User:Mxrwho/The Final Project/Bibliography
Institutional labeling and the fluidity of diagnoses.
Moncrieffe & Eyben (ed.): The Power of Labelling: How People are Categorized and Why it Matters
How labelling works and how it affects the behavior of the ones labelled.
Cooley: Human Nature and the Social Order
The dynamics of society and the concept of the "looking-glass self" or how the individual internalizes other people's views (true or perceived) and behaves accordingly.
Fellows: Making Up a Mimic: Interacting with Echoes in the Age of AI
Labeling in the age of AI, its categorizing power and our reduced resistance.
Tornborg: Repetition in Transmediation
Repetition in different media and how it enriches the message.
Dusi: Remaking as a Practice: Some Problems of Transmediality
Repetition as remaking. Its narrative value.
Adaptation as a familiar home that can be re-inhabited. The importance of conciseness.
Hassan & Barber: The effects of repetition frequency on the illusory truth effect
How repetition affects beliefs of truth.
A phenomenologist approach on language as a contextually situated and experientially grounded semiotic system.
Stress as a novelty factor in the creation of metaphor.
Galer: The languages with built-in sexism
How language affects the way we perceive the world (and gender), with examples from different languages.
Leech: Semantics. The study of meaning
How words and language acquire their meaning. Especially important is the classification of "meaning" in categories:
Conceptual, connotative, social, affective, reflected, collocative, thematic.
Palmer: Semantics. A new outline.
The difference between conceptual and social meaning.
Lyons: Language and Linguistics.
Distinction between descriptive and non-descriptive meaning. The impossibility of defining "meaning" in semantic terms. Main question: What is the meaning of meaning?