Sökning: "Iconicity"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Iconicity.
6. Mellan gåva och marknad : handel, tillit och materiell kultur under vikingatid
Sammanfattning : The view of the exchange and trade that took place during the Viking Age has varied considerably. This variation is obvious from a scrutiny of how one and the same place, Birka, is described by different scholars over a period of a hundred years. LÄS MER
7. When similarity qualifies as a sign : a study in picture understanding and semiotic development in young children
Sammanfattning : The general goal of this thesis is to elucidate children’s early understandings of pictorial meanings, and how one can know anything about them. My central aim is to explore how picture comprehension develops during children’s first 3 years of life, through semiotic-theory-derived analyses of meaning relations. LÄS MER
8. The Integration of MILLION into the English System of Number Words : A Diachronic Study
Sammanfattning : This corpus-based variationist study traces the history of the English number word MILLION from its first attested use in the 14th century, focusing on the diachronic shift in function from one of heading its noun phrase (NP), as in the obsolescent (Obs) construction three millions of citizens, to one of a post-determiner of its NP head, as in Present-day English (PdE) three million citizens. The authentic historical materials used include both numerous electronic linguistic corpora and, more innovatively, very-large-scale general collections available online, especially historical newspaper collections from the US and UK comprising tens of billions of words. LÄS MER
9. Pictorial Primates: A Search for Iconic Abilities in Great Apes
Sammanfattning : Pictures and other iconic media are used extensively in psychological experiments on nonhuman primate perception, categorisation, etc. They are also used in everyday interaction with primates, and as pure entertainment. LÄS MER
10. Textmedierade virtuella världar : Narration, perception och kognition
Sammanfattning : This thesis synthezises theories from intermedia studies, semiotics, Gestalt psychology, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology, cognitive poetics, reader response criticism, narratology and possible worlds-theories adjusted to literary studies. The aim is to provide a transdisciplinary explanatory model of the transaction between text and reader during the reading process resulting in the reader experiencing a mental, virtual world. LÄS MER
