Three Wishes for Cinderella: Fitting a Czech shoe to a Norwegian foot

In this article, the authors outline arguments explaining the lasting success of the Czechoslovak and East German film Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973). Drawing on newer theories of adaptation, the article addresses the following questions: what mutation did the Cinderella narrative undergo and how did it influence the acceptance of the film adaptation in the Czech and Norwegian context? Are there any non-adaptive explanations for changes in the narrative that can be perceived as a ‘random drift’? How is the persistence of this particular adaptation supported in various cultural contexts? Can we speak about cross-cultural indigenization in the case of Three Wishes for Cinderella? The aim is also to explore the factors that contributed to this cultural phenomenon and to map the journey the adaptation underwent, including the role of NRK public TV and the role of the voice-over. Finally, we discuss whether this adaptation is truly a timeless phenomenon.

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“CRAZY ZOOM MAKES EVERYONE TO FIND HIMSELF IN A DOUBLE ROLE OF A SPECTATOR AND AN ACTOR”

Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies ◽

10.18522/2415-8852-2021-3-7-21 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 7-21

Author(s):

O Bulgakova ◽

E.S. Maksimova

Keyword(s):

Publishing House ◽

Sergei Eisenstein ◽

Cultural Phenomenon ◽

School Of Music ◽

University Of Berlin ◽

Arts And Culture ◽

Humboldt University ◽

The University ◽

The Voice

Oksana Bulgakowa is a researcher of visual culture, a film critic, a screenwriter, a director, and a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She has taught at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Leipzig Graduate School of Music and Theater, the Free University of Berlin, Stanford University and the University of California Berkeley. Author of the books “FEKS: Die Fabrik des exzentrischen Schauspielers” (1996), “Sergei Eisenstein – drei Utopien. Architekturentwürfe zur Filmtheorie” (1996), “Sergej Eisenstein. Eine Biographie” (1998), “The Gesture Factory” (2005, a renewed edition to be published by NLO publishing house in 2021), “The Soviet hearing eye: cinema and its sensory organs” (2010), “The Voice as a cultural phenomenon”(2015), “SINNFABRIK/FABRIK DER SINNE” (2015), “The Fate of the Battleship: The Biography of Sergei Eisenstein” (2017). Author of the network projects “The Visual Universe of Sergei Eisenstein” (2005), “Sergei Eisenstein: My Art in Life. Google Arts and Culture” (in collaboration with Dietmar Hochmuth, 2017–2018), and the films “Stalin – eine Mosfilmproduktion” (in collaboration with Enno Patalas, 1993), “Different Faces of Sergei Eisenstein” (in collaboration with Dietmar Hochmuth, 1997). In this issue of P&I, Oksana Bulgakowa talks about medial giants and midgets, obscene gestures of Elvis Presley, “voice-over discourse” of TV presenters, and the birth of Eisenstein’s “Method” from psychosis and neurosis. Interview by Ekaterina Maksimova. Photo by Dietmar Hochmuth.

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Health professionals’ perceptions of communication difficulties in cross-cultural contexts

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Series S ◽

10.1075/aralss.7.05pau ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 93-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Anne Pauwels

Keyword(s):

Health Professionals ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cultural Communication ◽

Cultural Backgrounds ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Cross Cultural Communication ◽

Interdisciplinary Project ◽

Communication Difficulties ◽

Regular Contact

This paper is a first report on an interdisciplinary project dealing with cross-cultural communication in health and medicine undertakebn by the Centre for Community Languages in the Professions. In this paper health professionals’ perceptions of communication difficulties are examined, especially their understanding of the role of language in cross-cultural communication. The project revealed that health professionals who had regular contact with people from diverse cultural backgrounds were aware of the influence culture can exert on the attitudes and the behaviour of NESB people in relation to health care. In general they had some difficulty in establishing the role of language in cultural misunderstandings if both parties (interactants) communicated through the same language.

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Ubuntu in the Diaspora

Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies - Understanding Ubuntu for Enhancing Intercultural Communications ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-7947-3.ch018 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 228-242

Author(s):

Fatuma Namisango ◽

Sarah Eyaa ◽

Peninah Kansiime ◽

Sharlotte Tusasiirwe

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Cultural Awareness ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Work Environments ◽

Value Systems ◽

Community Settings ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Starting Point ◽

Ways Of Life

As people live in cross-cultural contexts, there is a need to recognize and appreciate the role of different worldviews and how they shape our understanding of humanity, upbringing, and engagement in social or work environments. The key starting point to enable this is exploring the often-overlooked indigenous philosophies of life such as Ubuntu and examining how such value systems survive alongside opposing or similar traditions. This chapter improves the understanding of cultural values by discussing the central tenets of the African philosophy of Ubuntu, in comparison to the Western ways of life and the strategies that Africans in the diaspora are applying to preserve Ubuntu values. Strategies for promoting Ubuntu in the education system and community settings are also recommended with the goal of enhancing cross-cultural awareness.

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The role of pragmatics in cross-cultural

Linguistics and Culture Review ◽

10.21744/lingcure.v2n1.11 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 45-59

Author(s):

Uno Chemmel ◽

Roger Phillipe

Keyword(s):

Communicative Competence ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Pragmatic Competence ◽

Fundamental Aspect ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Ordinary Meaning ◽

The People ◽

Main Motive ◽

The Way

We here try to find out the role of pragmatics in the cross-cultural contexts. Pragmatics is the way we convey meaning through communication (Deda, 2013). Other factors beyond competence are the adjustments between contexts and situations that can change the ordinary meaning of elements/sentences according to the language situation. The culture of an organization decides the way employees behave amongst themselves as well as the people outside the organization. Pragmatic culture more emphasis is placed on the clients and the external parties. Customer satisfaction is the main motive of the employees in a pragmatic culture. In linguistics, pragmatic competence is the ability to use language effectively in a contextually appropriate fashion. Pragmatic competence is a fundamental aspect of a more general communicative competence.

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Communicative Cyberpersonality Types of Aggressive Behaviour as a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon

Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics ◽

10.29025/2079-6021-2021-3-158-171 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 158-171

Author(s):

Olga V. Loutovinova

Keyword(s):

Aggressive Behaviour ◽

Sampling Method ◽

Personality Type ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Holy War ◽

Continuous Sampling ◽

Cultural Phenomenon ◽

Internet Users ◽

Communicative Strategies

The paper deals with communicative cyberpersonality types of aggressive behaviour as a cross-cultural phenomenon. The aim of the article is to distinguish and differentiate communicative cyberpersonality types of aggressive behaviour ssupported by such characteristics of the communicative cyberspace as globalism, virtuality, and anonymity. The relevance of the current investigation is determined by a constantly growing role of computer-madiated communication in a modern person’s life, by the appearance of new types of the Internet users’ interaction, by the display a communicative personality’s new qualities and by the necessity of giving a scientific background to all these appearing and changing phenomena. The analysed material comprises dictionary definitions and modern Russian an English texts selected by the continuous sampling method from different Internet genres, such as forums, blogs, social nets, web-chats, which reflect destructive speech products. The overall number of investigated material is 600 units. The material is analysed using such methods as introspection, conceptual modelling, interpretative analysis and contextual analysis. The analysed material shows that not any naming means of aggressive behaviour in a cyberspace can become a name for a communicative personality type. Communicative personality type should be distinguished on the clear lexicographical representation underlying the concept, its own communicative intensions, definitely chosen communicative strategies and tactics, certain modality and verbal and non-verbal means. Taking into consideration these characteristics one can distinguish the following communicative cyberpersonality types of aggressive behaviour: troll, holy war maker, hater, cyberbuller/cyberbully (cybermobber), shamer (blamer), griefer, cyberstalker.

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The Role of Culture and Accounting Education in Resolving Ethical Business Dilemmas by Chinese and Canadians

Accounting and the Public Interest ◽

10.2308/api.2006.6.1.116 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 116-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paul Dunn

Keyword(s):

Ethical Dilemmas ◽

Business Students ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Accounting Education ◽

Accounting Students ◽

Social Desirability Bias ◽

Ethical Business ◽

Cultural Phenomenon ◽

The Social

This paper examines the roles that culture and accounting education play in helping to resolve ethical dilemmas in business. Using a sample of Chinese and Canadian business students, the results show that the Chinese are more willing to sanction a variety of businesses and accounting policy choice decisions that the Canadians consider to be inappropriate and unethical. Furthermore, accounting students are better able to resolve accounting and business dilemmas regardless of their cultural background. Finally, this study finds that the social desirability bias, to present oneself as more ethical than is actually the case, is a cross-cultural phenomenon.

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When Is Cultural Input Central? The Development of Ontological Beliefs About Religious and Scientific Unobservables

10.31219/osf.io/fs9ep ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Telli Davoodi ◽

Jennifer Clegg

Keyword(s):

Critical Role ◽

Natural World ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Ontological Status ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Naive Theories ◽

Research With Children ◽

Cultural Research ◽

Cross Cultural Research

Across diverse cultural contexts, children and adults believe in the existence of religious and supernatural unobservables (e.g., gods, angels) as well as scientific and natural unobservables (e.g., germs, oxygen). In this article, we explore the role of cultural input and testimony in children’s developing beliefs in supernatural and natural unobservables as real. We review cross-cultural research with children and adults on their beliefs about the ontological status of religious and scientific unobservables and the epistemic patterns associated with these beliefs. Based on the evidence, we argue that cultural input plays a central role in the development of belief about supernatural unobservables as real, whereas it plays a less critical role in the development of belief about natural unobservables as real. In the latter case, we argue that direct experiences with the natural world combine with children’s naive theories to generate beliefs about natural unobservable entities and processes as real.

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“But what a place / to put a piano”: Nostalgic Objects in Robert Minhinnick’s "Diary of the Last Man"

Text Matters ◽

10.18778/2083-2931.09.20 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 331-344

Author(s):

Agata Handley

Keyword(s):

Zero Point ◽

Ecological Crisis ◽

Human Being ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Complete Destruction ◽

The World ◽

Last Man ◽

The Voice ◽

The Last Man

In 2003, Martin Rees referred to the present as “mankind’s final century.” A few years later, Slavoj Žižek wrote that humankind is heading towards “apocalyptic zero-point,” when the ecological crisis will most probably lead to our complete destruction. In his 2017 collection, Diary of the Last Man, Welsh poet Robert Minhinnick offers readers a meditation upon Earth at a liminal moment—on the brink of becoming completely unpopulated. Imagining a solitary human being, living in the midst of environmental collapse, Minhinnick yet entwines different voices—human and non-human—operating across vast spans of time. The speaker of the poems moves freely through different geographies and cultural contexts, but the voice that starts and ends the journey, seems to be the voice of the poet himself: he is the last man on earth, a survivor of ecological disaster. The paper discusses Minhinnick’s collection as a projection of the world we now inhabit into a future where it will exist only in the form of nostalgic memories. The analysis focuses on the role of objects in the construction of the world-within-the poem, where the fragments of human civilization are being claimed by forces of the environment—engulfing sand, progressive erosion—forming a retrospective vision of our “now” which will inevitably become our “past.”

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