Sökning: "cultural semiotics"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 49 avhandlingar innehållade orden cultural semiotics.

1. 11. I naturens teater : Kultur- och miljösociologiska analyser av naturhistoriska utställningar och filmer

   Författare :Anna Samuelsson; Hedvig Ekerwald; Nina Lykke; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; exhibitions; nature culture-dualism; museums of natural history; cultural environmental studies; museology; environmental sociology; deconstruction; human-animal-relations; andro- and anthropocentric stereotyping; semiotics; discourse analysis; rhetoric; display; representation; climate change.; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociologi; Sociology; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of constructions of reality in visual and textual representations in current exhibitions in the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm with comparisons to the Natural History Museum in Gothenburg and minor excursions to other museums. The study also includes seven giant screen films in Cosmonova: an IMAX theatre which is part of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. LÄS MER

3. 12. Meeting-places of Transformation : Urban Identity, Spatial Representations and Local Politics in St Petersburg, Russia

   Författare :Thomas Borén; Bo Lenntorp; Thomas Lundén; Jussi Jauhiainen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Time-space; lifeworld; Hägerstrand; Habermas; Lotman; participant observation; post-Soviet transformation; time-geography; cultural geography; cultural semiotics; urban studies; everyday life; Soviet cartography; local self-government; Ligovo; Uritsk; Krasnosel skii raion.; Other earth sciences; Övrig geovetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study develops a model for understanding spatial change and the construction of space as a meeting-place, and then employs it in order to show an otherwise little-known picture of (sub-)urban Russia and its transformation from Soviet times to today. The model is based on time-geographic ideas of time-space as a limited resource in which forces of various kinds struggle for access and form space in interaction with each other. LÄS MER

4. 13. L'immagine pubblicitaria dell'olio d'oliva, della pasta e del caffè : uno studio comparativo sulla ricezione

   Författare :Christine Wikman; Italienska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; semiotik; semantik; Grammatik; semiotics; syntax; semantics; Grammar; print ads; Advertising; Swedish; Italian; olive oil; comparative study; pasta; coffee; values; culturally specific patterns interpretation; connotations; sender; receiver; socio-cultural context; shared knowledge; implications; inferences; implicit information; co-operation; sender?s intended meaning encyclopaedic and cultural background knowledge; reception; Humaniora; Humanities; Applied linguistics; foreign languages teaching; sociolinguistics; Tillämpad lingvistik; undervisning i främmande språk; sociolingvistik; Italian language and literature; Italienska språk och litteratur ;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to describe how Italian advertising for olive oil, pasta and coffee reflects traditions, customs and culturally specific patterns regarding the ways in which these products are used in Italy, and how these culturally specific patterns are interpreted by native readers and non-native readers (Swedish students). The study is based on 22 Italian and 22 Swedish interpretations of three Italian print ads for olive oil, pasta and coffee. LÄS MER

5. 14. Good Guys : A Cultural Semiotic Study of the Print Advertising of the Oil Industry (1900-2000)

   Författare :Pamela Vang; Jan Anward; Angelika Linke; Heidrun Kämper; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Oil industry; brand; print advertisements; communication; cultural semiotics; dialogism; myth; rhetoric; 20th century; Oljeindustrin; branding; tryckta annonser; kommunikation; kultursemiotik; dialogism; myt; retorik; 1900-talet;

   Sammanfattning : Oil is central to our lives and is the source of many of the conveniences that we take for granted. It can bring wealth and prosperity to individuals and to nations, but is also a source of political conflict and the consequences of its impact on the environment are only now beginning to be fully recognised. LÄS MER

7. 15. A Poetics of Virtuality

   Författare :Thommy Eriksson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; computer games; movie making; augmented reality; virtuality; computer graphics; Stephen Baxter; William Gibson; virtual worlds; science fiction; production culture; virtual reality;

   Sammanfattning : How is virtuality represented in fiction, and what does that say about our anticipations and fears about what the virtual is and will be? This text, a poetics of virtuality, explores fictional representations of virtuality, primarily in movies and literature, but also in media productions done by the author. The aim is to study the dream of virtuality. LÄS MER