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Juozapavičius, Algimantas. "Symbolic computation: systems and applications." Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control 3 (December 3, 1998): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/na.1998.3.0.15257.
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The article presents an overview of symbolic computation systems, their classification-in-history, the most popular CAS, examples of systems and some of their applications. Symbolics versus numeric, enhancement in mathematics, computing nature of CAS, related projects, networks, references are discussed.
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Jagannathan, Suresh, and Stephen Weeks. "Analyzing stores and references in a parallel symbolic language." ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers VII, no. 3 (July 1994): 294–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/182590.182493.
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Kobayashi, Harumi, Tetsuya Yasuda, Hiroshi Igarashi, and Satoshi Suzuki. "Language Use in Joint Action: The Means of Referring Expressions." International Journal of Social Robotics 12, no. 5 (January 13, 2018): 1021–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-017-0462-3.
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Abstract This study examined how human–human collaboration can be achieved through an exchange of verbal information in exchanging information about the referents in a joint action. Knowing other people’s referential intention is fundamental for joint action. Joint action can be achieved verbally by two types of referring expressions, namely, symbolic and deictic referring expressions. Using corpus data, we extracted nouns as typical symbolic references and demonstratives as typical deictic references. We examined whether the word usage of these terms changed when the robot vehicles controlled by the participants repeatedly performed the same collaborative task. We used a novel virtual space for the task because we wanted to control the common ground shared by the participants. The results of the performance indicate that the task completion became more efficient as the participants repeated the task. The referential word use was reduced in both symbolic and deictic references, and this reduction occurred with a grounding process among the collaborators. The study showed that reduction of referential expressions occurs with the grounding process in human–human collaboration and suggests that appropriate collaborative robot systems must deal with the reduction process of referencing in humans.
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Migueles, Carmen Pires, and Marco Tulio Fundão Zanini. "The volitional nature of motivation and cultural creativity: an anthropological investigation." Cadernos EBAPE.BR 16, no. 3 (September 2018): 355–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1679-395168923.
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Abstract: We examine the volitional, non-rational nature of motivation and its impact on symbolic production at work. Based on a ethnographic study on a Brazilian special police force we argue that institutional stability and stable symbolic frames of references have long been taken for granted in studies of motivation, thus leaving aside the role of aesthetical demand in producing active symbolic elaboration at work. Unstable institutional frames of reference are relevant to understand the efforts of internal integration, identity building and relations of alterity at work. In this sense, this article has the main objective of contributing to the studies on intrinsic motivation within organizations.
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Mihaela Alexandra, Tudor, and Bratosin Stefan. "French Media Representations towards Sustainability: Education and Information through Mythical-Religious References." Sustainability 12, no. 5 (March 9, 2020): 2095. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12052095.
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The present article aims to analyze the representations and the role of symbolic forms of mythical-religious thought in the mediatization of sustainability. A main corpus of items, composed of the media information and news offer covered by the mainstream French media, and a secondary corpus, as important, related to Francophone scientific articles, was considered. The study, conducted on French media news referenced by the Google search engine between 2009 and 2018, highlights a production of secular meaning of sustainability through mythical-religious references, a growth in the spiritualization of media content of the journalistic offer on sustainability, and the hegemony of the media, the omnipotence of the mediatized thing producing “an effect of Church” by legitimizing a certain “truth” of the information.
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Lewandowski, Piotr. "Soft power Rzeczypospolitej w Inicjatywie Trójmorza." Sprawy Międzynarodowe 73, no. 2 (December 21, 2020): 125–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/sm.2020.73.2.01.
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This article discusses Polish cultural and historical resources and soft power potential, which take the form of a reservoir of symbolic references to the Polish Republic [Rzeczpospolita]. The article includes the theoretical framework of soft power, referring to the idea of the Three Seas Initiative. It presents a scheme of Polish potential and cultural and symbolic resources. The author explores the presence of Polish soft power resources and activities in the Three Seas Initiative by analysing political events, documents and speeches.
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Distler, Werner. "The Authority–Identity Relation: Symbolic References and Interpretative Authority in Postwar Kosovo." Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 11, no. 4 (October 2, 2017): 429–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2017.1385235.
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Seeliger, Martin, and Katharina Knüttel. "„Ihr habt alle reiche Eltern, also sagt nicht, ‚Deutschland hat kein Ghetto!‘“." PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 40, no. 160 (September 1, 2010): 395–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v40i160.384.
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Gangstarap-images recently have become an important part of the German everyday entertainment culture. Underlying a mode of construction shaped by a current discourse about migrant masculinities and juvenile delinquency, these images derive from references to the speakers ethnic and class-background and their enactment of certain body norms. By approaching these cultural forms from an intersectional perspective, we show two (complementary) ways of interpretation: Thus they can be seen as a way to update hegemonic masculinity by the speakers, as well as references to be used in a scandalizing manner for the cause of a symbolic ‘class war’.
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Dumitrica, Delia. "“Chuck Norris, Please Help!” Transnational Cultural Flows in the 2017 Anti-Corruption Protests in Romania." Media and Communication 9, no. 3 (September 13, 2021): 439–248. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i3.4260.
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This study examines the meaning-making work of transnational cultural references in protest. Whether using the image of the superhero or re-mixing a famous painting, the presence of such references in home-made protest placards was a striking feature of the 2017 anti-corruption protests in Romania. By means of a qualitative analysis of 58 such signs, this study identifies five types of transnational cultural resources co-opted in the local protest: politics, high and popular culture, brand names, computer culture, and other motivational slogans and protest symbols. Such references are appropriated in local protest for their recognizability potential, their generic interpretive frames, or their usefulness in generating surprising re-iterations of the political cause. Yet, the use of such references remains interwoven with the symbolic and political capital of professional, middle-class elites. In the Romanian case, the use of these transnational cultural references also constructs the protesters as cosmopolitan and aligned with Western cultural consumption and political practices. In turn, this frames political opponents as backwards, parochial, and unfit for democratic politics.
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Darragh, Neil. "The Distortion of Christian Ritual." Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies 6, no. 1 (February 1993): 21–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1030570x9300600102.
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Although we normally expect christian liturgies to have benevolent effects on the participants, this may not always be the case. Christian rituals may not only fail to achieve their intended purpose, they may also suffer from distortion, with harmful results. Two kinds of distortion may be distinguished here: “recipient distortion”, which arises from defects in the recipients of the ritual action; and “symbolic distortion”, which arises from within the patterns of the ritual symbols themselves. We need to attend to strategies of detection and correction, particularly for symbolic distortion. The extensive footnotes to this article constitute a sub-text in themselves: this is a deliberate choice on the part of the author in order to separate basic argument from illustration, comment, and useful references.
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Mulyoso, Mulyoso. "Semiotic of Symbolic Mode in Interpreting Mythology in English Poetry." TEFLIN Journal - A publication on the teaching and learning of English 10, no. 1 (August 29, 2015): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.15639/teflinjournal.v10i1/63-74.
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This paper is primarily based on the assumption that we need theories of literature in order to interpret the literary texts and explain literature as a unique form of communication. The so -- far traditional efforts of treating literary study as an intuitive analysis has contributed to the harsh criticism on the study of literature as merely ' the reading and understanding of literature'. Literature teaching has given too much emphasis on the enjoying and understanding of a literary piece, that is to say that merely by understanding the meaning of the language of a text, its cultural references, one is said to be in a position to respond critically to that text thus there is no need for interpretation beyond that. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to interpret a literary text (mythology in English poetry) beyond its literal level by the use of semiotics of symbolic mode approach which allows the intratextual and intratextual analysis.
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Lapunzina, Alejandro. "The pyramid and the wall: an unknown project of Le Corbusier in Venezuela." Architectural Research Quarterly 5, no. 3 (September 2001): 255–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135501001300.
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In 1951, Le Corbusier designed a funerary chapel in Caracas to honour the memory of Colonel Carlos Delgado-Chalbaud, the recently assassinated president of the Venezuelan military junta. This enigmatic project – unknown until now – provides an interesting insight into Le Corbusier's use of architectural references and their layers of symbolic meaning. Most documents have mysteriously disappeared, but the few remaining have allowed the project to be reconstructed rather accurately.
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Kádár, István. "The Optimization of a Symbolic Execution Engine for Detecting Runtime Errors." Acta Cybernetica 23, no. 2 (2017): 573–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/actacyb.23.2.2017.9.
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In a software system, most of the runtime failures may come to light only during test execution, and this may have a very high cost. To help address this problem, a symbolic execution engine called RTEHunter, which has been developed at the Department of Software Engineering at the University of Szeged, is able to detect runtime errors (such as null pointer dereference, bad array indexing, division by zero) in Java programs without actually running the program in a real-life environment. Applying the theory of symbolic execution, RTEHunter builds a tree, called a symbolic execution tree, composed of all the possible execution paths of the program. RTEHunter detects runtime issues by traversing the symbolic execution tree and if a certain condition is fulfilled the engine reports an issue. However, as the number of execution paths increases exponentially with the number of branching points, the exploration of the whole symbolic execution tree becomes impossible in practice. To overcome this problem, different kinds of constraints can be set up over the tree. E.g. the number of symbolic states, the depth of the execution tree, or the time consumption could be restricted. Our goal in this study is to find the optimal parametrization of RTEHunter in terms of the maximum number of states, maximum depth of the symbolic execution tree and search strategy in order to find more runtime issues in a shorter time. Results on three open-source Java systems demonstrate that more runtime issues can be detected in the 0 to 60 basic block-depth levels than in deeper ones within the same time frame. We also developed two novel search strategies for traversing the tree based on the number of null pointer references in the program and on linear regression that performs better than the default depth-first search strategy.
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Hughes, Caroline. "The Politics of Gifts: Tradition and Regimentation in Contemporary Cambodia." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 37, no. 3 (August 30, 2006): 469–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463406000749.
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This paper seeks to elucidate the symbolic and coercive dimensions of gift-giving in contemporary Cambodia. It is argued that gift-giving is enacted in such a way as to make self-conscious references to aspects of Cambodian ‘tradition’, but that these references are less important, in compelling assent, than the overt sense of threat that accompanies the donation of gifts. It is argued that the hitching of traditions of giving to mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion is widely rejected as lacking in any kind of cultural legitimacy, but that there are few opportunities available for the poor to make such rejection explicit. In this circumstance, acceptance of practices of regimentation as ‘traditional’ represents a strategy of surrender, rather than a culturally induced response.
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Li, Yan. "The Perception to the Symbolic Meaning in Landscape Designing." Advanced Materials Research 671-674 (March 2013): 2792–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.671-674.2792.
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It is believe that the experience of landscape for people is the complex content in many ways, which is based on the sight people looks, the body perception and the experienced aesthetic object are regarded as the landscape, yet, what the focus of the landscape perception researches has changed from biology to social culture as the foundation. This paper points out that the landscape is not only a space place, but also can reflect people's ideology, moreover, landscape is even more a kind of meaning experience foe people. Using Saussure 's Signifier and Signified Theory and Pierce's three theory of types to discuss the meaning of the landscape symbol, the landscape is regarded as a symbolic text, referring to the relationship between signifier and signified, emphasizing on the landscape symbols to show the meaning recognized by the audiences by means of the the specific form. On this basis, the meaning representation of the landscape symbol can be divided into three types: image symbol, indexing symbol, symbolic sign, and points out the complexity of the symbol is the highest, which needs the viewer has the relevant cultural background. Finally this paper states the ambiguity and openness of the landscape significance, and the relationship with the context design, aiming to provide references and inspirations for the related designing.
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Fadlilah, Lilik. "FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE SCARLET LETTER." Jo-ELT (Journal of English Language Teaching) Fakultas Pendidikan Bahasa & Seni Prodi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris IKIP 4, no. 1 (February 28, 2020): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.33394/jo-elt.v4i1.2438.
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The purpose of this witing is to give a brief understandable of figurative language used in the Scarlet Letter novel and add references to undertand the social value and its implication. Figurative language that stated in the novel connects any object or character to a symbolic meaning through simile, metaphor, allusion, or personification. Hawthorne’s main device for communicating his message in The Scarlet Letter is figurative language that make the story flew strongly and has a highly stylized symbolic fable.The tight structure and figurative language of the novel is like walking in to many-sided of mirrors where we see every fact in unending succession of relation to every other fact. In other side, this writing can be used to broader knowledge about stylistics that it is reliable or recommended strategy in teaching linguistics and literature.
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Janeczko, Karolina. "INTERPRETATION OF SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS AS A METHOD OF PERSONALISING GUIDE NARRATION (on the Example of Analysis Regarding Zoomorphic Symbols in the Selected Emblems of Tenement Houses in Kraków)." Folia Turistica 52 (September 30, 2019): 139–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.2647.
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Purpose. Identification of the author's interpretation of the symbolic representations of zoomorphic character as a developmental and attractive method of enriching the interpretation of historical heritage in the work of a city tour-guide and the independent planning of thematic sightseeing routes for various groups of the customers. Methods. Historical and cultural analysis of the function and essence of selected semantic symbols as a scientific interpretation of the semiological and pragmatic pattern. Findings. The analysis showed rich, symbolic “capacity” and attractiveness of the zoomorphic symbolic representations in the architecture of old-town Krak ów for the purposes of tour guiding. Research and conclusions limitations. Due to logistical constraints, analysis concerns the centre of old-town Krakow, with a few references to particularly interesting representaions outside the city centre. Practical implications. The author's symbolic interpretation of the cultural heritage presented in this text can be practically used as a market-competitive form of personalising guide narration. It is also important that it can be successfully applied to work with tourists of any age. Originality. The article combines historical and artistic analysis as well as practical and methodological aspects. Ready examples and proposals can be a non-standard and interesting vademecum, especially forbeginning city tour-guides. Type of paper. A review and didactic article, presenting the author's methods of the guide narration from a practical eprspective.
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Simurra, Ivan, and Rodrigo Borges. "Analysis of Ligeti’s Atmosphères by Means of Computational and Symbolic Resources." Revista Música 21, no. 1 (July 27, 2021): 369–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/rm.v21i1.188846.
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We report a music analysis study of Atmosphères (1961) from György Ligeti, combining symbolic information retrieved from the musical score and audio descriptors extracted from the audio recording. The piece was elected according to the following criteria: (a) it is a music composition based on sound transformations associated to motions on the global timbre; (b) its conceptual creative intercourse makes direct references to electronic music and sound/timbre techniques from the ancient Renaissance Music; and (c) its sonorities are explored by means of variations on the timbre contrast. From the symbolic analysis perspective, Atmosphères’ timbre content can be discussed considering the entanglement of individual characteristics of musical instruments. The computational method approaches the musical structure from an empirical perspective and is based on clustering techniques. We depart from previous studies, and this time we focus on the novelty curve calculated from the spectral content extracted from the piece recording. Our findings indicate that novelty curve can be associate with five specific clusters, and regarding the symbolic music analysis, three leading music features can be argued: (a) instrumentation changes; (b) distinct pitch chromatic set locations and (c) intensity dynamic fluctuations.
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Gauthier, François. "Rave and religion? A contemporary youth phenomenon as seen through the lens of religious studies." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 33, no. 3-4 (September 2004): 397–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842980403300307.
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This article examines the contemporary phenomenon of raves. Although explicit religious references abound in rave culture and also in scholarly interpretations of raves, these references are generally analogous and avoid direct mention of "religion" proper. In this article, we apply the theory of displacement of religious experience and the sacred to draw out the structural and phenomenological religious homology of raves and set the study of this youth phenomenon and the subculture which surrounds it firmly within the field of religious studies. We also propose avenues for further investigation. The article begins with a brief history and definition of "rave." Then it turns to the symbolic and religious references found in raves as well as the meanings both participants and commentators attribute to this phenomenon. Third, it presents and discusses the ritual structure of rave, using the theory of the mechanism and dynamics of the transgression-fuelled festal ritual ( la fête), as defined by Georges Bataille. Its purpose is to contribute to an understanding of how contemporary religious economy develops, particularly a religious economy that concerns a now largely secularized youth.
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Faustino, Maria João. "Digital Pygmalion: the symbolic and visual construction of the feminine in CoverDoll online magazine." Comunicação e Sociedade 32 (December 29, 2017): 251–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.32(2017).2760.
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This study aims to question and problematize the construction of gendered meanings and visual codes in the digital context. Rooted in the theoretical framework of cyberfemism, it analyzes the visual and linguistic content of CoverDoll, a monthly e-zine thematically devoted to sex dolls. The Pygmalion myth is proposed as the symbolic framework of CoverDoll, since the linguistic and pictorial devices that support a simulated subjectivity seem to reproduce its main backdrop: the feminine is constructed as alterity and a product of male desire. The analysis of CoverDoll’s portfolio and fictional discourses suggests the persistence of symbolic and aesthetical conventions despite technological ruptures. The operating mechanisms in the tradition of painting described by John Berger seem resiliently translated into the visual construction of the feminine in CoverDoll: the portrayed feminine figure addresses a masculine voyeur which is absent from the picture. The camera replaces the mirror as a symbolic device of the projected female’s narcissism, as the multiple references to the camera in the fictional discourses forge the idea of female vanity. The images displayed overall eroticize and objectify the artificial female bodies. The fictional narratives mobilize and intertwine a set of stereotypes that associate femininity with futility, seduction and caring.
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Cerroni, Andrea, and Zenia Simonella. "Ethos and symbolic violence among women of science: An empirical study." Social Science Information 51, no. 2 (May 24, 2012): 165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018412437102.
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While scientific challenges raise relevant debates about the ethics of science, the scientific ethos, shattered by post-Mertonian studies, has received neither due attention nor further conceptualizations in view of the transition to knowledge society. On the contrary, in our investigation of Italian women scientists, it appears to have survived as a reference for scientists, even if the context has changed. Indeed, the ethos of scientists is no longer conceivable as exclusive, but is instead seen as open and dynamic in interaction with other symbolic references. Therefore, instead of scientific ethos, it is preferable to speak of scientific habit, including the individual symbolic universe and the social practices linked to the scientific role. In so doing, other habits come into focus and interact. In particular, we investigated the interaction between the scientific habit and the gender habit. We argue for a conflict between two such habits and for the existence of a symbolic violence suffered by women scientists. Lastly, a new dimension of the scientific ethos is defined which is not included in the Mertonian definition: a scientific responsibility among scientists in society. Such a picture could shape a new perspective of re-gendering science in society from the standpoint of women’s experience as scientists in the knowledge society.
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Chicoine, David. "Death and Religion in the Southern Moche Periphery: Funerary Practices at Huambacho, Nepeña Valley, Peru." Latin American Antiquity 22, no. 4 (December 2011): 525–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.22.4.525.
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AbstractThis article explores religion, death, and mortuary practices in the Southern Moche (A.D. 1-800) periphery as viewed through the excavation of grave contexts at the site of Huambacho, Nepeña Valley, Peru. Moche influence reached Nepeña as is visible in the construction of religious buildings at the site of Pañamarca and the presence of Moche style ceramics at several sites. In 2003 and 2004, scientific excavations at Huambacho, an Early Horizon center mainly built and occupied during the first millennium B.C., yielded a series of intrusive graves containing Gallinazo, Virú, and Moche style objects. This contribution contextualizes these discoveries and focuses on the analysis of funerary patterns of burial, osteological evidence, and symbolic meanings with the objective of understanding local funerary practices and Moche religious and cultural expressions. Symbolic references to coast-highland interactions, inversions in body positioning, and possible human sacrifices bring insights into the complex and potentially tense sociohistorical cirmcumstances in Nepeña during the Moche phase.
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Chomiuk, Aleksandra. "Między geografią a polityką. O pewnym międzywojennym dyskursie krajoznawczym." Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Cultura 2, no. 10 (2018): 55–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20837275.10.2.510.24917/.
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The subject of the article is a description of the geographical-political discourse entered in the interwar tourist series “The Wonders of Poland”. The descriptions of regions of the prewar Republic of Poland included in the individual volumes were subjected by the authors to the symbolic polonization, which reduced the national diversity of the Polish state to the ethnographic patchwork dimension. The disclosure of these ideological mechanisms was enabled in this article by references to the research assumptions of imaginative geography, politics of place and politics of memory.
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Lacey, Nicola, and Elizabeth Frazer. "Reply to Lowe." Politics 16, no. 2 (May 1996): 109–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.1996.tb00028.x.
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The concept ‘community’ is underspecified in the political theory literature – it must have a more specific reference than just some collectivity or some network of social relations. But attempts to specify what is specific about the relation of community are unsatisfactory. And references to ‘actual physical’ communities overlook the symbolic and imagined aspects of community, which furthermore destabilise putative communities as much as they stabilise them. Analysis of social relations and networks, and theories of what patterns of relations are conducive to human flourishing should deploy more precise sociological categories.
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Affolter, Hanspeter. "»Und was macht nicht alles einen Namen!«." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 43, no. 1 (June 5, 2018): 25–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iasl-2018-0002.
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AbstractThe following article deals with the relationship between names and their symbolic capital as a theme in Theodor Fontane’s Poggenpuhls. While the eponymous poor but noble family relies on its notable surname, different names were being popularized through advertising as part of the social and economic upheavals at the end of the 19th century. This rivalry between a genealogical and a primarily economic way of publicizing and valorizing names is not only present in the novel’s dialogues, with noteworthy references to highly popular contemporary firms, but is also part of its spatial setting.
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Dahl, Gudrun. "Wildflowers, Nationalism and the Swedish Law of Commons." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 2, no. 3 (1998): 281–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853598x00262.
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AbstractIn post-war Sweden, overt demonstrations of political nationalism have been considered bad taste. In middle-class culture, the construction and emotional charging of Swedishness have instead taken place in terms of an idiom of love for nature. Conceptions of freedom and equality are by this idiom tied up with symbolic references to childhood and to the flora of forests and meadows. The Swedish 'Every Man's Law' regulating access to flowers and berries and mobility in the natural landscape in this context comes to stand as a central national symbol.
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Boresch, Hans-Werner. ""alte Traum von alten Deutschland"." Die Musikforschung 52, no. 1 (September 22, 2021): 55–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.52412/mf.1999.h1.875.
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Similar to national feasts - e.g. the Wartburg Fest 1817 - German music festivals could be understood as symbolic politics: the masses of interpreters and listeners representing the German 'nation', the works, especially symhonies and oratorios, representing the 'greatness' of German culture (shown in texts by Wolfgang Robert Griepenkerl, Eduard Krüger, Robert Schumann). Mendelssohn's <Lobgesang>, first performed at the Leipzig Gutenberg Fest 1841, then one year later at the Düsseldorf music festival, is discussed as music for national feasts (with its references to the national 'heroes' Gutenberg, Luther, and Beethoven).
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Havas, Ádám. "The logic of distinctions in the Hungarian jazz field: a case study." Popular Music 39, no. 3-4 (December 2020): 619–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143020000537.
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AbstractThis study aims to make the contemporary Hungarian jazz field the focus of a sociological investigation, based on a critical reinterpretation of Bourdieu's relational theory of artistic fields. It aims to grasp the logic of symbolic distinctions by analysing the free/mainstream dichotomy. This dichotomy of historically constituted poles is understood as a system of structuring oppositions that play a decisive role in the position-takings and prestige-construction of jazz musicians. The analysis of qualitative data shows how different evaluations and interpretations of shared musical references are instrumentalised in order to occupy positions in the field. Further, this article argues that such a qualitative analysis of local jazz fields transcends the national context, since culturally hybrid jazz diasporas offer an excellent terrain for analysing how the circulation of transnational artistic references influences the cultural dynamism of local fields that are embedded within global networks of cultural production.
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Lecker, Robert. "Music in Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54, no. 2 (April 5, 2017): 273–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989417696123.
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Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero uses musical references to enhance our understanding of how the story’s characters inhabit time and place. The book’s three parts unfold against a varied musical backdrop that can be experienced as a kind of soundtrack. Although musical allusions appear in Ondaatje’s earlier work, Divisadero is marked by its range of musical references, which run from classical compositions to jazz, opera to rock ’n’ roll, reggae to blues and British new wave. This article examines the way music directs us to see different narrative options in each of the novel’s three parts. One impulse behind the narrative is to connect us to the immediate, to locate the story in mimetic terms that are rooted in the California and Nevada settings that form the backdrop to the first part of the book. The musical references in this part serve to reinforce this sense of presence, as if history could be located and understood in terms of the themes and issues conveyed in particular songs. But another impulse is to work against the immediate, to cast the characters and their experiences as part of an allegorical universe in which actions and choices are symbolic, metaphoric, transhistorical.
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Bene, Adrián. "Intermediality and Reflexivity in Andrzej Żuławski’s Fidelity." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 11, no. 1 (December 1, 2015): 181–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2015-0022.
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Abstract The paper focuses on a characteristic of Andrzej Zulawski’s aesthetics which has been ignored by most of the critics who emphasized the impact of surrealism and the taste for provocation in his cinema. Meanwhile, the œuvre’s French period is obviously characterized by self-reflexivity and media-reflexivity, autobiographical and literary background references. In these film dramas, the topic of love, beauty and artistic values are interconnected with a sophisticated narrative strategy using intermediality and intertextuality in a complex way. In Fidelity (La Fidelité, 2000), Żuławski put photography and literature in focus again in order to express thoughts and emotions in their complexity, surpassing the limitations of the linear narrative. A certain semiotic double-codedness is provided by either intertextual references or the hidden meanings based on the symbolic language of flowers, used as diegetic metaphors. Moreover, Żuławski thematizes photography that makes us conscious of our experiences from an aesthetic distance, even in an ironic manner.
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Kaliff, Anders. "The Vedic Agni and Scandinavian Fire Rituals: A Possible Connection." Current Swedish Archaeology 13, no. 1 (June 10, 2021): 77–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.37718/csa.2005.05.
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To use ethnographic analogies is not the same as picking up ready-made interpretations from one cultural context and importing them into another. On the contrary, analogies are a powerful and necessary tool for any archaeological interpretation. If we as scientists are not aware of this we will most certainly use our own time and culture as an unconscious analogy: it is not possible to make interpretations, or even to think, without references outside oneself, and such references are nothing but analogies. l will put forward the hypothesis that the Late Bronze Age society of Scandinavia had rituals resembling, and probably related to, the Vedic tradition. As in Vedic tradition, fire sacrifice seems to have been an important ritual practice in Scandinavia. The Vedic fire altars are built as a symbolic microcosmos, repeating the creation of the world, and the fire (Agni) is seen as a link between earth and the heavenly fire —the sun.
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Hu, Shou Xin, Hong Bin Liu, and Zi Yu Yin. "Study on Renovation and Appraiser of Beijing Hutong Buildings." Applied Mechanics and Materials 351-352 (August 2013): 1519–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.351-352.1519.
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Beijing Hutong has been the symbolic building of old Beijing city for hundreds of years and today it still accounts for a large proportion in the old buildings. In this article, Appraiser work of structural safety reliability is firstly done for the selected Hutong buildings. Then Analytic Herarchy Process is used to do the weight analysis of renovation schemes focusing on four different aspectsstructural safety, historical value, architectural value and cultural and artistic valueso as to get a more reasonable renovation and Appraiser conclusion. The Appraiser method used in the article will provide some guidance and references for similar buildings renovation and identification.
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Lund, Hans Peter. "Paraboles de guerre." Revue Romane / Langue et littérature. International Journal of Romance Languages and Literatures 52, no. 1 (April 24, 2017): 31–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rro.52.1.04lun.
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Abstract This article reveals the connection existing between A Fable by Faulkner, La Peste by Camus, and La Route des Flandres by Simon, with the three novels sharing a parabolic and symbolic vision of war. While Faulkner’s novel evidences a true christology with a lot of biblical references, Camus and Simon sometimes refer to the Bible, as the American writer does, or to ancient mythology. The fictional characters are shown facing clearly the same dis-membering of time, as well as an implacable and very Faulknerian evil that strikes them inevitably, and against which Faulkner and Camus’s characters revolt.
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Sakallieros, Giorgos. "The Symphonic Concerto for piano and orchestra (1935) by Manolis Kalomiris: Reaffirming the national-ideal topos through the (old) western canon." New Sound, no. 54-2 (2019): 68–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/newso1954068s.
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Manolis Kalomiris's Symphonic Concerto for piano and orchestra (1935) consolidates the virtuosic piano performance and the complexity of romantic symphonic texture with the appearance of authentic Greek folk material, its westernized treatments, and symbolic self-references arising from the Greek National School principles. The work is critically examined through historical and analytical perspectives, aiming at a better understanding of the composer's aspirations expressing the indigenous artistic, cultural and political circumstances of the period when it was completed. Examples of the relative Greek and international "concertante" repertoire, from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, are also taken into comparative consideration.
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Mikaelsson, Lisbeth. "Locality and Myth: the Resacralization of Selja and the Cult of St. Sunniva." Numen 52, no. 2 (2005): 191–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568527054024759.
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AbstractThe article demonstrates the merging of contemporary processes of resacralization, retraditionalization, and local identity construction embodied in one particular example, the island of Selja on the west coast of Norway. In Roman-Catholic times, Selja was a major pilgrimage site, famous for its legend of St. Sunniva, an Irish princess who fled from her country and took refuge on the island where she suffered a martyr death. The national conversion to Lutheranism in the 16th century put an end to the official Sunniva cult. In our time, however, the legend has been revived and is celebrated for various purposes by the local Lutheran state church, the tourist business, and individuals who are attracted to the symbolic complex of Selja-Sunniva for spiritual reasons. The article argues that the revival of the legend converts the old site with its ruins and landscape features into a narrative space, re-establishing a sanctuary with a variety of symbolic references. Selja meets the requirements of modern seekers and pilgrims, while its history and myth are excellently fitted to serve local identity construction.
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Guiller, Cristiana Araújo, Giselle Dupas, and Myriam Aparecida Mandetta Pettengill. "Suffering eases over time: the experience of families in the care of children with congenital anomalies." Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem 17, no. 4 (August 2009): 495–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-11692009000400010.
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This study aimed to understand the experience of caring for a child with a congenital anomaly from the family's perspective. Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory were the theoretical and methodological references, respectively. Data collection was carried out with eight families with children having congenital anomalies through semi-structured interviews and participating observation. Data analysis reached axial coding. Results revealed two phenomena in the experience of families in delivering care to children with congenital anomalies - Facing an initially difficult experience and suffering eases over time. We concluded that the understanding of this experience supports the need to reconsider the nursing care provided to families in the care of children with congenital anomalies.
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Chudoliński, Michał. "The Neurotic Knight. Reminiscing on Grant Morrison and Dave McKean "Arkham Asylum"." Kultura Popularna 60, no. 2 (January 31, 2020): 84–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.7336.
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The author of the article "The Neurotic Knight. Reminiscing on Grant Morrison's and Dave McKean's Arkham Asylum" wishes to present modern reflections on the genesis of one of the most popular comic books about Batman. To this end, he recalls the diegesis of the cultural work, which takes into account the originality of the story, the perception of the graphic novel, as well as directly references the thoughts of the authors, Grant Morrison and Dave McKean. Particular focus is put on the therapeutic function of the comic, a theme which was discussed in the scholarship of i.a. Janina Scarlet. The character of Batman and his antagonists were portrayed in Arkham Asylum in a groundbreaking, very symbolic way, which at the same time imbued the reader with a sense of dread. Thirty years after the publication, the author of the article reminisces on Morrison's and McKean's work, drawing upon modern research methods and pop- cultural references alike.
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Garrusta, Marc Gil, and Jaume Subirana. "Francoist purging of nomenclature in Barcelona: Communion, wishes and beliefs." International Journal of Iberian Studies 00, no. 00 (August 18, 2021): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00046_1.
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As in the rest of Spain, the capture of Barcelona by Franco’s troops not only meant the defeat of the Republican side, but also a systematic persecution of all political, social and cultural references of the defeated regime. Barcelona’s first Francoist city council was an active agent from the first hour, purging municipal officials and also trying to erase all Republican, Catalan or ‘red’ traces in the public space and replacing them with new references that would make the official memory of the new regime. Our research clearly outlines how the Francoist overhaul of Barcelona city nomenclature was conducted, and the criteria on which it was based. In summary, it was a very early, fairly rapid and high-priority operation based on wiping out the Republican memory and Catalan language and exalting the heroes and martyrs of the ‘Crusade’, in which the leading figures were a small group of local but renowned faithful people. It was, without doubt, what one might term an ideological operation, carried out with full awareness of the symbolic importance of the issue.
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Kurniawan, Arief, Ade Rahima, and Sainil Amral. "ANALISIS MAKNA SIMBOLIS DALAM KUMPULAN PUISI MALU (AKU) JADI ORANG INDONESIA KARYA TAUFIQ ISMAIL." Aksara: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 2, no. 1 (May 7, 2018): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.33087/aksara.v2i1.38.
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The purposeof this research to identify symbolic meaning in the poem Puisi Malu (Aku) Jadi Orang Indonesia by Taufiq Ismail which refer to the lexical, grammatical, referential, denotative, connotative, words meaning, terms meaning, conceptual meaning, and assosiative meaning. This research is qualitative descriptive. The source of the data is primary and secondary data. The primary data is taken from the collection of poetry Malu Aku Jadi Orang Indonesia (MAJOI), while secondary data is taken from some books and other references which can be used in analyzing the data. The secondary data is taken from the library of FKIP Batanghari University and district library. The data is analyzed by using hermenutics technique, they are; reading the literature based on the structure of the language by translating and or identifying the meaning of the words or the synonym of the words. The result of the research shows that there is lexical meaning in those ten poetry by Taufiq Ismail. So, it can be concluded that the poetry by Taufiq Ismail has some lexical meanings in relation to convention or agreement. Key Words: anayisis, symbolic meaning, poetry
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Гэвин, Полина Ивановна. "ART IN WORDS: EKPHRASTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF PAINTINGS IN THE NOVELS BY D. RUBINA AND M. ATWOOD." Tomsk state pedagogical university bulletin, no. 3(215) (May 24, 2021): 92–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.23951/1609-624x-2021-3-92-101.
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Введение. Рассматривается литературная фигура экфрасиса и ее реализация посредством интертекстуальных референций в художественном произведении. Несмотря на относительную «исследовательность» феномена экфрасиса, подавляющее большинство существующих работ фокусируется на передаче значения между вербальным и визуальным медиумом, оставляя в стороне возможную читательскую интерпретацию экфрастического описания и его стилистическое выражение в тексте. Цель – провести лингвистический анализ экфрастических интертекстуальных референций и их возможное влияние на восприятие читателем художественного текста. Материал и методы. Материалом исследования послужили экфрастические отрывки из романа Дины Рубиной «На солнечной стороне улицы» и Маргарет Этвуд «Кошачий глаз» (‘Cat’s Eye’). В основе методологической базы исследования лежат следующие приемы когнитивной поэтики: дихотомия отношений «фигура – фон», модель литературного резонанса, теория нарративного взаимодействия. Результаты и обсуждение. Когнитивно-поэтический анализ экфрастической репрезентации персонажей в художественном тексте показал, что интертекстуальные референции связывают между собой сцены внутри нарратива, придают дополнительное символическое и метафорическое значение произведению искусства, на синтаксическом, семантическом и текстовом уровне имитируют визуальную организацию объекта искусства. Заключение. С помощью приемов когнитивно-поэтического анализа было рассмотрено стилистическое выражение литературной фигуры экфрасиса в художественном тексте. Занимая роль фигуры, персонаж, изображенный на картине, выступает как ярко выраженный аттрактор при воздействии на читательское восприятие. Данное перцептивное воздействие подтверждается типичными семантическими, синтаксическими и стилистическими характеристиками аттракторов, присутствующими в анализируемых отрывках. Сравнение экфрастического описания и соответствующего ему контекста показало параллелизм использованных конструкций, что свидетельствует о схожей организации их фигуро-фоновых отношений. Параллельные конструкции также являются признаком частных интертекстуальных референций, посредством которых объект искусства актуализируется в сознании читателя. Помимо контекстного окружения, интертекстуальные референции способствуют символической реализации персонажа в художественном тексте, дополняя его репрезентацию метафорическими и концептуальными смыслами. Introduction. The present paper examines a literary figure of ekphrasis and its implementation through intertextual references in fiction. Despite how relatively ‘researched’ the phenomenon of ekphrasis is, the overwhelming majority of existing works focuses on the transfer of meaning between the verbal and visual mediums. This approach omits the reader’s possible interpretation of ekphrastic descriptions and their stylistic expression in texts. The aim of the research is to carry out a linguistic analysis of ekphrastic intertextual references and their possible impact on the reader’s perception of a fictional text. Material and methods. The study is based on ekphrastic abstracts from the novels by Dina Rubina ‘On the Sunny Side of the Street’ and Margaret Atwood’s ‘Cat’s Eye’. The research methodology uses the following techniques of cognitive poetics: the figure-ground dichotomy, the model of literary resonance, the theory of narrative interrelation. Results and discussion. The cognitive poetic analysis of the ekphrastic representations of characters has shown: • intertextual references link scenes within a narrative; • intertextual references supply additional symbolic and metaphorical meanings to an artwork; • intertextual references imitate the visual organisation of an art object at the syntactic, semantic and textual levels. Conclusion. Using cognitive poetic methods of linguistic analysis, we examined stylistic expression of ekphrasis in a literary text. Taking the role of a figure, the character depicted in the painting acts as a pronounced attractor when influencing the reader’s perception. This perceptual influence is confirmed by the typical semantic, syntactic and stylistic characteristics of attractors presented in the analysed passages. Comparison of the ekphrastic descriptions and the corresponding context revealed the parallelism of the used constructions, which indicates a similar organisation of their figure-background relations. Parallelism can be also marked as specific intertextual references, through which an art object is actualised in the reader’s mind. In addition to the contextual environment, intertextual references contribute to the symbolic realisation of a character in a literary text, complementing their representation with metaphorical and conceptual meanings.
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Pawłowska-Jądrzyk, Brygida. "How Alfred Hitchcock Distanced Robert Bloch. Psycho once again (on the sixtieth anniversary of the famous film adaptation of the novel)." Tekstualia 1, no. 60 (May 5, 2020): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.1363.
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In Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock appears to have explored the entire potential of Robert Bloch’s novel, employing a variety of solutions allowed by the polysemiotic audiovisual medium. Hitchcock made signifi cant compositional changes in comparison with the original (including the „false end” effect) and introduced new motifs, thus thoroughly modifying the symbolic implications of the story (e.g. the ornithological motifs). Another issue addressed in the article is the depiction of death, framed through references to the work of Gérard Lenne, who argues that in artistic exposures of the body, death undermines the illusion of the spectacle. The famous shower scene in Psycho solves this problem through stylistic solutions (e.g. the use of visual metaphors).
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O'Donnell, Marcus. "Going to the chapel: Same sex marriage and competing narratives of intimate citizenship." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 10, no. 1 (April 1, 2004): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v10i1.776.
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The public discourse about marriage oscillates between a story of the ideal and a story of the everyday. A range of symbolic references or myths are mobilised in media stories about marriage; this is particularly evident in the polarised debate around same-sex marriage. This article identifies and explores three of the myths that underlie the rhetoric in same-sex marriage stories: 1) the evolution/revolution myth; 2) the apocalypse myth and 3) the myth of the child. It also argues that the production of such stories has effects on the realm of ‘intimate citizenship’ (Plummer 1995) and that it is through this contested storytelling that new identities and their attendant rights become possible.
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Hirdman, Anja. "Vision and Intimacy." Nordicom Review 31, no. 1 (June 1, 2010): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0117.
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Abstract One emerging form of communication discussed in the present article is the use of visual self-representation as a tool for symbolic interaction between young people on the Internet. Using examples of difference and similarity in young women’s and men’s visual self-representation, the article offers an interpretation of these practices, pointing towards both new visual conventions and references to pre-existing media representations, thus revealing a process of hypervisuality. In this process of transformation, the involvement of new technologies, such as webcam aesthetics and its form of intimacy and authenticity, produces specific visual conventions within the frame of pre-existing media imagery, when the self is presented in online communication.
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De Araújo, Gilvan Charles Cerqueira. "A BUSCA PELO FUNDAMENTO SIMBÓLICO DA IDENTIDADE NACIONAL BRASILEIRA NA ERA VARGAS." InterEspaço: Revista de Geografia e Interdisciplinaridade 3, no. 10 (December 29, 2017): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.18764/2446-6549.v3n10p80-98.
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THE SEARCH FOR THE SIMBOLIC FOUNDATION FROM NATIONAL BRAZILIAN IDENTITY IN THE VARGAS’S AGELA BUSQUEDA DEL FUNDAMENTO SIMBÓLICO DE LA IDENTIDAD NACIONAL BRASILEÑA EN LA ERA VARGASO Brasil possui um longo histórico de busca por um fundamento simbólico que embase seu substrato nacional, com símbolos, referências históricas, personagens e locações diversos. Este cenário adquiriu status de política de governo com a passagem de Getúlio Vargas no comando do país, hasteando como um dos focos de suas ações políticas e econômicas uma remodelação das referências simbólicas brasileiras, transferindo a mística edênica secular para um patamar de racionalização das riquezas naturais do Brasil. Tendo como base esta discussão, o presente artigo transita entre estes extremos, ou seja, as marcas culturais e históricas da ufania edênica secular com o projeto de racionalização desta referência simbólica como projeto nacional.Palavras-chave: Identidade Nacional; Mito Fundacional; Ufania Edênica; Projeto Nacional; Era Vargas.ABSTRACTBrazil has a long history of searching for a symbolic foundation that bases its national substratum, with symbols, historical references, characters and several places. This scenario acquired government policy status with the passage of Getúlio Vargas in charge of the country, raising as one of the focuses of its political and economic actions, with a remodeling of the Brazilian symbolic references, transferring secular edenic mysticism to a level of rationalization of natural wealth of Brazil. On the basis of this discussion, the present article transits between these points, the cultural and historical marks from secular edenic jingoism with the project of rationalizing this symbolic reference as a national project.Keywords: National Identity; Foundation Myth; Edenic Jingoism; National Project; Vargas’s Age.RESUMENBrasil posee un largo historial de búsqueda por un fundamento simbólico que envuelve su sustrato nacional, con símbolos, referencias históricas, personajes y locaciones diversas. Este escenario adquirió status de política de gobierno con el paso de Getúlio Vargas al mando del país, asistiendo como uno de los focos de sus acciones políticas y económicas una remodelación de las referencias simbólicas brasileñas, transfiriendo la mística edénica secular hacia un nivel de racionalización de las riquezas naturales de Brasil. Con base en esta discusión, el presente artículo transita entre estos extremos, es decir, las marcas culturales e históricas de la ufanía edénica secular con el proyecto de racionalización de esta referencia simbólica como proyecto nacional.Palabras clave: Identidad Nacional; Mito Fundacional; Ufania Edénica; Proyecto Nacional; Era Vargas.
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Özman, Aylin, and Aslı Yazıcı Yakın. "The symbolic construction of communism in Turkish anti-communist propaganda during the Cold War." Journal of Language and Politics 11, no. 4 (December 31, 2012): 583–605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.11.4.06ozm.
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The aim of this study is to analyse cultural and social referential importance of the stereotypes of communists/communism in the anti-communist propaganda texts circulated in Turkey during the Cold War. The article displays the symbolism underlying anti-communist discourse by re-reading the propaganda material as texts that introduce the reader to ultimate anti-communist fantasies. The analyzed texts were mainly produced by one of the leading participants of anti-communist struggle, namely the Association for Fighting Communism in Turkey (AFCT) (Türkiye Komünizmle Mücadele Derneği, TKMD, 1963–1977), and its members. The article shows that the analyzed anti-communist propaganda creates mystification as a strategy and builds a narration in which temporal, spatial, and personal references are obscure. The article also shows that anti-communist propaganda operates on traditional dichotomies nature/culture, emotion/reason, and body/mind and that the images of communists/communism are constructed by appealing to a variety of animal species connoting “danger”; the unsocial connoting of the “absence of rules” and animality; and the woman of desire recalling the “immoral” in the popular imagination. It is argued that the texts are all interdiscursive thus allowing for the sexist, Islamist and nationalist arguments to be used as supportive subtopics while defending the anti-communist cause. The analysis also establishes intertextual relationship with the Nazi anti-Jewish and anti-communist discourse.
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Montenegro Rúa, Enrique J. "La aplicación del arco de herradura en el Panteón (Roma) y su proyección simbólica en la estela de Valens (León, NW Hispania)." REUDAR. European Journal of Roman Architecture 2 (December 5, 2018): 7–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/reudar.v2i.11476.
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Horseshoe arches samples in funerary steles from north-western Hispania are usually identified as simple geometric decorative motifs. This opinion has also been associated with what is represented in the stele of Valens (León, NW Spain), despite the fact that the artistic quality of the bas-relief allows to link it better with an architectural element. Likewise, it is very remarkable the practical absence of references in specialized historiography to another significant sample of horseshoe arch, despite being part of one of the most important classical monuments: the Pantheon of Rome. Located on the inside face of the door, the prominence of this majestic arch in the construction design of the Pantheon explains the symbolic meaning of what is represented in the stele of Valens.
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Freudenschuß, Magdalena. "Prekäre (Kultur-)Kämpfe?" PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 40, no. 160 (September 1, 2010): 361–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v40i160.382.
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Precarity became an issue in public discourse in German speaking media throughout 2006. In this article the author takes a closer look on the symbolic negotiations on precariousness/precarity and its references to neo-conservative reasoning undertaken in the public media discourse. Who is designated as the precarious subject -- and to what extent do discursive designations legitimate social inequalities? Public discourse is to be understood as an ambivalent and multifaceted field of negotiations on society and social justice. As such, it is a field where interpretations of societal changes try to gain a hegemonic position and where they are at the same time challenged, disrupted and irritated. Thus, the article points out some hegemonic and counter-hegemonic moments within the public discourse on precarity.
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Walton, Matthew J., and Michael Jerryson. "The Authorization of Religio-political Discourse: Monks and Buddhist Activism in Contemporary Myanmar and Beyond." Politics and Religion 9, no. 4 (July 27, 2016): 794–814. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755048316000559.
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AbstractThrough the example of contemporary Buddhist nationalist groups in Myanmar, this article draws attention to the cultural authorization of religio-political discourse. The symbolic power of a monk's pronouncements is amplified because of the cultural reverence attached to his vocation as a Buddhist monk, even without doctrinal references or ritual practices. A monk's cultural position within Burmese Buddhism particularly strengthens his authority when he frames his preaching and actions as a defense of Buddhism. Without attention to these cultural institutions and the religious authority they confer, the resonance and influence of monks' words cannot be completely understood. Furthermore, without directly responding to the logic of these authorizing discourses, responses intended to counter the violence emerging from Buddhist nationalism and promote tolerance will be ineffective.
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Orgeira Crespo, Raquel. "Problems in the Translation of Paul Austers The New York Trilogy." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 46, no. 3 (December 31, 2000): 227–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.46.3.04org.
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In this paper I examine an original text, The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, and its translation into Spanish. The source text chosen displays a wealth of instances of symbolic names, rhymes, wordplay, idioms, cultural references, colloquialisms and other stylistic features which are hard to transfer to Spanish without a significant loss of information. I attempt to identify those phenomena and discuss how the translator confronted them. I am particularly concerned with the lexical level. The conclusion of my paper is that the assessment of the translation problems posed by this literary work reveals the possibility of achieving an acceptable version at the readership’s level. This kind of studies are useful for the subsequent systematisation of strategies for the translational problems found in any literary text.
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Forest-Hill, Lynn. "‘Tree and flower and leaf and grass’: anachronism and J.R.R. Tolkien’s botanical semiotics." Journal of Inklings Studies 5, no. 1 (April 2015): 72–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ink.2015.5.1.4.
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Tolkien’s use of plants in his works has, over many years, been the subject of limited critical attention in spite of the diversity and complexity of that use. This paper examines a selection of Tolkien’s best-known botanical references from the perspectives of various literary theories, to reveal the significance of anachronism in The Lord of the Rings. This in turn highlights the levels and forms of interpenetration by the past into the present of Middle-earth. Although the past is explicit throughout the work, attention to plants associated with specific characters and events reveals a subtext of anxiety in which the past is constructed variously as a threat, a cause or a remedy, according to the familiar, mythic, ethical or symbolic connotations of the plants depicted within the framework of Middle-earth.