Metaphors, powerlessness and online aggression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Ho
Keyword(s):  
Short Notice ◽  
Online Aggression

Abstract A lockdown was imposed in Wuhan, China, the alleged epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak, on 23 January 2020. Rattled by the short notice and severity of the restrictions, many grabbed the last opportunity to escape, an act widely criticised on Weibo, China’s popular microblogging site. This study aims to examine the unsavoury discourse deployed by Weibo users to express impoliteness and discursively construct negative identities of the lockdown escapees. Posts on Weibo criticising, reporting and threatening the escapees were analysed, revealing that the escapees were dehumanised through vivid animal metaphors to highlight their irresponsibility and call for their punishment. Animal metaphors can co-occur with various impoliteness triggers to intensify offensiveness, heightening the hostility of interlocutors towards a target. This use of metaphors also showcases online users’ anger, distrust, and hatred towards the escapees, their solidarity-seeking behaviour online and their irrationality.

scholarly journals A note on the relations between elastic and inelastic interactions and increasing ratio σel(s)/σtot(s) at the LHC

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (32) ◽  
pp. 1950259 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Troshin ◽  
N. E. Tyurin
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Scattering ◽  
Energy Dependence ◽  
Impact Parameter ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Parameter Dependence ◽  
Slope Parameter ◽  
Short Notice ◽  
Inelastic Interactions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mode A

We comment briefly on relations between the elastic and inelastic cross-sections valid for the shadow and reflective modes of the elastic scattering. Those are based on the unitarity arguments. It is shown that the redistribution of the probabilities of the elastic and inelastic interactions (the form of the inelastic overlap function becomes peripheral) under the reflective scattering mode can lead to increasing ratio of [Formula: see text] at the LHC energies. In the shadow scattering mode, the mechanism of this increase is a different one, since the impact parameter dependence of the inelastic interactions probability is central in this mode. A short notice is also given on the slope parameter and the leading contributions to its energy dependence in both modes.

scholarly journals Review: Short notice

1975 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-121
Keyword(s):  
Short Notice

SHORT NOTICE

1944 ◽  
Vol os-XX (77) ◽  
pp. 93-93
Author(s):  
G. V. S
Keyword(s):  
Short Notice

SHORT NOTICE

1972 ◽  
Vol XXIII (89) ◽  
pp. 111-111
Author(s):  
MARGARET CRUM
Keyword(s):  
Short Notice

KEY ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED IN ROCKET AND SPACE SYSTEM VOSTOK TO ASSURE CREW SAFETY DURING ASCENT (towards 60th anniversary of the first man in space)

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Gennady V. LEBEDEV ◽  
Olga V. EVSEENKO
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Launch Vehicles ◽  
Space System ◽  
60Th Anniversary ◽  
Flight Tests ◽  
Short Notice ◽  
Descent Vehicle ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ascent Phase

The paper analyzes engineering and operational solutions implemented in rocket and space system Vostok to assure crew safety during ascent in view of the need to complete the work on an extremely short notice. It reviews the results of flight tests of launch vehicles belonging to the R7 family and the status of during prelaunch processing and ascent phase. The paper draws comparisons between work to develop a crew escape system by the time when the first manned mission of Vostok spacecraft took place. It provides an analysis of emergencies and measures to assure safety our country’s project Vostok and US project Mercury. Key words: rocket and space system, spacecraft, descent vehicle, crew safety.

2. Observations and Experiments on the Fluid in the Cavities of Calcareous Spar

1875 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 126-130
Author(s):  
James Hunter ◽  
Edward Sang
Keyword(s):  
Recent Meeting ◽  
Short Notice

At a recent meeting I laid before the Society a short notice of a phenomenon exhibited by the fluid contained in the cavities of calcareous spar. This phenomenon had been observed only a few days before, and the notice was given for the purpose of directing to it the attention of other observers, and particularly of those who happen to possess other minerals with analogous cavities, and I now propose to give an account of some more recent experiments and observations in regard to it.

The Development of High-Speed Aircraft

1924 ◽  
Vol 28 (159) ◽  
pp. 158-188
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Limited Time ◽  
Short Notice ◽  
The Many ◽  
Do So

I must apologise for the many shortcomings of this paper and plead in excuse that it has been very hurriedly prepared. When I was asked at short notice to write a paper in place of Squadron-Leader Maycock’s, I somewhat rashly undertook to do so, but it has proved a formidable task in the very limited time available.

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