scholarly journals Regionality – Language – Internet

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Mária Pásztor-Kicsi
Keyword(s):  
Strong Influence ◽  
Language Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Regional Features ◽  
The World ◽  
Regional Cultures

Abstract The Internet has a strong influence on our daily communication and language use. Its continuous growing makes us face the world characterized by networks of connections that span multi-continental distances. The metaphor of global village seems to be not merely a futuristic theory, but pure reality. People can communicate worldwide with each other, reach all kinds of information to get up-to-date, as long as they respect the basic demand of globalization, which means the use of a common language (i.e. English). But this tendency hides a serious issue if we try to observe globalization from the aspect of local and regional cultures and languages, especially those in minority position. The study deals with the language use of the Hungarian minority in Vojvodina, with special focus on Netspeak and the regional features of language forms used on the Internet. It also analyses the attitudes of a group of students towards the influence of the Internet on speech and language. This part of the survey is based on questionnaires.

A Pragmatic Act Analysis of English Postproverbials on Twitter

Matatu ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-392
Author(s):  
Ronke Eunice Okhuosi
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Standard English ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contextual Features ◽  
The World ◽  
Radical Revision ◽  
Cultural Indices

Abstract Postproverbiality, the novel perspective to studying proverbs, has focused mainly on the radical revision of African proverbs. However, this phenomenon is not only found in African proverbs, but also in many other languages as already suggested in literature. Therefore, this study investigates postproverbiality in English proverbs as used on social media, particularly Twitter. Twitter is especially known for people’s display of radical ideologies, opinions, and idiosyncrasies; therefore, it serves as a useful source for such radical revision of English proverbs. The analysis was done using Jacob Mey’s (2001) Pragmatic Acts as theoretical framework. The data was purposively gathered using five standard English proverbs to search for postproverbial versions; a total of thirty postproverbials were discovered on Twitter. The analysis revealed ten practs and allopracts which include affirming, insisting, informing, counselling, warning, instructing, and encouraging. These were projected through contextual features of shared situational knowledge, voicing, inference, metaphor, and socio-cultural knowledge. The interaction among the textual and contextual features and the allopracts shows that cultures and occurrences in public affairs affect such cultural indices as proverbs and language use and this interaction increases through the internet and social networks which link the world into a global community.

Anytime, Anywhere in the Context of Mobile Work

2005 ◽  
pp. 131-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Wiberg
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Computing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Global Positioning Systems ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Wireless Technologies ◽  
Positioning Systems ◽  
Mobile Work ◽  
Global Positioning ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Cooperation

Kleinrock (1996, 1998) claims that advanced wireless technologies, the Internet, Global Positioning Systems, portable and distributed computing, and so forth will realize the vision of “anytime, anywhere” computing. We can today see the first signs of this vision. For example, telework is now possible, remote organizations can be engaged in close cooperation, and people can form communities on the Internet. The world has become a “global village,” some claim (Castells, 1996; Preece, 1994), where you can interact with anybody independent of time and space.

Spam Filtering and Detection

2019 ◽  
pp. 212-222
Author(s):  
Yasmin Bouarara
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Spam Filtering ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Malicious Activity ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Email Address ◽  
The World ◽  
E Mail

In today's world of globalization and technology without borders, the emergence of the internet and the rapid development of telecommunications have made the world a global village. Recently, the email service has become immensely used, and the main means of communication because it is cheap, reliable, fast, and easy to access. In addition, it allows users with a mailbox (BAL) and email address to exchange messages (images, files, and text documents) from anywhere in the world via the internet. Unfortunately, this technology has become undeniably the original source of malicious activity, in particular the problem of unwanted emails (spam), which has increased dramatically over the past decade. According to the latest report from Radicati Group, which provides quantitative and qualitative research with details of the e-mail, security, and social networks, published in 2012, 70-80% of email traffic consists of spam. The goal of the chapter is to give a state of the art on spam and spam techniques and the disadvantages of this phenomenon.

Anytime, Anywhere Mobility

2011 ◽  
pp. 164-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Wiberg
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Computer Supported Cooperative Work ◽  
The Internet ◽  
It Use ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Positioning Systems ◽  
Global Positioning ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Cooperation

Just a couple of years ago several mobile phone operators and others (e.g., Helal, 1999; Galambos, 2002; Ilderem, 2005) pushed forward “anytime, anywhere” as a goal or vision for future mobile services and mobile IT-use. In this article we set out to explore if “anytime, anywhere” mobility is in fact a paradox. Kleinrock (1996, 1998) claims advanced wireless technologies, the Internet, global positioning systems, portable and distributed computing, and so forth, will realize the vision of “anytime, anywhere.” We can today see the first signs of this vision. For example, telework is now possible, remote organizations can be engaged in close cooperation, and people can communicate, collaborate, share digital media, and form communities on the Internet. The world has become a global village, some claim (Preece, 1994, Castells, 1996), where you can interact with anybody independent of time and space. The vision of “anytime, anywhere” describes a situation where people can do tasks wherever they want and without any consideration of time. Related to the vision is the 2x2 matrix often used in the field of computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) to denote different kinds of computer supported collaboration (e.g., Johansen, 1988; Baecker et al., 1993). This model has the dimensions of time and place, where each can be the same or different. The model is shown in Figure 1.

Extending the Campus: Al-Musharaka and Technology-Assisted Collaboration

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-174
Author(s):  
Michael A. Toler
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Mouse Button ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
International Borders ◽  
The World

As a scholar of North Africa and the Middle East, I get very excited about the possibilities internet technologies open up for me and other scholars who are concerned with regions of the globe outside our national borders. The internet brings a wealth of information to my computer on a daily basis. It is true that in the early years of its development the overwhelming majority of content on the internet was American and in English, but as the rest of the world has come online in greater numbers, the internet has increasingly allowed us to transcend international borders. To cite just one example, for decades English was overwhelmingly the language of the internet. While English remains the most common language on the web, it is no longer the majority language. For several years now, there has been more non-English content on the internet than content in English. I can now read newspapers and listen to news broadcasts from North Africa at the click of a mouse button. I can even communicate easily with colleagues overseas via email, chat or, increasingly, voice over IP at very little cost.

The Globalization of Western Love via the Internet

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-72
Author(s):  
Elaine Hatfield ◽  
Richard L. Rapson ◽  
Jeanette Purvis
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The West ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Passionate Love ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Identities ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter discusses the history of passionate love in the West and how it is transforming global identities, not replacing them. The Internet offers new platforms where people can experience love and relationships within local contexts. While Western romantic love is often seen as the ideal and perhaps even as a symbol of modernity itself, billions of people throughout history and across the world experience and express love in different ways. There is not yet a global village for love. Instead, there is a world filled with millions of villages. But the movement is as much toward that homogeneous global village modeled in the West as it is toward variability. Stay tuned for the outcome, as it is yet unknown.

International Harmonization of Nomenclature and Diagnostic Criteria (INHAND): Nonproliferative and Proliferative Lesions of the Dog

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-109
Author(s):  
Jochen Woicke ◽  
Muthafar M. Al-Haddawi ◽  
Jean-Guy Bienvenu ◽  
Jessica M. Caverly Rae ◽  
Franck J. Chanut ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
North America ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Laboratory Animals ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Common Language ◽  
International Harmonization ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Safety Studies

The INHAND (International Harmonization of Nomenclature and Diagnostic Criteria for Lesions) Project ( www.toxpath.org/inhand.asp ) is a joint initiative of the societies of toxicologic Pathology from Europe (ESTP), Great Britain (BSTP), Japan (JSTP), and North America (STP) to develop an internationally accepted nomenclature for proliferative and nonproliferative lesions in laboratory animals. The purpose of this publication is to provide a standardized nomenclature for classifying lesions observed in most tissues and organs from the dog used in nonclinical safety studies. Some of the lesions are illustrated by color photomicrographs. The standardized nomenclature presented in this document is also available electronically on the internet ( http://www.goreni.org/ ). Sources of material included histopathology databases from government, academia, and industrial laboratories throughout the world. Content includes spontaneous lesions, lesions induced by exposure to test materials, and relevant infectious and parasitic lesions. A widely accepted and utilized international harmonization of nomenclature for lesions in laboratory animals will provide a common language among regulatory and scientific research organizations in different countries and increase and enrich international exchanges of information among toxicologists and pathologists.

scholarly journals Maxi-Min Language Use A Critical Remark on a Concept by Philippe van Parijs

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Jan Kruse
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Critical Remark ◽  
Normative Concept ◽  
Linguistic Justice ◽  
The World

Abstract Philippe van Parijs explains in Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World the concept of maxi-min language use as a process of language choice. He suggests that the language chosen as a common language should maximize the minimal competence of a community. Within a multilingual group of people, the chosen language is the language known best by a participant who knows it least. For obvious reasons, only English would qualify for having that status. This article argues that maxi-min is rather a normative concept, not only because the process itself remains empirically unfounded. Moreover, language choice is the result of complex social and psychological structures. As a descriptive process, the maxi-min choice happens in the reality fairly seldom, whereas the max-min use of languages seen as a normative process could be a very effective tool to measure linguistic justice.

International Contracts and Terminology: An Annotated Research Guide for the U.S. Practitioner

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Guerin
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Global Village ◽  
The World ◽  
Integral Element ◽  
Research Guide ◽  
The U.S

“The world is a global village.” With the advent of the Internet and increased commercial global transactions, these words ring truer today than when they were first exclaimed by Marshall McLuhan in the late 1960's. Foreign business deals are now a commonplace activity. International commercial law, which used to be a specialty, has quickly become an integral element of the practice of a transactional lawyer.

scholarly journals Internet Governance: A Developing Nation's Call for Administrative Legal Reform

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surya Mani Tripathi ◽  
Anshu Pratap Singh ◽  
Dipa Dube
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Global Village ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Barriers ◽  
Networked Society

AbstractThe internet has emerged as a reservoir of information and has pushed the world to evolve into a global village. Increased communication across political, social and economic barriers has created a virtual society of its own. This networked society poses considerable challenges for Internet Governance. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the institution responsible for the internet management. ICANN has been at the center of the debates over global governance of the internet. Key concerns raised in these debates involve the legitimacy of institutions as well as the participation of developed and developing nations in Internet governance.

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