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Leonard, Kendra Preston. "Significations of Religious Desire in Louise Talma’s The Alcestiad." Religion and the Arts 17, no. 3 (2013): 289–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-12341274.
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Abstract American composer Louise Talma’s opera The Alcestiad can be read as a highly autobiographical work; its themes can be understood as crucial elements of Talma’s own life. These correlations include: the demands and restrictions of society upon women’s behavior and desires, particularly its emphasis upon conforming to heteronormative performance, represented by Alcestis’s hesitant acceptance of marriage and motherhood, and Talma’s reluctant career as a pedagogue and internal conflict over her relationship with Nadia Boulanger; and the yearning for a life of devotion to a religion and a single art, in which Alcestis’s desire to serve as an oracular priestess of Apollo and Talma’s desire to dedicate herself to her work as a Catholic and as a composer are parallel tropes. This essay explores these parallels and demonstrates the ways in which the close relationships between The Alcestiad and Talma’s life are manifested in Talma’s use of rhythm in text-setting within the work.
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BĂCILĂ, Florina-Maria. "LES SIGNIFICATIONS DU NOM ȘOAPTĂ DANS LA POÉSIE DE TRAIAN DORZ." Studii și cercetări de onomastică și lexicologie, no. 1-2 (February 12, 2023): 201–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.52846/scol.2022.1-2.11.
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This paper aims to discuss some meanings of the noun șoaptă/ ‘whisper’ (derived by backformation), as reflected in the confessional poetry of Traian Dorz - a contemporary Romanian author whose work is undoubtedly the fruit of the spiritual experiences that have decisively marked his existential route. In fact, the relationship of the human being with God (in the earthly sphere, but also from the perspective of eternity) remains a constant theme of this work dedicated to the astonishing feeling of His unmistakable love, in connection with which everything is situated, more than once, within the coordinates of the unspeakable: it is a special kind of “verbalization,” which offers the opportunity to live in a true spiritual discipline, substituting (and suppressing) any other form of confession through ordinary words. In addition to simply illustrating such expressive valences that contribute to the achievement of the textual construction, the meanings of the above-mentioned noun highlight the deep feelings of the authorial ego, always ascending on the path of mystical knowledge, and are placed on a positive semantic direction, as a special way of inner “speech”, in the absence of which communication would be inconceivable.
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Dulguerova, Elitza. "Ouverture pour cause d’inventaire. Figures et significations de l’exhaustivité en exposition." RACAR : Revue d'art canadienne 43, no. 2 (December 14, 2018): 11–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1054379ar.
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This article examines how exhaustiveness serves as a guiding principal for certain exhibitions, and particularly as a means of critiquing selection as the dominant method of promoting specific artworks, artists, and movements. It begins by outlining the possible genealogies of this attitude in the history of exhibition forms, as well as artists’ experiments with these forms. It then focuses on the work of curators Michael Fehr, Véronique Souben, and Rebecca Duclos and David K. Ross, who, in different contexts, have used notions of inventory and storage to exhaustively present collections. These practices represent strategies of resistance and critique whose contemporary relevance needs to be evaluated alongside their strengths and weaknesses.
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Mohammed, Wafaa Dahham. "A Cultural Based Pragmatic Approach for Analysing English- Arabic Dramatic Cultural References with Reference to Translation." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 3, no. 1 (September 1, 2023): 29–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.1.3.
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Translation of cultural references can be effective and beneficially achieve various purposes depending on how they are transferred into another language. Virtually, cultural references refer to any word with considerably conceptual effects used for influencing conventional and societal intents. However, cultural references that are relatively belonged to a certain language are not equally observed in culture of another language; they derive their significations from the cultural characteristics of a community. Wherefore, cultural significations suchlike conventions, aesthetic values, and doctrines which are directly concerned with bridging intents lose their intentional importance or even work the opposite in another language. The incompatibility of dramatic references in their stylization of functions will problematically bring unparalleled pragmatic conceptions in both languages. Therefrom, this study objectively aims at: comparing cultural references in both languages, their impacts, and the extents of their influences; testing the validity of the adopted translational procedures in resolving cultural mutual exclusiveness; setting out some translational strategies for
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Liu, Zhongchen, and Guyong Lee. "Signification of Contemporary Chinese Art through a Semiotic Aspect: Focusing on the Visual Symbols Shown in the Work." Korean Society of Culture and Convergence 45, no. 11 (November 30, 2023): 711–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.33645/cnc.2023.11.45.11.711.
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This study employs semiotic theory to explore the visual symbols and their meanings in contemporary Chinese art. By analyzing the visual symbols of specific artworks through case studies and interpreting their meanings centered around Roland Barthes's theory of myth, the research delves into the association between art and semiotics in various artistic forms including two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and digital visual symbols. Focusing on works created after the 1979 'Star Art Exhibition', it provides a nuanced understanding of the semiotics and visual symbols in contemporary Chinese art, demonstrating semiotics as a valuable framework for in-depth analysis. The findings reveal that through semiotic analysis, contemporary Chinese art can be seen as a 'text' with profound socio-cultural meanings, enhancing our comprehension of the intricate interplay and deeper significations between contemporary art and signs.
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FREZ, Carolina Soraggi, and Emma Elisa Carneiro de CASTRO. "Experiências de cardiopatas submetidos à cirurgia cardíaca: um estudo exploratório." PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES - Revista da Abordagem Gestáltica 26, no. 3 (2020): 279–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.18065/2020v26n3.4.
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This paper aims to investigate and describe significations of the experience of cardiopaths who were submitted to cardiac surgery, using the Gestalt-therapy as theoretical basis. The sample was composed by five post surgical pacientes, one woman and four men, ageing between 52 and 65 years old, married, self-declared white and brown, with scholarly between fundamental and medium levels. After the semiestructered intervieweds were done, the data was analysed through the tematic content analysis. The results of this study expose that the main significations related to the cardiac surgery refer to the threat to surviving, lost of control over yourself, lost of authonomy and independence. The surgical process demands a constant work of the pacient orientation system in order to exist the maintenance of the homeostasis in the organism, existing a diversity of individual regulatory reactions which contributes for the restauration of the balance of the environment in which they are located.
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Ferrer, Diogo. "Notas acerca dos Pressupostos e Consequências da Críticaao Relativismo Nos Prolegómenos À Lógica Pura de Husserl." Phainomenon 16-17, no. 1 (October 1, 2008): 81–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2008-0015.
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Abstract Notwithstanding its critical and refutative method and scope, which are so different from his subsequent phenomenological work, Husserl’s Prolegomena to Pure Logic lays the foundations for that later work. His refutation of relativism is based upon the existence of a general form for scientific “foundations”, the availability of non-linguistic evidence of pure significations and the possibility of the subject reflecting upon its own acts, which also pave the way for Phenomenology. This paper also points out that, although the later relativist philosophy often rested on exactly the opposite theses of the Prolegomena, the arguments of this work were not seriously discussed or refuted.
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Wilson, Sarah. "All the Missiles Are One Missile Revisited: Dazzle in the Work of Zofia Kulik." Arts 11, no. 6 (November 11, 2022): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts11060116.
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This essay revisits one of Polish artist Zofia Kulik’s most important ‘photocarpets’, produced in a moment of hope, retrospection yet continuing war in 1993; seen by an international public in 1997. Visually, its composition is dominated by late Soviet sculptures symbolising Mother Russia and military aggression, yet the composition, ‘kilim-like’, with an additional reference to Polish Catholicism, involves bilateral and rotational symmetries which undermine significations of power and might with various other symbols: bodies, naked or draped, and Polish TV screenshots from both the military and entertainment worlds. ‘Dazzle’, the camouflage-related military term is also related to tears and (repressed) mourning. The female artist’s attitude to gender is crucial. The piece is both a ‘revisualisation’ and ‘rewriting’, relating both to the author’s previous texts on the artist from 1999 and 2001, and Kulik’s own rediscovery of her Ukrainian heritage, which reframes her own vision and understanding of the piece in 2022.
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Marrone, Gianfranco. "Food meaning: From tasty to flavorful." Semiotica 2016, no. 211 (July 1, 2016): 187–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0103.
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AbstractConsidering as a starting point Greimas’s last work (De l’imperfection), taken into very little consideration by later semiotic research, I would like to see whether it would be possible to make, in the field of taste, the distinction that Greimas did in the visual field: between a “figurative” taste (that I should call tasty) and a “plastic” taste (that I should call flavorful). Much has been discussed about the synesthetic nature of gustatory sensoriality. But very little has been said about links and differences between an intellectualistic taste perception (i. e., recognition of figures of food through semantic grids) and a taste perception of a pure aesthetic nature, supported by the former and producing further significations that cannot be reproduced through language words. How does an aesthetic grasp of taste work, if it works at all? In order to answer this question I will briefly analyze different kinds of texts.
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Varvarousis, Angelos. "Crisis, liminality and the decolonization of the social imaginary." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2, no. 3 (August 21, 2019): 493–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2514848619841809.
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The decolonization of the social imaginary has been proposed as an important dimension of the transition towards a degrowth society. However, although omnipresent in the degrowth literature, the terms “social imaginary” and “social imaginary significations” have not been adequately explained. This creates a level of mystification that limits the analytical value of the degrowth framework. In addition, there is very little theoretical work on how actual social imaginaries can be decolonized and transformed. This paper first tries to clarify those concepts. Subsequently, it develops a theoretical framework for explaining such transitions of the imaginary. In developing this framework, the paper focuses on moments of crisis, since crises have been historically associated with change and transition. It argues that crises are important because they destabilize social imaginaries and open up a stage of suspension—a liminal stage—in which the rise of new social practices can facilitate the emergence of new social imaginary significations and institutions that can contribute to the alteration of the social imaginary at large. The paper draws on case studies related to the Greek crisis, the biggest ever faced by a country of the Global North after the Second World War.
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Chiang, Shiao-Yun, and Ho Hon Leung. "Making a home in US rural towns: the significations of home for Chinese immigrants' work, family, and settlement in local communities." Community, Work & Family 14, no. 4 (November 2011): 469–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2011.574871.
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Cuc, Bogdan Sebastian. "From Body to Word…, From Word to Eros." Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis 12, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 119–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rjp-2019-0020.
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Abstract When describing the two instincts in his work “The Ego and the Id”, Freud says that the “Eros, by bringing about a more and more far-reaching combination of the particles into which living substance is dispersed, aims at complicating life and at the same time, of course, at preserving it”. This complication, which I consider to be rather an increased complexity, can be found in the patients’ discourse through the diversification of means of expression and attributed significations, when their “stories” open up to us and to new meanings… However, when stories are meant to free the body of the burden of a stigmata, which must be covered with histories and significants, how can we identify the flux of the Eros in the counter-sense of a Thanatos that, as Freud said, “tends to return the organic to the lifeless state”? I therefore propose that we try and explore this effort to tell the story of the body expression forms trough words, in Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel, The Storyteller…
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Canceran, O.P., Delfo. "Theologizing on the Arts: The Photo of the Child and Vulture." Philippiniana Sacra 50, no. 151 (2015): 543–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.55997/ps3005l151a4.
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This essay provides a preliminary sketch in doing a systematic theology on the arts. The art work like the picture of the child with the vulture cannot be framed by theologian because one needs to consider the triadic relationship exhibited in the photo between the photographer, the child with the vulture and the viewers who are trying to capture the incident by their own impression. However, by putting them together in the event surrounding the photo, the art work overflows with significations that can never be closed and totalized. Theologians can only make a provisionary or tentative analysis of the photo. A theologian viewing the photo can only utter a “perhaps” in theologizing on the arts because it humbles him/her to accept his/her vulnerability and finity in theologizing.
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Adams, Suzi, and Johann P. Arnason. "A Conversation on Social Imaginaries: Culture, Power, Action, World." International Journal of Social Imaginaries 1, no. 1 (May 16, 2022): 129–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27727866-01010006.
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Abstract The conversation begins with reflections on social imaginaries as a crossroads concept, capable of integrating insights from multiple sources; this point is developed through references to the works of Marx, Durkheim and Weber, and followed by comments on Charles Taylor’s hermeneutical realism, as well as on the task of rethinking psychoanalysis. Marcel Gauchet’s approach is noted as the most promising perspective on the latter field. Further discussion deals with the concept of imaginary significations as a key to the theory of culture, and then moves on to two foreshadowed but notably underdeveloped themes in Castoriadis’s work: the symbolic and the problems of theorizing action. Both of them are linked to the phenomenological notion of the world. The final section raises the question of power and emphasizes the affinity of social imaginaries with a relational understanding of power.
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Lange, Armin, and Zlatko Pleše. "Transpositional Hermeneutics." Journal of Ancient Judaism 3, no. 1 (May 6, 2012): 15–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/21967954-00301003.
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This article argues that similar yet distinct hermeneutical approaches can be observed in the Derveni papyrus, the exegetical work of Aristobulus of Alexandria, and the Qumran Pesharim. These similarities go back to a widespread hermeneutical system that was triggered by cultural and religious estrangement from authoritative texts. Such estrangement developed when the authoritative status of scripturalized cultural memories prevented their adjustment to evolving cultures by way of reworking (textual fixity). The transposition of isolated elements from these scripturalized cultural memories into new contexts allows for a continuous re-reading of textually stable authoritative texts. In this way, authoritative texts could develop ever-changing significations mirroring the developments of cultures and societies.
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Ali Qurbi, Essa. "Ambiguous Word Processing among Second Language Learners." Canadian Modern Language Review 78, no. 2 (April 1, 2022): 151–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cmlr-2020-0115.
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Cette étude porte sur le traitement, par des apprenants d’une langue seconde, de mots ambigus (p. ex., bank, en anglais : 1] une institution financière, 2] la rive d’une rivière/d’un lac) et sur la capacité de ces apprenants d’activer la signification secondaire aussi rapidement que la signification dominante. Des participants ayant l’anglais comme langue primaire et comme langue seconde ont utilisé un paradigme de fenêtres pour effectuer une tâche de lecture à leur rythme, où toutes les phrases s’orientaient vers la deuxième signification (c.-à-d., bank comme la rive d’une rivière/d’un lac). Les résultats ont montré que les participants dont l’anglais était la langue première activaient autant les significations dominante que secondaire d’un mot ambigu, même dans un contexte orienté vers la signification secondaire. Cependant, les participants dont l’anglais était la langue seconde avaient certaines difficultés à activer la signification secondaire en langue seconde, même lorsque le contexte précédent était orienté vers celle-ci. Les résultats des participants dont la langue première était l’anglais étaient compatibles avec un modèle d’accès autonome, c’est-à-dire que toutes les significations d’un mot ambigu de la langue première sont activées même lorsque le contexte est orienté vers une signification particulière. Cependant, les résultats des participants dont l’anglais était la langue seconde, même si ceux-ci connaissaient les deux significations de chaque mot ambigu dans l’étude (selon le questionnaire rempli après l’expérience), ont montré que la signification dominante d’un mot ambigu dans une langue seconde est activée la première, même lorsque le contexte est orienté vers la signification secondaire.
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Robb Larkins, Erika. "Guarding the Body." Conflict and Society 3, no. 1 (June 1, 2017): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2017.030105.
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Drawing on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the private security industry, this article focuses on the training of low-level guards, examining the centrality of the body and embodied experience to their work in hospitality settings. In a racially stratified society in which lower-class, dark-skinned bodies are oft en equated with poverty and criminality, security guards are required to perform an image of upstanding, respectable, law-abiding citizens in order to do their jobs protecting corporate property. Guards learn techniques of body management at security schools as part of their basic training. They also learn how to subdue the bodies of others, including those of white elites, who represent a constant challenge to their authority. Working from my own experiences as a student in private security schools, I argue for the relevance of an understanding of the body and its significations to private security work.
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Al-Zarāl, Ṣalāḥ Al-Dīn. "Applied Semantics and the Qur'an: Izutsu's Methodology as a Case Study." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 14, no. 1 (April 2012): 200–173. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2012.0047.
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This article focuses on the methodology of the Japanese scholar, Toshihiko Izutsu, as put forward in his God and Man in the Koran: Semantics of the Koranic Weltanschauung. This work is a semantic reading of the Qur'an in which its author utilises two paradigms, sometimes using a descriptive approach in order to interpret Qur'anic concepts in a situated time, and sometimes using an historical approach to explain the development of conceptual frameworks in pre-Islamic Arabia on the eve of Islam and at the time of the revelation. In the Introduction, I give a general overview of modern semantic theory. Part One discusses applied semantics and explores the extent to which it can be applied as discourse analysis and the ways in which it can be a location for hermeneutical interpretation. Part Two will then discuss the works of Izutsu and his methodology in order to propose a suitable paradigm for interpreting the actual words of the Qur'anic vocabulary with respect to their semantic significations.
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Badescu, Sanda. "Espace fermé, espace ouvert : Proust à la recherche du familier." L’espace à travers l’imaginaire littéraire, no. 122 (July 13, 2023): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1101618ar.
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The limited space of the room acquires unique significations in Proust. The work In Search of Lost Time is built on numerous oppositions that are also expressed at the level of space: the novelist reveals how a room can be either threatening or welcoming, depending on the imagination that is invested in it. Thus, the child narrator's bedroom, benevolent, can become a torment when night falls and he has to be alone, and the hotel room, threatening and disturbing, can turn into a quiet and reassuring space thanks to the intervention of the female character, namely the grandmother. The duality of the two sides, familiar and foreign, contains an antithesis but also a complementarity which are fundamental to the initiation and experience of the future writer.
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Othman, Irma Wani, Wan Hurani Osman, and Anna Lynn Abu Bakar. "SIGNIFICATIONS OF FAMILY SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND FRIENDSHIP RELATIONSHIPS IN AFFECTING EXPATRIATE EXPERIENCE: FROM THE LENS OF MALAYSIA PUBLIC UNIVERSITY EXPATRIATE COMMUNITY." International Journal of Education, Psychology and Counseling 7, no. 47 (September 29, 2022): 731–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/ijepc.747055.
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This paper provides an understanding of the social structure, which is seen as a phenomenology that refers to one's thinking about the interpretation and meaning of life experience based on the presence of individuals in economic position, political scenario, statehood, and education system in a country that is not his country of origin. Thus, the interpretation among these independent expatriates is debated by taking into account the role of social structures such as family institutions and the environment of friendship in relation to the significance of expatriate experiences in the host country. In other words, the discussion presented in this paper is to achieve the objective of the study in unravelling the expatriate's interpretation of the expatriate decision, whether it is closely related to the experience of his family members during the expatriate service in the host country.The research was conducted by utilising qualitative methods of in-depth interviews with 30 expatriate academics selected from four Malaysian public universities. The appropriate respondent criteria include the following characteristics, namely (a) has resided for at least a year in Malaysia using a valid employee visa, (b) has been offered a position as academic staff and has renewed his service contract, (c) is an expatriate with his own initiative in expatriating and (d) works full time and is not classified as an exchange staff between universities or those on sabbatical leave.The study results show that the interpretation of family members on the meaning of expatriation experience gives justification for expatriate to remain in the host country. While moral support from friendship provides a positive indication of expatriate’s performance in the context of work throughout performing international duties. Further supporting social networks relationship with the local community is also one of the determinants of expatriate success in adapting to the host country environment.
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Lyamlahy, Khalid. "Fragments d’un discours iconographique : Poétique de l’image dans L’Empire des signes de Roland Barthes." Quêtes littéraires, no. 5 (December 30, 2015): 149–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/ql.248.
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Roland Barthes was not only a literary theorist, a critic or a semiotician. Above all, he was concerned with signs, symbols and representations which shape the everyday life and nourish both identities of the individual subject and the social group. As the world celebrates in 2015 the centenary of his birth, the question of his intellectual and literary legacies has never been more relevant. In the large scope of his works, L’Empire des signes, published in 1970 following several trips to Japan, is rather a particular piece which hinges on a specific combination of text and images. By looking at the structure of Barthes’s work and the relationship between the author’s discourse and the meanings released through the images, this paper aims to highlight the poetics of the image as a founding element in L’Empire des signes. The study of three categories of images used in the volume and their confrontation with the author’s developments shed new light on the contribution of the iconographic element towards a valuable understanding of signs and significations.
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Roiniță, Alina. "Poetical patterns in Nichita Stănescu’s poems." Journal of Education Culture and Society 7, no. 2 (September 10, 2016): 316–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20162.316.327.
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Through our study we have established a potential pattern of analysis over the aspect of poetical language. The theme was determined by the purpose of implementing the particular linguistic model created by N. Stănescu, which we call the nichitastănescu pattern. We exemplified the model by identifying the compositional values and the structures that contribute to the creation of a linguistic frame built to measure the main semantics, through which the poetical language is internalized and aestheticized. We also use a specific poetical construction model based on the triadic analysis pattern proposed by the French semiotics group entitled Groupe μ, in their collective work Rhétorique de la poésie: lecture linéaire, lecture tabulaire, published in 1977. The value of this study consists in a detailed view over the textual dimensions of expressiveness and significations in the poetical language used by Nichita Stănescu. Throughout his lyrics, the named poet reveals the uniqueness of his specific poetical language in contrast with other Romanian poets.
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Bundgård, Peer F. "Kognition og narrativitet." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 34, no. 101 (April 2, 2006): 108–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v34i101.22328.
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Det narrative skema som grundlæggende kognitivt skema Cognition and narrativityThis paper aims at establishing the origin of the narrative schema in the perception of intentional movements. The distinction between mechanical and intentional movements is vital for human beings, and the narrative schema, which is underpinned by this distinction, is therefore claimed to be a basic cognitive principle of intelligibility. This is the reason why the narrative schema is by no means confined to the domain of the literary work of art or telling in general. It is rather a major principle for the combination of partial significations in many other domains. The paper explores the role traditionally assigned to the narrative schema within continental semiotics, and through an interpretation of Heider & Simmel’s study on apparent behavior it establishes the cognitive import of the narrative schema and its origin in visual perception; finally it gives examples of the meaning-organizing import of the narrative schema.
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Salazar S., Luz. "Los significados de apropiación pedagógica de TIC para profesores formadores de docentes." GACETA DE PEDAGOGÍA, no. 38 (December 1, 2019): 137–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.56219/rgp.vi38.772.
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El artículo resume la investigación realizada sobre los significados de la apropiación pedagógica de las tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC), para una muestra representativa de profesores formadores de docentes de la Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador, Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas (UPEL-IPC), desde el abordaje de la problemática de las demandas de incorporación de TIC en su labor educadora. Se articula la epistemología fenomenológica hermenéutica de Heidegger, con una ruta metodológica cualitativa de la investigación, fundamentada en los postulados de este filósofo, a partir de la metáfora de un viaje a la comprensión del fenómeno de la apropiación de TIC y su incidencia en el ser profesional docente. La interpretación de los significados de apropiación pedagógica de TIC para profesores formadores de docentes de la UPEL-IPC, devela fases en el tránsito de uso, adopción y apropiación de estas tecnologías, vinculadas con el preguntar por el sentido del ser docente en el siglo XXI.
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The research presents the meanings of the pedagogical appropriation of information and communication technologies (ICT), for a representative sample of teacher-training professors of the Libertador Experimental Pedagogical University, Caracas Pedagogical Institute (UPEL-IPC), from the approach to the problem of incorporation of ICT by teachers in their educational work. Heidegger's phenomenological phenomenological epistemology is articulated, with a qualitative methodological path of research based on the postulates of this philosopher, based on the metaphor of a trip to the understanding of the phenomenon of the appropriation of ICT and its impact on the professional being teacher. The interpretation of the meanings of ICT pedagogical appropriation for teacher-training teachers of the UPEL-IPC, reveals phases in the transit of use, adoption and appropriation of these technologies, linked to asking about the meaning of being a teacher in the 21st century.
Key Words: Meanings of ICT Pedagogical Appropriation, Hermeneutical Phenomenological Analysis, Being an Appropriate ICT Teacher.
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La recherche présente les significations de l'appropriation pédagogique des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC), pour un échantillon représentatif de professeurs de formation des enseignants de l'Université pédagogique expérimentale Libertador, Institut pédagogique de Caracas (UPEL-IPC), de l'approche au problème de l'incorporation des TIC par les enseignants dans leur travail éducatif. L'épistémologie phénoménologique de Heidegger s'articule, avec un parcours méthodologique qualitatif de recherche basé sur les postulats de ce philosophe, de la métaphore d'un voyage à la compréhension du phénomène d'appropriation des TIC et de son incidence dans Être un enseignant professionnel. L'interprétation des significations de l'appropriation pédagogique des TIC pour les enseignants-formateurs de l'UPEL-IPC, révèle des phases de transit d'utilisation, d'adoption et d'appropriation de ces technologies, liées à une interrogation sur le sens d'être enseignant au 21e siècle.
Mots clés: significations de l'appropriation pédagogique des TIC, analyse phénoménologique herméneutique, dimensions de l'être enseignant des TIC approprié.
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Schmidt, Gabriela. "Hidden presences of Thomas More in Marian Literature." Moreana 56 (Number 212), no. 2 (December 2019): 213–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/more.2019.0062.
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The cultural politics of Catholic restoration under Mary Tudor have been as crucial to the historical legacy of Thomas More as More's image was to the regime's own historical self-presentation. Not only did the Marian period see the first reappearance in print of many of More's writings after twenty years, the overwhelming presence of More's figure and work in official Catholic discourse, especially from 1556 onwards, also generated many instances of implicit Morean echoes pervading a great variety of Marian literary texts and genres. This essay analyses a number of such hidden presences of More within classical translations of the period, from John Brende's History of Quintus Curtius, which was issued almost simultaneously with the 1553 Marian edition of More's Dialogue of Comfort, to George Colvile's Boethius and Nicholas Grimald's De officiis (both published in 1556), whose appearance coincided with the preparation of More's English Workes for print. As it emerges, such implicit echoes and allusions to More's life and writings not only reshaped the classical works themselves, both updating them and enriching them with additional cultural and political significations; above all they helped to invest the program of Marian religious restoration with the credentials of classical learning promoted by the early Tudor humanists.
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Daté Atavito BARNABÉ-AKAYI and Raphaël YEBOU. "Stylistics of Abiku, of Mwènè or the Isotopies of Fire and Air in L’Ame Blessée d’un Eléphant Noir by Mwènè Gabriel Okoundji." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 5, no. 9 (September 14, 2022): 66–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.9.7.
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The concepts of Abiku in yoruba language and Mwènè in tegue language (Congo Brazzaville) have many significations and use, according to the authors. In Mwènè Gabriel Okoundji, their use wins values which put them in an edifying relationship with the four elements of nature. On this basis, L’âme blessée d’un éléphant noir appears as a gnomic work whose four poems seem to symbolize the four fundamental elements of nature that Abiku and Mwènè are the cruciferous and/or six figures. The poet allegorizes the four cosmic figures (Fire, Air, Water, Earth) and plays with the elliptisation of the two formers. So, it’s interesting to know how those various symbols contribute to the elaboration of the six figures. Does the number 6 intervene in the four figures to link together the worlds and to set an homeostasy, an ataraxia? The stylistic analysis borrowed from François Rastier here is applied to numeroligical and universal myths, to the use of pronouns, and to the punctuation in order to read the Seal of Solomon.
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Golańska, Dorota. "Negotiating Interior Frontiers: Lara Haddad’s A Question of History (2015–16)." Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, no. 13 (November 27, 2023): 17–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.13.02.
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Bringing together insights originating in law studies and art analysis, this article approaches the work of the US-based Syrian artist Lara Haddad through the figuration of “interior frontiers,” exposing how both “interior bonds” and “internal borders” tended to shape legal regulations introduced in the US in the aftermath of 9/11 for the purpose of conducting “the global war on terror.” Referring to the concept of “plasticity,” the article examines the intimate (dis)identifications experienced by the artist in the context of the politically saturated cultural discourses on violence which emerged from the post-9/11 spatialities of (inter)national law. The article argues that politically engaged art offers a means to affectively connect with the personal ways of coping with the persistent visceral presence of structural violence, shedding light on how political protocols and cultural representations impinge upon the individual experiences of many Muslims residing inside and outside the US territory. Opening established meanings to new interpretations, such art contributes to the process of revising dominant oppressive significations, creating room for critical contestation and increased transcultural understanding.
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Cherry, Alina. "Le potentiel de la marge: Fonctions du terrain vague chez Jean-Philippe Toussaint." French Review 97, no. 4 (May 2024): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tfr.2024.a928664.
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ABSTRACT: Parmi les nombreuses formes d'espaces qu'on trouve chez Jean-Philippe Toussaint, les terrains vagues occupent une place singulière dans la mesure où l'écriture valorise ces sites à priori sans intérêt. Isolées et abandonnées, ces zones qui ne participent pas à l'économie de la ville se présentent comme des contre-espaces qui constituent une image "négative" de la cité. Fasciné par la nature transitoire de ces espaces, Toussaint en exploite les significations, en insistant sur leur fonctionnement comme miroir narratif, critique de l'expansion urbaine, palimpseste socio-historique et memento mori . Abstract: Among the many types of space in Jean-Philippe Toussaint's work, vacant lots occupy a unique position insofar as the writing valorizes these seemingly uninteresting sites. Isolated and abandoned, these areas that do not participate in the economy of the city appear as counter-spaces that constitute a "negative" image of the city. Fascinated by the transitory nature of these spaces, Toussaint exploits their meanings, emphasizing their role as a narrative mirror, critique of urban expansion, sociohistorical palimpsest, and memento mori.
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Igwedibia, Adaoma, Austin Okeke, Christian Anieke, and Ozouri Innocent Ikechukwu. "Relevance Theoretical Interpretation of Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise”." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 4 (July 31, 2019): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.4p.65.
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For certain, one does not need to be a colossal voracious reader as to arriving at what Maya Angelou is driving at in virtually all her works. Of course, Maya is not just a fantastic poet but also a renowned storyteller, a fearless activist, a peculiar autobiographer, a gifted singer and playwright whose works generally provoke some sort of empowering flash of thoughts in that they are mostly soused in a struggle to overcome prejudice and injustice. As a matter of fact, Maya Angelou’s works are evidently frontal and a host of them have been literarily torn in and out. Hence they are glaringly a projection of self-awareness even in the face of oppression. It is on this stroke that this present study seeks to dig deep into the most confrontational work of Maya Angelou, her assertive but reliant poem “Still I Rise” so as to come by other extra-linguistic significations therein. And when a study tends to incorporate other varying meanings in a particular data in relation to context, it is, presumably, under the purview of pragmatics whose preoccupation is to accentuate meaning on context basis. But pragmatics is such broad a discipline with several frameworks. Therefore, even though this paper is going to be very much encompassing in the course of this study, its object of attention is to pragmatically study just a fraction of Maya Angelou’s works, her poem “Still I Rise” to be precise with a viable context-based theory, Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory.
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Shahani, Nishant. "Views from above and below: bridging scenes of difference." Journal of Visual Culture 21, no. 1 (April 2022): 36–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14704129221088296.
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This article focuses on the vertical visioning of the bridge as a visual icon of the global city in urban planning, specifically the Bandra-Worli sea link in Mumbai. The author contends that the sea link, launched in 2019 as a way to connect the southern part of the city with its western suburbs, participates in aerial visual significations in which views from above partake in framing of the urban metropolis as an essential aspect of the nation-state’s global modernity aspirations. By analyzing the recurrence of the sea link through a variety of visual illustrations, he suggests that views of the sea link through omniscient perspectives tether urban experiments of modernity to forms of aspirational city planning that are deemed both axiomatic and necessary for urban dreams of development. He contends that ‘reparative’ work in visual culture assumes a task beyond the exposure of ‘unequal scenes’ if it is to grapple with the material contexts of urban repair and redistribution of resources. Rather than views from above or looking from below, the article theorizes a notion of reparation through the ontology of the edge – one that offers speculations of hope beyond the neoliberal logics of infrastructural futurity.
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Monticelli, Daniele. "Critique of ideology or/and analysis of culture? Barthes and Lotman on secondary semiotic systems." Sign Systems Studies 44, no. 3 (December 2, 2016): 432–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2016.44.3.07.
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The article compares Roland Barthes’s and Juri Lotman’s notions of ‘second-order semiological systems’ [systemes sémiologique seconds] and ‘secondary modelling systems’ [вторичные моделирующие системы]. It investigates the shared presuppositions of the two theories and their important divergences from each other, explaining them in terms of the opposite strategic roles that the notions of ‘ideology’ and ‘culture’ play in the work of Barthes and Lotman, respectively. The immersion of secondary modelling systems in culture as a “system of systems” characterized by internal heterogeneity, allows Lotman to evidence their positive creative potential: the result of the tensions arising from cultural systemic plurality and heterogeneity may coincide with the emergence of new, unpredictable meanings in translation. The context of Barthes’s second-order semiological systems is instead provided by highly homogeneous ideological frames that appropriate the signs of the first-order system and make them into forms for significations which confirm, reproduce and transmit previously existing information generated by hegemonic social and cultural discourses. The article shows how these differences resurface and, partially, fade away in the theories of the text that Barthes and Lotman elaborated in the 1970s. The discussion is concluded by some remarks on the possible topicality of Barthes’s and Lotman’s approaches for contemporary semiotics and the humanities in general.
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Knežević, Mladen, Rok Ovsenik, and Janja Jerman. "Work values and success in studying." International Social Work 48, no. 1 (January 2005): 21–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872805048706.
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English This article deals with the work values of social work students in Croatia and Slovenia, where the correlation of these values with success in advancement in the academic environment is revealed to be significantly different. French Cette étude a exploré les différences en termes des valeurs de travail des étudiants en travail social dans deux pays: la Croatie et la Slovénie. L'étude a exploré la corrélation entre les systèmes de valeurs et le succès des étudiants dans l'environnement scolaire. Il y avait des différences significatives entre les étudiants de ces deux pays. Spanish Primero se estudian las diferencias de valores de trabajo entre los estudiantes de trabajo social de dos paises, Croacia y Eslovenia. Se hace luego la correlación de ese sistema de valores con el éxito personal obtenido en el ambiente académico. Se concluye que hay diferencias significativas entre ambos países.
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Santos Junior, Jaime. "A DIMENSÃO ESQUECIDA: a questão da agência no trabalho do corte da cana de açúcar." Caderno CRH 31, no. 83 (January 24, 2019): 389–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.9771/ccrh.v31i83.20104.
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Ao fixar o interesse analítico nos elos que unem a experiência do trabalho e os processos constitutivos de identidades, a pesquisa buscou flagrar as pequenas, mas subjetivamente importantes formas de mediação e cálculo envolvidos nas estratégias de ação de trabalhadores do corte da cana de açúcar. Os resultados sugerem que, conquanto o traço saliente desse contexto seja o da precariedade, os significados atribuídos ao trabalho deixam entrever as fissuras que denotam a capacidade de agência dos indivíduos na condução das suas vidas, distante de uma imagem que os toma como meros espectadores da história.THE FORGOTTEN DIMENSION: the question of agency in sugarcane harvest workBy fixing the analytical proposal in the links that unite the work experience and the process of identity construction, we sought to catch the small but subjectively important forms of measurement and calculation involved in the strategies of action by workers of sugar cane harvest. In spite of precariousness of the social context, the results show that the meanings attributed to work by the subjects allow us to figure out fissures and resistances which denote the agency of individuals and this is far from an image in which they are mere spectators of history.Keywords: Work. Identity. Agency. Sugarcane sector. Sergipe.LA DIMENSION OUBLIÉE: la question de l’agence dans les travaux de récolte de la canneEn fixant la proposition d’analyse dans les liens qui unissent l’expérience de travail et le processus de construction identitaire, nous avons cherché à capture les petits, mais subjectivement importantes formes de mesure et de calcul impliqués dans les stratégies d’action par les travailleurs de la récolte de la canne à sucre. En dépit de la précarité du contexte social, les résultats montrent que les significations attribuées au travail par les sujets nous permettent de comprendre les fissures et resistences qui dénotent l’agence des individus. Distant d’une image dans laquelle ils sont de simples spectateurs de l’histoire.Mots-clés: Travail. Identité. Agence. L’industrie de l’alcool et de sucre. Sergipe.
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Tassis, Theofanis. "Human Creation, Imagination and Autonomy." Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 19, no. 37 (2011): 197–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philosophica2011193727.
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During the last decade Castoriadis’ questioning has become a reference point in contemporary social theory. In this article I examine some of the key notions in Castoriadis’ work and explore how he strives to develop a theory on the irreducible creativity in the radical imagination of the individual and in the institution of the social-historical sphere. Firstly, I briefly discuss his conception of modem capitalism as bureaucratic capitalism, a view initiated by his criticism of the USSR regime. The following break up with Marxist theory and his psychoanalytic interests empowered him to criticize Lacan and read Freud in an imaginative, though unorthodox, fashion. I argue that this criticai enterprise assisted greatly Castoriadis in his conception of the radical imaginary and in his unveiling of the political aspects of psychoanalysis. On the issue of the radical imaginary and its methodological repercussions, I’m focusing mainly on the radical imagination o f the subject and its importance in the transition from the “psychic” to the “subject”. Taking up the notion of “Being” as a starting point, I examine the notion of autonomy, seeking its roots in the ancient Greek world. By looking at notions such as “praxis”, “doing”, “project” and “elucidation”, I show how Castoriadis sought to redefine revolution as a means for social and individual autonomy. Finally I attempt to clarify the meaning of “democracy” and “democratic society” in the context of the social imaginary and its creations, the social imaginary significations.
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Mubari, Petros Kasaira, Théotime Beguerie, Marc Monthioux, Elsa Weiss-Hortala, Ange Nzihou, and Pascal Puech. "The X-ray, Raman and TEM Signatures of Cellulose-Derived Carbons Explained." C 8, no. 1 (January 3, 2022): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/c8010004.
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Structural properties of carbonized cellulose were explored to conjugate the outcomes from various characterization techniques, namely X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. All these techniques have evidenced the formation of graphene stacks with a size distribution. Cellulose carbonized at 1000 and 1800 °C at a heating rate of 2 °C/min showed meaningful differences in Raman spectroscopy, whereas in XRD, the differences were not well pronounced, which implies that the crystallite sizes calculated by each technique have different significations. In the XRD patterns, the origin of a specific feature at a low scattering angle commonly reported in the literature but poorly explained so far, was identified. The different approaches used in this study were congruous in explaining the observations that were made on the cellulose-derived carbon samples. The remnants of the basic structural unit (BSU) are developed during primary carbonization. Small graphene-based crystallites inherited from the BSUs, which formerly developed during primary carbonization, were found to coexist with larger ones. Even if the three techniques give information on the average size of graphenic domains, they do not see the same characteristics of the domains; hence, they are not identical, nor contradictory but complementary. The arguments developed in the work to explain which characteristics are deduced from the signal obtained by each of the three characterization techniques relate to physics phenomena; hence, they are quite general and, therefore, are valid for all kind of graphenic materials.
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Mizoguchi, Tatsuya, Maitree Inprasitha, Narumon Changsri, and Yusuke Shinno. "Describing researchers’ ways of seeing a lesson: As the first work of the cross-cultural study on lesson study between Japan and ThailandDécrire la manière dont les chercheurs voient une leçon: premier travail de l’étude interculturelle sur l’étude des leçons entre le Japon et la Thaïlande." Educação Matemática Pesquisa : Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação Matemática 22, no. 4 (September 15, 2020): 836–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.23925/1983-3156.2020v22i4p836-844.
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AbstractThis research is the first work of the project of cross-cultural study on lesson study between Japan and Thailand. Lesson study is currently an international topic, and we use “lesson study” as a common word. However, are the meanings of each terminology in diverse languages as same completely? Our initial concern is in this point. For this, we observe lesson on video and make comment-reports on it in each. In analyzing these comments, it is required a meta theory for descriptions. In this research, we describe the researchers ways of seeing a lesson using the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic [ATD or TAD in French and Spanish]. In conclusion, we discuss similarities and discrepancies between researchers’ comments of both countries in terms of a) praxis and logos blocks, b) mathematical and didactic organization, and c) the perspective of scale of levels of didactic co-determinacy [LDC].Keywords: Lesson study; Cross-cultural study; Japan and ThailandRésuméCette recherche est le premier travail du projet d’étude interculturelle sur l’étude de la leçon entre le Japon et la Thaïlande. L’étude de la leçon est actuellement un sujet international, et nous utilisons la « lesson study » comme un mot commun. Cependant, les significations de chaque terminologie dans diverses langues sont-elles identiques? Notre préoccupation initiale concerne ce point. Pour cela, nous observons une leçon sur la vidéo et faisons des commentaires sur chacune d’elles. En analysant ces commentaires, il faut une méta-théorie pour les descriptions. Dans cette recherche, nous décrivons les chercheurs pour voir une leçon en utilisant TAD. En conclusion, nous discutons des similitudes et des divergences entre les commentaires des chercheurs des deux pays en termes de blocs de praxis et logos, b) l’organisation mathématique et didactique, et c) la perspective des niveaux de la codétermination didactique.Mots-clés: Étude de cours, Étude interculturelle, Japon et Thaïlande
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Mizoguchi, Tatsuya, Maitree Inprasitha, Narumon Changsri, and Yusuke Shinno. "Describing researchers’ ways of seeing a lesson: As the first work of the cross-cultural study on lesson study between Japan and ThailandDécrire la manière dont les chercheurs voient une leçon: premier travail de l’étude interculturelle sur l’étude des leçons entre le Japon et la Thaïlande." Educação Matemática Pesquisa : Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação Matemática 22, no. 4 (September 15, 2020): 836–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.23925/1983-3156.2020v22i4p836-844.
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AbstractThis research is the first work of the project of cross-cultural study on lesson study between Japan and Thailand. Lesson study is currently an international topic, and we use “lesson study” as a common word. However, are the meanings of each terminology in diverse languages as same completely? Our initial concern is in this point. For this, we observe lesson on video and make comment-reports on it in each. In analyzing these comments, it is required a meta theory for descriptions. In this research, we describe the researchers ways of seeing a lesson using the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic [ATD or TAD in French and Spanish]. In conclusion, we discuss similarities and discrepancies between researchers’ comments of both countries in terms of a) praxis and logos blocks, b) mathematical and didactic organization, and c) the perspective of scale of levels of didactic co-determinacy [LDC].Keywords: Lesson study; Cross-cultural study; Japan and ThailandRésuméCette recherche est le premier travail du projet d’étude interculturelle sur l’étude de la leçon entre le Japon et la Thaïlande. L’étude de la leçon est actuellement un sujet international, et nous utilisons la « lesson study » comme un mot commun. Cependant, les significations de chaque terminologie dans diverses langues sont-elles identiques? Notre préoccupation initiale concerne ce point. Pour cela, nous observons une leçon sur la vidéo et faisons des commentaires sur chacune d’elles. En analysant ces commentaires, il faut une méta-théorie pour les descriptions. Dans cette recherche, nous décrivons les chercheurs pour voir une leçon en utilisant TAD. En conclusion, nous discutons des similitudes et des divergences entre les commentaires des chercheurs des deux pays en termes de blocs de praxis et logos, b) l’organisation mathématique et didactique, et c) la perspective des niveaux de la codétermination didactique.Mots-clés: Étude de cours, Étude interculturelle, Japon et Thaïlande
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Kniephoff-Knebel, Anette, and Friedrich W. Seibel. "Establishing international cooperation in social work education." International Social Work 51, no. 6 (November 2008): 790–812. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872808095251.
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English This article draws on records from the period to illustrate some of the themes and concerns of social workers present at international welfare conferences from 1928. In doing so it identifies some of the significant actors engaged in the early stages of establishing an international association for schools of social work. French Cet article tire les enseignements de la période pour illustrer certains des thèmes et préoccupations des travailleurs sociaux présents aux conférences internationales de travail social et de sécurité sociale depuis 1928. Ce faisant il identifie quelques acteurs significatifs engagés dès les premiers instants dans l'établissement d'une association internationale des écoles de travail social. Spanish Este ensayo analiza los registros del período para ilustrar algunos de los temas y preocupaciones de los trabajadores sociales que asistieron a conferencias internacionales de bienestar social desde 1928. Esto permite identificar a algunos de los actores más significativos que participaron en las primeras fases del establecimiento de una asociación internacional de escuelas de trabajo social.
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Mahmutović, Mirza. "Medijska konstrukcija kolektivnih sjećanja: Tretman prošlosti u polju novinarstva, s osvrtom na postdejtonsku Bosnu i Hercegovinu." Obrazovanje odraslih/Adult Education 13, no. 2 2013 (2013): 39–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.53617/issn2744-2047.2013.13.2.39.
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In this work we critically consider the practice of treating history in the area of journalism respectively media as an distinctive institutional arena of contemporary communities for establishment, maintenance and transformation of common frameworks of understanding and commemorating of certain episodes from the past. We intent to offer plausible explanations regarding the relations between ''culture of remembrances'' and ''culture of reporting''. Article suggests how to approach the often misunderstood history in informative activitiy, which in its field of action and by definition does not have the dimension of history but the dimension of social situation of contemporariness. We also form the key operations and strategies used in shaping the repertoire of journalistic reports on the past. Described practices we study on the example of post-Dayton BiH, analysing media treatment of conflict areas during the recent war history. Legitimisation of ethnic-national visions of the past through the discourse of reporting has been recognised as the dominant way of working in the ''media memory filed''. Two key paradoxes of these practices are highlighted: coexistence of opposite discourses of commemoration and codification of abjection experiences by the same group of significations which have initially inducted the war traumas. We point out at least two conditions which facilitate these paradoxes: ambiguity of the past, concpetion of time which is assumed by post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina as an inherently uncompleted/imperfect country and technologies of culturised steering of trauma, which is being used by regimes of therapeutic/transitional justice'' to cope with disturbing history in post-conflict communities.
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Wehrs, Donald. "Interlocutors, Nonhuman Actors, and the Ethics of Literary Signification." Humanities 8, no. 2 (May 30, 2019): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8020108.
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Associating autonomy with art has long been viewed with suspicion, but autonomous signifying agency may be attributed to literary discourse without lapsing into decontextualized aestheticism or neoliberal conceptions of subjectivity. Through literary practices that “move” readers in a “singular” manner, a work becomes what Rita Felski, following Bruno Latour, calls a “nonhuman actor.” Such an actor, Felski observes, “modifies a state of affairs by making a difference,” participating “in chains of events” so as to “help shape outcomes and influence events” (2015, pp. 163–64). Autonomous signifying agency within works and literary discourse more broadly enables them to become actors within what Latour terms “networks of associations” through which “the social” is constantly “reassembled.” But literary works also act as interlocutors, in the sense Levinas gives the word (1996a, pp. 2–10). Though not full-fledged ethical others, they nonetheless, as interlocutors, are sufficiently invested with the attributes and agency of ethical others to be their extensions or ambassadors. Nonhuman, interlocutory literary agency may be explored in iconic passages of ancient literature—Telemachus’ recognition that he is being visited by a god (Odyssey Book 1: ll. 319–24) and Judah’s recognition that Tamar is more “righteous” than he (Gen. 38: 26). In being authoritative but not authoritarian, literary discourse becomes a potently autonomous actor within the networks of associations in which it participates.
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İPEKÇİ, Yeşim. "We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us, by Andrew Mangham." Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Special Issue: Wilkie Collins (January 28, 2024): 87–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1426321.
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Andrew Mangham’s monograph entitled We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us (2023, The MIT Press) explores the polyvocal nature of monster science across the period 1750-1900 and its dialogue with nineteenth-century literature. Mangham’s “monsters,” as defined in biological sciences, are “organisms … born with at least one permanent physiological defect” (p. 1). Guided by the approach disability studies takes towards the term “disability,” he explores how monster science defines monstrosity “not as a failure, but as an embodiment of, or a cog in the machine of, organic law” (p. 2). Monsters with their corporeal singularities and differences are integral to the laws of nature. They are not “by-products of the laws of natural development which they had failed in varying ways to embody,” but “the adaptive workings and the dynamic forces to which all life forms, normal and abnormal, owe their being” (p. 2). In other words, congenital anomalies or corporeal deviations are structural variations which are not the antithesis of what is “normal” or “natural,” but significations of life’s variety and the ingenuities of nature. Mangham’s choice of literary works from the long nineteenth century helps explore the interplay between monster science and literary or imaginary monsters, emphasizing how they represent monstrosity as central to the interpretation of nature’s diversity and creativity. Offering an in-depth survey of monster science across the period and its literary reverberations in nineteenth-century novels, We Are All Monsters interrogates the causes and meanings of monstrosities with the claim that congenital structural deformities or differences are not failures or violations of nature’s laws, but symbols of vital creativity. With this claim at the center of his work, Mangham explores how Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841), and Lucas Malet’s The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) engage in dialogue with the ideas developed in monster science and problematize the meanings of difference and normalcy.
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Kharbouch, Ahmed. "Meaning and Imaginary: An « In-Between ». About Semiotic Aspects of the Work of Gilbert Durand." L’Entre-deux et l’Imaginaire, no. 37 (June 30, 2016): 135–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.35562/iris.1462.
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Il s’agit d’essayer de penser un « entre-deux » entre les travaux novateurs de Gilbert Durand sur l’imaginaire et les conceptualisations sémiotiques de la signification. Bien que Durand semble rejeter toute forme d’« explication sémiologique » des images-symboles, sa conception de l’imaginaire est régie par une sémiosis et une rationalité spécifiques qui permettent d’entrevoir, même si l’intersection n’implique pas forcément la fusion, les contours d’un « entre-deux » entre son « archétypologie » et la sémiotique.
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Kharbouch, Ahmed. "Meaning and Imaginary: An « In-Between ». About Semiotic Aspects of the Work of Gilbert Durand." L’Entre-deux et l’Imaginaire, no. 37 (June 30, 2016): 135–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.35562/iris.1462.
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Il s’agit d’essayer de penser un « entre-deux » entre les travaux novateurs de Gilbert Durand sur l’imaginaire et les conceptualisations sémiotiques de la signification. Bien que Durand semble rejeter toute forme d’« explication sémiologique » des images-symboles, sa conception de l’imaginaire est régie par une sémiosis et une rationalité spécifiques qui permettent d’entrevoir, même si l’intersection n’implique pas forcément la fusion, les contours d’un « entre-deux » entre son « archétypologie » et la sémiotique.
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Knežević, Mladen, Rok Ovsenik, and Janja Jerman. "Social work as a profession." International Social Work 49, no. 4 (July 2006): 519–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872806061237.
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English The authors were interested in finding out whether student social workers perceive social work differently in the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia. According to the results of this research, there are significant differences between student social workers; however, they can be found in a relatively small number of factors that describe social work as a profession. French Les auteurs cherchaient à savoir si les étudiants en travail social des républiques de Slovénie et de Croatie perçoivent le travail social différemment les uns des autres. Ces deux républiques se sont développées ensemble, en un pays, l'ex-Yougoslavie, pendant une longue période. Ces deux républiques constituaient la partie la plus développée de l'ex-Yougoslavie, mais ils ont connu des destins fort différents lors de la rupture du pays. Les résultats de la présente étude indiquent des différences significatives entre les étudiants en travail social des deux républiques. Toutefois, on retrouve ces différences dans un nombre relativement restreint de facteurs qui décrivent le travail social en tant que profession. Spanish Se pregunta si los estudiantes de trabajo social de la República de Eslovaquia y de la República de Croacia perciben el trabajo social diferentemente. Los dos países se desarrollaron como un solo país, la antigua Yugoslavia, durante un largo tiempo. Ambos países eran los más desarrollados de Yugoslavia, pero su destino fue muy distinto después de la disolución de este país. Se hallaron diferencias significativas entre los estudiantes de ambos países, pero circunscritas a un pequeño número de factores que describen el trabajo social como una profesión.
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Lampe, Kurt. "Stiegler, Foucault, and Epictetus." Symposium 24, no. 2 (2020): 53–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/symposium202024212.
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Why does Bernard Stiegler speak of “this culture, which I have named, after Epictetus, my melete?” In the first part of this article, I elucidate Stiegler’s claims about both Stoic exercises of reading and writing and their significance for the interpretive questions he has adapted from Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. In particular, I address the relations among care for oneself and others, the use of material technologies, and resistance to subjection or “freedom.” In the second part, I consider the merits and limitations of Stiegler’s comments about reading and writing in Stoicism, with particular attention to Epictetus. We will see that Stiegler’s interpretive frame-work casts considerable light on ancient texts and contexts, on the condition that it be combined with close reading of ancient texts and engagement with specialist scholarship. Finally, in the conclusion, I will suggest that the history of technology in Epictetus’s time contributes to a debate about Stiegler’s theories.Bernard Stiegler signale à plusieurs reprises l’importance des exercices stoïciens de lecture et d’écriture. Dans la première partie de cet article, j’essaye de clarifier ces assertions et d’expliquer leur lien aux oeuvres de Michel Foucault et de Jacques Derrida. Il s’agit en particulier des rapports entre le souci de soi et d’autrui, l’usage des techniques et des matériaux et la résistante à la soumission ou à la « liberté ». Dans la deuxième partie, je considère les mérites ainsi que les limites des remarques de Stiegler sur la lecture et l’écriture au sein du stoïcisme, en portant une attention particulière à Épictète. Le point du vue stieglerien donnera de nouvelles significations à quelques passages des oeuvres d’Épictète, à condition qu’il soit conjugué à une lecture attentive d’études spécialisées et de textes anciens. Je conclurai, dans la troisième partie, en proposant que l’histoire des techniques à l’époque d’Épictète pourrait alimenter un débat à l’égard des théories de Stiegler.
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Betts, Liza. "HBO’s Euphoria and the complexities at play in the costumed representations of contemporary masculinities." Film, Fashion & Consumption 11, no. 2 (November 1, 2022): 187–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ffc_00047_1.
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This article discusses the language of screen costume and representations of masculinity via a close reading of the successful and critically acclaimed 2019 HBO drama series Euphoria. It considers three key characters, Rue, Nate and Fez, and how each of these characters makes visible certain cultural and sociological ideologies which concern and influence current debates around diverse masculinities, social class and creative subjectivity. It is argued that the production team behind Euphoria employs creative acts of appropriation to articulate and explore the diversity of masculine lived experience within the restricted language of television. This is evidenced through the character of ‘Rue’, who sits in opposition to all other characters identified as feminine or transitioning in both narrative context and, significantly, costuming. ‘Rue’ is therefore explored as the masculine articulation and/or manifestation of the creator – Sam Levinson’s subjective position. ‘Nate’ is explored in relation to the currency of damaging stereotypes of dominant masculinity within television drama and how misconceptions around gendered identities work to reinforce, perpetuate and normalize problematic behavioural traits. It is suggested that we need to expand understandings of ordinary clothing or costume as a language, how meaning is articulated within this language and how the materiality of ordinary or unexceptional dress evolves and mutates and becomes a set of unquestioned yet dangerous symbols or significations. ‘Fez’ will be examined in response to Henri Lefebvre’s 1960s ideas around moments of contestation, alongside a discussion of the role that the body and clothing play in marking out or positioning ideas around the intersection of social class and masculinity which can be applied to differing, global manifestations of social hierarchies. Readings of ‘Fez’ highlight middle-class insecurities around subjective value and distance from working-class experience and are played out through the character’s costuming.
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Muleya, Wilson. "A comparative study of social work intervention in context in Zambia and England." International Social Work 49, no. 4 (July 2006): 445–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872806065323.
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English This study compared practitioners views on how work environments affected their choice of theory in social work context in Zambia and England. It found no significant differences in theories used, but found variations in levels of application. Different work environment factors influenced practitioners choice of intervention method in each country. French Cette étude compare les points de vue de praticiens sur l'influence qu'a exercé l'environnement professionnel dans le choix des théories qu'ils ont choisi d'appliquer en travail social en Zambie et en Angleterre. Les résultats indiquent qu'il n'y a pas de différences significatives dans le choix même des théories, mais elle révèlent par contre des variations au plan de l'application. Des facteurs relatifs à l'environnement de travail ont influencé les professionnels dans le choix de leurs méthodes d'intervention dans chacun des pays. Spanish Se comparan los puntos de vista de los trabajadores sociales sobre cómo el ambiente del trabajo influyó su elección de teoría in el contexto del trabajo social de Zambia e Inglaterra. El estudio no halló diferencias significativas en las teorías usadas, pero halló diferencias en los niveles de aplicación. Distintos factores ambientales influyeron qué método de intervención escogieron los trabajadores en cada país.
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Duncan, Stewart. "Hobbes, Signification, and Insignificant Names." Hobbes Studies 24, no. 2 (2011): 158–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187502511x597685.
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AbstractThe notion of signification is an important part of Hobbes's philosophy of language. It also has broader relevance, as Hobbes argues that key terms used by his opponents are insignificant. However Hobbes's talk about names' signification is puzzling, as he appears to have advocated conflicting views. This paper argues that Hobbes endorsed two different views of names' signification in two different contexts. When stating his theoretical views about signification, Hobbes claimed that names signify ideas. Elsewhere he talked as if words signified the things they named. Seeing this does not just resolve a puzzle about Hobbes's statements about signification. It also helps us to understand how Hobbes's arguments about insignificant speech work. With one important exception, they depend on the view that names signify things, not on Hobbes's stated theory that words signify ideas. The paper concludes by discussing whether arguments about insignificant speech can provide independent support for Hobbes's views about other issues, such as materialism.
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Toporišič, Tomaž. "Death and Violence in Contemporary Theatre, Drama, and Novel (Oliver Frljić, Anja Hilling, Simona Semenič, and G. W. Sebald)." Art History & Criticism 15, no. 1 (December 1, 2019): 117–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mik-2019-0009.
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Summary For the purpose of my examination of how literature and art take part in the circulation of significations and representations in the construction of social reality, I concentrate on a specific feature that links and unites the work of four contemporary European authors—the inflation of death and violence, or the “overflow of corpses” in their novels, plays, and performances. My first example will be Bosnian-Croatian theatre director Oliver Frljić, his disturbing, shocking performances in which he uses his own personal, wartime, and political traumas to ask universal questions about the boundaries of artistic and social freedom, individual and collective responsibility, tolerance and stereotypes. As the second and third example I will take plays by two (no longer) dramatic writers, Anja Hilling and Simona Semenič—two outstanding representatives of German and Slovene (no longer) dramatic theatre and drama, exploring in their texts a tension between repetition and representation in which the first mechanism undermines and challenges the second and produces a specific poetic or aesthetic device—an effect of ostranenie or defamiliarisation (Shklovsky). The third example will consist of the novels by Winfried Georg Sebald, in which the German author uses the device of his wanderings between signs, punctuated by black and white photographs, producing a specific emblematic of a mutation of space and time, in which history and geography cross-fertilise, tracing out paths and weaving networks. Besides examining the contestation of subject positions, I concentrate on the dialectics of art and society, where fluid, uncontainable subjects are constantly pushing the contours. Revising the critical consensus that contemporary art primarily engages with the real, the essay describes how theatre and fiction today navigate the complexities of the discourse as well as social realities; how the discussed artists all share the belief that creative expression must also be destruction. Art has to go beyond what we are and what we can identify through understanding. Thus, art negotiates, inflects discursive circulation of stories, idioms, controversies, testimonies, and pieces of (mis)information in the face of global uncertainties.
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Рыжкова, Наталия Павловна. "On the Role of “Significant Tonalities” (tonalites significatives) in the Compositions for Musical Theater by Vincent d’Indy." Научный вестник Московской консерватории, no. 2(45) (June 23, 2021): 124–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.26176/mosconsv.2021.45.2.006.
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Статья посвящена анализу тональных связей в следующих музыкально-драматических произведениях Венсана д’Энди: драматической легенде «Песнь о колоколе» и трех операх - «Фервааль», «Чужестранец» и «Легенда о святом Христофоре». Одним из ключевых композиционных аспектов любого сочинения, по мнению д’Энди, является конструктивный принцип, основанный на повторении тональностей с закрепленной семантикой («значимых тональностей»), который композитор выводит из анализа ораторий С. Франка и драм Р. Вагнера, а затем применяет в своих опусах. Уже в «Песни о колоколе» наблюдается определенный спектр тональностей, которые в дальнейшем приобретут устойчивую семантику в трех «вагнерианских» операх. В каждом последующем произведении система тональных соотношений разветвляется и усложняется, что позволяет композитору предельно точно отобразить символический смысл происходящего на сцене. Помимо применения «значимых тональностей», д’Энди формирует систему тональных центров, которая полностью отражает драматургию оперы. В последней вагнерианской опере «Легенда о святом Христофоре» наравне с определенным кругом тональностей существенное значение приобретают различные ладовые структуры. Их семантическая составляющая может послужить предметом отдельного исследования. The article explores tonal relations in the following works for musical theater by Vincent d’Indy: the dramatic legend Le chant de la cloche and three operas - Fervaal, L ’Etranger and La Legende de Saint-Christophe. According to d’Indy, one of the key compositional aspects of any musical piece is a structural principle based on repetition of tonalities with established semantics. Thus, based on the research of tonal structure of Franck’s oratorio compositions and Wagner’s musical dramas, d’Indy elaborates a special concept of significant tonalities and applies it in his works. Already in Le chant de la cloche, a certain range of tonalities can be found, which in future will acquire stable semantics in three “Wagnerian” operas. In each subsequent work, the system of tonal relations grows and becomes more complicated, which allows the composer to display the symbolic meaning of what is happening on stage with the utmost precision. In addition to the use of significant tonalities, d’Indy forms a system of tonal centers that fully reflects the dramaturgy of an opera. In the last “Wagnerian” opera La Legende de Saint-Christophe, along with a certain range of tonalities, various modal structures acquire significant importance. Their semantic component can be the subject of a separate study.