‘An insufferable burden on businesses?’ On changing attitudes to maternity leave and economic-related issues in the Times and Daily Mail

Along with the times, humans gradually growing too. This different time which is the main holder of changes in human nature that unconsciously causing many things, like in social terms. Technology, economy, knowledge, safety, social level, and place become a factor that affect human’s social changes. These social changes can refer to individualistic and do not care about the surrounding environment, so empathy seems to never be heard agin in this era, especially in urban. Empathy includes the ability to feel the emotional statre of others, feel sympathetic and try to slove problems, and take other people’s perspective (Baron & Byrne, 2004),. While the fact from recent studies have shown that empathy in a person is becoming increasingly rare, as many as 65 percent of people do not care or lose empathy (Daily Mail, 2019). Though empathy itself is important according to Graaff et al (2014) where empathy which underlines the importance of ability, behavior and a very important role in the development of moral and prosocial. The reduced level of empathy in urban is a major factor for designers to design a Pegadungan Empathy Development a place that can maintain and develop empathy through the phemomenology approach using human senses, as a training to feel the emotions of others through architectural space, one of them by labyrinth. The method project from Juhani Pallasmaa theories “An Architecture of Seven Sense” and “The Eyes of The Skin: Architecture and Sense” and through data collection from DKI Jakarta BPS, scientific journals, e-books, survey, interview and questionnaires, and local society needs analysis. With this, this project expected that empathy can be felt and maintained at any time, with a design in accordance with the characteristic of empathy.Keywords: empathy; labyrinth; Pegadungan; phenomenology; sense AbstrakSeiring perkembangan zaman, manusia semakin berkembang pula. Perubahan sifat manusia menjadi pemegang kunci utama yang tanpa disadari menimbulkan salah satunya dalam hal sosial. Teknologi, ekonomi, pengetahuan, keamanan, tingkat sosial, dan tempat menjadi faktor yang mempengaruhi perubahan sosial manusia. Perubahan sosial tersebut seperti manusia yang individualis dan tidak peduli terhadap lingkungan sekitar, sehingga kata empati seakan tidak ada saat ini, terutama di daerah perkotaan. Empati termasuk kemampuan untuk merasakan keadaan emosional orang lain, merasa simpatik dan mencoba menyelesaikan masalah, dan mengambil perspektif orang lain (Baron & Byrne, 2004). Faktanya, studi terbaru menunjukan rasa empati dalam diri seseorang semakin langka, sebanyak 65% orang bersikap tidak peduli atau kehilangan empati (Daily mail, 2019). Padahal empati merupakan hal penting menurut Graaff dkk, (2014), empatilah yang menggaris bawahi pentingnya kemampuan, tingkah laku dan sebuah peran yang sangat penting dalam pengembangan moral dan perilaku prososial. Menurutnya tingkat empati masyarakat di kota besar menjadi faktor utama bagi perancang untuk merancang sebuah Wadah Pengembangan Empati Pegadungan yang dapat menjaga maupun mengembangkan rasa empati tersebut melalui pendekatan fenomenologi indera manusia, sebagai wadah pelatihan untuk merasakan emosi sesama melalui ruang arsitektur, salah satunya pada labirin. Proyek ini menggunakan metode dari teori Juhani Pallasmaa “An architecture of seven sense” dan “The eyes of the skin: architecture and sense” dan melalui pengumpulan data dari BPS DKI Jakarta, jurnal ilmiah, e-book, survei, wawancara dan kuisioner, serta analisis kebutuhan masyarakat sekitar. Dengan ini diharapkan rasa empati tetap terasa dan terjaga sampai kapanpun, dengan desain sesuai dengan karakteristik empati.

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Challenges in Conducting MBBS Program in a Nepalese Medical College

Journal of Gandaki Medical College-Nepal ◽

10.3126/jgmcn.v10i1.17916 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 49-56

Author(s):

K Rajeshwar Reddy

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Subject Knowledge ◽

Medical College ◽

The Future ◽

Working Together ◽

The Times ◽

The Moment ◽

Changing Attitudes ◽

Medical Teachers

The medical education in Nepal faces many challenges. Medical education, in order to keep up with the times, needs to adapt to the changing attitudes of society. We need a change for better. The curriculum is outdated to the clinical needs, and the students are rarely taught any skills and innovations or creativity to think for the future, and whoever wishes to change the system will be isolated. A serious shortage of talents, subject knowledge, technical skills and communication skills in teachers is affecting the future of medical students. Many medical teachers teach in local language making students poor communicators.Nepal, a developing country in South Asia is in transition had suffered from a decade long violent conflict and the country is in the implementation of its new constitution and suffers from political instability which may contribute several challenges like general shutdowns, frequent bandhs, shortage of electricity, load shedding, voltage fluctuation and problems with internet in conducting MBBS program in a Medical College.At the moment, there is no foreseeable future effort by parents, teachers, educationists, policy makers and politicians to correct this and courageously bring in radical reforms in medical education. These challenges can be overcome by cooperation and working together to create a peaceful and stable climate. Nepal has been going through tremendous changes in the last few years. Medical teachers have a great role to play and stand against many odds.Journal of Gandaki Medical College Vol. 10, No. 1, 2017, Page: 49-56

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THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE TRANSLATION OF THE ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN BRITISH MASS-MEDIA'S RESOURCES

ΛΌГOΣ МИСТЕЦТВО НАУКОВОЇ ДУМКИ ◽

10.36074/2663-4139.04.07 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Ілля Voitsikhovskyi

Keyword(s):

Mass Media ◽

English Translation ◽

English Language ◽

Daily Mail ◽

Full Disclosure ◽

The Subject ◽

The Times ◽

The Guardian

The subject of study is the analysis of English translation, that are used in mass media, into Ukrainian language. It is found that the phraseology is a specific polyhedral science that requires different and multilateral approaches in order to full disclosure of the considered topic. An attempt is made to investigate the peculiarities of the translation of phraseological compounds in the English-language press, based on the well-known British media sources: "The Guardian", "The Times", "Daily Mail", "Daily Express". In the master's study, the role of phraseological units, used in English-language newspapers, is analyzed, and their meanings are clarified, the functions, performed by them, are revealed. The investigation upon the problem of the analysis all the difficulties with the translation idioms from English to Ukrainian reveals that this problem does not lose its actuality nowadays. The purpose of the study is to diagnose and characterize the peculiarities of the translation into Ukrainian of phraseological units that are inherited to the modern English language and are used in British media resources.

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An Opposing Self

10.28971/142012gc32 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Christine Gamache

Keyword(s):

Human Mind ◽

Gothic Literature ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Romantic Period ◽

Popular Films ◽

Picture Of Dorian Gray ◽

The Times ◽

Changing Attitudes ◽

The Devil ◽

Conscious Control

People have always been both frightened and fascinated by the unknown, and themes touching on the existence of things beyond human understanding have longevity in the literary arena as well as in popular culture. One such theme is that of the doppelgänger, or double, which has been around for centuries but was first made popular by Jean-Paul’s (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) work Hesperus in 1795. Due to a resurgence in the nineteenth century in the popularity of Gothic literature, doppelgängers, or variations of this double motif, found their way into some of the most famous works of literature by the most notable writers of the century, including Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson” (1839), Feodor Dostoevsky’s “The Double” (1846), Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Shadow” (1847), and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). The theme has persisted through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, recent examples being the popular films Secret Window (2004) starring Johnny Depp, Shutter Island (2010) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and Black Swan (2010) starring Natalie Portman. Although the popularity of the double has remained constant over the past few centuries, the presentation and interpretation of doubles have not. Prior to the Romantic period, the appearance of a doppelgänger was almost always seen as an evil portent, often foretelling disaster and the death of the protagonist. The character of the double, in manifest form, was represented as something outside of the person plagued by it, part of the realm of the supernatural, and certainly something to be feared. But with the growing interest in the human mind, and especially the unconscious, in the Romantic Period, people started viewing the double as something that could possibly come from within an individual. This new way of looking at the theme of the double fit the interests and feelings of the times, especially the idea that there were parts of ourselves over which we had no conscious control. The evolution of the double as a literary motif thus reflected the changing attitudes of the times, its horror lying now not outside of the human psyche but secretly locked within it. As Rosemary Jackson observes, there was “an explicit shift from a presentation of a demonic ‘other’ as supernaturally evil, the devil in a conventional iconography, toward something much more disturbing because equivocal, ambiguous in its nature and origins. . . . The double then comes to be seen as an aspect of the psyche, externalized in the shape of another in the world” (44).

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Literary Characters as a Source Domain of Precedent Names in the UK Media

Nauchnyy dialog ◽

10.24224/2227-1295-2020-8-52-68 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (8) ◽

pp. 52-68

Author(s):

E. V. Budaev

Keyword(s):

British Literature ◽

English Literature ◽

Harry Potter ◽

Daily Mail ◽

Source Domain ◽

Literary Characters ◽

Total Body ◽

The Times ◽

The Uk ◽

The Guardian

The article deals with precedent names (PN) from the source domain “Literature”, functioning in the UK media. The material for the study was 104 examples of precedent names used in the British print media (The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent) over the past ten years (2010–2019). Research methods were cognitive-discourse analysis, linguocultural description. It is concluded that the source domain “Literary characters” is the most demanded source of precedent names in the British media (26 % of the total body of examples, which is 400 precedent names). It is shown that British journalists give preference to onyms related to British literature, which is natural, because PN data are well known to both journalists and British media addressees. It was revealed that British journalists regularly refer to the names of characters from the classics of English literature in their texts. At the same time, it is shown that the leading place in terms of frequency of actualization and productivity is occupied by PN, which have become popular in recent decades, which primarily refers to the characters of J. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. Thus, the analysis showed that the functioning of PN depends not only on cognitive and cultural, but also on discursive factors.

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Game, Sex, and Match: The Construction of Gender in British Newspaper Coverage of the 2000 Wimbledon Championships

Sociology of Sport Journal ◽

10.1123/ssj.21.4.435 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 435-456 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

John Vincent

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Racial Stereotypes ◽

Newspaper Coverage ◽

The Sun ◽

Daily Mail ◽

Tennis Players ◽

Analysis Methodology ◽

Gender Power ◽

The Times ◽

Sexual Innuendo

This study compared British newspaper coverage of female and male tennis players competing in the 2000 Wimbledon Championships. Content analysis methodology was used to compare the amount of coverage in The Times, Daily Mail, and The Sun. Drawing on Connell’s (1987, 1993, 1995) theory of gender power relations, textual analysis was used to examine recurring themes in the gendered coverage and analyze how the themes intersected with race. Although few discrepancies were found in the amount of coverage, qualitative comparisons revealed that the predominantly male journalists generally devalued the athletic achievements of female tennis players by using cultural and racial stereotypes, trivialization, and sexual innuendo. In comparison, the journalists frequently expressed their reverence for male tennis players’ athleticism, reproducing and legitimizing hegemonic masculinity.

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Regulating the 1918–19 Pandemic: Flu, Stoicism and the Northcliffe Press

Medical History ◽

10.1017/mdh.2012.101 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 57 (2) ◽

pp. 165-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Mark Honigsbaum

Keyword(s):

World War ◽

Daily Mail ◽

Emotion Words ◽

The First World War ◽

Spanish Flu ◽

Cultural Historian ◽

Pandemic Flu ◽

The Times ◽

Emotional Style ◽

First World

AbstractSocial historians have argued that the reason the 1918–19 ‘Spanish’ influenza left so few traces in public memory is that it was ‘overshadowed’ by the First World War, hence its historiographical characterisation as the ‘forgotten’ pandemic. This paper argues that such an approach tends to overlook the crucial role played by wartime propaganda. Instead, I put emotion words, emotives and metaphors at the heart of my analysis in an attempt to understand the interplay between propaganda and biopolitical discourses that aimed to regulate civilian responses to the pandemic. Drawing on the letters of Wilfred Owen, the diaries of the cultural historian Caroline Playne and the reporting in the Northcliffe press, I argue that the stoicism exhibited by Owen and amplified in the columns ofThe Timesand theDaily Mailis best viewed as a performance, an emotional style that reflected the politicisation of ‘dread’ in war as an emotion with the potential to undermine civilian morale. This was especially the case during the final year of the conflict when war-weariness set in, leading to the stricter policing of negative emotions. As a protean disease that could present as alternately benign and plague-like, the Spanish flu both drew on these discourses and subverted them, disrupting medical efforts to use the dread of foreign pathogens as an instrument of biopower. The result was that, as dread increasingly became attached to influenza, it destabilised medical attempts to regulate the civilian response to the pandemic, undermining Owen’s and the Northcliffe press’s emotives of stoicism.

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Use of science in British newspapers’ narratives of climate change

Studies in Communication Sciences ◽

10.24434/j.scoms.2021.02.004 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Maria Laura Ruiu ◽

Massimo Ragnedda

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climatic Change ◽

Greenhouse Effect ◽

Framing Theory ◽

The Sun ◽

Daily Mail ◽

Daily Telegraph ◽

Specific Focus ◽

The Times ◽

The Guardian

This paper investigates the use of science in British newspapers’ narratives of climate change between 1988 and 2016. It is based on the analysis of eight newspapers and their Sunday and online versions (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Daily Express, The Sun, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent). We used the keywords “climate / climatic change”, “warm / warming” and “greenhouse / greenhouse effect” to retrieve the articles from the Nexis / Lexis database. To identify the articles with a specific focus on climate change, we included only those containing the keywords in the headline (9789 items). Framing theory helps interpret the process of construction of the “threat” through science by showing a tendency towards scientific consensus for the centre / left-leaning newspapers, and an instrumental use of consensus for the centre-right. These findings are useful for both scientists and policymakers interested in understanding how climate narratives can promote delay in action on climate change.

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‘Saying goodbye’ during the COVID-19 pandemic: A document analysis of online newspapers with implications for end of life care

Palliative Medicine ◽

10.1177/02692163211017023 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026921632110170

Author(s):

Lucy E Selman ◽

Ryann Sowden ◽

Erica Borgstrom

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Document Analysis ◽

Media Representations ◽

Daily Mail ◽

Online Newspapers ◽

Online Newspaper ◽

Before And After ◽

The Times ◽

The Uk ◽

The Guardian

Background: News media create a sense-making narrative, shaping, reflecting and enforcing cultural ideas and experiences. Reportage of COVID-related death and bereavement illuminates public perceptions of, and responses to, the COVID-19 pandemic. Aim: We aimed to explore British newspaper representations of ‘saying goodbye’ before and after a COVID-related death and consider clinical implications. Design: Document analysis of UK online newspaper articles published during 2 week-long periods in March–April 2020. Data sources: The seven most-read online newspapers were searched: The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Mirror, The Sun, The Times and The Metro. Fifty-five articles discussed bereavement after a human death from COVID-19, published during 18/03–24/03/2020 (the UK’s transition into lockdown) or 08/04–14/04/2020 (the UK peak of the pandemic’s first wave). Results: The act of ‘saying goodbye’ (before, during and after death) was central to media representations of COVID bereavement, represented as inherently important and profoundly disrupted. Bedside access was portrayed as restricted, variable and uncertain, with families begging or bargaining for contact. Video-link goodbyes were described with ambivalence. Patients were portrayed as ‘dying alone’ regardless of clinician presence. Funerals were portrayed as travesties and grieving alone as unnatural. Articles focused on what was forbidden and offered little practical guidance. Conclusion: Newspapers portrayed COVID-19 as disruptive to rituals of ‘saying goodbye’ before, during and after death. Adaptations were presented as insufficient attempts to ameliorate tragic situations. More nuanced and supportive reporting is recommended. Clinicians and other professionals supporting the bereaved can play an important role in offering alternative narratives.

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Precedent names from source domain Music in UK mass media discourse

Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics ◽

10.29025/2079-6021-2021-1-97-107 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 97-107

Author(s):

Eduard V. Budaev

Keyword(s):

Rock Music ◽

English Language ◽

Media Discourse ◽

Target Domain ◽

Daily Mail ◽

Source Domain ◽

Domain Method ◽

The Times ◽

The Uk ◽

The Guardian

The paper deals with precedent names derived from source domain “Music” in the modern media discourse in the UK. The data of research include list of 300 precedent names used in the British media (BBC, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent) in 2010-2020. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the lingvocultural analysis and cognitive analysis of discourse (cognitive-discursive paradigm). Five main methods of studying precedent names in media discourse are highlighted (method of analyzing single precedent names; method of studying precedent names, united by the source domain; method of studying precedent names, united by the target domain; method of functional analysis of precedent names; method of studying precedent names, united by discourse). In accordance with the research goal, this study uses the method of studying precedent names, united by the source domain, in a certain national discourse. Based on the analysis of practical material, it was concluded that (1) the specificity of the source domain determines the discursive features of the functioning of precedent names in media discourse; (2) the peculiarity of the functioning of precedent names from the considered source domain in the British media discourse is that journalists give preference to the onyms of American and British musical performers, which is due to the dominance of English-language music in world popular culture, while the dominant place is given to rock music performers, which is also due to cultural factors (3) precedent names from the source domain “Music” are used in the UK media discourse as universal signs, the use of which is not limited to musical topics in the target domain. Although most of the contexts in which precedent names are actualized are associated with music, the onyms under consideration can be used to conceptualize phenomena from other spheres of social reality (sports, fashion, terrorism, etc.).

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