... semioticians highlighted when protesting that concepts were controlled by individual experience. This is why the approach of many contemporary social semioticians who place importance on the cultural, social and historical background of both the sign and the interpreter, is far more effective in understanding the connotations and ideologies of performance. Performance, and its effectiveness, is greatly governed by the audience being ... ...

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... demand for cotton cloth became very high, yet the production was incredibly slow, the crisis had to be solved in order to boost the English economy. The answer came from John Kay, who invented the flying shuttle which cut the weaving time in two. Although many workers didn't accept the fact that they were the first to be replaced by machines ... ...

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