Refugees as icons: Culture and iconic representation

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. e12568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Binder ◽  
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky
Keyword(s):  
Iconic Representation

Stardust

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd Whitesell
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Magical Thinking ◽  
Iconic Representation ◽  
Fundamental Goal

This chapter considers the deep-rooted association of glamour with magic powers. Glamour’s bestowal of mystique on objects, people, and emotions depends on a more fundamental goal of inspiring magical thinking, an aspect of glamour that seeks to preserve the experience of enchantment in a disenchanted world. The Hollywood phenomena of star worship and iconic representation are discussed as secular religious practices that have developed in response to the changing conditions of modernity. The chapter shows how three conventional symbols of divinity—haloes, crowns, and veils—contribute to the idolization of a star and find expression in film music according to its own sonic vocabulary.

scholarly journals Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Ćwiek ◽  
Susanne Fuchs ◽  
Christoph Draxler ◽  
Eva Liina Asu ◽  
Dan Dediu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Study ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Linguistic Communication ◽  
Similar Role ◽  
Iconic Representation ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds

AbstractLinguistic communication requires speakers to mutually agree on the meanings of words, but how does such a system first get off the ground? One solution is to rely on iconic gestures: visual signs whose form directly resembles or otherwise cues their meaning without any previously established correspondence. However, it is debated whether vocalizations could have played a similar role. We report the first extensive cross-cultural study investigating whether people from diverse linguistic backgrounds can understand novel vocalizations for a range of meanings. In two comprehension experiments, we tested whether vocalizations produced by English speakers could be understood by listeners from 28 languages from 12 language families. Listeners from each language were more accurate than chance at guessing the intended referent of the vocalizations for each of the meanings tested. Our findings challenge the often-cited idea that vocalizations have limited potential for iconic representation, demonstrating that in the absence of words people can use vocalizations to communicate a variety of meanings.

On the Disruption of Visual Memory: Interference Produced by Visual Report Cues

1976 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Merikle
Keyword(s):  
Visual Memory ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Auditory Cues ◽  
Iconic Representation ◽  
Letter Target ◽  
Memory Interference ◽  
Level Of Processing

Report of single letters from centrally-fixated, seven-letter, target rows was probed by either auditory or visual cues. The target rows were presented for 100 ms, and the report cues were single digits which indicated the spatial location of a letter. In three separate experiments, report was always better with the auditory cues. The advantage for the auditory cues was maintained both when target rows were masked by a patterned stimulus and when the auditory cues were presented 500 ms later than comparable visual cues. The results indicate that visual cues produce modality-specific interference which operates at a level of processing beyond iconic representation.

scholarly journals Revealing What Is Dear: The Post-Earthquake Iconization of the Dharahara, Kathmandu

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (03) ◽  
pp. 549-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hutt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Iconic Representation ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Central Nepal

On April 25, 2015, central Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed over 9,000 people and displaced 2.8 million. The image of the Dharahara, a nineteenth-century minaret that collapsed during the quake, quickly became for many Nepalis an iconic representation not only of the disaster but also of a national determination to recover and rebuild. Drawing upon media and literary discourse in the Nepali language, this article asks why the Dharahara tower, rather than the country's severely damaged World Heritage sites, loomed so large in the Nepali imagination in the immediate aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake, and why it became a rallying point for a resurgence of Nepali hill nationalism.

scholarly journals Siwi addressee agreement and demonstrative typology

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lameen Souag
Keyword(s):  
Number Agreement ◽  
Iconic Representation

AbstractSiwi, a Berber language of Egypt, shows gender/number agreement of medial demonstratives with the addressee. Such phenomena are crosslinguistically very rarely reported, and are not discussed in major surveys of the typology of demonstratives (Diessel 1999; Imai 2003). However, within person-oriented demonstrative systems, such marking amounts to an iconic representation of addressee anchoring. The pragmatics of Siwi demonstratives thus cast light on the nature of the mapping from person to place that such systems reflect (Greenberg 1985). Comparative eastern Berber data suggests that demonstrative addressee agreement may be more widespread than the literature reflects.

scholarly journals Um Estudo Sobre Interpretações e Representações de Números Racionais em uma Escola Pública de Educação de Surdos em Santa Maria/RS

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-240
Author(s):  
Tainara Da Silva Guimarães ◽  
Rita de Cássia Pistóia Mariani
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Deaf Education ◽  
Rational Numbers ◽  
First Year ◽  
Deaf Students ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Iconic Representation ◽  
Santa Maria

ResumoO presente trabalho parte da seguinte questão: quais entendimentos são mobilizados por estudantes surdxs em tarefas sobre números racionais utilizando o material manipulável tangram? Diante disso, tem-se por objetivo analisar registros de representação semiótica mobilizados por estudantes surdxs do 1º ano do Ensino Médio, em uma escola estadual bilíngue de Santa Maria/RS, considerando uma sequência de tarefas envolvendo números racionais nas interpretações parte-todo, medida e operador. Para tanto, caracteriza-se como uma pesquisa qualitativa na forma de um estudo de caso com produção de dados orientada pelos princípios da análise de conteúdo. Nessa perspectiva constitui-se quatro categorias: parte-todo, equivalência, medida e operador. Quanto a parte-todo constata-se que a partir da conversão da representação figural icônica para numérica fracionária, sua compreensão deu-se principalmente. Na equivalência de números racionais verifica-se a relevância de tratamentos figurais na representação icônica, por meio da mobilização de registros das peças do tangram. Em relação a medida conclui-se que houve compreensão no espaço unidimensional, ao identificar os números racionais correspondentes aos valores das áreas abordadas como a distância de um certo ponto até a origem na reta numérica, e no espaço bidimensional, a partir da medida da área de figuras. No operador, observa-se reduções de áreas de figuras geométricas quadradas, evidenciando tratamentos figurais na representação icônica. Por fim, destaca-se ampliação do repertório linguístico dxs estudantes referentes aos conceitos/conteúdos matemáticos, tendo em vista a convenções de sinais institucionalizados durante a dinamização da sequência. Palavras-chave: Educação de Surdos. Ensino Médio. Tangram. Parte-Todo. Medida. Operador. AbstractThe present paper starts from the following question: what understandings are mobilized by deaf students in tasks about rational numbers using the manipulable tangram material? Therefore, the objective is to analyze semiotic representation records mobilized by deaf students of the first year of high school, in a bilingual state school in Santa Maria/RS, considering a sequence of tasks involving rational numbers in the interpretations part-whole, measure and operator. For this purpose, it is characterized as a qualitative research in the form of a case study with data production guided by the principles of content analysis. From this perspective, four categories are constituted: part-whole, equivalence, measure and operator. As for the whole-part it is found that from the conversion of the iconic figural representation to fractional numerical, its understanding took place mainly. In the equivalence of rational numbers, the relevance of figurative treatments in iconic representation is verified through the mobilization of records of tangram pieces. With respect the measurement, it can be concluded that there was understanding in one-dimensional space, by identifying the rational numbers corresponding to the values of the approached areas as the distance from a certain point to the origin in the numerical line, and in two-dimensional space, from the measurement of the area of figures. In the operator, there are reductions in areas of square geometric figures, showing figurative treatments in the iconic representation. Finally, we highlight the expansion of the linguistic repertoire of students referring to mathematical concepts/contents, in view of the conventions of institutionalized signals during the dynamization of the sequence. Keywords: Deaf Education. High School. Tangram. Part Whole. Measure. Operator.

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