Browsing by Author "Padgate, Usa"

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    A Conversational Implicature Analysis in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Sommai, Supparawin; Padgate, Usa (2013)
    The purposes of this study were to pragmatically identify and analyse the conversational implicatures contained within the 30 selected dialogues of the 7 main characters in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban focusing on Grice’s cooperative principle (1975) to find out whether the 7 main char-acters flouted or violated the conversational maxims. Moreover, the study aimed to demonstrate how the 7 main characters conveyed their intended meanings through conversational implicatures and how the others as listeners recognised the intended meanings.The findings showed that the selected dialogues contained 75 conversational implicatures. The 7 main characters employed the conversational implicatures for 19 functions: sarcasm, irony, confirmation, guessing, clarifying, expressing dissatisfaction, politeness, conviction, indirect answers, disagreements, in-direct statements, indirect questions and indirect requests, emphasizing, avoiding embarrassment, telling lies, changing the topic of the conversation, distracting the listeners from the topic of conversation and dis-tracting the third party from the current conversation. Additionally, it was found that the ways the characters as the speakers conveyed their intended meanings and the ways the others as the listeners recognised the implicatures contained in the dialogues depended on the utterances themselves, the context of the situation, the listeners’ background knowledge and the listeners’ knowledge of the conversational maxims.
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    A Jungian Analysis of the Male Protagonist's Personality in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Paokantha, Itthipat; Padgate, Usa (2022)
    Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street features a protagonist who can be viewed as a victim of England’s classism. In this study, Carl Jung’s theory of analytical psychology has been adopted to analyze Todd’s personality as perceived in Sondheim’s musical. The results reveal that Todd, having been unjustly separated from his wife and daughter, is driven by the Personal Unconscious, which is part of a psychological complex that blocks the logical utilization of the Ego. At the same time, he displays a calm and earnest-looking Persona while embodying the Shadow of a cold-blooded killer. His Anima is revealed as his weakness when he is distracted as well as being driven by the desire for a family reunion. However, he cannot attain the Self, which is central to a balanced personality. In brief, psychologically, Sweeney Todd is a thinking and feeling introvert, a product of both causal motivation and regressive adaptation.
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    A Reflection of Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory in the Adolescent Character of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games Trilogy
    Phuengkan, Thitisan; Padgate, Usa; Thunnithet, Pornrawee; ธิติสรร พึ่งกัน; อุษา พัดเกตุ; พรวีร์ ทันนิเทศ (2017)
    This study aims to analyze the cognitive development and the factors that influence the cognitive development of the character of Katniss Everdeen, the main character of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy through Jean Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development. The findings indicate that in The Hunger Games Trilogy, Katniss develops her cognition in accordance with Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory in all the aspects such as hypothetical reasoning, thinking about possibility and probability, and propositional operation etc. In addition, the findings indicate that the arena environments contribute greatly to her cognitive development in her struggle to survive the killing games. However, Katniss’s cognition seems to develop faster than that of an average real-life adolescent because she is portrayed to live in brutal surroundings and confront situations that are far more dangerous than those in the life of an average real-life adolescent.
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    A Snowflake in All of Us: A Study of Motif in the Film Snow Cake (2006)
    Padgate, Usa; อุษา พัดเกตุ (2018)
    This study aims to identify motifs in the film Snow Cake (2006) and to analyze the meanings and messages of the film based on the motifs. Snow is found to be the key motif of the film. It is presented in various forms and carries a layer of messages. Snow as an overall mass represents generality and the public’s indifferent tendency to typecast, as evidenced by the common attitudes and prejudices of the townspeople in the film. Snow as an individual flake, on the contrary, showcases singular beauty and unique characteristics, as witnessed in the lives of the main characters. Snow, therefore, carries the message of the risk of stereotypes and the value of individuality as well as the lesson of acceptance for a life full of possibilities.
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    Captain America: The American Made Character
    Nopphakao, Tanagarn; Padgate, Usa; ธนกานต์ นพเก้า; อุษา พัดเกตุ (2018)
    This study aimed to analyze the Core American Values perceived in the characterization of Captain America in the four Captain America movies. Robin Williams’s Core American Values was used as the theoretical framework for the analysis. The results of the study indicated that fourteen out of the fifteen Core American Values were found in the characterization of Captain America in the movies. The most frequently perceived value was Humanitarianism whilst the least frequently perceived value was Racism and Group Superiority. The conclusion was that the characterization of Captain America in the movies reflected the qualities that matched most of Robin Williams’ Core American Values.
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    Deference or Defiance: How a Thematic Duality in Characterization Is Negotiated in Kay Pollak’s Så som i himmelen [As it is in heaven]
    Padgate, Usa (2022)
    Så som i himmelen [As it is in heaven] is a 2004 Swedish film directed by Kay Pollak, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film has received a number of international film awards and enjoyed popularity worldwide. This article aims to illustrate that part of the film’s appeal lies in its presentation of the thematic duality of Christianity and paganism through the characterization of the male and female protagonists, Daniel and Lena. While the plot’s predilection seems to groom Daniel to follow the path of selfless heroism as exemplified in the Christian gospels, on closer inspection he is characterized almost analogously to the myth of the pagan god of wine and ecstasy, Dionysus. Similarly, Lena is shown to echo the controversial role of Mary Magdalene in the alternate account of the biblical gospels as well as to reflect visual symbolism of Aphrodite, the pagan goddess of love and sexuality. By incorporating hedonistic aspects of antiquity’s cults of Dionysus and Aphrodite into the characterization framed by the Christian gospels, the film acknowledges human fallibility as indoctrinated by the gospels yet intimates that it is possible to make peace with pain and celebrate life with physical pleasures.
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    Revenge, resurrection and redemption: mapping the mystiques of mimesis in Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    Padgate, Usa (2022)
    This study investigates the phenomena of mystique in Stieg Larsson’s crime novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The objectives of the study are twofold: to illustrate how mystique often leads to acts of mimicry, and to map the mimesis inspired by the mystique of the novel’s central crime investigation to reflect on religious references based on René Girard’s mimetic theory.The analysis is presented in two parts.The first part traces how elements of mystique such as the mystery of an impossible crime and the allure of divine legitimacy create both personal obsession and cultural fanatism displayed through imitative actions of various key characters. The second part applies René Girard’s triangle of desire to illustrate how mimetic desire can bring about a sense of rivalry that triggers a chain of violent actions, which entails casualties both intentional and accidental. The analysis also applies Girard’s scapegoat mechanism to reveal how the narrative rids itself of violence and resumes its status quo through sacrificing the social ties between the male and female protagonists.The study concludes by projecting that the novel itself is fashioned in imitation of the Christian belief and that the storylines involving the key players in the triangle of desire are marked by the Christian themes of revenge, resurrection and redemption. This suggests that mimesis directs the plot and motivates the players, and that cultural ideologies, such as a major world religion, are indeed too potent and irresistible not to mimic, evenfor an author who has set out to caution his readers against the risk of mimicking.
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    Schindler’s List: A Postmodern Revisit
    Padgate, Usa; อุษา พัดเกตุ (2020)
    This article offers to reread Thomas Keneally’s 1982 novel Schindler’s List through the lens of postmodernism. Even though the novel is not considered a postmodern writing, it displays a subject matter, tone and ethos that are the composite spirit of the postmodern movements. Three traits of postmodernism are traced and discussed within the context and the suggestion of the novel: the hybridity of fact and fiction, the application of irony, and the revision of a unified history. In acknowledging these sensitivities, one finds that the critical term that can be perplexing in its indefinite conceits is very well capable of expounding something as genuine as humanity.
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    Unmaking Masculine Determinacy: A Postmodern Challenge in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus
    Padgate, Usa (2021)
    Venus, a play written by Suzan-Lori Parks, employs unconventional theatrical approaches in retelling the history of a 19th-century freak show attraction. This study examines how the critique of gender bias and sexual manipulations in Venus is explored and projected in ways that can be described as postmodern. Through the subversion of conventional forms and language, the blending of fact and fiction, the pastiches of both low and high generic and linguistic presentations, the liberating of a marginalized voice, and the revision of the philosophical premises that subordinate the female to the male order, the play questions the masculine determinacy inherent in social institutions and traditions and invites a conscious reconsideration of default meaning and truth.
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    ภาษาผู้หญิงและสิ่งประหลาด: พินิจความเหลื่อมล้ำทางเพศในบทละครเรื่อง วีนัส ของ ซูซาน ลอรี พาร์คส์
    อุษา พัดเกตุ; Padgate, Usa (2019)
    บทความวิจัยนี้นำเสนอผลวิเคราะห์การใช้ภาษาผู้หญิงของตัวละครเอกหญิงจากบทละครเรื่อง วีนัส ที่ประพันธ์โดย ซูซาน ลอรี พาร์คส์ ตามกรอบข้อสังเกตลักษณะภาษาผู้หญิง 9 ประการ ของ โรบิน ทอลมาร์ค เลคอฟ ผลการศึกษาพบว่า ภาษาผู้หญิงในบทละครเรื่อง วีนัส สะท้อนลักษณะการใช้ภาษาผู้หญิงในสังคม 7 ลักษณะ ได้แก่ การใช้คำศัพท์เฉพาะเจาะจงระบุชี้ชัด การใช้ทำนองเสียงสูง การใช้คำและโครงสร้างภาษาเพื่อออกตัวด้วยจุดประสงค์ต่างๆ การใช้ภาษาถูกต้องตามแบบฉบับไวยากรณ์ การใช้ภาษาสุภาพอย่างยิ่ง การเล่ามุขแป้ก และการใช้ภาษาสื่ออารมณ์แบบที่ผู้ชายมองว่าเป็นการแสดงออกเกินจริง ซึ่งเป็นลักษณะการใช้ภาษาและการผลิตซ้าภาษาที่สะท้อนและตอกย้ำความไม่เสมอภาคทางอำนาจของบุคคลต่างเพศ และ/หรือ ต่างสถานะในสังคม รวมถึงกลุ่มบุคคลที่ถูกมองว่าเป็น “คนประหลาด” นอกกระแสหลัก
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    สำนวนและความเปรียบ: กลวิธีการแปลที่ปรากฏในวรรณกรรมแปลเรื่อง “แฮร์รี่พอตเตอร์กับศิลาอาถรรพ์”
    ประทุมเพชร แซ่อ๋อง; พัชรินทร์ อนันต์ศิริวัฒน์; อุษา พัดเกตุ; Sae Ong, Pratumpet; Anansiriwat, Patcharin; Padgate, Usa (2017)
    บทความนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาวิเคราะห์กลวิธีการแปลสำนวน และความเปรียบที่ปรากฏในวรรณกรรมแปลเรื่อง “แฮร์รี่พอตเตอร์กับศิลาอาถรรพ์” ผลการศึกษาวิเคราะห์กลวิธีการแปล ปรากฏสำนวนและความเปรียบจำนวน 100 สำนวน โดยแบ่งเป็น 1) กลวิธีการแปลแบบเอาความ 51 สำนวน 2) กลวิธีการแปลแบบตรงตัว 27 สำนวน และ 3) กลวิธีการแปลแบบเทียบเคียงสำนวน 22 สำนวน