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Kennedy, Ashley B. "Time-Space: Constructing Meaning Through Temporal Phenomena." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19231.
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This thesis is an examination of the significance of time and temporal phenomena in the conception and construction of the built environment. It began as a question regarding the aging and life-span of contemporary buildings, in contrast with those that have at present survived long enough to earn designation as \'historic\' buildings.The term \'temporal phenomena\' is defined here as sensory experiences which make the passage of time accessible and meaningful to those interacting with the built environment.
Le Corbusier wrote that an original intent of painting was to record, to create permanent evidence of events and things that passed away with time and were forgotten, or couldn\'t be seen later. He suggests that the camera is a much better tool for this, and so painting has lost part of its purpose. Buildings and cities have always had the effect of retaining memory and creating cultural meanings. Cultural reliance on continuous improvements in environmental and building technologies have obviated the building\'s ancient place as a datum through which human beings understand the passage of time. And perhaps it is the loss of that sacred duty that leads to short-lived, disposable buildings, and the proliferation of placeless-ness in contemporary environments.
A design for a brewery on the banks of the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia became the vehicle to explore strategies for making time meaningful and present through the physical reality of the building, the brewing process, and the interrelated lives of the brewer and the city.
Master of Architecture
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Anderson, Elizabeth L. "Materials, meaning and metaphor : unveiling spatio-temporal pertinences in acousmatic music." Thesis, City University London, 2011. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/3530/.
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This dissertation addresses two topics. The first is a preliminary investigation into the listening strategies for electroacoustic music by François Delalande. A listening experiment was undertaken to test Delalande’s strategies and to learn from listeners’ responses in order to apply them to compositional practice. This process prompted the conception of a new, integrated reception behaviour framework for electroacoustic music that comprises four listening strategies: sonic properties, structural attributes, self-orientation, and imaginary realms. The second topic is the poietico-esthesic analysis of the folio of acousmatic compositions from the perspective of the reception behaviours framework. The intention of the reception behaviours framework is to illuminate those sounds and structures in electroacoustic music that could be perceived as carriers of meaning. The analysis of the acousmatic compositions in the portfolio, from the perspective of the reception behaviours framework, aims to illustrate how the acousmatic composer can attempt to create meaning in an acousmatic work. While space is observed as the common denominator in the reception behaviours framework from an esthesic perspective, space and time are proposed as common denominators that carry all poietic intention. Hence, space and time can be seen as universal carriers through which meaning can subsequently be conveyed and perceived.
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Ha, Nguyen Hong, and n/a. "Time and modality in Vietnamese : a contrastive study of Vietnamese and English." University of Canberra. Information Sciences, 1985. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060713.170038.
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The present study is an attempt to give a description of
how temporal and modal meanings are expressed in Vietnamese,
and to relate the description to English by way of translation
correspondence. The study is, therefore, a
contrastive work on Time and Modality in Vietnamese and
English.
It is hoped that Vietnamese students might find in this
work some kind of help that may facilitate their study
of English grammar as regards time and mood.
In chapter 1, the author presents a brief history of
foreign language teaching in Vietnam, and the role of
English as a foreign language in the country at present.
He also discusses problems confronting Vietnamese teachers
and students in teaching and learning English and states
the aims of the study. Next, the structure of the Vietnamese
verb-phrase is discussed, with a view to giving
the reader some idea of how auxiliaries operate in
Vietnamese.
In chapter 2, a description of temporal expression in
Vietnamese is presented, with emphasis on the uses of the
so-called "time auxiliaries". Also, time adverbs, time
clauses and questions with time in Vietnamese are
discussed.
Chapter 3 deals with modal expression in Vietnamese. In
this chapter special attention is given to the uses of
the modal auxiliaries. Attempts are then made to describe
the so-called "attitudinal disjuncts" and conditional
sentences in Vietnamese.
In chapter 4, implications for teaching time and modality
in English to Vietnamese students are given. The author
suggests some teaching points, which, through the present
contrastive work, are likely to be some of the most
difficult areas for Vietnamese speakers and therefore
should be given the most particular attention.
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Fessenden, William E. "Temporal structure and meaning : the defamiliarization of the reader in Faulkner's Go down, Moses." Virtual Press, 1990. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/720324.
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This study of Faulkner's Go Down, Moses uses the reader-response theories of Wolfgang Iser to examine the affective impact of strategically-arranged folk conventions and mythopoeic devices upon a textually-based, white "civilized" reader. Using the devices of Southwestern humor, the trickster, and the tragic Black folk tale, "Was" through "Pantaloon in Black" repeatedly sidetrack the reader into unconscious participation in the white-code attitudes he was invited to criticize. When this hypocritical participation is discovered at certain "points of significance" in "The Fire and the Hearth" and "Pantaloon in Black," the reader's rationally-humanistic norms are rendered ineffectual, setting the stage for the undermining of a second idealism based on primitive myth. In "The Old People" and "The Bear" the reader is induced by mythopoeic devices to adopt Isaac McCaslin's unifying mythical norms and, thereby, to criticize his own failures in "Was" through "Pantaloon in Black" along with Southern civilization's socially-fragmenting rational-empiric concept of progress. "Delta Autumn," however, will undermine the reader's attempts to create moral unity using Isaac's natural hierarchy. With mythopoeic devices withdrawn, the wilderness destroyed by civilization, and Isaac McCaslin's reversion to white-code attitudes regarding Roth's Black/white offspring, the reader can see Isaac's experience in "The Bear" for what it really is, not an introduction into Sam Fathers's immutable cyclic unity but an initiation into fragmenting Cavalier forms and values. Once again the reader faces the hypocritical ineffectuality of his own idealism. For by emotionally and intellectually identifying with Isaac's misperception of the wilderness experience, he has aligned himself with socially-alienating rather than socially-unifying values. Now confronting the fragmentation dramatized in Isaac's terror-motivated racism and experienced in his own textual failures, the reader is ready for "the existential norm of "Go Down, Moses," where he is encouraged to construct meaning out of non-meaning by negating the "bad faith" of Gavin Stevens, who in fear chooses stable but racially-fragmenting Cavalier values, and by affirming the "good faith" of Molly Beauchamp and Miss Worsham, who choose the temporal unity of shared suffering in the face of chaos.Department of English
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Frankland, Steven Michael. "Man Bites Dog: The Representation of Structured Meaning in Left-Mid Superior Temporal Cortex." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467506.
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Human brains flexibly combine the meanings of individual words to compose structured thoughts. For example, by combining the meanings of ‘bite’, ‘dog’, and ‘man’, we can think either of a dog biting a man, or the newsworthy case of a man biting a dog (Pinker, 1997). Here, in three functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) experiments, we identify a region of left-mid Superior Temporal Cortex (lmSTC) that represents the current values of abstract semantic variables (“Who did it?” and “To whom was it done?”) in anatomically distinct sub-regions. Experiment 1 first identifies a broad region of lmSTC whose activity patterns (a) facilitate decoding of who did what to whom and (b) predict affective amygdala responses that depend on this information (e.g. “the baby kicked the grandfather” vs. “the grandfather kicked the baby”). Experiment 2 then identifies distinct, but neighboring, sub-regions of lmSTC whose activity patterns carry information about the identity of the current agent (“Who did it?”) and the current patient (“To whom was it done?”). These neighboring sub-regions lie along the upper bank of the superior temporal sulcus and the lateral bank of the superior temporal gyrus, respectively. At a high-level, these regions may function like topographically defined data registers, encoding the fluctuating values of abstract semantic variables. Experiment 3 replicates the agent/patient topography of Experiment 2, and further suggests that these variables do not represent the grammatical relations of the sentence, but the semantic relations of the participants in the event described. The code by which lmSTC encodes the values of these variables remains unclear, however. We find no positive evidence that it is either phonological or semantic, leaving open the possibility that lmSTC prioritizes distinctiveness and efficiency by using a compressed code. This functional architecture, which in key respects resembles that of a classical computer, may play a critical role in enabling humans to flexibly generate complex thoughts.Psychology
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De, Vries Daniel H. Crumley Carole L. "Temporal vulnerability historical ecologies of monitoring, memory, and meaning in changing United States floodplain landscapes /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1699.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of in the Department of Anthropology." Discipline: Anthropology; Department/School: Anthropology.
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Rönnerdal, Göran. "Temporal Subordinators and Clauses in Early Modern English : Stability and Change." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-327040.
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My work is a corpus-based investigation of the use and development of temporal subordinators and clauses in Early Modern British English (EModE). The focus of the project is on the forms, structure, meanings, and history of these subordinators and clauses. My primary aim is to analyse stability and change in temporal subordinators and clauses across the EModE period; second comes the study of linguistic features, such as aspect, tense, mood and modality, ellipsis and non-finite forms, positions, coordination, and subordination of the temporal clauses. In addition, I examine the progress of these subordinators, and WHEN in particular, across text categories, text types, and the sub-periods. Regarding temporal subordinators, I account for the use of simple, complex, and correlative forms. I also address alternative expressions of temporal subordinators such as the repetition and replacement of temporal subordinators. The influence of negation on the choice of subordinators, and the modification patterns of subordinators are also treated. Primary meanings of anteriority, simultaneity, and posteriority as well as secondary meanings of temporal subordinators are studied. I uncover the evolution of temporal subordinators and trace their various forms, as far back as possible to the Old English and Middle English periods. I also make some comparisons with Present-day English. The investigation is based on the EModE section of the computerized Helsinki Corpus of English Texts and the manual literary Major Authors Corpus which I designed for the purposes of the study. Consequently, my study is carried out within corpus linguistics methodology. All in all, the primary material yielded 3,269 instances of 17 different prototypical temporal subordinators, called sub-types.
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Schomers, Malte [Verfasser]. "Establishing action-perception circuits as a neural basis for meaning-carrying linguistic symbols – the role of frontal speech motor areas and fronto-temporal connectivity / Malte R. Schomers." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1128150646/34.
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Henderson, Carlos. "El Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto del español de Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay : Aspectos semánticos y discursivos." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för spanska, portugisiska och latinamerikastudier, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-38642.
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The aim of the present work is to describe the semantics and the discursive functions from a general cognitivist point of view of the usage of the Present Perfect in the spoken Spanish of Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It is argued that cross-linguistic values often ascribed to perfect, such as continuity, current relevance and recency to the speech time –ST– do not offer a consistent view of the actual usage. It is assumed that a basic meaning of the perfect operates in the studied dialects and is retrievable in all tokens, which differs significantly from the current descriptions of the perfect of “general” Spanish. The results show that the ST might very well be an inference of the basic meaning of the Perfect but it is not an intrinsic component of the Perfect’s semantics. Based mainly on Dahl & Hedin (2000), as well as on Langacker (1987), the revitalizing of the concepts type and token reference are suggested as key principles for identifying the respective domains of the Spanish Present Perfect and the Simple Past in the studied area. The Perfect, through type reference, makes an assertion of a situation as a representation of the class-type of the verbal semantics. The Simple Past, however, through token reference conceptualizes the situation as having explicit or implicit anchoring in the chronological axis of time. Three main kinds of contexts occur typically with the Perfect in the samples: detemporalized ascertainment, summary (in a broad sense of the word) and aspectual complexity. Summary scanning (Langacker, 1987), i.e. the schematic and holistic detemporalized conceptualization of the development of a given situation, is claimed to be used by informants for discursive purposes, granting a greater rhetorical weight to the Perfect. The results founded in this thesis indicate that the perfect tenses in Spanish have followed (and are following) different developmental paths that are not necessarily restricted to the same sequences and mode of grammaticalization.
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Hole, Nicola. "The policy implications of everyday energy consumption : the meanings, temporal rhythms and social dynamics of energy use." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16551.
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Traditional research into pro-environmental behaviour change has a tendency to be focussed on either the context in which practices are enacted or the cognitive processes that lead to particular behaviours. Research is often located within individual disciplines, with policy implications defined by (often) narrow interpretations of a problem. Despite increasing recognition of the ability of behaviour change to significantly contribute to the reduction in emissions required to meet UK targets, policy is so far failing to encourage ânormativeâ low carbon practices in many areas of life. Based on theories of social practice, this thesis attempts to redress the relationship between individuals and behaviour in order to discover how energy practices are developed, maintained and reconfigured. Specifically, it develops a phenomenological approach to energy consumption by exploring how energy practices are experienced by individuals on a daily basis, based on the premise that much human behaviour is driven by individualsâ perceptions of their actions. The study highlights the importance of the meanings and associations that individuals possess in relation to their energy practices and how these are implicated by their experiences, past and present. Furthermore, it contends that practices are influenced by social interactional dynamics and normative frameworks within the home, as well as by the form and frequency of social relations external to the home. With energy consumption so closely interlocked with the practices with which individuals engage in a daily basis, this thesis suggests that policy needs to be more in tune with the everyday experiences of energy consumers. It concludes by setting out a form of policy-making that has the potential to reduce everyday energy use by being sensitive to the experiences and well-being of individuals and society.
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Bradley, Jennifer Martillie. "The temporal life of a site photomontage and meaning /." 2008. http://etd.utk.edu/August2008MastersTheses/BradleyJenniferMartillie.pdf.
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Ho, Szu-Jou, and 何思柔. "A Meaning Analysis of Chinese Temporal Adverbs Ceng(jing) and Yi(jing)." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9j4yh9.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
英語學系
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This thesis examines the meanings of the Chinese temporal expressions ceng(jing) and yi(jing) and their compatibility with different situation types. In this thesis, previous studies of ceng(jing) and yi(jing) are first discussed and commented, and then the meanings of the two temporal adverbs are examined via Reichenbach (1947) and the scale structure, particularly Kennedy (2007). Ceng(jing) is suggested to be a past time adverb that obligates the event time (E) to precede the speech time (S). On the other hand, yi(jing) is suggested to have two different meanings. First, it can be a relative past, showing the order of the event time (E) preceding the reference time (R). The other meaning is illustrated by scale structure, where yi(jing) marks a threshold of degree-relevant contexts. The compatibility between ceng(jing)/yi(jing) and the situation types are also discussed since they are indispensable to forming meaningful ceng(jing)/yi(jing) sentences. In this thesis, Tai’s (1984) classification of Chinese situation types into States, Activities and Results is adopted. Ceng(jing) is found to be compatible with all the situation types except the absolute subtype of States; yi(jing) shows a similar pattern but is more restricted in meanings when it comes to the non-absolute and habitual subtypes of States.
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Liao, Xiu-Zhen, and 廖秀真. "The Study of Result States and the Aspectuo-Temporal Meaning of GUO in Mandarin Chinese." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83700803617706041765.
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碩士國立交通大學
語言與文化研究所
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This thesis studies the aspectuo-temporal meaning of GUO, with all kinds of lexical contents examined and with special attention paid to the rising of two interpretations of GUO─the “discontinuity” interpretation and the “experiential” interpretation. The contrast between these two is claimed to be relevant to the (non)existence or (under)specification of a result state in the LF component. This thesis proposes that two types of telic situations have syntactically accessible result states, and the other two have syntactically non-accessible result states. The former are inherently telic verbs with (definite) subject-oriented result states and inherently telic verbs with definite object-oriented result states; the latter are inherently telic verbs with indefinite object-oriented result states and compositional accomplishments. The assumption of result states in this paper is based on the lexical-syntactic approach of Ramchand et al. to syntactic representations (developed in a serial of works ranging from 1997 to 2003) and is leaned on the analysis of telicity’s structure proposed by Kratzer (2002) and the Extended Mapping Hypothesis (EMH) proposed by Tsai (1999, 2001). Particularly, two factors are pointed out to determine the accessibility of result states. The first factor is how telicity is derived. The ways of derivation are argued to be relevant to the projection of an XP denoting a result state. As to the second factor, result states may be specified or underspecified by the reasoning that the head R could be predicated of strongly quantified NPs but not of weakly quantified NPs in Mandarin Chinese. Overall, this thesis concludes that GUO has a uniform aspectual-temporal meaning, i. e. T-T located in post-time of the time span specified by lexical contents, and various aspectual interpretations of GUO result form differences in lexical properties. The syntax-semantic approach in this thesis illustrates that with the help of semantic analyses, some complex aspectuo-temporal phenomena may be dealt with structurally with a thorough investigation of how situation types and aspect markers interact.
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Wilde, Nancy Jean. "Lateralizing memory function in temporal lobe epilepsy : an investigation of the meaning and utility of the Wechsler Memory Scale, third edition." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/763.
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The Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS) is the most extensively used battery for memory assessment of adults. The third edition of the WMS (WMS-111) represents a substantial revision of previous versions. Accordingly, issues of validity of the revised instrument need to be addressed. The purpose of these studies was to contribute to the validation of the scale in the assessment of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy WE). An important role of the neuropsychological evaluation in TLE is to aid in the localization and lateralization of dysfunction. This is based on the premise that the temporal lobes are specialized for the acquisition of material-specific information, with dysfunction in the left and right mesial temporal regions being associated with verbal and nonverbal memory impairment, respectively. Since the WMS is utilized by the vast majority of epilepsy centres, evaluation of its meaning and utility in this population is essential. In Study 1, the utility of the WMS-I11 in detecting lateralized impairment was examined in a sample of patients with left (n = 55) or right (n = 47) TLE. Methods of analysis included evaluation of group means on the various indexes and subtest scores, the use of ROC curves, and an examination of Auditory-Visual Index discrepancy scores. The Auditory- Visual Delayed Index difference score appeared most sensitive to side of temporal dysfunction, although patient classification rates were not within an acceptable range to have clinical utility. The ability to predict laterality based on statistically significant index score differences was particularly weak for those with left temporal dysfunction. The use of unusually large discrepancies led to improved prediction; however, the rarity of such scores limits their usefulness. ill In Study 2, five competing models specifying the factor structure underlying the WMS- 111 primarysubtest scores were evaluated in a large sample of patients with TLE (N = 254). Models specifying separate immediate and delayed constructs resulted in inadmissible parameter estimates and model specification error. There were negligible goodness-of-fit differences between a 3-factor model of working memory, auditory memory, and visual memory, and a nested- more parsimonious- 2-factor model of working memory and general memory. The results suggested that specifying a separate visual memory factor provided little advantage for this sample- an unexpected finding in a population with lateralized dysfunction, for which one might have predicted separate auditory and visual memory dimensions. These findings add to a growing literature which suggests that the WMS-I11 has little utility in detecting lateralized dysfunction in TLE. This has important implications for the preoperative assessment of epilepsy patients.
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Chen, Hui-Mei, and 陳慧鎂. "Leaving Home to Find Real Home: The Temporal and Spatial Perception and the Meaning of Home in Time-slip Fantasy." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96192745443573431151.
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碩士國立臺東大學
兒童文學研究所
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The attractive point of time-slip fantasy is the writer’s construction of the other world. While analyzing the consciousness and perception of time and space of the protagonists, we will find that the other world almost reflects on the real world. Even though the other world is as fascinating as dreams, they often lead to some further understanding and irony of reality. Tom’s Midnight Garden, A Handful of Time, Awake and Dreaming, which are the primary texts, discuss how the children of leaving home who went into the other world perceive the other surprising world. When finding the temporal and spatial experience of the other world superimposing our real world, the protagonists realize their love and concerns of home, and listen to the inner voices of themselves. Finally, the perception and exploration of time and space, the seeking and construction of the meaning of home are all relevant to the inner sides of people. Once the protagonists find the real meaning of home, they also find the complete selves.
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Antomo, Mailin Ines. "Abhängige Sätze in einem fragebasierten Diskursmodell." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0022-5D89-5.
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