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Kim, Lynn. "Body Language." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587494555861933.
Full textГладченко, Оксана Робертівна, Оксана Робертовна Гладченко, Oksana Robertivna Hladchenko, and I. Golysheva. "Body language in business." Thesis, Вид-во СумДУ, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/17152.
Full textShan, Caifeng. "Inferring facial and body language." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2008. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15020.
Full textVermeer, Leslie Anne. "Mina Loy, the language of the body, the language of attack." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq22560.pdf.
Full textWilson, Conor J. R. "Writing_making : object as body, language and material." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2016. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/1764/.
Full textHetherington, F. M. L. "Language and the body : Merleau-Ponty's critique of the philosophy of language." Thesis, University of Essex, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371176.
Full textTiljander, Cristina. "Social gender norms in body language : The construction of stereotyped gender differences in body language in the American sitcom Friends." Thesis, Karlstad University, Karlstad University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1599.
Full textNonverbal communication such as body language is a vital component of our communication, and since scholars agree that there are some notable differences in the way men and women use body language, the study of gendered nonverbal communication as a social construction is vital to our understanding of how we create gendered identities. The aim of this paper is to investigate how social gender norms concerning body language appear in constructed communication. By studying the body language of the characters in the American sitcom Friends, and with focus on leg postures, I examine how the show Friends enacts and represents stereotyped sex differences in body language. The study encompasses both the distribution of leg positions between the genders, and what these postures seem to accomplish in interaction. As for the relationship between gender and leg postures, I observed the sitting positions of the characters Chandler, Ross, Joey, Monica and Rachel in six episodes from the 1999/2000 season of Friends for the first study. For the analysis of leg postures in relation to the communicative situation, the entire corpus of ten episode recordings was used. Based on repeated inspection of scenes where leg positions could be studied in relation to gender and communication, systematic patterns were identified.
The results of the study are consistent with the findings of scholars like Vrugt and Luyerink (2000); women tend to sit in closed postures or with their legs crossed, which is regarded feminine, while men sit in wide positions with their legs spread, which is regarded masculine. Furthermore, the characters/actors in Friends seem to perform their gender roles partly by using different leg positions and wideness of postures. However, leg positions alone were not found to be decisive in the messages communicated, and emotions and stance were communicated using verbal and other non-verbal channels and cues. Instead, leg positions remained gender-stereotypical regardless of the message communicated, and men and women seem to communicate the same message using different leg positions. It is therefore concluded that leg positions are an inherent part of “doing gender”, but that leg positions as such are not necessarily related to the type of message or emotional stance that is communicated.
Shi, Wenhua. "Paul's message of the cross as body language /." Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2008. http://d-nb.info/988962217/04.
Full textNicholls, B. L. "Languages of the body and the body of language : a comparative analysis of two beat writers and two Southern African writers." Thesis, University of Essex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343547.
Full textKenner, Andrew N. "Consistencies in body-focused hand movements /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phk358.pdf.
Full textBandelin, Jakob. "Avatar Body Language : Supporting Emotive Communication in Virtual Environments." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-57541.
Full textThis thesis tells the story of a design case creating an user interface for a MMORPG where the player are able control the body language of the avatar. By this the game can achieve a gameplay about drama and strong characterization. The thesis addresses considerations on what aspects of body language that can be important for computer games and other virtual environments. It also offers design considerations when designing interfaces for using gestures and other body signals to communicate emotions in virtual environments such as computer games. The main design consideration when creating the interface was to treat the player as an actor and the game world as a stage. The player needs to be in control of combinations of facial expressions, body posture and gestures as well as relative avatar positioning to other characters and objects. The interface was first tested as a paper prototype, re-designed, re-tested and then implemented into a computer prototype.
Beck, Aryel. "Perception of emotional body language displayed by animated characters." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2011. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/perception-of-emotional-body-language-displayed-by-animated-characters(1e1ab3cb-a5eb-453a-8ee4-d432997aeb93).html.
Full textKansa, Metee. "Body part-related metaphors in Thai and English." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1259310.
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Fredal, James. "Beyond the fifth canon : body rhetoric in Ancient Greece /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487953204280387.
Full textAnderson, Kathryn. "Body language : ballet as form in literary modernism, 1915-1935." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/59609/.
Full textBotre, Shrikant. "The body language of caste : Marathi sexual modernity (1920-1950)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/110543/.
Full textWatkins, Megan. "Discipline and learn : theorising the pedagogic body /." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031001.154138/index.html.
Full text"A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy" Bibliography : leaves 314-323.
Aoki, Hiromi. "Hearership as interactive practice a multi-modal analysis of the response token Nn and head nods in Japanese casual conversation /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1568188241&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textO'Loughlin, Antoinette, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and of Performance Fine Arts and Design Faculty. "The ambivalent skin of language." THESIS_FPFAD_XXX_OLoughlin_A.xml, 1993. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/208.
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Videtto, Aubrey. "The Underground House: A Body Memoir." TopSCHOLAR®, 2005. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/485.
Full textMontani, Alessandro. "Mystical language and the problem of the body Jacopone da Todi." Thesis, University of Reading, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273903.
Full textMui, Sian. "Dead body language : deciphering corpse positions in early Anglo-Saxon England." Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12829/.
Full textBarclay, Gedney Harrison. "A shape is a sound : reflections on the body and language." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106366.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
"June 2016." Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-52).
This thesis examines the practice and projects of the author as both an actor and an artist as an ongoing investigation into the relationship between the body and language, between movement, line, shape, and voice. By weaving together diverse projects from my graduate career that explore voice and language as physical, material processes with episodes from my work as an actor, it investigates translation -- between forms, bodies, languages, and materials -- as a method of creation, a path of invention.
by Gedney Harrison Barclay.
S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology
Ali, Ahmad, and Svensson Marcus. "Animation through Body Language : A study using the fictional character Mokhtar." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för speldesign, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-297660.
Full textSlaney, Helen. "Language and the body in the performance reception of Senecan tragedy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:72f9cf38-6e9c-40a1-b387-12a754e4d0ea.
Full textHyon, Katherine Sungwon. "In the Body." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/34.
Full textSlagle, Judith Bailey. "Performance Review of The Busy Body, by Susanna Centlivre." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3213.
Full textWatkins, Megan. "Discipline and learn : theorising the pedagogic body." Thesis, View thesis, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/23481.
Full textTico, Jenna N. "Body Language: Representations of Dis/Ability in Life Writing and Improvisational Dance." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/87.
Full textCollins, Shane Maurice. "The language of the body : an analysis of Chaucer, Dunbar and Henryson." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5902/.
Full textPhillips, Louise. "A language of its own? : approaches to the body and mental illness." Thesis, University of Kent, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270817.
Full textGunter, Elizabeth. "The mark of a silent language : the way the body-mind draws." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6656.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis deals with the notion that individuation in drawing provides visible evidence of experiential cognition as embodied action. It asserts that trait as enaction signifies constructive and inventive processes that involve the body-mind. Trait emerges as nonrepresentationist, non-expressive component of drawing that marks the pre-conceptual as conceptual. Therefore, drawing functions as a complex interface between drafter and world that unifies antimonies such as inside and outside; convention and invention; remoteness and intimacy; body and mind; and subject and object. The thesis outlines drawing as a self-reflexive research process that constructs and invents. An understanding of trait as invention, the thesis proposes, can aid the drawing facilitator at higher education level to develop individual student drafters’ creativity. The thesis therefore argues for a form of drawing facilitation that is responsive to the complex interaction between the self and the world. Responsive mediation develops and celebrates diversity in socio-cultural heritage, personal history, and individual differences.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die idee dat verpersoonlikte trekke in tekenkuns sigbare aanduiding van enaktiewe vergestalting van kognisie is, vorm die onderwerp van hierdie tesis. Die tesis stel dit dat vergestaltende ervaringskognisie, as die tekenaar se ervaringsbetrokkenheid, geïndividueerde begrip, vaardigheid, sintese en betekenisvorming moontlik maak en ontwikkel. Verpersoonlikte trekke in tekenkuns blyk van non-representatiewe en non-ekspressiewe oorsprong te wees aldaar dit die prekonseptuele as die konseptuele merk. Dit ondersteun die gedagte dat tekenkuns as ’n komplekse koppelvlak tussen tekenaar en omwêreld funksioneer. As koppelvlak word die tekenkuns verwesenlik as ’n sigbare samevloeiing van dualiteite soos binne en buite, die gewone en verdigting, afstand en intimiteit, subjek en objek, liggaam en gees. Ingevolge ’n enaktiewe beskouing van die tekenkuns kan die tekenhandeling beskryf word as ’n selfrefleksiewe navorsingsproses wat kreatiwiteit ondersteun. Sodanige beskouing van die tekenkuns, lui die argument, kan die fasiliteerder op ’n hoër onderwysvlak help om individuele tekenstudente se kreatiwiteit te bevorder. Daaruit vloei die voorstel vir ’n vorm van fasilitering wat gevoelig is vir die ingewikkelde interaksie tussen die self en die omgewing. ’n Vorm van mediasie wat dit in ag neem, skep nie alleen ruimte vir diversiteit wat betref sosio-kulturele herkoms, persoonlike geskiedenis en individuele verskille nie, maar ontwikkel en vier ook dié soort diversiteit.
Massoura, Kiriaki. "The politics of body and language in the writing of Margaret Atwood." Thesis, University of York, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10907/.
Full textBenson, Elizabeth M. "Disordered: A Tale of the Body." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/373.
Full textAlexander, Robyn Gaye. "Body/sexuality/control : female identity in four Fay Weldon novels." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20451.
Full textThis thesis explores the manner in which female identity is depicted and the concept itself deployed in four novels by Fay Weldon (1931- ), a contemporary English writer. The novels examined are Puffball (1980), The President's Child (1982), The Cloning of Joanna May (1989) and Growing Rich (1992). The thesis's· theoretical focus is feminist, and it makes use of terms, arguments and insights provided by contemporary feminist literary and cultural theory. It thus in part also explores the usefulness of insights provided by recent feminist poststructuralist theory, with particular reference to psychoanalytic theory. On the whole, these insights are found to be useful, even though they do not entirely answer some of the questions generated by the possibilities which are shown to exist for female subjects within western culture. The thesis's conclusion suggests ways in which this lack of definitive answers might in its turn be interpreted. The first chapter, dealing with Puffball, examines the novel's depiction of the effects of pregnancy on a woman's body and in turn on her sense of her own identity. This is followed by a chapter on The Cloning of Joanna May, which also takes female experience of the maternal as its central focus. This chapter shows how Weldon investigates current meanings of birth, children, identity and the natural via a plot concerned with the uses and abuses of contemporary reproductive technologies. A short chapter on Weldon's prose style, which is seen to manipulate aspects of form in order to generate particular effects, follows. In it, the current reception of Weldon's work and her use of humour in her writing is commented upon. This chapter also anticipates the question of the use of narrative voice, which is crucial to the novels dealt with in the final two chapters. In the first of these, which explores Growing Rich, the manner in which masculine power is shown to impact on the bodies of the two central female characters is central. Like the final chapter on The President's Child, this chapter also deals with the narrator's use of narrative as vehicle for both the stories of the female characters which she relates and for her own story. The final chapter focuses on the increasingly open conflict which Weldon depicts between male and female power, and also explores how the public/private division central to western culture is disrupted in this novel. Throughout the thesis, an attempt is made to show how female identity is at present constructed for and by western women: via their own and others' representations of their bodies and their sexuality, and as a concept over which they have varying degrees of control. It concludes that the often contradictory fictional representations of female subjectivity in the four novels under discussion suggest the constraints and difficulties involved in attempts to create new visions of female bodies, sexualities and identities. However, these depictions of such experiences are in addition shown to suggest the possibility of new and different representations.
Black, Fiona Catherine. "The grotesque body in the Song of Songs." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311696.
Full textXia, Li. "Exploring the understanding of culture specific body language among Chinese learners of English." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2010. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1205.
Full textLarsson, Pernilla. "Discerning Emotion Through Movement : A study of body language in portraying emotion in animation." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-16807.
Full textShoemaker, Ryan Craig. ""The Memory of the Body" and other stories /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1464.pdf.
Full textYung, Hiu-yu. "Theorizing the translation of body language a study of nonverbal behaviors in literature /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2010. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B44051785.
Full textGrechuta, Klaudia. "Grounding body ownership and language in action: evidence from healthy and damaged brains." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667128.
Full textContràriament a la teoria clàssica de la ment fonamentalment inspirada pel dualisme, el marc teòric d'"embodiment" emfatitza el rol constitutiu del cos en els processos cognitius. Aquesta perspectiva, també referida com a aproximació sensoriomotora, ha rebut suport per part de nombrosos estudis empírics, suggerint que a la base dels processos cognitius tant de baix com d'alt nivell s'hi situa la interacció entre el cos, el cervell i l'entorn, mitjançant l'acció. Críticament, aquests resultats desafien les teories tradicionals sobre la mateixa experiència del cos com a procés de baix nivell, així com les aproximacions a l'adquisició del llenguatge com a procés d'alt nivell. Ambdues funcions, alhora, semblen essencials per, d'una banda, poder actuar al món satisfactòriament, definint el mínim sentit de "self", i d'altra banda, per habilitar la comunicació verbal. En un esforç interdisciplinari que integra mètodes tals com il·lusions corporals i assajos clínics aleatoritzats, aquesta dissertació es presenta com a una sèrie d'experiments amb l'objectiu de millorar el nostre coneixement sobre els principis de "body ownership" i del (re)aprenentatge del llenguatge basats en les interaccions sensoriomotores d'un invididu amb el món. Amb aquesta finalitat, en un conjunt de quatre experiments de comportament amb persones sanes, hem intentat estendre la teoria clàssica multisensorial de "body ownership", la qual es basa en paradigmes que no tenen en compte la integració de cap senyal eferent. Específicament, hem provat si el "body ownership" interacciona amb el sistema motor en el sentit de si depèn de senyals sensorials (incloent-hi les externes al cos) pertanyents a una tasca orientada a objectius. En un estudi posterior, vam posar a prova les nocions de connectivitat, espai peripersonal, i plausibilitat física com a condicions necessàries per "body ownership" en el context de l'acció. Finalment, ens vam preguntar quin és el rol del model intern que tenim de l'entorn en l'experiència del "self". Paral·lelament, inspirats per descobriments recents, vam posar a prova les premisses de la tesi d'"embodiment" en el context de (re)aprenentatge del llenguatge. En particular, vam dissenyar una teràpia comportamental, orientada a objectius, i multimodal, per pacients amb afàsia no fluent. Vam provar si aquesta aproximació és beneficiosa per a la recuperació i retenció de les funcions de llenguatge, en comparació amb la teràpia estàndard basada en la visió proposicional. Conjuntament, els nostres resultats contribueixen a l'enteniment de com processos de baix nivell, com l'experiència que el cos ens pertany, i les funcions cognitives de baix nivell, com el (re)aprenentatge del llenguatge, estan íntimament lligats al sistema motor, els objectius, i les dinàmiques de l'entorn. Més enllà de la seva rellevància per a la recerca en neurociència, aquests resultats poden tenir aplicacions en l'àmbit de la rehabilitació de desordres del "body-self" i del llenguatge.
Stoddard, Christine. "The fall into woman, female body/language in the drama of medieval York." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0012/MQ36535.pdf.
Full textZhao, Yisu. "Human Emotion Recognition from Body Language of the Head using Soft Computing Techniques." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23468.
Full textYung, Hiu-yu, and 翁曉羽. "Theorizing the translation of body language: a study of nonverbal behaviors in literature." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44051785.
Full textCRUZ, ANDRE LUIZ BENTES FERREIRA DA. "THE INDIVIDUATION AS AESTHETIC PHENOMENON: ART, BODY AND LANGUAGE IN THE YOUNG NIETZSCHE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15617@1.
Full textO presente estudo tem como foco o pensamento de juventude de Nietzsche, bem como o contexto em que se insere. Nosso objetivo geral consiste em apontar os pontos fundamentais para a compreensão de O nascimento da tragédia, sua primeira obra publicada, bem como as influências filosóficas que giram em torno desse período, na Alemanha. O objetivo específico consiste em compreender como sua teoria da arte pôde ser apresentada por intermédio de uma tradução de estados fisiológicos, a ponto dos próprios indivíduos serem considerados as atualizações desses estados. Ao priorizar o uso de figuras de deuses para tornar seus pensamentos intuíveis, ao invés de ater-se à elaboração de conceitos, Nietzsche faz uso de um método alegórico de análise das características fisiológicas que giram em torno da criação artística, que culmina no que mais tarde ele veio a chamar de metafísica de artista, que tendemos a examinar como um uso da linguagem que enaltece as perspectivas, na medida em que a metáfora é colocada ao lado da metafísica.
This study focuses on Nietzsche`s thinking of youth and the context in which it is inserted. Our general aim consists in indicating the fundamental points to The birth of tragedy`s comprehension, his very first published work, as well as the philosophical influences of that time in Germany. The specific aim consists in understanding how his theory could be presented through a translation of the physiological states, on the threshold of being considered, the individuals themselves, the updating of these states. By giving priority to the gods figures usage so as to become his thoughts intuitible, in stead of abiding by elaborations of concepts, Nietzsche utilizes an allegoric method to analyze the physiological characteristics which go around the artistic creation, by culminating in what he would call later the artist metaphysics that we are prone to examine as a language usage to enhance the perspectives in the sense that metaphor and metaphysics are put together.
Collard, Teresa Y. "Facial nonverbal communication and deception detection /." View online, 1986. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998880495.pdf.
Full textStevenson, Dustin. "The Speculative Trunk." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1891.
Full textLeverton, Tara Juliette Corinna. "A rotten and dead body : disabled villainy on the early modern stage." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13118.
Full textAnalysing the different ways in which the persistent trope of the disabled villain manifests on the early modern stage is, I believe, necessary work. There has been no extended scholarly account of this phenomenon; analyses of the fictional disabled villain have generally served as side arguments to larger discussions regarding the placement of disability in cultural consciousness.
Achmed, Imran. "Upper body pose recognition and estimation towards the translation of South African sign language." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2493_1304504127.
Full textRecognising and estimating gestures is a fundamental aspect towards translating from a sign language to a spoken language. It is a challenging problem and at the same time, a growing phenomenon in Computer Vision. This thesis presents two approaches, an example-based and a learning-based approach, for performing integrated detection, segmentation and 3D estimation of the human upper body from a single camera view. It investigates whether an upper body pose can be estimated from a database of exemplars with labelled poses. It also investigates whether an upper body pose can be estimated using skin feature extraction, Support Vector Machines (SVM) and a 3D human body model. The example-based and learning-based approaches obtained success rates of 64% and 88%, respectively. An analysis of the two approaches have shown that, although the learning-based system generally performs better than the example-based system, both approaches are suitable to recognise and estimate upper body poses in a South African sign language recognition and translation system.
Karipidou, Kelly. "Modelling the body language of a musical conductor using Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models." Thesis, KTH, Datorseende och robotik, CVAP, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-176101.
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