Swimming Against the Tide

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari C. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
The State ◽  
Trained Group ◽  
State Support ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Prestige

A variety of Romance has been spoken on Jersey for some two thousand years. However Jèrriais, the Norman dialect spoken on the Island today, is now obsolescent. Its decline in fortune has recently prompted a number of corpus and status planning initiatives which, largely devoid of State support, lie in the hands of a small, non-linguistically trained, group of enthusiasts. This paper examines the different agencies of language planning on Jersey and the progress they have made hitherto, comparing the corpus and status planning undertaken in this context with that which occurs in countries where more support is forthcoming from the State, and situating the position of Jèrriais within the contemporary language planning literature. It also suggests some possible avenues for the future and discusses the factors which are likely to determine the success or otherwise of the outcome. The paper highlights the fact that, by themselves, high-prestige domains such as the school do not necessarily hold the key to successful language maintenance.

Ideologies, Beliefs, and Revitalization of Guernesiais (Guernsey)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Marquis ◽  
Julia Sallabank
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Indigenous Language ◽  
Channel Islands ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Language Planning And Policy ◽  
Endangered Language ◽  
The Future

This chapter examines language ideologies in a small community (Guernsey, Channel Islands) which reflect wider issues concerning the aims and effectiveness of language-related activities. Ideologies are largely unstated yet they profoundly influence language planning and policy at both personal and public levels. Although there has been a shift over the last 30 or so years towards broadly positive overt attitudes in favour of maintenance of Guernsey’s indigenous language, it seems that ingrained covert negative attitudes linger in some sections of the community. From these observations the authors identify two main divergent trends in beliefs and ideologies concerning who has authority to speak on behalf of ‘the community’, and to make decisions regarding the future of an endangered language. The authors relate their observations to the concept of prior ideological clarification, and compare rhetoric on language maintenance and revitalization with actions and outcomes.

scholarly journals Improving government support for small agribusiness due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 195 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-90
Author(s):  
A. Alekseev ◽  
Ol'ga Ruschickaya ◽  
V. Lavrov ◽  
N. Yurchenko
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
State Support ◽  
The Future

Abstract. Purpose of the study is improving the mechanism of state regulation of agricultural producers, due to the need to overcome the pandemic and prevent the recurrence of similar scenarios in the future. The object of research is an agricultural producer, belonging to the category of small business. The subject of the study is the relationship between the object of study and the state represented by government bodies and institutions involved in the provision of state support that may arise in the process of overcoming the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research Methods. A theoretical analysis was used to identify threats from the coronavirus pandemic to agriculture and the agro-industrial complex as a whole. Comparison as a method of cognition was used when comparing the requirements of small businesses for state support and measures actually taken by the government. A systematic approach and modeling were used to summarize the experience of the functioning of the economy in a pandemic and to create patterns of behavior of small agribusiness entities. The method of scientific abstraction made it possible to present the most probable state of small business in the agro-industrial complex, depending on the provision or refusal of state regulatory influence on the economy in order to eliminate the damage caused by the pandemic. The rule of combining historical and logical in their unity allowed us to look at the coronavirus pandemic not as a unique phenomenon in the history of modern economics, but as a negative phenomenon that will potentially be reproduced in the future and the logic of counteraction which requires active intervention at the state level, and in the future - generalization, analysis and improvement of the experience gained. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is composed of statistical data on the state of the world economy, consumption, unemployment, publications of news agencies and government officials on measures taken to deal with the consequences of the pandemic, existing programs for the development of the digital economy, as well as publications of leading scientists in the agricultural sector on digital problems economics. Results. Within the scope of this study, there were characterized the most negative consequences of the pandemic for the agro-industrial complex, there was carried out the analysis of announced and already taken measures to support entrepreneurship and were described behavior models of small agribusiness entities in the current situation. Scientific novelty. The authors have developed a new method for the rapid diagnosis of a small agribusiness subject, claiming to receive state support for regional and industry programs.

'They Give us the Categories and We Fill Ourselves in' Ethnic Thinking in Singapore

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 451-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
State Support ◽  
Religious Festivals ◽  
The Future

AbstractThis paper will demonstrate the prevalence of 'ethnic thinking' in everyday life and the role which culture plays in defining individuals and groups in Singapore. I will argue that the Singapore state has intentionally created a national identity which rests on the idea of the assumed purity of the different ethnic groups which exist within that nation. Singpore's multi-racial policies force the heterogeneous character of the population into four 'races' and there are no officially recognised inter-ethnic individuals within the state. The official promotion of 'ethnic' culture which claims that ethnic identity and culture are somehow identical results in a culture of stereotypes which shapes everyday life - where people live and how they interact as neighbours, for example. The stereotypes are reinforced by religious festivals. While state support of ethnic differentiation has helped to prevent ethnic violence, the politicisation of ethnic identity may ironically encourage conflict in the future when ethnic and economic divisions coincide.

scholarly journals State support and regulation of rural green tourism enterprises development

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Plevako
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
State Support ◽  
The Future ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Green Tourism ◽  
Grouping Problem ◽  
New Type ◽  
Tourism Enterprises

The subject of the research is theoretical, methodical and practical aspects of state support and regulation of rural green tourism enterprises development. The purpose of the work is to substantiate the directions, mechanisms and instruments of state support and regulation of the development of rural green tourism enterprises for the future. The methodological basis of the article was both general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge. Methods were used: historical, dialectical, system-structural analysis and synthesis, statistical-economic, SWOT-analysis, grouping, problem-targeted approach. Results of work. The article highlights the problems, factors and prospects of state support and regulation of rural green tourism enterprises development. The conditions, resources, mechanisms and instruments of state support and regulation are identified. Reasonable sources of their spread and growth. Forms of monitoring, reporting and accounting are proposed. Functions have been defined to improve state support, regulation and management of rural green tourism enterprises development in the future. The field of application of results. The materials, results and conclusions of the article can be used in the activities of rural territorial communities, local self-government bodies, enterprises and agro-villages, higher education institutions of relevant specialization and faculties of economics and management. Conclusions. Rural green tourism is a relatively new type of rural activity. It is useful for both holidaymakers and owners – rural residents, entrepreneurs, rural communities, regions and the state as a whole. Its businesses and agro-settlements contribute to the development of many related businesses in other industries; preservation of national spirituality, popularization of Ukrainian culture; dissemination of knowledge and information about the historical, natural, ethnographic features of the country. It deserves all the support from the state, public organizations, large agribusiness, rural territorial communities.

Postscript

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-200
Author(s):  
Asha Rogers
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Full Range ◽  
The State ◽  
State Support ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
The Future ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Main Ideas

This short concluding essay revisits the main ideas explored in this book, including the material and symbolic entanglements of state support and literature’s special capacity to represent the full range of voices and experiences now comprising modern Britain. Mindful of the intersecting political, social, and economic pressures shaping literary value and the vacillation between recognition and disavowal characteristic of the state’s engagements with literature, it turns to two recent reports of the state and fate of contemporary literary writing: Literature in the 21st Century (2017) and Writing the Future: Black and Asian Writers and Publishers in the UK Marketplace (2015).

On the diversity of the effects of the state support for agriculture

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai M. Svetlov ◽  
Renata G. Yanbykh ◽  
Dariya A. Loginova
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
State Support ◽  
Soft Budget Constraints ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Corporate Farms

In this paper, we assess the effects of agricultural state support of corporate farms on their revenues from agricultural production sales in 14 Russian regions that differ in technology, environment and institutional conditions. In addition to the direct effect of the state support, the indirect effects via labor and capital are revealed. For this purpose, we identify production functions and statistical models of production factors for each of these regions separately. We find out diverse effects of the state support on revenues among the regions. Positive effects prevail. Negative effects are mainly caused by labor reductions that follow subsidy inflows. Another cause of negative effects is the soft budget constraints phenomenon.

Obecny stan badań nad Zagładą na Ukrainie

2014 ◽  
pp. 889-915
Author(s):  
Anna Abakunkova
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Holocaust Studies ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future

The article examines the state of the Holocaust historiography in Ukraine for the period of 2010 – beginning of 2014. The review analyzes activities of major research and educational organizations in Ukraine which have significant part of projects devoted to the Holocaust; main publications and discussions on the Holocaust in Ukraine, including publications of Ukrainian authors in academic European and American journals. The article illustrates contemporary tendencies and conditions of the Holocaust Studies in Ukraine, defines major problems and shows perspectives of the future development of the Holocaust historiography in Ukraine.

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