretical model of Class-inclusion (or inclusion in category). In the first phase of the research, two norming studies were performed in order to rank metaphors (e.g., "Some women are hurricanes") regarding "Familiarity", "Aptness" and "Conventionality". In the second phase of the research, a self-monitored reading experiment (self-paced, noncumulative, moving-window reading) was carried out, using the metaphors previously rated as "very familiar", "very high-apt '' and "highly conventionalized" for the composition of the stimuli. Providing evidence of direct metaphors processing BP – not unlike the Class-inclusion model of Glucksberg et al. – there were no statistically significant differences between the reading times of nominal metaphors, of equivalent literal meaning expressions and of literal statements of class inclusion, in opposition to the findings of Janus & Bever (1985), who observed significantly higher reading times of novel metaphors rather than that of literal expressions, according to the predictions of the three-stage Standard Pragmatic model of indirect processing (SEARLE 1993 [1979])
46
Caramuru, Anna Carolina de Azevedo. "A metrópole em cena: As metáforas do teatro e do cinema em Cidade de Vidro de Paul Auster e Sinédoque Nova York de Charlie Kaufman." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3173.
Full textAbstract:
A metáfora do mundo como um palco está presente no imaginário humano há muitos séculos, o que se pode ver nas obras artísticas e filosóficas, de Cícero a Shakespeare: o mundo é representação. O presente estudo propõe-se a analisar interdisciplinamente os desdobramentos das metáforas do teatro e do cinema, na exploração do espaço da metrópole, tendo como corpus o romance Cidade de Vidro, de Paul Auster (1999) e a narrativa fílmica Sinédoque Nova York, de Charlie Kaufman (2008). Para tal, procuramos os teóricos da metáfora, tendo como principal deles Hans Blumenberg, fundador da Metaforologia, Paul Ricoeur e Derrida, em estudos especialmente dedicados a essa figura de linguagem. As metáforas, contudo, se realizam em um determinado espaço, o da metrópole, e para nos guiarmos em seus caminhos, elegemos os estudiosos da nova geografia cultural, dentre os quais Paul Claval, Mathias Le Bossé e Denis Cosgrove. Na correlação da cidade com o teatro, apontaremos a própria história da criação do teatro ocidental como o principal ponto de partida para as ramificações de tal mimetismo. Para o estudo específico do espaço da metrópole, contamos com Walter Benjamin e seus seguidores. Os estudos benjaminianos serão também de vital importância para a compreensão da relação entre cinema e metrópole, relação essa que também foi aclarada pelo questionamento de Nietzsche sobre a verdade. Não foi nossa intenção comparar as obras aqui analisadas em seus planos narratológicos, mas articular dois textos regidos por códigos e procedimentos artísticos parecidos, mas, ainda assim diferentes. Buscamos apontar como as relações teatrais e cinemáticas na metrópole, fragmentada como o próprio homem que nela se perde, provocam uma suspensão da fronteira entre realidade e ficçãoThe metaphor of the world as a stage has been present in human imagination for centuries. This can be seen in the artistic and philosophical works from Cicero to Shakespeare: the world is representation. This study aims to examine, in an interdisciplinary way, the ramifications of the metaphors of the theatre and the cinema, exploring the space of the metropolis. The corpus for the study consists of the novel City of Glass by Paul Auster (1999) and the filmic narrative Synecdoche New York by Charlie Kaufman (2008). To this end, we present theorists of the metaphor, having as the main source Hans Blumenberg, the founder of Metaphorology, Paul Ricoeur and Derrida, especially the studies that focus on this figure of speech. Metaphors, however, take place in a certain space, the metropolis, and to be guided in their ways, we elected the new cultural geography researchers, Paul Claval, Mathias Le Bossé and Denis Cosgrove among them. For the relation between the city and the theatre, we consider the creation story of the western theatre as the main starting point for the ramifications of such mimicry. To study the specific space of the metropolis, we count on Walter Benjamin and his followers. Benjaminian studies will also be of vital importance for our understanding of the relationship between the cinema and the metropolis. That relationship has also been explained in Nietzches questioning of the truth. It was not our intention to compare the works analyzed here in their narratology plans and techniques. Rather, we aimed at relating two texts governed by similar but yet different codes and artistic procedures. We seek to show how theatrical and cinematic relations in the metropolis, fragmented as the man lost in it, cause a suspension of the border between reality and fiction
47
Lemos, Sandra Maria Fontinha de. "O realismo do romance contemporâneo de Bernardo de Carvalho: uma narrativa labiríntica em abismo." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14736.
Full textAbstract:
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
Sandra Maria Fontinha de Lemos.pdf: 666400 bytes, checksum: bb556759d39af6bc2c85747eaa036b1e (MD5)
Previous issue date: 2014-04-29This academic research clings to the analysis of the novel O Sol Se Põe Em São Paulo, by Bernardo Carvalho as a representative sample of the Brazilian contemporary novel. In this paper we intend to show the features that define the different phases of the genre and the features which are still being used in the contemporary novel. For that we tried to understand the architectural-narrative of the corpus s text, decode what kind of conundrum the novel deals with and what kind of issues have the characters faced. All these issues are previously established as a basis to a hypothesis namely, the echogenic analysis of the text. We studied the process of the text production taking into consideration the wiles used by Bernardo Carvalho and that he took as stratagem to echo reflection, as an art craft amplifier. We acknowledge that these art crafts work as a mirrored system repeating the same function. Another subject analyzed in this paper is the role and the function of the voices, its interaction. We tried to pinpoint the fact that all the wiles used by the author follow the same stratagem, the same objective and that although these wiles had being used before, separately, they represent the idea that contemporary literature speaks of: that is an egotic literature. To sustain the critical-theorical foundation upon which this thesis is structured we chose some authors: Mikhail Bakhtin, Clement Rosset, Otto Rank, Lucien Dallenbach, Tzvetan Todorov, Michel de Certeau, and Merleau Ponty, among others. Along these three chapters we developed a cohesive text in which we could put up with the proposed theories and themes in accordance with the Bernardo Carvalho`s novel we analized. It stood out how the duplication, the mise en abyme and the exotopy reverberate, by the voice and the word, throughout the text drawing a realistic image in this contemporary novel
Esta pesquisa atém-se ao estudo do romance O Sol se põe em São Paulo, de Bernardo Carvalho, como um representante do romance brasileiro contemporâneo. Pretende-se mostrar os traços que marcaram as diferentes etapas do desenvolvimento do gênero e que ainda se mantêm no romance contemporâneo. Para tanto buscou-se entender a arquinarrativa da escritura do corpus analisado e decifrar de que tipo de enigma se trata e que problemática enfrentam suas personagens. Todas estas questões se colocam previamente como fundamento para a hipótese do trabalho que é a análise ecogênica da escritura do texto. A pesquisa do processo de produção da escritura leva em conta os artifícios usados por Bernardo Carvalho, que tomamos como artifício de propagação de eco, como artifícios amplificadores. Artifícios esses que entendemos funcionar como um sistema espelhado repetindo a mesma função. Outro assunto abordado nesta pesquisa é o papel e a posição das vozes, sua interação. Ressaltamos o fato de que os artifícios usados pelo autor seguem todos a mesma diretriz, o mesmo objetivo e que embora já tenham sido usados em separado, anteriormente, eles representam a literatura egótica contemporânea. Para dar suporte conceitual ao núcleo teórico-crítico deste estudo fundamentamo-nos em: Mikhail Bakhtin, Clement Rosset, Otto Rank, Lucien Dallenbach, Tzvetan Todorov, Michel de Certeau e Merleau Ponty, dentre outros. No desenvolvimento dos três capítulos colocamos as teorias e os temas propostos em diálogo com o romance de Bernardo Carvalho que analisamos, e demonstramos como a duplicação, a exotopia e o mise en abyme (artifícios ecogênicos) se propagam pela voz e pela palavra por toda escritura, desenhando uma imagem realista neste romance contemporâneo
48
Nogueira, Sandra Helena Gonçalves. "Uma abordagem de ensino de leitura crítica: implicações para a formação identitária de leitores." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13482.
Full textAbstract:
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
Sandra Helena Goncalves Nogueira.pdf: 2563411 bytes, checksum: 48a4db08444370d884e9047759981273 (MD5)
Previous issue date: 2010-10-15Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo
This thesis focuses on the study of reading comprehension of literary texts by means of the practice of group think-aloud (Zanotto, 1998), thus allowing for the creation of room for critical reading to take place by students of the 8th grade Elementary School in Sao Paulo. Since literary texts often present metaphors, and considering that a number of Brazilian public schools do not train students on such reading abilities (Kleiman, 1998), I sought deeper theoretical background on the new view of conceptual metaphor (Lakoff & Turner,1989) with the aim of contributing to the development of reading comprehension of literary texts. The research carried out followed the critical action research methodology (Kincheloe, 1997), within the qualitative research paradigm, interpretative in nature (Bortoni-Ricardo, 2008). The investigation focused on my own actions as a mediator of the students voices whilst these were thinking aloud in groups on the subjects of the literary texts being interpreted in the classroom. The instruments used to collect data were the technique of group think aloud as well as reflective diaries. Data analysis investigated the paths taken by the students of this Elementary School class, considering the importance of metaphors as revealing instances of the human aptitude for making sense (Steen, 1994), and taking into account that the reader, within their cultural context, has the subjective freedom to understand the metaphoric effect. The school universe, stage of great cultural diversity, is the appropriate environment for the development of the social, cultural and identity nature of the students. Results show the mechanisms employed by the readers to understand and interpret the texts that develop the students critical reading. Results also show that the group think-aloud fostered spaces for the argumentation of ideas, besides stimulating the reflection of aspects of identity, and facilitating the understanding of the metaphors found in the literary texts
Este trabalho está centrado no estudo da leitura e da interpretação de textos literários por meio da prática do pensar alto em grupo (Zanotto, 1998), propiciando, assim, espaços de leitura crítica feita por alunos da 8ª série do Ensino Fundamental. Como os textos literários apresentam muitas metáforas e boa parte das escolas públicas brasileiras não capacita seus alunos para as habilidades de leitura (Kleiman, 1998), busquei um maior aprofundamento da nova visão da metáfora conceptual (Lakoff & Turner,1989) com o objetivo de contribuir para o desenvolvimento da leitura e compreensão de textos literários. Desenvolvi a pesquisa-ação crítica (Kincheloe, 1997) com metodologia qualitativa, de natureza interpretativista (Bortoni-Ricardo, 2008), focalizando minha ação como mediadora das vozes do alunos pensando alto, em grupo, sobre a interpretação de textos literários em sala de aula. Os instrumentos utilizados para a coleta de dados foram a técnica do pensar alto em grupo e o diário reflexivo. A análise de dados investigou o caminho percorrido pelos alunos do Ensino Fundamental, considerando a importância da metáfora como uma instância reveladora da capacidade humana de fazer sentido (Steen, 1994), levando em conta que o leitor inserido em um contexto cultural possui liberdade subjetiva para compreender o efeito metafórico. O universo escolar, palco de grande diversidade cultural, é o ambiente propício para o desenvolvimento da natureza social, cultural e identitária dos alunos. Os resultados mostram os mecanismos usados pelos leitores para a compreensão e interpretação dos textos que colaboraram no desenvolvimento da leitura crítica dos alunos no qual o pensar alto em grupo propiciou espaços para a argumentação de ideias, estimulou a reflexão de aspectos identitários e facilitou a compreensão das metáforas contidas nos textos literários
49
Swift, Adam Glen. "Mapping posthuman discourse and the evolution of living information." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16439/.
Full textAbstract:
The discourse that surrounds and constitutes the post-human emerged as a response to earlier claims of an essential or universal human or human nature. These discussions claim that the human is a discursive construct that emerges from various configurations of nature, embodiment, technology, and culture, configurations that have also been variously shaped by the forces of social history. And in the absence of an essential human figure, post-human discourses suggest that there are no restrictions or limitations on how the human can be reconfigured. This axiom has been extended in light of a plethora of technological reconfigurations and augmentations now potentially available to the human, and claims emerge from within this literature that these new technologies constitute a range of possibilities for future human biological evolution. This thesis questions the assumption contained within these discourses that technological incursions or reconfigurations of the biological human necessarily constitute human biological or human social evolution by discussing the role the evolution theories plays in our understanding of the human, the social, and technology. In this thesis I show that, in a reciprocal process, evolution theory draws metaphors from social institutions and ideologies, while social institutions and ideologies simultaneously draw on metaphors from evolution theory. Through this discussion, I propose a form of evolution literacy; a tool, I argue, is warranted in developing a sophisticated response to changes in both human shape and form. I argue that, as a whole, our understanding of evolution constitutes a metanarrative, a metaphor through which we understand the place of the human within the world; it follows that historical shifts in social paradigms will result in new definitions of evolution. I show that contemporary evolution theory reflects parts of the world as codified informatic systems of associated computational network logic through which the behaviour of participants is predefined according to an evolved or programmed structure. Working from within the discourse of contemporary evolution theory I develop a space through which a version of the post-human figure emerges. I promote this version of the post-human as an Artificial Intelligence computational programme or autonomous agent that, rather than seeking to replace, reduce or deny the human subject, is configured as an exosomatic supplement to and an extension of the biological human.
50
Beserra, José Rogério. "A imagem no romance Água viva de Clarice Lispector." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14846.
Full textAbstract:
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:59:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
Jose Rogerio Beserra.pdf: 298707 bytes, checksum: 2efaeeb78069c69779849d86256b71e7 (MD5)
Previous issue date: 2008-04-29Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo
The objective of this essay is to analyze how the traditional narrative is surpassed by the paradigms from the novel ÁGUA VIVA, by Clarice Lispector, which provides the relationship between prose and proetry languages derived from heterogeneous genders. This way we have to emphasize some features (aspects) like the lack of narrative element functioning, which shows unsteadiness, in the current literature; the lyricism as the rhythm builder principle; the poetical image where the word is taken to zero degree . The essay is composed by three chapters, in which the character´s dialogical-discursive processing in the modern novel has been approached as well as the rhythm builder processing and the plurality of the image, considering that the words have no meaning (their meanings were ignored). We are have shown that these thematic subjects are aggregated by their metaphorical images tied with the multi-meaning words. For the analytical-interpretative passage, we based on Bakhtin, Barthes, Segolin, Santaella, Pearce, Sá (and others) besides some works on Clarice Lispector
Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar a superação dos paradigmas da narrativa tradicional a partir do romance ÁGUA VIVA, de Clarice Lispector, que articula as relações entre as linguagens da prosa e da poesia, num hibridismo de gêneros. Para isso, fizemos um recorte em torno de alguns aspectos, como a desfuncionalização dos elementos da narrativa em uma literatura atual, feita de instabilidade; o lirismo como princípio construtor do ritmo; e a imagem poética, ou seja, a palavra levada ao grau zero . As questões foram discutidas nos três capítulos que compõem a dissertação, em que abordamos o processo dialógico-discursivo da personagem no romance moderno, o processo de construção do ritmo e a pluralidade da imagem, analisada pelo viés da palavra esvaziada de significados. Mostramos que essas temáticas integram-se pelo emprego das imagens metafóricas vinculadas à palavra polissêmica. Nesse percurso analítico-interpretativo, recorremos, entre outros, a Bakhtin, Barthes, Segolin, Santaella, Paz, Sá, além de trabalhos sobre a obra de Clarice Lispector