Language is a ‘Beautiful Creature’, not an ‘Old Fridge’

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ksenija Bogetić
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Specific Role ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
And Control

Abstract Direct metaphor has been widely studied from the cognitive perspective, but its functions in the communicative dimension (Steen, 2011) remain less well understood. This study investigates direct metaphor as a tool of metaphorical framing (Ottati et al., 2014; Ritchie & Cameron, 2014) in discourse, by examining a corpus of British newspaper texts on the topic of language and language change. The analysis of direct metaphors is sufficient to point to major ideologies of language and communication in the observed media context, which echo broader anxieties over social change, social organization and control. Most notably, unlike the meanings stressed in existing studies, the vast majority of direct metaphors are here found to serve the specific role of relational argumentation. This function is achieved through a kind of ‘corrective framing’, which explicitly juxtaposes two conflicting representations through an ‘A is B and not C’ type of metaphor. The findings are discussed with respect to deliberateness, metaphorical framing and rhetorical goals in discourse. It is hypothesized that corrective framing is among the major functions of direct metaphor in public discourse, which can influence public opinion in ways different from other metaphorically created representations.

Is Law Unbounded? Property Rights and Control of Social Groupings

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (02) ◽  
pp. 517-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amnon Lehavi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Suggested Model ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
And Control ◽  
Practical Feasibility

This review essay follows up on a suggested model for resolving problems of neighborhood externalities and exclusionary associational patterns in metropolitan areas. The model is based on a property rights regime of “alienable entitlements,” as articulated by Lee Anne Fennell in The Unbounded Home (2009). The essay frames this model as promoting a groundbreaking approach to the fundamental quandary over the role of law as a tool for broad‐based social change and asks if legal rules can fully absorb the multiple types of societal effects that influence the nature of contemporary homeownership. It assesses the normative desirability and practical feasibility of controlling social exclusion through property rights.

scholarly journals Public Opinion on Artificial Intelligence Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V. Merenkov ◽  
R. Campa ◽  
N.P. Dronishinets
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
Master's Programs ◽  
Intelligence Development ◽  
And Control

In connection with the active role of Russia and other countries in the design and implementation of devices with artificial intelligence (AI), there is a need to study the opinion of different social groups on this technology and the problems that arise when using it. The purpose of this work is to analyze public opinion on AI, in Russia and various foreign countries, and the possible consequences of its implementation in different areas of human activity. The research has revealed students’ opinions about AI devices and the problems related to their development in Russia. The research methods adopted are a content analysis of foreign publications devoted to the study of public opinion on AI and a questionnaire survey. Overall, 190 students of the Ural Federal University enrolled in Bachelor’s and Master’s programs were interviewed. The analysis of publications devoted to the study of public opinion in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe, as well as the results of our survey, has led to the conclusion that the majority of people have only a vague idea of what AI devices are. Our study has revealed that 23.6% of the respondents know nothing about AI. 36% of the respondents believe that in the near future the most demanded specialists in the labor market will be those who create robots and control their work. The survey has also shown the important role of mass media and general and special education institutions in informing the population about the opportunities and problems that arise when devices that exceed human mental capabilities are created and enter the social fabric. Keywords: public opinion, artificial intelligence, subjects of public opinion, representations of social groups about artificial intelligence

Prediction and Control: The Specific Role of Business Angels in the Investment Process

2022 ◽  
Vol Prépublication (0) ◽  
pp. I-XXXIII
Author(s):  
Kirsten Burkhardt-Bourgeois ◽  
Laurence Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Specific Role ◽  
Business Angels ◽  
Prediction And Control ◽  
Investment Process ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals Libeskind and the Holocaust Metanarrative; from Discourse to Architecture

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-303
Author(s):  
Xanthi Tsiftsi
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
Full Responsibility ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Local Narratives ◽  
Daniel Libeskind

Abstract The Holocaust today resides between memory and postmemory. Initially, children of survivors and their contemporaries inherited a mediated past and bore full responsibility for disseminating their ancestors’ experiences. However, with the prevalence of the Holocaust metanarrative and its absolutist historicism, it was realised that when memory needs to cross generational boundaries, it needs to cross medial as well. The discourse was not enough; there was a need for broadening the narrative beyond the verbal using a powerful medium with the capacity to affect cognition and provoke emotions. This would be architecture, a storyteller by nature. In the 2000s, there was a noticeable boom in innovative Holocaust museums and memorials. Deconstructivist designs and symbolic forms constituted a new language that would meet the demands of local narratives, influence public opinion, and contribute to social change. This paper examines the potential of this transmediation and addresses critical issues-the importance of the experience, the role of empathy and intersubjectivity, the association of emotions with personal and symbolic experiences-and ethical challenges of the transmedia “migration” of a story. To accomplish this, it draws upon Daniel Libeskind, a Polish-born architect who has narrated different aspects of the Holocaust experience through his works.

scholarly journals Miasto jako dobro wspólne czy suma prywatnych własności? O polskiej kwestii miejskiej w kontekście działalności ruchów miejskich

2020 ◽  
pp. 477-492
Author(s):  
Paweł Kubicki
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The article discusses two ideas of the city in the Polish public discourse: the city as a commons and its antithesis – the city as the sum of private property. In the first part of the article, the author analyses the processes in which both ideas were developed. In the second part of the article the author analyses the role of Polish urban social movements, which are one of the few social actors that discussed the idea of the city as a commons when Polish public discourse was dominated by neoliberal dogmas in which the city was reduced to the sum of private property. In conclusion, according to Victor Turner’s concept of social change, the author analyses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the reception of both ideas in Polish public discourse.

Scripting Sounds and Sounding Scripts

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-136
Author(s):  
Becky L. Schulthies
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
The Face ◽  
Acoustic Environments ◽  
Visual Graphic ◽  
Writing Movements

Building from the rhymed prose register, chapter four analyzes the ways laments about Arabic writing have shaped practices of phatic connection in Fez. I look at the ways Fassis engaged darīja writing as a blending of multisensory channels tied to specific media platforms: folklore books, WhatsApp, advertising billboards, and newsprint. Instead of foregrounding the aural/spoken soundscape or the visual/graphic linguascape, I examine the intertwining of these sensorial channels in the sounding of darīja script and scripting of darīja sounds by reading subjects, everyday Moroccans who authorized themselves to weigh in on the politics of writing. Scholars have written about Arabic soundscapes, the acoustic environments, listening practices, and ritual sounding in which Arabic shapes public discourse and Muslim subjects. Others have focused on the emergence of Arabic dialect writing movements as expressions of political movements, local advertising campaigns, and youth-driven social change movements. Both the soundscape and darīja writing literatures hint at the multisensory channel practices and ideologies mobilized to make Moroccan persons, and they include laments about modality failures that motivated writing changes in the last decade. In the face of debates about the role of language in Moroccan national identity, Fassi everyday scriptic heterogeneity pointed to a practice of ambivalence toward written darīja in specific media platforms (billboards, websites, and mobile apps), but not others (books and newsprint). The platforms of writing mattered to the phatic work of making Moroccans in Fez.

scholarly journals Local Issue, National Media, and Global Implication: Media Construction of Reality about Qanun of Aceh Polemic

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Yuhdi Fahrimal ◽  
M. Isnaini ◽  
Apriliyanti Pratiwi ◽  
Hamida Syari Harahap ◽  
Wien Kuntarie
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Media Construction ◽  
National Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Control

Polemic endorsement Qanun Number 3 of 2013 on Flag and the Symbol of Aceh has reached the stage of open conflict between Indonesia Government and Aceh Government. This conflict is constructed by the media using various framing devices. The consequence of media framing is the escalation of public opinion towards one-way interpretation of the media. In building a peaceful climate, the media has a very important role. The role of the media is not merely a transmitter of information and control of social reality, but the media plays a role in improving and providing citizens with a better understanding of the importance of sustainable peace for successful development.

Morphogenesis of a New Human Herpes-Type Virus Isolate (Sasha Virus)

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 592-593
Author(s):  
R. F. Zeigel ◽  
W. Munyon
Keyword(s):  
Virus Isolate ◽  
Calf Serum ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
Human Herpes ◽  
Human Embryonic Lung ◽  
Human Herpes Virus ◽  
Intracytoplasmic Inclusions ◽  
Hel Cells ◽  
And Control

In continuing studies on the role of viruses in biochemical transformation, Dr. Munyon has succeeded in isolating a highly infectious human herpes virus. Fluids of buccal pustular lesions from Sasha Munyon (10 mo. old) uiere introduced into monolayer sheets of human embryonic lung (HEL) cell cultures propagated in Eagles’ medium containing 5% calf serum. After 18 hours the cells exhibited a dramatic C.P.E. (intranuclear vacuoles, peripheral patching of chromatin, intracytoplasmic inclusions). Control HEL cells failed to reflect similar changes. Infected and control HEL cells were scraped from plastic flasks at 18 hrs. of incubation and centrifuged at 1200 × g for 15 min. Resultant cell packs uiere fixed in Dalton's chrome osmium, and post-fixed in aqueous uranyl acetate. Figure 1 illustrates typical hexagonal herpes-type nucleocapsids within the intranuclear virogenic regions. The nucleocapsids are approximately 100 nm in diameter. Nuclear membrane “translocation” (budding) uias observed.

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