Search for dissertations about: "thesis on semiotics"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 75 swedish dissertations containing the words thesis on semiotics.
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11. Design Semiosis; Synthesis of Products in the Design Activity
Abstract : Products are designed by someone to be perceived by someone.Within the body of this thesis there can be found thespecification of a conceptualization, an ontology, thatreflects the idea engendered by this statement. READ MORE
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12. Surprise between media, minds and world : A Peircean process semiotic approach
Abstract : The central idea of this thesis is that the relationship between cognition,media and environments is regulated by surprise. The relationship between cognition, media and environments is a foundational problem for studies of cognition, culture and/or communication. READ MORE
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13. INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on prior work on parallels between language and money and argues specifically that developments in the nineteenth-century novel can be understood in terms of the contemporaneous economic history, and that the two sign systems of language and money display structural similarities in this period. READ MORE
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14. Service in the Airlines : Customer or Competition Oriented?
Abstract : This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to study an airline's organizational culture and its impact on the provision of service through a semiotic perspective, focusing on competence development, image, and the quality of service provided. READ MORE
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15. Hamlet the Sign : Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation
Abstract : This work is an attempt to answer one simple question: What is Hamlet? Based on the material of Hamlet translations into Russian, the dissertation scrutinizes the problems of literary canon formation, translation and textuality proceeding in two parallel directions: the historical analysis of canon formation in translation and the conceptualization of Hamlet’s textuality. The methodological framework is defined in the context of Jurij Lotman’s semiotics of culture, which is invaluable for an understanding of the mechanisms of literary evolution, the theory of translation and literary canon formation. READ MORE