As a formal theory of symbolic interactionism, affect control theory emphasizes culturally shared affective meaning, the impressions produced within social events, and identity processes that rely on those cultural meanings and social events. We contend that affect control theory provides a framework for...
having no meaning or purpose.a pointless journey.sin sentido,inútil ˈpointlesslyadverb inútilmente pointsnoun plural 1.a movable section of rails which allow a train to cross over other lines or pass from one line to another.The points had to be changed before the train could continue.ag...
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Unbounded refers to the “wide and inclusive acknowledgement of all transgender-identities and expressions that may fall under the trans umbrella” (Sutherland, 2021, p. 7), meaning these participants do not restrict who can consider themselves “trans.” Jacobsen et al. (2022) also find that ...
Björk, an Icelandic singer and actress, has a cutesymbolic tattooon her left upper arm. It is a Norseprotection symbolcalled Vegvísir, which has a deep meaning. The Icelandic word literally means ‘guidepost’ or ‘direction sign’. In modern popular culture the Vegvísir is often called Ru...
and to make sense of their span they need fictive concords with origins and ends, such as give meaning to lives and to poems” (7). Kermode is speaking of temporal organization, but this experience of being “in the middest” is also acutely spatial, and it calls for cartographic solutio...
The current study is the first to attempt to perform a sound-symbolic analysis of the spells featured in the Harry Potter series. The present research analysed 171 spells in terms of syllable lengths and the number of voiced obstruents and stressed low v
We combine symbolic boundaries literature and this literature to show that religion is a source of cultural power that assigns meaning to, and draws boundaries around, certain cultural categories. We end by describing some productive directions for future research in this area....
Things and objects have been used in social relationships throughout decades by people of all cultures as symbols, representations of promise, commitment to a course, and commitment to relationships and they therefore carry meaning of people’s connections (Thibodeau et al. 2019). Objects can be ...
The perceptual and emotional features of Japanese sound-symbolic words, which included short and long vowels, were evaluated by 209 native Japanese speakers. The results showed that subjective evaluations of familiarity, visual imageability, auditory imageability, tactile imageability, emotional valence, ...