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Berries in the Slavic Oral and Written Tradition of Dream Interpretation
A parallel examination of berries in the oral and written traditions of dream interpretation allows us to compare their symbolism in both corpuses of texts and to identify the interaction and mutual influence between them, as well as to trace the process
Aleksandr Gura
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The Urban Anthropologist as Flâneur; the Symbolic Pattern of Indonesian Cities [PDF]
Cities are places full of symbols. In the past decades, Indonesian cities have become the cradle of urban symbolism studies. In this article, the author presents the results of these studies.
Nas, P. J. (Peter)
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There has been a dramatic rise of interest in sound symbolism, systematic associations between sounds and meanings. Despite this, one aspect that is still markedly under-explored is its cumulative nature, i.e., when there are two or more sounds with the ...
S. Kawahara, Canaan Breiss
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The article examines the reception of Western European modernism in Russia in the late 19 th — early 20th centuries, with the emphasis on the phenomenon of the “crooked mirror” of a different nation perception, which not only endows the work of a foreign
Vsevolod E. Bagno +1 more
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Sound symbolism and theoretical phonology
A received wisdom in modern linguistic theories is that the relationships between sounds and meanings are generally arbitrary. However, there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that in some cases sounds and meanings have systematic relationships ...
S. Kawahara
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Images of hospices on social media: The #notdingy campaign [PDF]
In June 2015, hospices were described as ‘dingy’ on two popular British television dramas. This spurred a social media protest using the hashtag #notdingy.
Borgstrom, Erica
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Over 100 years ago Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure proposed that, aside from onomatopoeia, there is no logical relationship between words and their meanings.
Freya Young
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Syn-Thèses, No 14 (2023): Epistemology and Semiotics: Information and ...
Adriano Angelucci, Vincenzo Fano
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Sound Symbolism in Basic Vocabulary
The relationship between meanings of words and their sound shapes is to a large extent arbitrary, but it is well known that languages exhibit sound symbolism effects violating arbitrariness.
Søren Wichmann +2 more
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Sassanid Seals Symbolism [PDF]
Sassanid Seals’ Motifs presented in bestial, vegetative and human forms, indicate the effect and influence of mythical beliefs symbols and religious beliefs. The main part of these illustrations are based on khvarenah and gods of Zoroastrian religion and
F. Mahmoudi, N. Marandi
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