As an adult man and woman love each other and come to have faith in each other as their spouse, they marry each other. Recently people’s economic life has become individualized and women are enjoying a high education level and increased participation in social activities, and these changes are creating environment favorable for single life. Thus, an increasing number of people are choosing celi...

This essay examines the images of the bride constructed by China’s burgeoning bridal media that sell lavish wedding products and services. Through the lens of semiotics, the author focuses on analyzing bridal magazines widely circulated in China’s consumer culture. The analysis shows that China’s evolving wedding industry adapts the trite, oppressive trope of “romantic” Western wedding rituals ...

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Abstrak Dalam pendidikan seni dan desain perlu diterapkannya teori semiotika dalam setiap praktik pembuatan karya. Salah satunya bidang ilmu Desain Komunikasi Visual yang mengharuskan menyampaikan sebuah pesan terhadap khalayak menggunakan bahasa visual dibalik karya diciptakan. Keilmuan tahun semakin berkembang memiliki berbagai macam konsentrasi dengan tujuan supaya mahasiswa lebih fokus untu...

This study was conducted to investigate the push and pull factors in consumers’ decisions in choosing wedding banquet venues in Chongqing, China. The objectives of this research were to identify push and pull factors that motivated decision makers and to explore the relationships between the factors across decision makers’ demographic variables including “relationship with the new couple”, “per...

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M ore than 8 years ago, my daughter Jennifer and my son-in-law Tom were married in the small-town Methodist church that had been the focal point of much of my childhood in Granite Quarry, North Carolina. About 75 years earlier, Jennifer’s greatgreat-grandfather had served as the minister in the little stone church. By coincidence, Jennifer’s wedding occurred on the same day as the observance of...

Psychology has been historically plagued by the under-reporting of both replications and null findings. The avoidance of these core ingredients of scientific practice means that the psychology literature is unquestionably distorted. The bias in psychology is pervasive and systemic, afflicting researchers, reviewers, editors and journals, all of whom are wed to pursuing the novel and the curious...