Search results for " representation"

Behind the Cosmo-girl : Women’s representations and the brand of Cosmopolitan magazine

2009

 Kriittisen diskurssintutkimuksen lähtökohta on ajatus kielestä todellisuutta ja kulttuurisia arvoja muokkaavana ja uusintavana välineenä. Siksi totuttuihin puhetapoihin eli diskursseihin tulee kiinnittää huomiota, jos halutaan muuttaa yhteiskunnan epätasa-arvoa tuottavia rakenteita tai nostaa näkyville erilaisiin ihmisryhmiin liitettyjä piileviä oletuksia. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoitus on lisätä tietoa kulttuurisista naisrepresentaatioistamme kriittisen diskurssintutkimuksen metodeja hyödyntäen. Valitsin tutkittavaksi aineistokseni kaksi artikkelia Cosmopolitanista. Pyrin tuomaan uuden näkökulman naistenlehtien analyysiin vertaamalla artikkeleista löytyvää naiskuvaa Cosmopolitanin imagoon ny…

Quasi *-algebras and generalized inductive limits of C*-algebras

2011

New trends in teacher’s education. Educational placement of the adopted child

2015

Abstract In Italy, the number of adopted school-age children is increasing. According to the Commission of Intercountry Adoption (2013), 3106 children were adopted, 47.5% of them are between 5 and 9 years old. The present action-research aims at exploring the spread of good approaches in schools in terms of welcoming of adopted children. For this purpose, 268 teachers of primary schools were involved in analyzing the social representation about adopted children and their family. The results show a simplified vision of the adoptive family, which is described as heroic family or, on the contrary, as a family with difficulty.

Cultural networks and democratic legitimacy in the European Union

2005

Symbolic Interactions : Towards a Cognitive Scientific Theory of Meaning in Human Technology Interaction

2015

Information technology has perpetuated the role of symbolism in everyday life practice, through its reliance on sign systems for its creation and operation. Increasingly attention has been placed on applying semiotic techniques to analyze user interface design and usability. Surprisingly, although the move towards symbolic interaction has been one of the most striking components of the digital shift, it has proven difficult to build bridges between semiotics and HTI-design thinking. In this article we argue that the problems in linking semiotic analysis of human technology interaction with modern HTI-design paradigms such as usability or user experience arise from a theoretical gap between …

Representational consistency and the learning of forces in upper secondary school physics

2013

Origins and originality : Authenticity in the media representation of Julie Fowlis

2018

This article examines the ways in which Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis is constructed ‘authentic’ in the media. Two narratives that I call ‘narrative of origins’ and ‘narrative of professionalism’ construct her authenticity as a representative of the folk music scene. Fowlis represents the new Gaelic speaker, but is presented in terms of stereotypical imagery connected to Scotland, which portrays tradition as stagnant, quaint and in need of preservation. However, she is also presented as a professional artist, remaking and reinterpreting the tradition of a living culture that she represents. Thus, here authenticity ascribed on the artist is viewed as a cultural memory device, built on …

Strawberries and Cream: The Relationship Between Food Rejection and Thematic Knowledge of Food in Young Children

2021

Establishing healthy dietary habits in childhood is crucial in preventing long-term repercussions, as a lack of dietary variety in childhood leads to enduring impacts on both physical and cognitive health. Poor conceptual knowledge about food has recently been shown to be a driving factor of food rejection. The majority of studies that have investigated the development of food knowledge along with food rejection have mainly focused on one subtype of conceptual knowledge about food, namely taxonomic categories (e.g., vegetables or meat). However, taxonomic categorization is not the only way to understand the food domain. We also heavily rely on other conceptual structures, namely thematic as…

L2-L1 Translation Priming Effects in a Lexical Decision Task: Evidence From Low Proficient Korean-English Bilinguals

2018

One of the key issues in bilingual lexical representation is whether L1 processing is facilitated by L2 words. In this study, we conducted two experiments using the masked priming paradigm to examine how L2-L1 translation priming effects emerge when unbalanced, low proficiency, Korean-English bilinguals performed a lexical decision task. In Experiment 1, we used a 150 ms SOA (50 ms prime duration followed by a blank interval of 100 ms) and found a significant L2-L1 translation priming effect. In contrast, in Experiment 2, we used a 60 ms SOA (50 ms prime duration followed by a blank interval of 10 ms) and found a null effect of L2-L1 translation priming. This finding is the first demonstrat…

I ferri dell'Opra. Il teatro delle marionette siciliane

2013

Abstract – IT L'Opera dei pupi siciliana costituisce una preziosa testimonianza dell'intricata eredità storico-culturale della Sicilia. Le proclamazioni dell'Unesco e l'attenzione rivolta alle modalità di patrimonializzazione delle pratiche tradizionali, hanno favorito lo sviluppo di un'analisi, sia di tipo diacronico che sincronico, con una prospettiva antropologica tesa ad indagare le strategie di invenzione e costruzione della tradizione e della sua problematizzazione con particolare riferimento al concetto di “memoria culturale”. È con queste premesse che il presente lavoro si pone come obbiettivo di analizzare le strutture fondamentali, la grammatica e la sintassi dello spettacolo di O…