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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

On the expression of mistaken beliefs in Australian languages

Linguistic Typology
This paper explores the expression of mistaken beliefs – as in for example the boy mistakenly believes that the turtle is dead (whereas in fact it is alive) – in the Indigenous languages of Australia. It is shown that some mode of expressing this meaning
McGregor William B.
doaj   +1 more source

Hilltops and Marches: A Cultural and Semiotic Analysis of Pepsi and Coca-Cola Advertising Strategies [PDF]

, 2018
The Coca-Cola Company released an advertisement in 1971 that had powerful themes of unity in a time of significant discord around the world. Almost 50 years later, the Pepsi Company released an advertisement that aimed to accomplish similar values of ...
Herrmann, Samuel
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Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people's aspirations have been the focus of many educational, sociological and psychological studies. This paper argues, firstly, that the concept of aspirations holds greater generative potential than suggested by the policy‐oriented ‘aspiration discourse’.
Jelena Popov
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary prolepsis in digital rhetoric: the roles and functions of proleptic cues

Res Rhetorica
This article explores the adaptation of Gérard Genette's concept of narrative prolepsis in the realm of social media as the proleptic technique, demonstrating its effectiveness as a tool for anticipatory rhetoric in digital communication.
Alina Landowska, Andrea Rocci, Marcin Koszowy   +2 more
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Semiotics, anthropology and the analysability of culture

Sign Systems Studies, 2006
For each culture-studying discipline, the problem of culture’s analysability stems from disciplinary identity. One half of analysability consists of the culture's attitude and the ability of the discipline's methods of description and analysis to render ...
Peeter Torop
doaj   +1 more source

Carpool Karaoke: Deconstructing the directly lived experience of hearing oneself singing [PDF]

, 2017
The various ways whereby spatial conditions afford to monumentalize culture and to appropriate geographically demarcated places in terms of individual and collective meaning structures has been amply documented in urban ...
Rossolatos, George
core  

A Note on M. Barbieri’s “Scientific Biosemiotics” [PDF]

, 2009
A densely-packed critique of some current trends in ...
Champagne, Marc
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

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
wiley   +1 more source

Semiotika dalam Bidang Manajemen Pemasaran

J-MKLI (Jurnal Manajemen dan Kearifan Lokal Indonesia), 2017
Semiotics is the science which studies signs in human life because human has the ability to give meaning to various social, cultural, and natural phenomenon. Since sign is a part of human culture, semiotics can be used to study human life.
Rini Astuti
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