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Organic Representation as a Critical Media Approach to Leadership Studies in Popular Culture

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 75-80, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT This article applies the critical media concept of organic representation to leadership studies as an analytic of how various creators in popular culture today are not just writing inclusive storytelling but, more notably, modeling new modes of production and self‐presentation that are actively challenging hegemonic industry practices and ...
Raffi Sarkissian
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“Deve valer alguma coisa”: análise de Borges pelo método da engenharia reversa

Cadernos Cajuína
O formato televisivo conhecido como sitcom tem sua estrutura determinada pela poética aristotélica, conforme comprovado por manuais de roteiro norte-americanos e estudos sobre obras estadunidenses.
Eduardo Peron, João Paulo Hergesel
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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What lies beyond and within humour: A relevance-theoretic approach to propositional meanings in the sitcom Modern Family

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Advancing the proposal that conversationalists frequently engage in humorous communication to convey propositional meanings, the paper aims to employ pragmatic inferential mechanisms specified in a relevance-theoretic framework in order to explicate the
Magdalena Wieczorek
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Understanding Online Meaning‐Making: Normativity, Polycentricity, and Memetic Communication Through a Chronotopic‐Scalar Lens

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates memetic interaction as an illustrative example of complex polycentric online communication. Using a chronotopic‐scalar framework, it offers a theorized account of how online (inter)action works, how it is guided by (perceptions of) normativities, and how it is in dialogue with the “offline.” Specifically, I focus on ...
Taraneh Sanei
wiley   +1 more source

Comedia romana y ficción televisiva: Plauto y la Sitcom / Roman Comedy and TV Fiction: Plautus and Sitcom

Secuencias, 2016
Este trabajo ofrece un análisis comparativo de las características propias de la comedia palliata de Plauto (comediógrafo romano del siglo II a.C.) y de los elementos definitorios de la sitcom, género televisivo de gran aceptación popular.
Rosario López Gregoris, Luis Unceta Gómez   +1 more
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‘The Simpsons’ Did It Again! Periodontitis and Tooth Loss Predict Mortality in Springfield: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.
The IMPOSTERS study analysed 150 recurring ‘human’ Simpsons characters and found that periodontitis or tooth loss was associated with a 23‐fold higher hazard of all‐cause mortality. This was reported in the Simpsons universe, with the death of ‘Bleeding Gums’ Murphy, 3 years before the first such reports in our universe.
Praveen Sharma, Thomas Dietrich
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Exploring conversational implicatures in the american sitcom Seinfeld = Explorando implicaturas conversacionais na sitcom americana Seinfeld

Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal, 2021
Devido à importância de se aprender a usar a língua em diversas situações, sitcoms podem ajudar no desenvolvimento da competência pragmática, por sua linguagem contextualizada e semelhante à vida real.
Cezar, Leticia Mello
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Denotacja – humor – tabu

Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2019
Denotation – Humour – Taboo This analysis takes as its subject jokes about Poles that appeared in two US-American sitcoms: The Big Bang Theory (Teoria wielkiego podrywu) and 2 Broke Girls (Dwie spłukane dziewczyny), as well as their official Polish TV ...
Kwiryna Proczkowska
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