Outputs (854)

Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema (2022)
Thesis
Yeung, S. Y. Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This project offers the framework of “semiotics of allegory” as an alternative to Fredric Jameson’s national allegory for studying non-Western cultural products by emphasising their plural meanings of signs and the importance of situating their readi... Read More about Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema.

Risk, Failure, and Liquid Modernity: Ecocriticism in Chinese Science Fiction (2022)
Thesis
Ma, M. C. Risk, Failure, and Liquid Modernity: Ecocriticism in Chinese Science Fiction. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Pragmatics in Old Tibetan: Investigations Based on Several Dunhuang Texts (2022)
Thesis
Cairangsanzhou, T. S. Pragmatics in Old Tibetan: Investigations Based on Several Dunhuang Texts. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Historical Pragmatics is uncharted territory in Old Tibetan studies. This dissertation explores pragmatics in the Old Tibetan (8th to 11th centuries) as a language represented in texts discovered in Cave 17 in Dunhuang. This dissertation attempts to... Read More about Pragmatics in Old Tibetan: Investigations Based on Several Dunhuang Texts.

A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature (2022)
Thesis
Gamberini, F. A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Common critiques surrounding the balinghou cultural phenomenon often qualify their literary work as bestsellers lacking any appreciable literary or social value. The incredible commercial success of their fiction combined with the idol-like personali... Read More about A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature.

Exploring the Development of Intercultural Competence of University Students Majoring in Korean (2022)
Thesis
Jang, H. J. Exploring the Development of Intercultural Competence of University Students Majoring in Korean. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study investigates how first-year undergraduate learners of Korean at a UK university develop intercultural competence. The study employed the following research questions: 1) Do first-year undergraduate learners of Korean develop intercultural... Read More about Exploring the Development of Intercultural Competence of University Students Majoring in Korean.

Travel Inside and Outside: Maghribi Resistance as a Literary Force (2022)
Thesis
Blalack, J. S. Travel Inside and Outside: Maghribi Resistance as a Literary Force. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The Other Tang Women: Community, Voice and Poetry Represented in the Early Modern (16th–18th c.) Anthologies (2022)
Thesis
Wojcik, M. The Other Tang Women: Community, Voice and Poetry Represented in the Early Modern (16th–18th c.) Anthologies. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Traditionally, the vast majority of the Tang dynasty of women poets, called in this project the Other Poets, has been overlooked in the literary history, while the writings of the famous courtesan-poets Li Ye, Xue Tao and Yu Xuanji came to represent... Read More about The Other Tang Women: Community, Voice and Poetry Represented in the Early Modern (16th–18th c.) Anthologies.

Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study (2022)
Thesis
al-Baroud, D. S. Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis tackles the controversial concept of dialogue with the Divine in Sufi literature and its use as an indirect vehicle to transmit a mystically camouflaged social message. The in-depth study offers a modern theoretical framework that examine... Read More about Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study.

Shamanism in Korean Cinema and Popular Culture: The Korean shaman narrative, shaman films, and women (2021)
Journal Article
Lee, H. (2021). Shamanism in Korean Cinema and Popular Culture: The Korean shaman narrative, shaman films, and women. Chungang saron = 중앙사론 = Central History, 54, 191-221. https://doi.org/10.46823/cahs.2021.54.191

Shamanism has long played an important religious role in Korean popular culture. It continues to do so, despite Buddhism and Christianity being the major religions in modern Korea. Shamans and Shamanism continue to appear in a variety of ways in Kore... Read More about Shamanism in Korean Cinema and Popular Culture: The Korean shaman narrative, shaman films, and women.

Extra-linguistic knowledge and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of Korean Relative Clauses (2021)
Journal Article
Yeon, J. (2021). Extra-linguistic knowledge and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of Korean Relative Clauses. 언어와 정보 사회 = Ene wa Cengpo sahoy (Language and Information Society), 44, 297-336. https://doi.org/10.29211/soli.2021.44..010

Yeon, Jaehoon (2021), “Extra-linguistic Knowledge and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of Korean Relative Clauses,” Language and Information Society 44. This paper explores how morpho-syntactic and semantic constraints interact with extra-linguistic... Read More about Extra-linguistic knowledge and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of Korean Relative Clauses.