SearchPublisher and Institutes
You are here: Home :: Keyword index :: (cu bis pub :: cross-linguistic semantic patterns - deuil 
culture
Items for "culture"
“It took time to understand Greek newspapers”. The media experience of Swedish women in Greece
This article tackles the media experience of ten Swedish women living in Greece. It focuses on the relation between their media experience and culture...
Keywords: Swedish women, Greece, media, culture
06/2006 | Communications, Walter de GruyterJoking cultures: Humor themes as social regulation in group life
Every interacting social group develops, over time, a joking culture: a set of humorous references that are known to members of the group to which members can refer and that serve as the basis of further interaction...
Keywords: culture, small groups, joking, ethnography, social regulation, sociology
04/2005 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter“Taking the piss”: Functions of banter in the IT industry
This paper shows how banter helps forge organizational culture by facilitating socialization of work group members and presents original research conducted in three IT companies...
Keywords: Banter, culture, empirical, humor, joke, status
05/2007 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter“I can now apologize to you twice from the bottom of my heart”: Apologies in Greek reality TV
While the speech act of apology has been investigated in a number of languages and cultures, there has been little research into apologies in Greek...
Keywords: apology, politeness, face, power, culture, reality TV
02/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterYuri Lotman on metaphors and culture as self-referential semiospheres
Yuri Lotman describes metaphors and culture as semiospheres or ‘semiotic spaces.’ This account of metaphors is self-referential insofar as it is itself expressed in the form of a metaphor...
Keywords: semiosphere, metaphor, self-reference, culture, mental space
08/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterSemiosis, art, and literature
The ‘state of literature’ in a visual culture is analyzed against the background of a theoretical semiotic framework based upon the distinction between three types of signs: one-place
Keywords: semiosis, culture, art, literature, Entertainment, mimesis
06/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter(Im)Politeness, Face and Perceptions of Rapport: Unpackaging their Bases and Interrelationships
This paper takes rapport (Spencer-Oatey 2000, 2002) as its central concern, since (im)politeness is typically associated in some way with harmonious/conflictual interpersonal relations...
Keywords: face, politeness, rapport, values, identity, culture
01/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter