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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Semiotic of pretext, semiotics of pre-text
Semiotica, 2014 Semioticians obsessively talk about texts and their analysis. Yet, in the history of semiotics, few texts have been analyzed. One might even argue that semiotics has never analyzed texts. Indeed, semioticians, including the fathers of the discipline, have rather turned texts into pretexts: what mattered in their analysis was not to bring about a ...
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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the outcomes of the implementation of a first grade unit incorporating multiple modes of representation and genre‐based pedagogy to support writing instruction in the genre of sequential explanations. At the end of a 6‐day unit investigating the structure and functions of carnivorous plants, 47 first graders completed a
Rachel E. Wilson, Leslie U. Bradbury
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Open Cultural Studies, 2022 A central concern of the article is to examine how the female gaze is evident in the films of Indian film director Sai Paranjpye. More specifically, this research article analyses the ways, how female gaze asserts itself by playing with established ...
Tholia Shipra, Singh Amar
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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This is the third article in a series, emanating from a project that used social semiotics and phenomenography to explore the role visual representations play in the teaching and learning of chemistry. Building on our earlier work that identified five qualitatively different ways that teachers may use to unpack visual representations in their ...
Emelie Patron +3 more
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Gothic Remembering in Stephen King's "It Grows On You"
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2014 This essay introduces the notion of gothic remembering as a means to conceptualize hauntings in a small-town setting. It emphasizes the breakdown of a normative construction of communal past by foregrounding the focus of remembering on abject images and ...
Thorsten Burkhardt
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Uktub, 2023 This paper discusses (1) Roland Barthes' semiotic theory; and (2) its application in finding the Sufistic meaning of the signs of the word ism (noun) in nahwu science in the Alfiyah book by Ibn Malik. This research is a qualitative descriptive literature
Muhamad Qustulani Zarkasyi
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The ontology of signs as linguistic and non-linguistic entities: a cognitive perspective [PDF]
, 2003 It is argued that the traditional philosophical/linguistic analysis of semiotic phe-nomena is based on the false epistemological assumption that linguistic and non-linguistic entities possess different ontologies.
Kravchenko, Prof. A.V.
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Proposing a Framework to Center Justice in Ambitious Science Teaching
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Though educators and researchers have developed shared theory and language for priorities necessary to disrupt the status quo toward more equitable science education, we lack a tool that organizes sets of teaching practices across an instructional unit to support enactment and rehearsal.
April Luehmann +8 more
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Studying sign processes in the emergence of communication [PDF]
, 2013 Communication depends on the production and interpretation \ud of representations, but the study of representational processes \ud underlying communication finds little discussion in \ud computational experiments. Here we present an experiment \ud on the
Gudwin, Ricardo +2 more
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