The act of reading aloud: Animating the neoliberal speaking subject in post-Suharto Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 459-477
Author(s):  
Aurora Donzelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Peripheral Region ◽  
Read Aloud ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Local Modes ◽  
Market Rationality ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

The global spreading of neoliberalism requires discursive technologies capable of producing forms of subjectivity congruent with the extension of market rationality to all dimensions of social life. Since the millennium, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-driven implementation of governance reform in Indonesia has entailed the dissemination of electoral mission statements – a discursive genre aimed at consolidating a new morality of accountability, transparency and proactive entrepreneurialism. Drawing on audiovisual data recorded in a peripheral region of Indonesia, this article examines the circulation of this transnational genre and reveals how its uptake has not been fully successful. The analysis shows how, through a series of verbal and non-verbal cues, candidates would signal their disalignment from the genre’s metapragmatic structure. By performing their statements through the affectless prosody of written texts read aloud, candidates evaded the moral and discursive expectations of transparent accountability and neoliberal entrepreneurialism and reasserted the ethos of impersonal acquiescence underlying the local modes of political self-presentation.

Intimation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. F. Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
Dan Sperber ◽  
Paul Grice

The communicative scale is introduced. What is fundamental to communication is the intention of the communicator rather than the codes that languages employ. Following the model first proposed by Paul Grice and developed in Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson’s ‘relevance theory’, the structure of communicative intentionality is understood to be recursive: its underlying form is ‘I want you to know that I want you to know’. This leaves room for a simpler kind of transmission, to be called ‘intimation’, whose underlying form would be ‘I want you to know’. If communication is a transmission at the ‘full-on’ position of the scale, and if the switch is off when no communication is intended, then intimation would be at the intermediate, ‘half-on’ position. Intimation is particularly useful in contexts where discretion, suggestiveness, or plausible deniability are needed. It is strongly connected to self-presentation in social life (as studied by Erving Goffman).

scholarly journals The Role of the International Monetary Fund After the 2008 Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Marco Mele ◽  
Floriana Nicolai
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
Foreign Exchange Market ◽  
Exchange Market ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
Extensive Introduction ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the changes in the functions of the International Monetary Fund after the 2008 financial crisis. Following an extensive introduction concerning the subject of the study and which covers part of the economic literature, the focus was on governance reform and surveillance in the foreign exchange market. Finally, the empirical analysis was carried out concerning the manipulation of exchange rates in a period ranging from 2008-2016 and 15 countries (Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, China, Thailand, Macao, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Norway, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Trinidad and Tobago and Saudi Arabia) that in the period considered massively intervened in the foreign exchange market, keeping their respective currencies undervalued and acquiring an unfair competitive advantage to the detriment of partner economies. The results would tend to confirm that the manipulation of the exchange rate is a persistent and lasting element of the currency policies of the new millennium, highlighting an active insufficiency of the IMF’s action in the exercise of the oversight function on the currency policies of the Members.

scholarly journals “Gendering” the Self in Online Dating Discourse

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melonie Fullick
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Gender Presentation ◽  
Insight Into

Online dating has become an increasingly acceptable way for “singles” to meet appropriate partners. The author uses discourse analysis to explore the use of language in the construction of gendered identities in 20 online profiles, comparing the norms of gender presentation and communication with the ways in which language is used to signal various kinds of gendered “selves.” Dating sites require users to develop a new literacy of self-presentation, one that reinforces and re-inscribes the tendency toward promotionalism that permeates contemporary social life. In this context, how are Internet and social media users tapping into existing social and cultural resources and putting gender norms to work in their representations of self? How do online dating sites provide insight into an ongoing, reflexive process of self-promotion and self-construction?Les services de rencontre en ligne sont devenus un moyen de plus en plus acceptable pour les célibataires de chercher des partenaires convenables. Dans cet article, l’auteure a recours à l’analyse du discours afin d’explorer, dans vingt profils en ligne, l’utilisation du langage pour la construction d’une identité sexuée. L’auteure compare les normes de présentation et de communication de genre avec la manière dont le langage est utilisé pour afficher diverses sortes de soi sexués. Les sites de rencontre obligent les utilisateurs à développer une nouvelle présentation de soi qui renforce et réinscrit une tendance à ce type de promotion qui est si présent dans la vie sociale contemporaine. Dans ce contexte, comment les utilisateurs d’internet et des médias sociaux utilisent-ils les ressources sociales et culturelles qui sont à leur disposition et comment incorporent-ils les normes de genre dans leurs représentations de soi? Comment d’autre part les sites de rencontre permettent-ils de mieux comprendre les processus continus et réflexifs de la promotion et de la construction de soi?

scholarly journals The Origins of Emancipation and Feminism in 19th Century India: Bengalese Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Tatiana Skorokhodova
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Peripheral Region ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Male Feminist ◽  
Second Wave

The development of feminism and women’s emancipation in colonial India shows various trajectories and inner sources of the process within the regions occupied by a ‘larger society’ going through modernization. The first variant appeared in colonial Bengal — a peripheral region relative to the center of Brahminical order and a place where Indian and Western culture conjoined back in the 18–19th centuries. A system of rigid constraints of women’s freedom and rights emerged within the local patriarchal society, especially in the high strata, coming from a perspective of ritual purity and men’s ‘safety’. Women themselves were bearers of traditional consciousness with stereotypes and prejudices, and they were deprived the possibility to take part in their destinies as well as social life outside of a family. Based on the works of social reformers and intellectuals, the author describes the Bengalese variant of the origins of feminism and emancipation. The primary social actor of the process was the male feminist, who publicly proclaimed ideas of women’s rights and tried to improve the lives of women through reforms. The reformatory movements led by leaders from Rammohun Roy to Keshubchandra Sen turned out to be the first wave of the emancipation process; their activity promoted the circumstances for family and social emancipatory practices. The second wave was associated with women finally becoming active and starting to speak for themselves. The main factors that stimulated their activeness were literacy and education, along with support of their aspirations of behalf of men.

Floors, Architectural Elevations, and Statuary in Late Antique Residences from Egypt, Cyrenaica, and Cyprus: Some Remarks

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-171
Author(s):  
Eleonora Gasparini
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Specific Choice ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Global Vision ◽  
Local Traditions

This paper is focused on the decoration of some late antique residences in Egypt, Cyrenaica, and Cyprus. All of them show common forms of self-presentation of urban elites across the eastern Mediterranean between the 4th and 6th centuries AD. The analysis is based on a global vision of social life in a world that was deeply influenced by a transition from old to new models and by forms of syncretism between various backgrounds which merged in new decorative systems. By recognising their owners’ cultural environment, associations between décor and power can be elucidated in a comparative study of the main elements of these luxury residences. In this context, Christianity is one of the principal issues to be taken into account, along with deep pagan roots of the aristocratic paideia during the investigated period. In fact, the specific choice of the iconographies in the mosaics or the subjects for the statues displayed in these houses can be understood only if contextualised against the spiritual life of the period. In the discussed residences, cultural identity is also manifested by forms of continuity in the architectural elevations. The fact that local traditions developed during the Hellenistic Period were still in use – both as reused building elements and as newly created decoration – can be interpreted as a manifestation of the antiquity and prestige of the families who owned the dwellings. These phenomena are studied through a review of the contexts and their comparative analysis in order to highlight similar developments and their meanings.

Non-verbal cues in the self-presentation of Parkinsonian patients

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas K. Pitcairn ◽  
Susan Clemie ◽  
John M. Gray ◽  
Brian Pentland
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
Self Presentation

scholarly journals BRICS Countries: Participation in the Governance Reform of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group. What are the Results?

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
L. N. Krasavina
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
World Bank Group ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Bank Group ◽  
The International Monetary Fund ◽  
The Imf

The article analyzes the BRICS countries’ participation in the management reform of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group as an institutional framework of the Jamaica Monetary System (Jamaica Plan 1976). As the novelty of the study, the author considers this problem in the context of the transition from interstate regulation to global financial and economic regulation. The definition proposed by the author (broader than the term “global financial regulation”) is due to a new assessment of the financial risks. The article substantiates the participation of the BRICS countries (as well as all members of the IMF and the World Bank) in the reform and the interest in the relative stabilization of the world economy and Finance. The author grounded the assessment of the group of 20 (G20) as the initiator of this reform in the context of the global crisis and the gradual weakening of the control of the implementation of the recommendations of the summits. Based on the position of the G20 on an integrated analysis of the role of the Bretton Woods institutions in the Jamaica Plan 1976, the author gave a comparative description of the relationship of their functions and role in the functioning of the two global currency systems over 70 years. The author made conclusions about the effectiveness of the BRICS countries’ participation in the IMF and the World Bank Group governance reform regarding the increase of their share in quotas and votes, and their representation in the form of appointment of their own Executive Director to the IMF Executive Board. It has been revealed the negative impact of the transformation of the role of these institutions in the global financial and economic regulators in connection with the introduction of integrated currency supervision over the preparation and use of the sovereign currency reserves of the countries. Summing up, the author formulated proposals for further strengthening the positions of the BRICS countries in the management of the IMF and the World Bank on the basis of improving the new formula for calculating quotas introduced in 2008.

Tradition Changes in the Khataman al-Qur'an in Kediri Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-198
Author(s):  
Ellyda Retpitasari ◽  
Naila Muna
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
Emotional Bonds ◽  
Negative Impacts

The Covid-19 pandemic spreading in Indonesia has changed all aspects of social life. One of them is in the aspect of changing the culture of the Khataman al-Qur’an tradition in the Kediri Region. This study aims to describe the change in the Khataman al-Qur’an tradition in the Kediri Region. The research method used is the type of qualitative research with a phenomenological approach, while the analytical knife uses the theory of technological determinism. The results of the study state that changes in the implementation of Khataman al-Qur’an through WhatsApp Groups have positive and negative impacts. The positive impact is that it is easy to communicate for worship and maintain consistent motivation in reading the Qur'an. While the negative impact in the aspect of social solidarity such as the lack of emotional bonds and non-verbal cues between fellow members in the group. It is different from the dynamics of the implementation of the Khataman al-Qur’an which was previously held at a certain moment, but for now, it can be held at any time and become a daily habit of the community. In addition, there was a change in the implementation which was initially carried out with the custom of gatherings, and banquets serving food, while the presence of a pandemic changed the implementation of Khataman al-Qur’an through WhatsApp Groups.

The Language of Technoself

2013 ◽  
pp. 64-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Fornaciari
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Social Cues ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Initial Hypothesis ◽  
Do So

The goal of this chapter is to suggest theoretical means to address a fundamental question, what strategies do people use when presenting their selves online? This implies another question, how do people react to the context collapse when shaping their online profiles? The chapter analyzes the concept of identity and provides an analytical approach to the presentation of self online where traditional contextual and non-verbal cues lack. It tackles the issue of self presentation online through the frameworks of symbolic interactionism and narrative theory. The initial hypothesis is that individuals create online selves based on their offline selves; they attempt to shape online personas using similar communication strategies than in the offline world, but do so lacking traditional social cues, and this may generate dissonance for individuals who struggle defining the features of an imagined audience.

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