Geographical retreat and symbolic advance?

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-260
Author(s):  
John Coakley
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Irish Language ◽  
East European ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Celtic Languages ◽  
New Speakers ◽  
The Republic ◽  
National Languages

Abstract Language policy in the Republic of Ireland has an unusual starting point: the geographical base of the Irish language is very weak and territorially dispersed, yet the constitutional status of the language is extremely strong. The article explores this paradox. It sets Irish language policy in two contexts: that of successful nationalist movements mainly in Central and Eastern Europe in the early twentieth century, and that of the struggling Celtic languages of Western Europe. It explores the evolution of the language and its weakening demographic status since the nineteenth century, noting that while its demographic weakness mirrors that of the other Celtic languages, its constitutional entrenchment resembles that of the national languages of Central and East European states. It attempts to explain this by suggesting that the language has played a marginal role in nationalist mobilisation; the language served as a symbol of a specific cultural heritage rather than as the vital lingua franca of the community. The central role of the language in nationalist ideology, however, failed to address the reality of continuing decline in the Irish-speaking districts, notwithstanding the emergence of a sizeable population of ‘new speakers’ of the language outside these districts.

scholarly journals Realities of bilingualism in the context of language policy in modern Bashkortostan

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Aigul Ilyasovna Khaliulina ◽  
Murat Nilovich Ishemgulov ◽  
Elina Failevna Idrisova
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
The Republic ◽  
National Languages ◽  
The Russian Language

The subject of this research is bilingualism in the context of language policy in modern Bashkortostan. Special attention is given to actualization of the ethno-lingual identity of non-Russian population in the republic. Leaning on the ethnosociological studies, the author examine the scale of proliferation of national-Russian bilingualism in Bashkortostan, analyze the key markers in selection of the native language among some ethnic groups, as well as determine the role of Russian language as a language of interethnic communication. The novelty of this work lies in the attempt to determine the intensity of usage of national languages of non-Russian peoples and their interaction with the Russian language based on the wide-scale ethnosociological studies. The acquired results demonstrate that among Bashkir population, the native language still prevails over Russian by the level of language competence; while among urban Tatars, the Russian language has noticeably exceeded the native language of communication. At the same time, the results of ethnosociological research, confirming the results of the All-Russia Population Census of 2010 on the language competence of the residents of Bashkortostan, testify to the fact that their speech activity is oriented mostly towards learning Russian than the language of their ethnicity.

The Conditions in Jewish Society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Middle Decades of the Eighteenth Century

1996 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Gershon David Hundert
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Generational Conflict ◽  
East European ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

This chapter investigates the conditions in Jewish society in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the middle decades of the eighteenth century. The place of hasidism in the religious history of the eighteenth century ought to be reconsidered not only in light of the questions about the schismatic groups in the Orthodox Church raised by Ysander, but also in light of the general revivalist currents in western Europe. The social historian cannot explain hasidism, which belongs to the context of the development of the east European religious mentality in the eighteenth century. Social history does, however, point to some significant questions that ought to be explored further. One of these is the role of youth and generational conflict in the beginnings of the movement, and not only in its beginnings. A realistic recovery of the situation of the Polish-Lithuanian Jewry in the eighteenth century shows that neither the economic nor the security conditions were such as to warrant their use as causal or explanatory factors in the rise and reception of hasidism.

scholarly journals The Role of Internal Audit as a Starting Point for the Discovery of Irregularities in the Financial Statements of Public Companies in Kosovo

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hysen Ismajli ◽  
Muhamet Aliu ◽  
Arben Sahiti ◽  
Lumbardha Lutolli
Keyword(s):  
Internal Audit ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Spss Software ◽  
The Republic

The main purpose of this paper is to verify whether the internal audit affects the detection of anomalies and fraud in the financial statements of public companies in Kosovo. To achieve this purpose, we have prepared a questionnaire and distributed to public enterprises in the Republic of Kosovo. The questionnaire includes open and closed questions in the form of Likert scale established to asess proposition and oposition of the participants. Responses were analyzed through SPSS software, and hypotheses were tested by analyzing the correlation. Based on results we can conclude that the role of internal audit can serve as a starting point in finding fraud and errors in financial reports.

The role of the national languages institute of Australia in the development and implementation of language policy in Australia

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 64-76
Author(s):  
Susan Fullagar ◽  
Anthony J. Liddicoat
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Policy Advice ◽  
Policy Languages ◽  
National Languages

The establishment of a languages institute has long been seen as an important step in the development of Australian language policy. After the adoption of the National Policy Languages, renewed impetus for a languages institute gave rise to the establishment of the National Languages Institute of Australia, a languages institute with a broad charter and wide-ranging functions. This paper reviews the development of the structure of the NLIA and examines the role the institute has in language policy development and implementation in three main areas: research, policy advice and service provision.

The East European countries and GATT: the role of realism, mercantilism, and regime theory in explaining East-West trade negotiations

1991 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Haus
Keyword(s):  
International Political Economy ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
East European ◽  
Economic Organizations ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
East West

The international political economy literature on regimes has focused on relations among the industrialized Western countries. Despite the increasing participation of East European countries in international economic organizations, the literature has neglected the subject of East–West economic relations. To redress this void in the literature, this article assesses the extent to which and the conditions under which realism, mercantilism, and regime theory help explain the Western positions toward negotiations between East European countries and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). It argues that a thorough explanation requires drawing on insights from all three modes of analysis: realism provides a useful starting point and sets the context, while mercantilism and regime theory enrich the explanation in circumstances in which political issues concerning security subside and trade policy issues surface.

scholarly journals Concepts “mother” and “father” in the prism of Buryat, 
Russian and Chinese phraseology

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Soelma Ts.-D. Dashieva ◽  
◽  
Inga D. Alekseeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Moral Experience ◽  
Absolute Power ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Kinship Terminology

The article examines the concepts “Mother” and “Father” in Buryat, Russian and Chinese phraseology, which constitute the basic and most culturally significant fragment of the linguistic picture of the world, which records the spiritual and moral experience of a person and the nation as a whole. The gender approach to the kinship terminology study significantly enriches and expands the phraseological unit boundaries containing the lexemes mother and father, which are the starting point and core of family-kinship relations. The study of the family institution seems to be especially relevant for the Buryat, Russian and Chinese linguistic cultures increasingly interacting on the territory of the Republic of Buryatia. The results of investigating the corresponding phraseological units enable to indicate the following features common for the three languages: 1) setting authoritarian family model headed by father; 2) key role of concept “Mother” having unbreakable physiological ties with child, giving love, warmth and forgiveness. Unique features include equal representation of father and mother in Buryat, dominating role of mother in Russian, absolute power of father particularly over son and strictness of mother in Chinese. Identification and understanding the universal and unique mentality features of closely contacting ethnic groups will help implement effective and competent intercultural communication.

scholarly journals LANGUAGE POLICY IN EUROPE - BABYLON OF THE XXI CENTURY

2014 ◽  
pp. 224-231
Author(s):  
K. Kh. Rekosh
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
National Languages

In recent decades, much has been written about the dialogue of cultures and differences between them manifested by languages, which are the objects of interdisciplinary research. However, the active role of multiplicity of languages and their interaction in particular with the relevant areas of knowledge do not always attract the proper attention. Along with many languages, Europe seeks to move away from monolingualism in favor of multilingualism, recognizing that it is promising, so political actors support it. The principles of multilingualism have been adopted in the international (European) and national levels and formalized in terms of plurilingualism and multilingualism. The plurilingualism is the use of multiple languages by one and the same person. It is an integral part of cultural diversity and respect, a necessary condition for human development as a professional and as a person. The multilingualism is denoted by a policy of equality of languages in the community. The European Union is a multilinguistic organization. Language policy of the European Union has been defined since the establishment of the communities, it was different from the language policies of other international organizations and was based on the principle of cultural and linguistic diversity (although the term multilingualism was not used) with the aim of ensuring access to information and justice for all EU citizens in all official EU languages. Held in Europe language policy led to the institutionalization of the concept of multilingualism, particularly by the European union, which could serve to the development of linguistic law. The EU language policy is linked with the objectives of the integration law which makes it different from the plurilingualism. It acts as an instrument for intercultural dialogue and social cohesion, as a guarantee of prosperity and employment opportunities. At the same time it generates a lot of linguo-legal problems concerning different statuses of languages; EU official languages, working, state, regional, national languages, as well as minorities and migrants languages.

scholarly journals The role of computer forensics in the fight against terrorism

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Miroslav Stevanović ◽  
Dragan Đurđević
Keyword(s):  
Digital Forensics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Age Related ◽  
National Security Strategy ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Networked Computing ◽  
The Republic

In this paper, the authors examine the adequacy of the counter-terrorism concept, which does not envisage institutional responsibility for collecting, processing, and fixing traces of cyber-related terrorist activities. The starting point is the fact that today numerous human activities and communication take place in the cyberspace. Firstly, the focus is on the aspects of terrorism that present a generator of challenges to social stability and, in this context, the elements of the approach adopted by the current National Security Strategy of the Republic of Serbia. In this analysis, adequacy is evaluated from the point of view of functionality. In this sense, it is an attempt to present elements that influence the effectiveness of counter-terrorism in the information age. Related to this is the specification of the role that digital forensics can play in this area. The conclusion is that an effective counter-terrorism strategy must necessarily encompass the institutional incorporation of digital forensics since it alone can contribute to the timely detection or assertion of responsibility for terrorism in a networked computing environment.

scholarly journals De rol van de Schelde in het Romeins transportsysteem (50 v.Chr. – 410 n. Chr.)

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 3-32
Author(s):  
Toon Bongers
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Transport Network ◽  
Single System ◽  
Inland Waterways ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
North Western ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Integrated Transport Network

Archaeological sources make it impossible to deny that rivers served as pathways in the past. Conversely, the role of inland waterways in the Roman transport economy of northern Gaul has received little scholarly attention. This paper introduces a historical archaeological study of the transport network of the Roman-era Scheldt basin (presentday north-western Europe), with an emphasis on the role of waterways. As a starting point, this study works from the hypothesis of an integrated transport network, in which rivers, roads, and seaways link up to form a single system.

scholarly journals Russian Language in Russian Identity: Theoretical Approaches and Current Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-123
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Arutyunova
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
National Language ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Moment ◽  
National Languages ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Russian Identity

The article is devoted to some aspects of the role of the Russian language in the Russian identity. It analyzes the main concepts of civil nationalism in the Western scientific literature, identifies their elements associated with giving the national language one of the key roles in the formation of civil nations as a special type of solidarity (the concepts of E. Gellner, B. Anderson, E. Hobsbawm, M. Billig, etc.). It is shown that national languages, formed under the influence of certain economic and political circumstances, continue to be reproduced as linguistic constructs in the modern conditions of fragmentation of space, trends in the recognition of the rights of linguistic and other minorities, and transformations of the ideas of nationalism. Based on the materials of representative sociological studies in different countries, it is shown that language is the “cornerstone” of national (civil) identity in people’s perceptions – national or nationally dominant languages in different countries are perceived as necessary to be considered part of a civil nation. Russian surveys also show that the Russian language is one of the most important identifiers of Russian identity in the mass representations of our fellow citizens at the moment, which is much more noticeable in the Russian ethnic environment. Russian language potential in the Russian identity is negatively influenced by both long-standing factors (in particular, the opposition of Russian and native languages in language policy and education) and recent factors related to the emphasis on the role of the Russian language as the language of the state-forming people. The article concludes that the potential of the Russian language in the Russian identity is negatively influenced by the long-standing factors (in particular, the opposition of Russian and native languages in language policy and education).

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