Ezekiel as a Written Text: Archiving Visions, Remembering Futures

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian D. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Written Text ◽  
The Past

This chapter focuses on Ezekiel as a text, i.e., a collection of writings meant to be read again and again. As a text, it presents a range of ideas in dialogue with one another—and sometimes in tension—thus providing ample space for continual discussion and reinterpretation of its ideas among its original communities of readers in antiquity. Ezekiel would have functioned as a kind of archive of speech and vision—an idea that challenges commonly held notions of prophetic literature’s function and understandings of its generic intersections with other Judean texts in antiquity. As a written text, Ezekiel would have stood as an organized resource for thinking about the past, and about divine communication in and through that past, in an open-ended way that left room for future possibilities.

scholarly journals Hidden Narratives: Augmented Reality to enhance cultural and historical values in the design of Lake Fuxian

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanran Li
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Specific Site ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
Written Text ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lake Fuxian

<p><b>The impacts of globalisation has lead towards the loss of culture, such as overpopulation, forestation and global intergration. The lost culture has mostly been preserved through written text and oral narratives as a way of illustrating a long-gone reality. Similarly, narratives have the power to connect people with imagination and allow them to experience the uniqueness of a specific site in their own terms. However, oral narrative and written text lacked the interaction between communities, or human to Landscape. New technologies have the potential to reconnect these oral narratives or written text with both the wider public and the site. </b></p><p>This research will explore the historical change of Lake Fuxian, from 500 million years ago to present day, through the illustration and experience of Landscape narratives. This research aims to utilize Augmented Reality as a way to physically connect to the past, while still retaining the existing landscape. Augmented Reality has the ability to combine many types of narratives, such as oral, written and drawn, resulting in an educated relationship to Lake Fuxian. Additionally, modernizing these narratives for a larger demographic such as visitors and locals to engage with the landscape, promoting respect for cultural diversity and adaption. </p>

The ICS-Model for the Automatic Disambiguation of Homography demonstrated for the Determiner “der” in German

1981 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 65-83
Author(s):  
M. Boot
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Text Input ◽  
The Past ◽  
Question Answering Systems ◽  
Word Forms ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Automatic Treatment

In this paper a system will be described that enables the design of a series of computer programs ("modules") for the automatic treatment of homography.By homography we mean the ambiguity between the graphic representation of word forms belonging to different syntactic classes.By automatic treatment of homography we mean assigning the correct syntactic class to homographs with the help of an algorithm.Homography is a problem connected with written text only.In our opinion it is not a linguistic problem,but a problem of information processing using linguistic and extralinguistic signs. As linguistic signs the syntactic rules of the so-called surface structure are used.They are used from two different points of view:the string properties are used to shape the algorithm; the constituent structure is used to find out which branch is to be taken in the algorithm.Thus the design of the system is more or less comparable with Winograd's model for semantic information processing or Salkoff's String Grammar (Salkoff,1973). However,we are not developing a model for parsing structures.The paper is devoted to homography because the systems developed in the past neglected this kind oflinguistic information processing. On the other hand the output of homography solving programs forms useful input for a variety of sciences studying aspects of languages use.Not only purely linguistic studies could use text input free from homography,but also literary,sociological and even legal text studies or question answering systems using data bases (Berry-Rogghe,1978; Kragelöh; Lockemann) needsuchinput.A more detailed description will be given of a concrete problem:the definition of the information that should be computed to disambiguate the homography of the German determiner.We developed a linear bounded automaton,because this proved to be the most efficient way to solve,the problem of homography.

Story in Structure

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-167
Author(s):  
Daphne Leong
Keyword(s):  
Live Performance ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Romantic Irony ◽  
The Past ◽  
Piano Quartet ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Contraction And Expansion ◽  
Temporal Direction

This chapter presents intertwined readings of Schnittke’s Piano Quartet from four points of view: compositional, performative, esthesic, and analytical. Drawing on Schnittke’s description of the Quartet—“at first the attempt to remember” a fragment by Mahler “and then remembrance itself”—it analyzes the work as a rotational form: four passes through the fragment’s material, followed by a statement of the fragment itself. It discusses interpretive and practical considerations in depicting the journey to Mahler’s fragment. It shows that “memory” expresses Romantic irony through its evocation of a fragment from the past, denial of a clear temporal line, and search for an impossible perfection. And it dissects three techniques—rhythmic “formants,” contraction and expansion, and self-similiarity—employed by Schnittke to subvert temporal direction. Audience and performer viewpoints taken from a concert and interactive presentation supplement the authors’ interpretation. The authors’ live performance on audio (Ingolfsson, Eckert, Glyde, and Leong) complements the written text.

scholarly journals Evolution of the most common English words and phrases over the centuries

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (77) ◽  
pp. 3323-3328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matjaž Perc
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Preferential Attachment ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Written Text ◽  
The Past ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
Language Statistics

By determining the most common English words and phrases since the beginning of the sixteenth century, we obtain a unique large-scale view of the evolution of written text. We find that the most common words and phrases in any given year had a much shorter popularity lifespan in the sixteenth century than they had in the twentieth century. By measuring how their usage propagated across the years, we show that for the past two centuries, the process has been governed by linear preferential attachment. Along with the steady growth of the English lexicon, this provides an empirical explanation for the ubiquity of Zipf's law in language statistics and confirms that writing, although undoubtedly an expression of art and skill, is not immune to the same influences of self-organization that are known to regulate processes as diverse as the making of new friends and World Wide Web growth.

scholarly journals Dubbel meervoud -(e)n / -s

1970 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 89-116
Author(s):  
Siegfried Theissen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
The South ◽  
Written Text ◽  
The Past

The Grote Van Dale and the Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst includehundreds of nouns whose plural can be formed with -(e)n or/and -s without anydifference in meaning. Thanks to the two large electronic corpuses (for Flanders,the weekly magazine Knack, 1991-2000, and for the Netherlands, the dailynewspaper NRC-Handelsblad, 1993-1994) which include over 60 millionswords, the autor has determined which plural was more frequent for some 150common nouns. The study brings out differences between north and southalchough it appears that the magazine Knack has increasingly been usingstandards from the Netherlands over the past few years. A comparison withthe historical Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal shows an evolution towardsplural forms in -s, a trend which is more marked in the south than in thenorth. We can also notice that while GVD and ANS still mention the twoplurals for a number of nouns, in most cases, at least in a written text, as a matterof fact they have only kept one of the two forms, either with -s or with -n.

What if a girl in the Holocaust had Instagram? Éva’s Story as a case of indirect translation

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayelet Kohn ◽  
Rachel Weissbrod
Keyword(s):  
General Framework ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Written Text ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Second World

This article deals with the adaptation of a written text – the diary of 13-year-old Éva Heyman who died in the Holocaust – into a series of Instagram stories, joined to create a 50-minute film. We employ translation studies and the concept of ‘indirect translation’ to investigate this unique case in which a genre characterized by its ephemerality is used to commemorate and perpetuate the past. The project, which caused a furore because Instagram was considered inappropriate for dealing with such a grave subject, was motivated by the desire to transmit the diary to contemporary audiences and retain its relevance for them. We have found that the diary served as a general framework, but its contents and the character of Éva that emerges from it were overshadowed by two factors: turning Éva into a contemporary youngster, so as to attract today’s youth; and relying on Hollywood traditions of filming the Second World War and the Holocaust.

scholarly journals Efficient ways to develop reading comprehension skills

Educatia 21 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Olga Chiș ◽  
Claudia Grec
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Written Text ◽  
The Past ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Complex Skills ◽  
To Come ◽  
Reading Comprehension Skills

In the past few years, there is an increasing emphasis on a pedagogy for skills. One of the most complex skills, which is formed from the first years of schooling, is the reading-writing skill. Students begin first grade with high ex-pectations towards reading, with the desire to discover the mysteries of the letters. Reading requires - in addition to the ability to decode a written text and the comprehension of the reading - identifying the meaning of the word and the message to be transmitted. Failure in this sense has repercussions on the formation of the personality of the child. Teachers in the classroom are mainly concerned with the prevention of any difficulties that may arise in the formation of the ability to read and write, trying to come up with ways to intervene in the context of the education-al process. This paper aims to find ways of training and developing reading comprehension methods that can be applied in the teaching and learning activities. This is particularly important for understanding and responding to the needs of each student in the class.

scholarly journals Al-WĀQI ‘AL-IJTIMĀ’IYYAH IN THE REVIEW OF THE QUR’AN (ISLAMIC LAW)

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Abidin Abidin
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Written Text ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
Approach Method ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Descriptive Approach

This paper will discuss about al-Wāqi’ al-Ijtimā’iyyah review of Islamic law. The main problem is how al-Wāqi’ al-Ijtimā’iyyah views Islamic law. The subject matter is formulated into the sub-issue of how the nature of al-Wāqi’ al-Ijtimā’iyyah is. The approach method used in analyzing this sub-issue is the qualitative and descriptive approach of Islamic law and term. The goal to be achieved in this paper is to know the nature of al-Wāqi’ al-Ijtimā’iyyah. From the data obtained can be concluded that the nature of al-Wāqi’ al-Ijtimā’iyyah is a social fact that contains real events that actually exist or occur as a result of human interaction with other human beings, good or bad, empirical or idea, written (text) or habits (contextual), both that happened in the past and now associated with Islamic law in the sense of jurisprudence is not a worship whose nasal passages ẓannī al-dalālah and qaṭ’ī al-dalālah.

scholarly journals Kratak uvod u istoriju antropologije fotografije

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Brujić
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Photo Study ◽  
Text Images

The paper represents a short historical overview of key anthropological figures in Anglo-American and French anthropology of photography such are Boas, Malinowski, Evans-Pritchard, Mead and Bateson, Levi-Strauss and (John) Collier till the current visual anthropologists as Banks, Pink, Ruby, Pinney, and Edwards, among many. Furthermore, the major theoretical ideas such are: objectivity and subjectivity of photography, its material, and intangible aspects, its representative potential, ethical issues and reflexive approach are discussed. At the end, several anthropological projects which include photography are mentioned in order to suggest possible research pathways. I will mention few. Pink asserts the importance of ethnographic hypermedia which includes written text, images, video, photographs and sound in order to create interactive scholarly publications. During his ethnographic research of cultural aspect of wine producing in Burgundy, Coover’s work resulted in electronic ethnography and internet photo study of harvest in order to establish a better connection between the viewer-reader and his work. At the beginning unintentionally, Loescher collaborated with children during her visual research of contemporary urban childhood in Manchester by giving them her still camera. As a result, she was able to better understand their worldviews and their lifestyle. Another collaborative work was between Pink and documentary photographer, da Silva, who made a visual documentary project among two fishing communities in England and Portugal. Finally, the paper mentions Edwards’ research on archival research of museum photography which stresses the role of photography in creating and manipulating with the past. 

Passief Formuleren

1994 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 33-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Cornells
Keyword(s):  
Past Participle ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Problematic Use ◽  
The Past ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
The Right ◽  
Original Approach

Good writers intuitively make the right choices in writing. The book Formuleren ('Formulating'; Onrust et al. 1993) promises to analyse and teach the system on which these choices are based. This paper takes a look at Formuleren's analysis of and advice on the use of the passive, which is, if anything, a highly original approach to a much discussed construction. Formuleren's analysis of the passive is based on the contribution of the auxiliaries worden ('to become') and zijn ('to be') and the past participle, which are said to make the construction more static than its active counterpart, with zijn-passives being more static than worden-passives. In addition, the actor or agent is backgrounded: the event is not presented from the perspective of the agent. The problem with many (zvorden-)passives is that although writers background the perspective of the agent, it is still implicitly there. In order to avoid the often problematic use of the passive, Formuleren suggests that one should look for other verbs that can express roughly the same content but that leave the agent completely out of sight, thus keeping the sentence static, while not presenting it from the agent's perspective. This advice is rahter ambitious. In an experiment, Formuleren's advice to rewrite sentences was tested to find out whether it might perhaps be too difficult for the intended readership of the book (students of Dutch composition and others with a professional interest in written Dutch). This turned out not to be the case; the subjects in the experiment were able to apply it quite well. In fact, they may have applied it too well: some of the subjects remarked that changing all sentences from passive to a Formuleren-altemaúve is no guarantee for a well-written text either. Indeed, some passives are useful and should not be rewritten; however, Formuleren still leaves it to a writer's intuition to determine when to rewrite and when not. In the last paragraph, I suggest a few uses and contexts where the passive functions perfectly well.

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