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Sound Symbolism in Basic Vocabulary
Entropy, 2010 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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Images of hospices on social media: The #notdingy campaign [PDF]
, 2016 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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Organization Studies, 2020 This article introduces the Special Issue concerned with organizational spirituality, symbolism and storytelling. Stressing the growing scholarly interest in these topics, the article makes a two-fold contribution.
M. Fotaki, Y. Altman, J. Koning
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Images of Birds in the History of Portuguese Poetry: Features of Metaphorics [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2022 The article offers a review regarding to the metaphorical reinterpretations of lexemes relating to the semantic field “bird” in the best Portuguese poems, whose works are distinguished by continuity and are based on the poetic accomplishments and ...
Marina V. Kuteva, Varvara A. Makhortova
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Groundings, 2016 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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Sassanid Seals Symbolism [PDF]
Jilvah-i hunar, 2018 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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Action sound–shape congruencies explain sound symbolism
Scientific Reports, 2020 Sound symbolism, the surprising semantic relationship between meaningless pseudowords (e.g., ‘maluma’, ‘takete’) and abstract (round vs. sharp) shapes, is a hitherto unexplained human-specific knowledge domain.
Konstantina Margiotoudi +1 more
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Literator, 1990 In this article the question is posed whether one is justified in associating N.P. van Wyk Louw’s work with Symbolism as seen in terms of its being a historical art movement.
F. I.J. van Rensburg
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Ad Lingua: Text Classification Improves Symbolism Prediction in Image Advertisements
International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020 Understanding image advertisements is a challenging task, often requiring non-literal interpretation. We argue that standard image-based predictions are insufficient for symbolism prediction.
A. Savchenko +5 more
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Manifestations of symbolism in architecture of postmodernism
Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2014 The article analyses expression of symbolism in Lithuanian postmodern architecture. It discusses the concept of symbolism and transformations of its meaning in comparison to the period of modernism as well as examines its most significant aspects in ...
Martynas Mankus
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