The Jungle Tribes of the Malay Peninsula

1926 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pater P. Schebesta ◽  
C. O. Blagden
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Unknown Quantity ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Orang Utan

The jungle tribes (or, as the Malays style them, Orang Utan) of the Malay Peninsula are not altogether an unknown quantity from the point of view of anthropology and linguistics. A number of scholars and travellers have devoted themselves to the study of them, the most important being Hrolf Vaughan Stevens, R. Martin, W. W. Skeat, the leader of the Cambridge expedition, Annandale, and Robinson.

The 1922 Peninsula Malaysia Earthquakes: Rare Intraplate Seismicity within the Sundaland Block in Southeast Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 2531-2545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey Servito Martin ◽  
Yu Wang ◽  
Muzli Muzli ◽  
Shengji Wei
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Hazard ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Historical Earthquakes ◽  
Historical Seismicity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Period Effects ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Seismic hazard in the southern Malay Peninsula located within the Sundaland block in Southeast Asia is poorly understood. The paucity of historical earthquakes and low-magnitude instrumented seismicity has led to the assumption that this region is largely aseismic. We question this point of view by reassessing historical seismicity in this region and, in particular, a pair of moderate earthquakes in the 1920s. The first of these struck on 31 January 1922 at ≈9:10  a.m. local time (LT) for which we estimate an intensity magnitude (MI) ≈5.4, and for the second earthquake on 7 February 1922 at ≈12:15  p.m. LT, we estimate MI≈5.0. We also identify at least 34 felt earthquakes between 1803 and 1950 that were potentially local within the Sundaland block. These include a very widely felt shock (or set of shocks) on 26 June 1874 that was felt in parts of Borneo, Java, and Sumatra. The discovery of these earthquakes challenges the tectonic stability of the Malay Peninsula and the stable interior of the Sundaland block. The record of historical seismicity in this region relies heavily on European sources, and we recommend locating and consulting indigenous sources to improve the current understanding of regional seismic hazard. We also underscore the need to evaluate the impact of ground motions from rare local earthquakes on the extant building stock and on transportation infrastructure that are otherwise relatively immune to the long-period effects of distant earthquakes commonly felt in the Malay Peninsula.

scholarly journals Retskrivningsordbog mellem to stole

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (50) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Sven Tarp
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
New Information ◽  
Previous Edition ◽  
Knowledge Of Language ◽  
The One ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
And Linguistics

In November 2012, the fourth edition of the official Danish orthographic dictionary, Retskrivningsordbogen, was published by the Danish Language Board which, according to national law, is authorised to establish the official Danish orthography and publish its decisions in the form of a dictionary, now available in both a printed and an electronic version. In order to be high quality, a work of this sort requires knowledge of language policy and linguistics, on the one hand, and lexicography, on the other hand. The article analyses the Retskrivningsordbogen exclusively from the point of view of lexicographic theory and practice, based upon a similar analysis of the previous edition (cf. Tarp 2002). It registers a number of improvements but also some stagnation and new problems in other aspects. The general conclusion is that the Danish Language Board could benefit from lexicographic knowhow as well as the new information technologies, especially with a view to developing the electronic version which should no longer be conceived as a copy of its printed counterpart but as a user-friendly extension with more lemmata and additional data.

scholarly journals Activity Budget and Postural Behaviours in Orangutans on Bukit Merah Orang Utan Island for Assessing Captive Great Ape Welfare

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Norsyuhada Kamaluddin ◽  
Ikki Matsuda ◽  
Badrul Munir Md-Zain
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Small Sample Size ◽  
Activity Budget ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Great Ape ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Subadult Male ◽  
Free Ranging ◽  
Orang Utan

Assessments of the welfare status of captive and semi-captive animals often compare how their expression of natural behaviours differs from that of free-ranging conspecifics. Bukit Merah Orang Utan Island (BMOUI) is the only orangutan rehabilitation and conservation centre in the Malay Peninsula. We recorded and analyzed the activity budget and postural behaviours of orangutans moving freely in the enclosures on BMOUI to evaluate their welfare status. From December 2015 to December 2016, we observed three individuals: an adult male, an adult female and a subadult male, and collected 252 hours of focal data (84 hr/individual). Their activity budget was dominated by resting (60%), feeding (13%), playing (14%) and moving (9%). The study individuals heavily relied on the artificial foods (79.2%), and they spent majority of their time on the ground (85.1%) with occasional arboreal observations like using the wooden tree platform or a rope. Despite some significant individual differences, behavioural categories followed a similar trend: resting > feeding > moving > playing, except that the subadult male spent significantly more time playing (35%) than the two adults (3-4%). The most predominant posture was sitting (47.0%), followed by pronograde standing (29.4%), lying (10.5%) and clinging (4.5%). Our results suggest that orangutans on BMOUI engage in less feeding but more resting, and show less postural diversity, than free-ranging individuals. We propose that appropriate interventions to shift activity budgets, especially feeding vs. resting, and postural behaviours of captive orangutans towards those found in free-ranging orangutans might be beneficial for their welfare and survival; however, the conclusions we can draw are limited due to the small sample size, and thus until the captive behaviours of a larger number of orangutans has been described, these results must be considered preliminary and just a case study.

Beauvoir, Irigaray, and Philosophy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothea E. Olkowski
Keyword(s):  
Formal Logic ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Binary Logic ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Psychoanalytic Perspective ◽  
Law Of Excluded Middle ◽  
The Law ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Excluded Middle ◽  
Epistemological Point

Luce Irigaray’s view of her relationship to Beauvoir’s work is that “there are important differences between our positions.” This should not be surprising given that these two philosophers belong to different even if overlapping philosophical eras. Beauvoir is identified primarily with phenomenological–existentialism and Irigaray with psychoanalysis and linguistics. This essay takes up those differences from an ontological and epistemological point of view suggested by a number of feminist philosophers but not fully examined in the work of Beauvoir and Irigaray. This includes Beauvoir’s rejection of dualist thinking produced by the binary logic of the Law of Excluded Middle, and Irigaray’s critique of formal logic based on her psychoanalytic perspective. Beginning with Beauvoir and moving from there to Irigaray, the essay takes up the question of the ontological and epistemological structures utilized by each of these two feminist philosophers with an eye to their subsequent ethical implications.

scholarly journals THE SPECIFICS OF THE IDIOLECT OF E. MACRON IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-112
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Peftiev ◽  
◽  
Elena I. Boychuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Political Linguistics ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Individual Style

The aim of the paper is to present the results of the analysis of the idiolect of the French President Emmanuel Macron in the context of political events presented in the president’s addresses to the nation. The following tasks are solved in the work: the mechanisms of the influence of his speech on the recipient are determined, the aspect of an interdisciplinary dialogue between political science and linguistics is reflected, attention is drawn to the context of the discourse of E. Macron against the backdrop of a changing world, challenges in France's domestic and foreign policy. The analysis of the idiolect of E. Macron from the point of view of the implementation of its communicative functions was also carried out. The conclusion of the article is informative for the increment of knowledge in sociolinguistics and political linguistics. The main result of the study was the conclusion that the individual style of E. Macron is distinguished by the desire for a neat, cautious, but at the same time bold attitude to the word. The specificity of his speech is manifested at all linguistic levels, namely at the phonetic level, clearly defined in terms of diction and arrangement of pauses, linking and accentuation by declaring, at the lexical level in a peculiar choice of vocabulary, in some cases outdated, uncommon words, as well as in the use of metaphors and phraseological units, at the syntactic level – in the use of complex syntactic constructions and anaphoric repetitions. This specificity draws attention to itself, it defines the president’s idiolect as a person striving to take the country's development to a new level, to take care of the nation, at the same time emphasizing his rather tough position in relation to the whole world.

Liberature or Literature in the Electric Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 277-296
Author(s):  
Emiliano Ranocchi
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Tactile Sensibility ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Literary Trend ◽  
And Linguistics

The article proposes a media-oriented approach to liberature, a literary trend born in Poland at the end of the 20th century which aims at reconsidering the physical body of the book as an integral part of the literary work. The idea of liberature is not only a contemporary literary programme, but it has also helped in redefining phenomena from the past hitherto considered to be marginal. The thesis of the article is that this corporeal turn is directly connected with what Marshall McLuhan has called the electric age – a time in which electrical media have put an end to print culture and consequently to the predominance of sight over other senses, to standardisation, specialisation, and linear thinking in favour of a new audio-tactile sensibility. Liberature, if considered from this point of view, turns out to be not a form of resistance of old print culture in a digital world, but the natural consequence of a change of paradigm we can trace also in other fields such as physics and linguistics where the concept of embodiment has occupied a central position for several decades. Hence, far from being a curiosity at the periphery of contemporary literature, it ought to be considered as an important expression of present times.

Zur Rolle der Logik in der Linguistik: Formale Modellbildung und funktionale Sprachtheorie

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Model Building ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Traditional Theory ◽  
Formal Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Linguistics

AbstractThis paper discusses the relationship of logic and linguistics and pleads for logic-based formal model building in linguistic theory. At first, I describe the assignments and the purpose of logic in arts in general and the interrelation between logic and linguistics. Taking into account philosophical conditions and the subject of both, language, I argue for a functional-linguistic point of view. A detailed investigation is devoted to the concept of predicates. Based on logical theory, namely the non-traditional theory of predication and the term-theory developed by A. A. Sinowjew and H. Wessel, a formal approach to modelling linguistic comprehensions of predicates is devised. On this base I carry out a logical reconstruction of some concepts of linguistic theory, like the quantitative and qualitative features of arguments and their thematic roles, and explain their relations to logical predicate-argument-structures. In a further step predicate forming operations are used to describe and to reconstruct diatheses, argument deletion and the influence of mass terms on predication. By this, I want to introduce formal tools for the explanation of such natural-language phenomena and line out how the formal results allow to solve several puzzles.

scholarly journals Creative discourse identity in the ecosystem of creative activity

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Specific Model ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Ecological Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Creative Identity ◽  
Creative Personality ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
And Linguistics

This article considers characteristic features of creative discourse identities of a pedagogue and linguistic scholar in the light of ecological consciousness. It is proved that from the ecological point of view creativity of a person is realized in his/her creative activity, constituting his/her characteristic feature that manifests itself in the dialogic process – ecological contact of a person with Him/Herself and the environment. We conclude that ecologism becomes apparent in the specific character of correlation of individual creative intentions with the social context. In particular, the process of creativity finds expression in creative innovations of Homo Creans – a talented pedagogue and linguist. Reflections concerning the notion of “identity” are presented; they do not coincide with the usage of the concept of identity as a constituent of the notion of “discourse identity”. The main criteria of studying a creative personality, whose creative efforts are materialized in words, are brought to light (conceptually-specific eco-format, interdisciplinary methodology, foreshortenings of studying a creative identity, activity and basic traits of the latter). The importance of creativity of a pedagogue who produces creative ideas realized in creative tasks as well as of a linguistic scholar who “creates” with language is stressed. Linguocreative activity is often connected with the intentional violation of language and speech norms; it is aimed at creative language games. A game is a creative method of a pedagogue (didactic games) and linguist (language games), a specific “model of reality” (Yu. M. Lotman). Creative approach in pedagogics and linguistics harmonizes the relations between the society and environment; it is an important component of the creative ecological process of cognition and teaching.

scholarly journals Claves de la prosodia japonesa y análisis didáctico - técnico de OJAD (Online Japanese Accent Dictionary)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Emilio José Delgado Algarra
Keyword(s):  
Learning Processes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
The Web

<p class="AbstractText">Most of the studies focus on the teaching of foreign languages indicate that little attention is paid to the prosodic features both didactic materials and teaching-learning processes (Martinsen, Avord and Tanner, 2014). In this context and throughout this article, an analysis of the didactical and technical dimensions of OJAD (Japanese Accent Online Dictionary) is performed, linked to a project of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics led by Minematsu (University of Tokyo). With the collection of data and information through an adaptation of the CEETP "Questionnaire for the Evaluation of Didactical, Technical and Pedagogical aspects of Educational Websites" by Cabello, Martinez-Segura and García Sánchez (2013) and supported by studies and researches of the responsible teams, it is performed an analysis of the web that allows us to highlight its positive and to be reviewed aspects from an educational point of view. OJAD is an accessible and systematic tool linked to the didactic of Japanese language, with a great potential regarding the searching criteria and adaptation to the user tool.</p>

scholarly journals Russian Literature in the Works of Three Generations of Hungarian Scholars. Review of: Kroó, K., & Bóna, E. (Eds.). (2018). Golosa russkoi filologii iz Budapeshta: literaturovedenie i iazykoznanie na kafedre russkogo iazyka i literatury Universiteta im. Loranda Etvesha [Voices of Russian Philology from Budapest: Literary Studies and Linguistics at the Department of Russian Literature and Language of Eötvös Lorбnd University]. Budapest: ELTE. 274 p. Izvestiya Uralskogo federalnogo universiteta. Seriya 2: Gumanitarnye nauki, 23(1), 307–315.

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-315
Author(s):  
Dmitry V. Spiridonov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
High Profile ◽  
History Of ◽  
Large Period ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Literature And Language

This paper looks at the collection of articles entitled Voices of Russian Philology from Budapest, published in 2018 under the editorship of Prof. Katalin Kroу. The collection gives a recapitulation of several generations of Russian studies produced by scholars affiliated with Eцtvцs Loránd University. The book contains works on both Russian literature and language; however, the review focuses solely on the papers dealing with various aspects of the history of Russian literature covering a large period from Pushkin to Ulitskaya. The reviewer points out a significant thematic diversity of the reviewed papers: some authors elaborate on rather conventional topics (such as Vladimir Solovyov’s historical philosophy, autobiographic elements in Herzen’s prose, poetics of detail in Chekhov’s works, etc.), while others develop relatively new issues. Some articles are of interest from the methodological point of view. The quality of articles collected in this volume proves that despite the fact that the Russian language no longer retains its status in contemporary Hungary, Russian studies still keep a high profile.

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