This paper presents a semiotic analysis of a key cultural artefact, the teddy bear. After introducing the iconography of the teddy bear, it analyses different kinds of stories to show how teddy bears are endowed with ...

The changing nature of the psychological contract between employer and employee has brought new challenges to leaders of organizations in the knowledge era. A major challenge for leadership now is what form of psychological ...

The paper presents a systemic functional description of English discursive resources for representing and regulating the timing of social practices. Four key categories are distinguished: the time summons, which imposes ...

This article analyses the somatic experiences of film-viewing and film-making by reference to the sense of touch. For viewers the tactility of film is located in the film's deployment of sound and in the ways it challenges ...

At the turn of 20th century in Australia, internationally accepted anti-black stereotypes pervading Australian racial thinking and race relations, resulted as revitalized and even transfigured by Social Darwinism and ...

The annual New South Wales Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout is so much more than a sporting event. Involving a high level of organisation, it is both a social and cultural coming together of diverse communities for a social ...