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Old Skool Spinning and Syncing: Memory, Technologies, and Occupational Membership in a DJ Community

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We show how technology and its temporal instantiations act as material‐relational mnemonic devices that provide temporal anchors for collective remembering in occupations and form the basis of what we call an 'occupational mnemonic community'.
Hamid Foroughi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing and tasting the divine: Simeon Solomon’s homoerotic sacrament [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Book synopsis: Should sight trump the other four senses when experiencing and evaluating art? Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present questions whether the authority of the visual in 'visual culture' should be deconstructed, and focuses on the ...
Janes, Dominic
core  

The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in Translation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Transporting the passionate instinctual world of rural Andalusia onto the cold rational terrain of modern-day England would seem to be a feat fraught with difficulties.
Bennett, Karen
core   +1 more source

Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
wiley   +1 more source

A Theory of Leadership Meta‐Talk and the Talking‐Doing Gap

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify managers' meta‐level talk about the positive purpose, meaning, and significance of their actions as an overlooked type of leadership behaviour and call it leadership meta‐talk. We outline why leadership meta‐talk is not necessarily truthful or deceptive, but selective and loosely coupled with leadership practice.
Thomas Fischer, Mats Alvesson
wiley   +1 more source

Sound and visual symbolism in Mohja Kahf’s (an-nadb) poem “what do we do during genocide?”

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This paper examines the elegiac expressions of pain, mourning, and resistance in Mohja Kahf’s poem “What Do We Do During Genocide?,” focusing on lamentation (an-nadb) as an aspect of elegy in Arabic poetry.
Hamida Riahi
doaj   +1 more source

Are words easier to learn from infant- than adult-directed speech? A quantitative corpus-based investigation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We investigate whether infant-directed speech (IDS) could facilitate word form learning when compared to adult-directed speech (ADS). To study this, we examine the distribution of word forms at two levels, acoustic and phonological, using a large ...
Cristia, Alejandrina   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Sound symbolism

open access: yes, 2022
Sound symbolism is primarily associated with onomatopoeias, i.e. words imitating any sound from nature while their sound composition resembles it. Onomatopoeias can be similar in different languages, e.g. feeding in Croatian (njam njam), Polish (mniam mniam) and Bulgarian (am am).
openaire   +1 more source

The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
wiley   +1 more source

Phonetic Metaphor and the Limits of Sound Symbolism

open access: yesNames, 2013
Evocative as it is elusive, the sound-symbolism of names tends to be a highly subjective affair, more the stuff of poetic fancy than objective critical analysis.
Christopher L Robinson
doaj   +1 more source

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