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Deriving word meanings from context: does explanation facilitate contextual analysis? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The ability to derive the meanings of words from supportive story contexts was studied in 45 seven-eight-year-olds. Children read short stories each containing a different novel word and defined the word at the end of each story.
Cain, Kate
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Staging and Citing Gendered Meanings: A practice-based study of representational strategies in live and mediated performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
My argument is that gender visibility in live and mediated performance can be enhanced by the use of the dramaturgical toolkit. The thesis as a whole offers a body of work and a method for recontextualising that work, and for reframing it in multimedia ...
Birch, Anna
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How Mean is the Mean? [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2013
In this paper we voice concerns about the uncritical manner in which the mean is often used as a summary statistic in psychological research. We identify a number of implicit assumptions underlying the use of the mean and argue that the fragility of these assumptions should be more carefully considered.
Speelman, Craig P, McGann, Marek
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Value orientations of vkontakte users with different strategies for meanings transferring

open access: yesВестник Самарского государственного технического университета. Серия: Психолого-педагогические науки, 2021
The paper presents the results of a study of strategies for transferring the meanings and the value orientations of young people in social networks. The Internet is so firmly rooted in our everyday life that we can no longer imagine our life without it ...
Pavel N. Ermakov, Ekaterina E. Belousova
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Can one written word mean many things? Prereaders’ assumptions about the stability of written words’ meanings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Results of three experiments confirmed previous findings that in a moving word task, prereaders 3 to 5 years of age judge as if the meaning of a written word changes when it moves from a matching to a nonmatching toy (e.g., when the word “dog” moves from
Robinson, Elizabeth J., Collins, J. S.
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Neoliberal meanings of endurance experiences A critical exploration of endurance running in contemporary consumer culture

open access: yes, 2022
There is no inherent meaning in endurance experiences. The experience is accorded meaning in dialogue with the world around us. In this critical exploration of endurance running, endurance runners’ accounts of their consumption of endurance are analysed ...
Egan-Wyer, Carys,, Lund University.
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The Relationship between Trail Running Withdrawals and Race Topography

open access: yesSports, 2017
Context: A growing amount of recent research in sport psychology has focused on trying to understand withdrawals from ultra-races. However, according to the Four E approach, the studies underestimated the embedded components of these experiences and ...
Antonini Philippe Roberta   +3 more
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Minahasan Vernacular House; Values, Meanings, And Forms

open access: yesMudra: Jurnal Seni Budaya, 2020
House is one of human’s three primary needs. It is developed alongside human civilization. Minahasa as a part of that civilization developed vernacular architecture based on their culture’s unique values, meanings, and forms.
Ronald M P Kolibu   +2 more
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Youth views about the future of the country in the projection of culture

open access: yesНаука. Культура. Общество, 2023
The article analyzes the connection between the meanings formed in the cultural space of young people and their ideas about goals “significant for the future of the country” (“affordable qualified healthcare as a guarantee of a high quality of life ...
Yulia A. Zubok, Nina A. Seliverstova
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