Nobel laureates in fiction: From La fin du monde to The Big Bang Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 458-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Brodesco
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
The Simpsons ◽  
Big Bang Theory ◽  
Nobel Laureates ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Big Bang

The history of the Nobel Prize, since its establishment, interlaces with the history of the public image of science. The aim of this article is to illustrate cinematic scientists, portrayed precisely in their moment of maximum glory. The films and television shows upon which the study is based compose a corpus of 189 media texts. The article identifies three main areas that concern the relation between the Nobel Prize and its audiovisual representations: biopics of real Nobel laureates, the presence of real or fictional Nobel laureates in the film or the show plot, and films and TV series that depict the Nobel ceremony. The article then focuses on four texts that deserve a detailed examination: La fin du monde, The Prize, The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory. The conclusion compares the representation of the Nobel scientist with general changes in the image of the scientist conveyed by cinema and television.

scholarly journals Denotacja – humor – tabu

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (43) ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwiryna Proczkowska
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Functional Equivalence ◽  
World War ◽  
Polish People ◽  
Big Bang Theory ◽  
Text Genre ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Big Bang ◽  
Target Culture

Denotation – Humour – TabooThis analysis takes as its subject jokes about Poles that appeared in two US-American sitcoms: The Big Bang Theory (Teoria wielkiego podrywu) and 2 Broke Girls (Dwie spłukane dziewczyny), as well as their official Polish TV translations made for Comedy Central Polska channel. The selected examples refer to Polish traditions, history, and stereotypes about Polish people. They were divided into three categories according to their subject: a joke based on a stereotype, jokes making Poles look exotic, and jokes referring to Polish-Jewish relations, and the history of World War II. The aim here is accordingly: to characterize the original jokes, to analyze their official Polish voice-over translation, and to consider the potential differences in the reception of given fragments by the sourceculture and target-culture viewers. This paper refers to the characteristics of sitcom as a text genre and Eugene A. Nida and Charlesa R. Taber’s theory of functional equivalence.

scholarly journals Hvordan åpne for vitenskapshistorie i naturfagundervisning

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-42
Author(s):  
Erik Knain
Keyword(s):  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Science Inquiry ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Science Texts ◽  
Big Bang Theory ◽  
Scientific Fact ◽  
History Of ◽  
Established Fact ◽  
Key Steps ◽  
The Big Bang

How to represent the nature of science in an authentic way so that the argumentative aspect of science inquiry is not lost is investigated in terms of representations of the history of science. By comparing representations of the development of the Big Bang theory, successive shifts from Big Bang as an established fact to the processes of establishing this fact points to dilemmas and choices involved in teaching the nature of science. Texts from school textbooks, from a historian of science (Helge Kragh) and from a science sociologist (Bruno Latour) are discussed in order to point to key steps from product to process. Three levels of depth in tracing the historical development of a scientific fact are inferred.

A swift and simple refutation of the Kalam cosmological argument?

1999 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM LANE CRAIG
Keyword(s):  
Big Bang ◽  
Cosmological Argument ◽  
Convincing Argument ◽  
Realist Position ◽  
Big Bang Theory ◽  
Simple Demonstration ◽  
Kalam Cosmological Argument ◽  
John Taylor ◽  
The Big Bang ◽  
The Universe

John Taylor complains that the Kalam cosmological argument gives the appearance of being a swift and simple demonstration of the existence of a Creator of the universe, whereas in fact a convincing argument involving the premiss that the universe began to exist is very difficult to achieve. But Taylor's proffered defeaters of the premisses of the philosophical arguments for the beginning of the universe are themselves typically undercut due to Taylor's inadvertence to alternatives open to the defender of the Kalam arguments. With respect to empirical confirmation of the universe's beginning Taylor is forced into an anti-realist position on the Big Bang theory, but without sufficient warrant for singling out the theory as non-realistic. Therefore, despite the virtue of simplicity of form, the Kalam cosmological argument has not been defeated by Taylor's all too swift refutation.

scholarly journals Luz, Câmera... Ciência: Abordando as Ciências e suas relações através do filme "Interestelar" e da série "The Big Bang Theory"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitor Martins Menezes ◽  
Aline Orvalho Pereira ◽  
Giuliana Coutinho Vitiello ◽  
Celi Rodrigues Chaves Dominguez
Keyword(s):  
Big Bang ◽  
Big Bang Theory ◽  
The Big Bang

scholarly journals The Use of Idioms and Wordplay in The Big Bang Theory Sitcom

Tertium ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lendita Kryeziu
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Big Bang Theory ◽  
Public Speakers ◽  
The Big Bang

Language is a powerful communication tool. A skilful person uses words and manipulates them for different purposes; be that for persuading clients in buying different products or joining a congregation; soothing aggravated patients and consoling people who lost their loved ones. Language is used for teaching, informing, entertaining and making people laugh. Many public speakers, teachers, politicians and leaders use humour for breaking the ice and engaging the audience into listening. Moreover, nowadays a vast number of sitcoms are popular among different age groups based on the topics, genre and the audience’s field of interest. One such series which has caught the interest of a broader audience on Netflix is The Big Bang Theory. The usage of idioms, wordplays, puns, rhyming structures, pop culture language and scientific jargon, permeated with humour, are widely spread into the characters’ daily conversations through entire episodes. From the linguistic point of view, the corpus of The Big Bang Theory episodes will be thoroughly analysed for finding the relevance of using idioms, wordplays, puns and other structures in transmitting humorous messages to the audience.

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