scholarly journals Reverse perspective as a narrative technique in Amerindian prosaic texts

Lege Artis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 359-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Volkova

Abstract The paper focuses on the narrative perspective of interpreting the ethno-cultural meanings hidden in the characters of prosaic texts written by contemporary Amerindian writers (N.S. Momaday, Linda Hogan, Leslie Silko and others). The main idea raised in their works is to highlight ethno-cultural traditions, values, ceremonies and understanding the world. The main author’s interest is paid to the reverse perspective as a narrative technique of interpretation the central character as ethno-cultural symbol.

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Timofeeva ◽  
Stanislav Churakov

The article presents the results of the study of ethnocultural values in the strategy of creating an author's brand. Topical aspects are formulated that form the resources of the brand of the future, with the potential of a sustainable business idea working ahead of schedule. The relevance of the studied topic is revealed in connection with the request of the target audience for self-identification, the need for an original product and the aesthetic value of this product in the fashion industry. And also the emergence of interest in local cultures, as a result — in local brands, and the interaction of identity and competition. It also considers the aspect of emotional satisfaction and the departure from the realities of life's problems through narratives, which resulted in the processes of forming a new reality that affect the whole industry, and an appeal to cultural traditions. The authors analyze the formation of the connection of identities with territory, ecology, psychology, culture, economics. Is considered the influence of tradition and fashion on the landscape of the cultural map of the world. When designers not only create the visual language and design codes of our time, but also preserve the traditional values of folk culture, create a connection with history, invest new meanings in modern fashion, and respond to the requests of entire generations. The article describes the main problems and tasks that the designer should take into account, choosing ethnic conception as the main idea of the brand. The theoretical and applied significance of the work is that the study creates a model of the value of cultural meanings for implementation commercial projects. The work contains illustrative material that renders examples of working with references and using them when creating collections.


1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-316
Author(s):  
R. Hrair Dekmejian

Most of the world’s Muslims reside in countries where they are numericallypredominant. As such, these Muslims possess a majoritarian outlook in sharpcontrast to the perspective of minority Muslims living in India, China, theUSSR, and some Western countries. In recent years, Muslim minorities havefound themselves at the confluence of diverse social forces and politicaldevelopments which have heightened their sense of communal identity andapprehension vish-vis non-Muslim majorities. This has been particularlytrue of the crisis besetting the Indian Muslims in 1990-91 as well as the newlyformed Muslim communities in Western Europe.The foregoing circumstances have highlighted the need for serious researchon Muslim minorities within a comparative framework. What follows is apreliminary outline of a research framework for a comparative study of Muslimminorities using the Indian Muslims as an illustrative case.The Salience of TraditionOne of the most significant transnational phenomena in the four decadessince mid-century has been the revival of communal consciousness amongminorities in a large number of countries throughout the world. This tendencytoward cultural regeneration has been noted among such diverse ethnic groupsas Afro-Americans, French Canadians, Palestinian Arabs, the Scots of GreatBritain, Soviet minorities, and native Americans. A common tendency amongthese groups is to reach back to their cultural traditions and to explore thoseroots which have served as the historical anchors of their present communalexistence. Significantly, this quest for tradition has had a salutary impactupon the lives of these communities, for it has reinforced their collectiveand individual identities and has enabled them to confront the multipledifficulties of modem life more effectively. By according its members a sense ...


Communicology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-148
Author(s):  
NATALIA MALSHINA ◽  

This study examines the ontological problems in the aspect of the ratio of different cognitive practices and their mutual conditionality in the context of communication and their socio-cultural prerequisites, which is possible only if the traditional approach to the distinction between epistemology and faith is revised. Based on the idea of identity of common grounds of cognitive practices “belief” is included in the understanding of interpretation in the communicative situation for true knowledge in each of the modes of being. Belief in the philosophical tradition reveals the ontological foundations of hermeneutics. Three reflections are synthesised: the hermeneutic concept of understanding, the structuralist concept of language, and the psychoanalytic concept of personality. It is necessary to apply the method of phenomenological reduction to the ontological substantiation of hermeneutics in the Christian Orthodox tradition. Hence, the very natural seems the meeting of semantics, linguistics, and onomatodoxy, with the ontology language of Heidegger, the origins of which resides in in Husserl phenomenology. Fundamental ontology and linguistics, cult philosophy - both in different ways open the horizons of substantiation of hermeneutics. The beginning of this justification is the hermeneutic problem in Christianity, which has appeared as a sequence of the question of the relationship between the two Covenants, or two Unions. In the paper, the author attempts to identify the stages of constructing the philosophical concept of Pavel Florensky. As a result, the substantiation of the birth of the world in consciousness by the cult is revealed. Ontological tradenote words can be seen in Florensky through symbols. The symbol makes the transition from a small energy to a larger one, from a small information saturation to a greater one, acting as a lumen of being - when by the name we hear the reality. The word comes into contact with the world that is on the other side of our own psychological state. The word, the symbol shifts all the time from subjective to objective. The communicative model acts as a common point uniting these traditions. The religious approach as part of semiotic approach reveals the horizons of ontological conditionality of language and words, and among the words - the name, as the name plays a central role in the accumulation and transmission of information, understanding of the commonality of this conditionality in the concepts of phenomenology and Christian, Orthodox tradition.


Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Paul Burgess

The author contends that throughout the duration of the present conflict in NorthernIreland, the world has been repeatedly given a one-dimensional image of this culture depicting it as mainly a product of ethnicity and also a reflection of class sentiment and lived experience.As drummer and songwriter of Ruefrex, a musical band internationally renowned for its songs about the Troubles conflict in Northern Ireland, Burgess discusses the need to express Protestant cultural traditions and identity through words and music. Citing Weber’s argument that individuals need to understand the world and their environment and that this understanding is influenced by perceptions of world order and attitudes and interpretations of symbolic systems or structures, the author argues that losing the importance of symbolic structures in relation to actual events will result in failure to understand why communities embrace meaning systems that are centrally informed by symbol and ritual. In his mind, rather than seeking to promote an understanding of Protestant or Catholic reality, it is important to speculate how the practice of difference might be used in developing any kind of reality of co-operation and co-ordination


Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 478
Author(s):  
Verónica Roldán

The present study on the religious experience of the Peruvian community in Rome belongs to the area of studies on immigration, multiculturalism, and religion in Italy. In this article, I analyze the devotion of the Peruvian community in Rome to “the Lord of Miracles”. This pious tradition, which venerates the image of Christ crucified—painted by an Angolan slave—began in 1651 in Lima, during the Viceroyalty of Peru. Today, the sacred image is venerated in countries all over the world that host Peruvian immigrant communities that have set up branches of the Confraternity of the Lord of Miracles. I examine, in particular, the cult of el Señor de los Milagros in Rome in terms of Peruvian popular religiosity and national identity experienced within a transnational context. This essay serves two purposes: The first is to analyze the significance that this religious experience acquires in a foreign environment while maintaining links with its country of origin and its cultural traditions in a multilocal environment. The second aim is to examine the integration of the Peruvian community into Italian society, beginning with religious practice, in this case Roman Catholicism. This kind of religiosity seems not only to favor the encounter between the two cultures but also to render Italian Roman Catholicism multicultural.


Author(s):  
Syahrin Harahap

Globalization in the world has given the huge impact on the people, as the new condition of the world has brought the world to the globalism- a consciousness and understanding that the world is one. Globalization has also unified the people in a global village that covers all aspects of life such as economic, political, cultural, religious aspects. This paper will explore the concept of wa¡a¯iyyah which stresses on the moderation and accommodative way and its implementation in Southeast Asia. The main idea of the wa¡a¯iyyah or moderation in religious life is that it offers the importance of realizing the concept of Islamic blessing for all the Universe (Islam; Ra¥matan lil ±lam³n). Therefore, the main offer of the Muslim wa¡a¯iyyah movement is to focus on developing civilization, freedom, justice, prosperity and better future for all the people. It is the main capital of the Wa¡a¯iyyah in Southeast Asia to give the significant contribution to the globalization of the world.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangguang Chen

The ongoing globalisation has led to a tremendous expansion of the English language. With China striving to become part of the world economy since the late 1970's, there has been a great emphasis placed on the education of young people to become a world citizen with fluent English. “Being a global citizen” is having strong interests in global issues, cultivating the understanding and appreciation of diverse values, and enhancing country's competitiveness. All this however needs to be realized through communication in English, the world language. Improving communicative competence among Chinese learners of English depends on how English is learnt in the FL classroom and how it gets practiced outside the classroom. Data drawn from English corners, English clubs and English church all show that those informal learning settings have a complentary role to play especially when the formal English classroom is found having various deficits. Data also confirm that informal settings offer the opportunity to close the gap between L1 and L2 learning processes, and nurtutre learners' communicative competence through social intercourse and intercultural exchanges. Moreover, EFL learning is inherently intercultural, which facilitate cross cultural perspectives through bilingualism and bridges over the indigenous cultural traditions and the western democratic values.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Piotr Łukomski

Artykuł przedstawia tezę, że decyzja rozumiana jako akt wyboru jest możliwa do wyjaśnienia w ramach teorii kontroli, która przekłada się na rzeczywistą autonomię człowieka. Decyzja w tym ujęciu nie jest typem fenomenu oderwanego od przyczynowej struktury świata ani też rodzajem poręcznej konstrukcji teoretycznej w wyjaśnianiu zachowań, ale funkcjonalnym aspektem umysłu zgodnym (kompatybilnym) z naturalistycznym obrazem świata, obejmującym również humanistykę. W ramach takiej struktury wyjaśniania możemy umieścić decyzje jako element struktur kontroli, które funkcjonują równolegle do struktur przyczynowości i stanowią niezbędny składnik każdego autonomicznego systemu. Co więcej, przy założeniu, że umysł spełnia funkcję semantycznego silnika możemy zarysować kierunek badań, w ramach którego semantyka (język oraz znaczenia i treści kultury) może być interpretowana jako podstawa wyborów (decyzji) dokonywanych w ramach kontekstu kulturowego. The Problem of the Category of Decisions in the Context of the Naturalistic Paradigm of Social Sciences The paper presents the thesis that a decision understood as an act of choice could be explained within the framework of the theory of control, which implicates real human autonomy. A decision in this perspective is not a type of phenomenon detached from the causal structure of the world, nor a kind of handy theoretical structure in explaining behaviour, but a functional aspect of the mind compatible with the naturalistic view of the world, including the humanities. Within such an explanatory structure, we can place decisions as part of the control structures that function alongside causality structures and are a necessary component of any autonomous system. Moreover, if the mind acts as a semantic engine, we can outline the direction of research within which semantics (language, cultural meanings, and content) can be interpreted as the basis for choices (decisions) made within the cultural context.


2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2 (11)) ◽  
pp. 130-133
Author(s):  
Narine Harutyunyan

The world is not perceived as static. It is in constant movement and is described by religious beliefs, cultural traditions, moral values and a system of stereotypes. While perceiving the world man creates cognitive patterns which, together with individual meanings, reflect common underlying features of the world perception among different people. Among the standards that might describe and characterize the world are: visual images, smells and scents, i.e. perceptions received through different senses.


2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (115) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
F. Javier Herrero

O autor tenta mostrar que a virada lingüística, realizada por Heidegger a partir de sua transformação hermenêutica da fenomenologia, leva consigo uma identificação de “linguagem” e “razão”, que terá como conseqüência uma destranscendentalização da razão, na medida em que a abertura lingüística do mundo se torna instância última de validade de toda experiência intramundana, de todo acontecer da verdade, o qual supõe a primazia do significado sobre a referência e, finalmente, a primazia da dimensão semântica sobre a pragmática (como medium do entendimento). Gadamer aprofunda as condições de possibilidade do entendimento mostrando a nossa pertença à tradição, de forma que a linguagem constitui o verdadeiro acontecer hermenêutico, na medida em que vem à fala o dito na tradição. Essa conexão com a tradição é vista como “fonte de verdade”, de forma que assegura o poder normativo da tradição, e continua o processo de destranscendentalização. Apel mostrará que a raiz deste processo redutor se encontra na equiparação das condições de possibilidade da compreensão do sentido com as condições de possibilidade da validade intersubjetiva da compreensão. Mas ele encontrará a resposta à pergunta pela validade, não numa ontologia temporal do compreender entendida como acontecer da verdade, mas em idéias regulativas no sentido de Kant e Peirce. Estas se mostram capazes de orientar normativamente a compreensão, possibilitando assim uma nova retranscendentalização da hermenêutica, não só compatível com a historicidade de toda constituição de sentido, mas de forma que permite a reconstrução do passado parra uma apropriação crítica das tradições culturais e a projeção de um novo futuro cada vez mais humano.Abstract: The author intends to show that the linguistic turn taken by Heidegger with his hermeneutical transformation of phenomenology, carries with it an identification between “language” and “reason”, which will lead to a detranscendentalization of the reason, in so far as the linguistic opening of the World becomes the ultimate instance of the value of all intermundane experience and of all happenings of truth, which supposes the precedence of meaning over reference and, finally, the precedence of the semantic dimension over the pragmatic one (as a medium of understanding). Gadamer furthers the conditions of the possibility of understanding showing our belonging to tradition, so that language constitutes the true hermeneutic happening, in so far as what is uttered is the spoken word of tradition. The connection with tradition is seen as “the source of all truth,” so that what he proposes secures the normative power of tradition and advances the detranscendentalization process. Apel will show that the root of this reductive process can be found in the equalization between the conditions of the possibility of the understanding of meaning and those of the possibility of the intersubjective validity of understanding. However, he will find an answer to the question of validity, not in a temporal ontology of understanding comprehended as a happening of truth, but in regulative ideas according to Kant and Peirce. Those ideas are able to normatively orient understanding, allowing for a new hermeneutical retranscendentalization, which is compatible with the historicity of any constitution of meaning in such a way that it enables the reconstruction of the past in view of a critical appropriation of cultural traditions and the projection of a new future, increasingly more human.


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