Search results for "amerikkalaisuus"
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A market of accents
2009
This paper describes the cultural semantics of internet courses in American accent. Such courses are offered by corporate providers to specific groups of customers: people in search of success in the globalized business environment. The core of such courses is an order of indexicality which stresses uniformity and homogeneity, producing an invisible accent that replaces existing ‘foreign’ (i.e. authentic, biographic) accents. It is a new form of commodified dialectology, which differs quite substantially from common state and academic attitudes towards dialects and accents. The procedures used by such private providers are instances of language policing aimed at the infinitely small stuff o…
Tilan merkitys tulkinnassa : Gotham City kerronnan näyttämönä Frank Millerin teoksessa Batman: the dark knight returns
2001
Workin' On a Dream: the American Dream in the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen, 1995-2009
2009
”Rakennettu amerikkalaisuus” : semioottinen analyysi Classic American Dinerin ravintolainteriööristä
2015
Tutkielmassani analysoin Jyväskylässä sijaitsevan Amerikka-teemaisen Classic American Diner-ketjuravintolan interiöörin merkkikieltä esimerkkikuvien kautta. Puran interiööriä semioottisesta näkökulmasta Roland Barthesin esittämien kuvan retoriikan analyysin vaiheiden avulla, nostaen kuvista esille ideologioita.