Body, Language and Mediality

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tani Toru
Keyword(s):  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Chinese Script ◽  
Living Body ◽  
Logical Language ◽  
Bodily Function ◽  
Isomorphic Structure ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractHusserl attempted to found logics and language on intuition, and particularly perception. The relationship between logical language and intuition is therefore one of the fundamental themes of his phenomenology. Husserl regarded the two as sharing an isomorphic structure, and this article shows that this structure can be characterized as “mediality.” That is, the “meaning” of language appears by mediation of sound or script, while the “I” as person appears by mediation of the body. I will show furthermore that intuitions themselves appear through the mediation of language, and interpret this idea of mediality in terms of the Japanese language. Guided by Husserl’s notion of Sprachleib (linguistic living body), I will also attempt an analysis of the “bodily” function of Chinese script and onomatopeia as aspects of Sprachleib and show how the Sprachleib functions as a “cultural living body” that makes community possible.

scholarly journals The communication and psychology of identity on mobile dating apps for men who have sex with men

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Brandon Miller
Keyword(s):  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Dating Apps ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
The Relationship

The present study investigated the use of mobile dating apps for men who have sex with men (MSM), the privileging of masculinity in these online spaces, and related effects on attitudes about masculinity, the body, and the self. Using self-categorization theory as a framework, the study explored how men infuse masculinity/femininity and body language into their profiles in order to create symbolic boundaries between a masculine in-group and a feminine out-group, in the process further promoting an in-group bias for masculine partners. Findings indicated a clear preference for masculinity, both generally and in the form of the muscular male body. Drawing on selective self-presentation and the online disinhibition effect, the current work also investigated howpatterns of usage and personal attitudes impact photographic self-presentation, how the presence of face-disclosing and/or shirtless photos impact the use of language, and how visual self-presentation is related to demographic and attitudinal variables. The results indicated a connection between outness and face-disclosure, as well as between the amount of usage of MSM-specific mobile dating apps and face-disclosure. Men’s use of shirtless photos was significantly related to age, self-perceived masculinity, antieffeminacy attitudes, and drive for muscularity. Finally, priming theory was used to examine the relationship between MSM-specific mobile dating app usage and attitudes about men’s own and others’ masculinity/femininity and their bodies, as well as feelings of esteem and connectedness. Findings indicated connections between usage and self-perceived masculinity, internalized homonegativity, collective self-esteem, and body dissatisfaction, as well as social connectedness and anti-effeminacy attitudes for some men. Age, race, relationship status, education level, geographic location, and outness all served as important moderators. Constructions of gay masculinity have been associated with many issues, including risky sexual behavior, body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, lowered self-esteem, and racism. The current research advances our understanding of how MSM engage with masculinity/femininity and body language in a new media context, as well as the relationship between usage of MSM-specific mobile dating apps, psychosocial attitudes, personal feelings of esteem and connectedness, and photographic self-presentation strategies.

scholarly journals Traumatized Children and Post-Traumatic Growth in Francophone Trauma Novels

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Lalonde
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Traumatized Children ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Traumatized Self ◽  
Health Discourse ◽  
The Relationship

In an attempt to decolonize Trauma Studies, a dominant mental health discourse, and to expand our understanding of trauma and post-traumatic growth, this project investigates J.M.G. Le Clézio’s The African (L’africain 2004) and Ahmadou Kourouma’s: Allah is Not Obliged 2011) (Allah n’est pas obligé 2000) and the untranslated and unfinished Quand on refuse on dit non (2004). The term “decolonizing Trauma Studies” refers to a remapping of this particular field of Cultural Theory by studying these non-Western “trauma novels”. The first critical suggestion advanced is that these authors explore the traumatic consequences of lies that are ontological and phenomenological in nature and maintained through language (logos). This research then examines Le Clézio’s and Kourouma’s models of healing, which centre on the body, language, and an empathetic re-encounter with the traumatized self through narratives. Another major finding is that these texts experiment with literature, manipulating it into new forms, thus expanding our understanding of the relationship between the literary arts and post-traumatic growth theories and treatments.

scholarly journals The Abject as Body Language in Imre Kertész’s Fateless and Alaine Polcz’s One Woman in the War

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 92-107
Author(s):  
Edit Zsadányi
Keyword(s):  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Survival Scenario ◽  
The Relationship

Among the various analyses that examine Imre Kertész’s Fateless, little attention has been paid to the relationship between body and narrative. Using Julia Kristeva’s concept of the abject, I focus on excerpts in the novel in which power breaches the boundaries of the protagonist’s body, Gyuri Köves, as he endures detainment in various concentration camps. In this paper I argue that it is the dehumanized and abjectified body that rebels against totalitarianism by refusing to accept a deceptive survival scenario. When the perspective of death has been accepted, the concept of the abject paradoxically reveals that is the identity’s inherent motherly aspect that is able to provide a human perspective to an abjectified person. After comparing excerpts in Fateless and One Woman in the War by Alaine Polcz, another narrative in which violence breaks the boundaries of the body, I will reach the conclusion that the body itself forms the final frontier of dictatorship. Once totalitarian dictatorship penetrates the body, it loses its influence over the victim as death offers a more humane, more bearable life.

scholarly journals (Ad)dressing the female body

Scene ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-132
Author(s):  
Madaleine Trigg
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Living Body ◽  
Cultural Ideals ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Opening Up

This visual essay presents a body of work that uses a ‘language of flesh’ and fabric to make explicit the relationship between the body, image and our increasingly material world. Recognizing that our skin is a site of inscription for social and cultural ideals, it considers how these images have been internalized and appropriated onto the body. As the temptation to sculpt our body through clothing and cosmetic surgery becomes increasingly pressing, it is important to pose questions as to how and why we are fashioned. Weaving together feminist concerns, and touching upon (syn)aesthetic discourses to frame and embellish these samples of practice, it is hoped that certain assumptions about the female body are ruptured. Using the site/sight of the body to try and expose these fabrications, I have created these ‘articulate’ costumes to unpick them.These costumes are critical as they deny their conventional function, instead opening up and celebrating the visceral, living body. These subversions, in undermining typical narratives of fashion and flesh, create a space to (re)present this body; allowing it to speak for itself. (Ad)dressing the female body here refers to material and physical strategies to un/dress; in order to readdress our corporeal and conceptual understanding of the body.

Broken bodies and singing tongues: gender and voice in the Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 23 Psychomachia

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Karkov
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Repeated Readings ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
Living Body ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
Recent Attention

The relationship between the book and the body in the Middle Ages is complex and has been the focus of much recent attention. At a most basic level the dead, dismembered, yet living body of the book was united with the bodies of author, scribe, artist and reader in the act of reading. Medieval readers from the age of Augustine on left their marks in books in the form of glosses, personal comments, sketches, signatures, and the traces of kisses, caresses, or of simple repeated readings that have worn away parts of numerous illustrations. Michael Camille, in particular, has explored the sensual nature of the relationship between book and reader in the act of reading. Perhaps nowhere is this union of bodies so vividly enacted as in the works of the fourth-century Spanish poet Prudentius, whose poems remained extremely popular for centuries. They were copied, translated, rearranged and illustrated to suit the needs of a variety of patrons and readers across medieval Europe.

scholarly journals Comparison of Metaphorical Expressions of the Heart Between Chinese and English

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Gong Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Body Part ◽  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Chinese And English

This study intends to provide a semantic analysis of metaphorical expressions containing the body-part term “heart” in Chinese and English. The discussion of these expressions revolves around four perceived roles of the heart. It is suggested that the metaphorical consequences have a bodily or psychological basis on our hearts. The comparison between Chinese and English shows that there exist some similarities and differences, which can be accounted for both by the commonality of bodily experiences unique to human beings and by the discrepancy of cultural modes from different countries. Finally, a revised model depicting the relationship between body, language, culture, and cognitive ability has been proposed.

scholarly journals Reveal the Relationship Between Hyaluronic Acid and Water Using Aquaphotomics

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Weilu Tian ◽  
Qin Dong ◽  
Boran Lin ◽  
Xiangchun Yang ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hyaluronic Acid ◽  
The Body ◽  
Water Molecules ◽  
Binding Ability ◽  
Water Binding ◽  
Living Body ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Biological Environment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Water Species

Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a kind of biological macromolecule with strong water binding ability. It has rich biological functions and plays an important role in the living body. It has extremely high application value in the fields of medical beauty, medicine, medical treatment and food. In the past, the thinking of studying HA was rather rigid, which is reflected in the direct study of HA itself, which is quite difficult in a complex system because there are too many influencing factors in the real biological environment. The proposal of aquaphotomics allows researchers to focus on the water molecules in complex biological systems, which leads us to shift the angle of thinking about HA-related issues to the water molecules that are closely bound to it. In previous and ongoing work, we use spectroscopy technology and aquaphotomics to study water species, focus on the widely used HA and its derivatives on the market, and apply multivariate analysis methods to analyze the interaction between HA and water molecules to further clarify the material properties of HA form the basis for monitoring its process of binding water in the body. This paper briefly reviews important knowledge concerning the relationship between HA and water, and explains our past and ongoing related research in this field. Key words: hyaluronic acid, water, aquaphotomics, spectroscopy

The use of Body Surface Index as a Better Clinical Health indicators Compare to Body Mass Index and Body Surface Area for Clinical Application

2018 ◽  
pp. 131-136
Author(s):  
Shirazu I. ◽  
Theophilus. A. Sackey ◽  
Elvis K. Tiburu ◽  
Mensah Y. B. ◽  
Forson A.
Keyword(s):  
Surface Area ◽  
Body Surface Area ◽  
Clinical Application ◽  
Body Surface ◽  
Body Height ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parameters ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Individual Body

The relationship between body height and body weight has been described by using various terms. Notable among them is the body mass index, body surface area, body shape index and body surface index. In clinical setting the first descriptive parameter is the BMI scale, which provides information about whether an individual body weight is proportionate to the body height. Since the development of BMI, two other body parameters have been developed in an attempt to determine the relationship between body height and weight. These are the body surface area (BSA) and body surface index (BSI). Generally, these body parameters are described as clinical health indicators that described how healthy an individual body response to the other internal organs. The aim of the study is to discuss the use of BSI as a better clinical health indicator for preclinical assessment of body-organ/tissue relationship. Hence organ health condition as against other body composition. In addition the study is `also to determine the best body parameter the best predict other parameters for clinical application. The model parameters are presented as; modeled height and weight; modelled BSI and BSA, BSI and BMI and modeled BSA and BMI. The models are presented as clinical application software for comfortable working process and designed as GUI and CAD for use in clinical application.

CONCEPTUALISING RISK CULTURE ON ERM IMPLEMENTATION IN CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Ching Ching Wong
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Risk Identification ◽  
The Body ◽  
Risk Indicators ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Risk Appetite ◽  
Risk Culture ◽  
Risk Treatment ◽  
Managing Risk ◽  
The Relationship

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is an effective technique in managing risk within an organization strategically and holistically. Risk culture relates to the general awareness, attitudes and behaviours towards risk management in an organisation. This paper presents a conceptual model that shows the relationship between risk culture and ERM implementation. The dependent variable is ERM implementation, which is measured by the four processes namely risk identification and risk assessment; risk treatment; monitor and consult; communicate and consult. The independent variables under risk culture are risk policy and risk appetite; key risk indicators; accountability; incentives; risk language and internal relationships. This study aims to empirically test the relationship between risk culture and ERM implementation among Malaysian construction public listed companies. Risk culture is expected to have direct effects and significantly influence ERM. This study contributes to enhance the body of knowledge in ERM especially in understanding significant of risk culture that influence its’ implementation from Malaysian perspective.

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