“Alien” Sexuality: Race, Maternity, and Citizenship

Hypatia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Cisneros
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
National Discourses ◽  
The One ◽  
Anchor Baby

In this paper, I provide an analysis of the emergence of “problematic of alien sexuality.” I first locate discourses about “alien sexuality,” and the so‐called anchor baby in particular, within other national discourses surrounding maternity, the fetus, and citizenship. I analyze the ways that national political discourses surrounding “anchor babies” and “alien maternity” construct the “problematic of alien sexuality,” thus constituting the “alien” subject as always‐already perverse. I suggest that this production of a sexually deviant and threatening “alien” subject functions in the normative dichotomy that places the sexually pure citizen on the one hand, and the perverse anticitizen on the other, in what I call “backwards uncitizening.” My analysis of this process shows that the perverse “alien” subject, as constituted in significant part by nonjuridical normalizing mechanisms of biopower, resists the juridical discourse that is supposed to determine it.

Somatoform disorders: diseases of the civilization

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
I. Kukhtevich
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Somatoform Disorders ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Disorders ◽  
The Other ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Organic Basis ◽  
Autonomic Disorders ◽  
The One ◽  
Somatic Diseases

Functional autonomic disorders occupy a significant part in the practice of neurologists and professionals of other specialties as well. However, there is no generally accepted classification of such disorders. In this paper the authors tried to show that functional autonomic pathology corresponds to the concept of somatoform disorders combining syndromes manifested by visceral, borderline psychopathological, neurological symptoms that do not have an organic basis. The relevance of the problem of somatoform disorders is that on the one hand many health professionals are not familiar enough with manifestations of borderline neuropsychiatric disorders, often forming functional autonomic disorders, and on the other hand they overestimate somatoform symptoms that are similar to somatic diseases.

scholarly journals SEMANTIC MODEL “DILIGENT” IN THE BALTIC-FINNIC LANGUAGES

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-221
Author(s):  
Irma Ivanovna Mullonen ◽  
Tatjana Vladimirovna Pashkova
Keyword(s):  
Hard Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Semantic Model ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Slavic Linguistics ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Semantic Evolution

The article presents a semantic-motivational analysis of twenty Baltic-Finnic dialect and literary language words used to nominate a hard-working person. The source of the material was the dialect dictionaries of individual Baltic-Finnish languages and their file cabinets. The data of etymological dictionaries are also involved. The undertaken research was carried out in line with ethnolinguistics, which is developing successfully in Slavic linguistics, despite the fact that practically no such studies were conducted on the material of the Baltic-Finnish languages. Involving as a comparison the corresponding results according to the Russian dialects showed that the linguistic image of the hardworking is characterized by certain universals in the motivation for naming. However, the Baltic-Finnish units differ in their specificity. The nominations of hardworking people are secondary in them and go back to the names, on the one hand, of dynamic qualities ‘quick, brisk, energetic’, on the other hand, spiritual characteristics (‘enthusiastic, passionate, greedy’) that turn out to be etymologically closely related. It was revealed that they correlate with the basics marking fast, sharp, intense movement - from walking to a blow or a gust of wind. At the same time, a significant part of the verbs of this series can be confidently qualified as having a descriptive, onomatopoeic nature, which is also inherited by the names of hard workers. The revealed regularity of semantic evolution (‘quick abrupt movement’ → ‘fast, energetic, passionate’ → ‘hardworking’) is important for establishing the etymological sources of words that represent the idea of hard work, as it defines a certain algorithm for such a search. Now the lexemes representing the established semantic paradigm are actually divorced according to different etymological articles and the connection between them is most often not indicated in any way.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of Radi’s Dramas From behind the Windows and Hamlet with Season Salad Based on Van Leeuwen’s Framework "Representing Social Actions"

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-119
Author(s):  
Alireza Khormaee ◽  
Rayeheh Sattarinezhad
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Different representations of social actions create distinct types of discourses. Applying van Leeuwen’s 'Social Actions' framework (2008), the present study critically analyzes the power relations between the main characters of Radi’s dramas From behind the Windows and Hamlet with Season Salad. The objective of our study is to account for the differences between the discourse of the dominant and the discourse of the dominated. In order to elucidate such differences we count and analyze the characters’ social (re)actions and, in turn, identify four types of contrasts: cognitive vs. affective and perceptive reactions; material vs. semiotic actions; transactive vs. non-transactive actions; interactive vs. instrumental actions. Two opposing discourses emerge from these contrasts. On the one hand, the dominant characters mostly react cognitively and their actions are often semiotic, transactive, and interactive. On the other hand, the dominated characters’ reactions are often affective and perceptive, while most of their actions are material, non-transactive, and instrumental. As the results show, the author’s linguistic choices underscore the power relations between the dominant and the dominated characters. Building upon the fact that our analysis sheds light on the underlying ideologies and intentions of the author, we tentatively conclude that despite its being predominantly employed in the analysis of political discourses, van Leeuwen’s framework also proves effective in the critical analysis of literary works.

A space for identity: the case of Lebanon’s naturalised Palestinians

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hind Ghandour
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Top Down ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Naturalized Citizens ◽  
National Discourses ◽  
The One

This chapter examines a segment of Palestinians who were granted citizenship in Lebanon through a process of tawtin, a naturalization strategy underpinned by notions of national belonging and identity. It draws upon interviews and observations with naturalized citizens and refugees to illustrate and reveal patterns of citizenship practice that challenge national discourses of tawtin, and suggest the emergence of a paradigm that posits citizenship-as-rights, and not identity.  Despite the dichotomous discourse that posits Palestinian identity in dialectic to citizenship, naturalized Palestinians constructed dynamic spaces for both to exist, somewhat harmoniously. Despite the globalization of human rights and the rise of universal personhood, access to rights remains inextricably bound and dependent upon access to citizenship. Analyses of citizenship practice remains, for the most part, conscripted to frameworks that posit citizenship-as identity on the one hand, and the subsequent emergence of citizenship-as-rights on the other. Belying these existing frameworks is a negotiation and re-negotiation of citizenship by individuals that inherently challenges them from within. This necessitates a paradigmatic shift from the top-down lens within which tawtin of Palestinians in Lebanon is presented, towards a bottom-up approach that explores the individuals’ agency in its conceptualization. 

scholarly journals The secrecy−transparency dynamic: A sociological reframing of secrecy and transparency for public relations research

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-236
Author(s):  
Anne M. Cronin
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Oriented Research

This article offers a sociological account of how we might analyse the relationship between contemporary practices and discourses of secrecy on the one hand, and those of transparency on the other hand. While secrecy is often framed in popular and political discourses as the antithesis of transparency, in reality, their relationship is more complex and co-constitutive than may initially appear. The article argues that understanding the interface between secrecy and transparency as a socially embedded dynamic can offer public relations scholarship productive avenues for both theoretically oriented research and empirical studies. In its role in the management of the secrecy−transparency dynamic, PR plays a significant role in actively creating social relations. This article aims to provide resources for assessing the strength of this dynamic in acting to structure social, political and economic relations, and offers new perspectives on how techniques employed to manage the secrecy–transparency dynamic – including public relations – are both embedded in such relations and act to shape them.

The Music of Psychiatry

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ellard
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
The One

The author argues that the practice of psychiatry is impeded by a central paradox. On the one hand, psychiatry cannot develop unless the methods of science are used to unravel its problems. On the other, a significant part of what has been advanced as science is of little value and has done no more than divert attention from the important non-scientific aspects of psychiatric practice. Empathetic and perceptive practice is central for good psychiatry; there is no reason to believe that scientific method alone—good or bad—will lead to its achievement.

scholarly journals The Image of China in Modern Discourses of Marginal Eschatology

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
A. M. Prilutskii ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Central Places ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Ambivalent Attitude ◽  
The One ◽  
A Current

In contemporary eschatological discourses of marginal Orthodoxy, the image of China occupies one of the central places. Over the centuries, an ambivalent attitude towards China has been formed in Russian religious culture. On the one hand, China acted as a religious and geopolitical adversary, on the other, as “almost a brother in faith.” Such contradiction in assessments is typical for a mythological culture. This ambivalence remains in a modern eschatological discourse as well. In apocryphal and pseudonymous eschatological prophecies China appears as the religious and political antipode of Holy Russia. In pre-eschatological times China invasion is expected as an eschatological sign and a real threat. Numerous prophetic texts depict the horrors of China's impending military invasion of Russia, as a result of which a significant part of the territory will be under Chinese occupation. And the very beginning of the invasion is conceptualized as a sign of the beginning of the apocalyptic scenario. At the same time, the eschatological Chinese invasion is also seen as a “scourge of God”, as a punishment for sins and wickedness, as an instrument of cleansing the Russian land from abomination and vice. It is expected that as a result of the apocalyptic events, the Chinese will be converted to Orthodoxy. The eschatological hermeneutics of China's image has not been influenced by a current coronavirus infection. Perhaps this is due to both certain inertia and covid-dissident sentiments that are popular in marginal Orthodoxy.

scholarly journals The Jew and the Funny in Latvian Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Elina Vasiljeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Jewish Text ◽  
The One

The aim of the present research is to consider one of the aspects of the Jewish text in Latvian literature: the connection of Jewish images with the category of the funny and the comic. A significant part of the Jewish text in Latvian literature is associated with the genre of comedy, within the framework of which a typical image of a Jew begins to form: the first landmark texts (the 17th– 19th centuries) are comedies in which it is the Jew who plays a central role in the system of characters. At the same time, the genre of comedy brings to the fore two functions of the category of the comic: laughter is associated with the situation of the character (funny, sometimes miserable) or it is caused by a comic situation in which other characters are involved. On the one hand, the Jew is the object of laughter (comical depiction of the manner of speech, appearance, behavior); on the other hand, in some texts it is the Jew who maintains the intrigue. The article examines the historical logic of the development of the Jewish text: a Jew as an object of ridicule – a Jew as a component of a comic plot – a Jew as a carrier of vice. Since the 1940s, the Jewish text actually loses its connection with the category of the comic, which is associated with the intensification of the flow of anti-Semitic literature in the interwar and war periods and the dominance of the theme of the Holocaust in the literature of the second half of the 20th century.

scholarly journals Discourse marker well in natural and political discourses: ambivalence and bifunctionality

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Е.Л. Кабахидзе
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discourse Marker ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
Pragmatic Markers ◽  
The One

Устный модус дискурса невозможно представить без богатого репертуара дискурсивных маркеров, для которых характерна ослабленность денотата, с одной стороны, и наполненность прагматическими функциями — с другой. Для выявления особенностей функционирования прагматических маркеров в политическом дискурсе и моделирования макро- и микрофункций дискурсивных маркеров были проанализированы метатекстовые и межличностные функции маркеров, разработанные в трудах отечественных и зарубежных исследователей, и на их основе, а также с учетом лексикографических источников, представлены макро- и микрофункции дискурсивных маркеров в политическом дискурсе. Проведенный анализ позволил выявить новые функции, которые получают ряд дискурсивных маркеров (you know, I mean), в том числе рассматриваемый маркер well в связи с манипулятивной природой политической коммуникации. Данные функции играют важную роль в создании альтернативной действительности и неопределенности, свойственных политической коммуникации. В исследовании представлен подробный анализ функций маркера well с дискурсивно-прагматических позиций на материале телеинтервью Д. Трампа. It is impossible to imagine the existence of the oral mode of discourse which would not include a rich variety of discourse markers. The distinctive feature of discourse markers is weak denotation on the one hand, and explicit pragmatic functions on the other. To identify peculiarities of pragmatic markers functioning in a political discourse and for the purpose of designing their macro- and microfunctions, in the present paper metatext and interpersonal functions of markers developed in the works of Russian and international researchers were scrutinized. On the basis of the data obtained from the previous researches, as well as lexicographic sources, macro- and microfunctions of discourse markers in a political discourse were designed. The analysis allowed to identify new functions developed by a number of discourse markers (you know, I mean), including the marker well, announced in the title of the paper, due to the manipulative nature of political communication. These functions play an important role in creating alternative reality and uncertainty inherent in political communication. The research presents a detailed analysis of functions obtained by the discourse marker well through the lens of discursive pragmatics based on Donald Trump's TV interview.

Representation of Innovation in Seventeenth-Century England

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-42
Author(s):  
Benoît Godin
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The One ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
Science And Research ◽  
Radical Transformation ◽  
Present Understanding

Our present understanding of innovation is closely linked to science and research on the one hand and economy and industry on the other. It has not always been so. Back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the concept was mainly used in religious and political discourses. In these contexts, actors used it in a pejorative sense. Innovation, imagined as a radical transformation, was considered a peril to the established social order. Such was natural philosophers’ understanding. This article documents Francis Bacon’s work as an eminent example of such a representation. To Bacon, natural philosophy and innovation are two distinct spheres of activity. It is documented that Bacon’s uses of the concept of innovation are found mainly in political, legal, and moral writings, not natural philosophy, because to Bacon and all others of his time, innovation is poli tical.

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