scholarly journals “We Don’t Harm the Environment”: Defensive Regimes of the Humanities in the Administrative Discourse of Academia

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-38
Author(s):  
Aldis Gedutis
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Global Discourse ◽  
The Times

For the last decade, the humanities are globally pronounced as stranded in a crisis or at least touched by it. In the times of crisis the apologetic discourse is more important and visible than in the times of relative peace and prosperity. Comparing to the Anglo-Saxon humanities, the rhetoric of crisis is not very popular among the representatives of Lithuanian humanities. The article reconstructs the main arguments and defensive regimes used by scholars during experimental discussions on the value of the humanities in Lithuania. The empirical data consists of four discussions (conducted in 2017–2018). The aim of the article is to analyse this argumentation and to compare it to the global discourse on the value of the humanities.

‘LESSER BREEDS WITHOUT THE LAW’: THE BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT AND THE DREYFUS AFFAIR, 1894–1899

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 495-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT TOMBS
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The Other ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
The Press ◽  
Dreyfus Affair ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Times

Queen Victoria, her court, the embassy in Paris, the prime minister, and the press, led by The Times, were early and impassioned sympathizers with Alfred Dreyfus and bitter critics of his persecutors. This article traces the development of their views and the information available to them, analyses the principal themes as they saw them, and attempts to explain how and why they formed their opinions. It considers why the Dreyfusard position was so congenial to them. It argues that their own principles and prejudices – conservative, patriotic, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant – were confirmed by a critique of French political culture, seen as corrupted by a combined heritage of absolutism, revolution, Catholicism, and demagoguery. This appears to be confirmed by contrast with the few dissenting voices in Britain, on one hand Catholic and Irish, on the other, anti-Semitic socialist, who showed little sympathy with the Dreyfusards, and even less with the views of their British supporters.

Some problems in interpreting Anglo-Saxon coinage

1976 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 173-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Dividing Line

This discussion of Anglo-Saxon coinage attempts to look beyond the detail of numismatic classification in order to consider the relationship between the underlying variations and the economic life of the times. Those parts of it which deal with the classification of the coinage and analyse the observed metrology are intended to be a critical summary of the numismatic research carried out in the past thirty years. Other parts, in which I seek to relate the metrology to such documentary evidence as is known to me – and thus trespass across the vague dividing line between numismatics, of which I have some knowledge, and economic history, of which I have little – are aimed at stimulating awareness and discussion of the problems involved. Finally, a section is devoted to numismatic methods because it is important that their use and limitations be generally understood.

scholarly journals Discourse strategies for global topic construction in complex written texts: evidence from comment articles

2006 ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Alonso Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Subject Position ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Global Discourse ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Primary Variable ◽  
Discourse Topic ◽  
Selection Of

Based on research done on a small corpus of comment articles, this paper reconsiders the relation between topic entity, subject function and given status and explores their role in the construction and maintenance of the global discourse topic. It claims that even though it is pertinent to say that at sentence level much of the topical information is non-subject and/or frequently post-verbal with new informational status, at discourse level the progression established between non-subjects and subject elements ends up converting topical non-subjects into subjects. In the long term, this means that using subject position frequency as a primary variable in determining possible candidates to global discourse topic is significant and relevant. The article shows that the conversion of topical non-subjects into subjects is done not only by means of lexical recurrence and reference, as Givón (1990) claims; but also by other means such as extended reference, anticipatory it, general nouns or superordinates and complex clausal structures. This is illustrated with evidence from a selection of comment articles from The Observer, The Times and The Guardian.

scholarly journals VIII.—The Distribution of the Anglo-Saxon Saucer Brooch in relation to the Battle of Bedford, A. D. 571

Archaeologia ◽  
1912 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 159-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Thurlow Leeds
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times

The investigation of the early history of England is beset with many difficulties and has furnished material for the widest conjectures. Prior to the Roman invasion our knowledge is confined almost entirely to such deductions as can be made by the aid of archaeology. But the difficulties by no means decrease with the period when England makes its first appearance in the pages of written history. Indeed, they might be said rather to increase, and perhaps of no period is this truer than of the times between the decline of the Roman power in Britain and the ultimate establishment of the Anglo-Saxon power. The records are, to say the least of it, of the barest nature, and present many problems of absorbing interest, towards the elucidation of which archaeology has already contributed not a little. In some cases, however, the evidence of archaeology appears to find itself in conflict with the witness of history, and it is one of these incongruities which I have set myself the task of endeavouring to investigate in the course of this paper.

“We Are Threatened with…Anarchy and Ruin”: Fear of Americanization and the Emergence of an Anglo-Saxon Confederacy in England during the American Civil War

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-614
Author(s):  
Hugh Dubrulle
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Charles Sumner ◽  
The Times

In an October 1861 letter to Charles Sumner, the prominent Republican Senator from Massachusetts, William Howard Russell, The Times’ correspondent in America, explained England’s attitude toward the American Civil War: “In England we are threatened with Americanization which to our islands would be anarchy & ruin, & the troubles in America afford our politicians & writers easy means of dealing deadly blows at Brightism which is often attacked under the guise of war & the troubles in America.” Indeed, as Russell claimed, the conflict allowed those who identified the radicalism of John Bright with Americanization and disorder to present a plausible case to the English public. Americans, so this argument went, were but Englishmen transformed by Americanization, a social and political process that fostered a licentious individualism and a pernicious egalitarianism. This transformation had not only precipitated disorder in America, but the deterioration of civilization. England could also succumb to Americanization if it allowed Brightism to achieve dominance by extending the suffrage and introducing a radical, middle-class Parliament. The consequent implementation of free trade and destruction of privilege would lead to political and social democracy, making Americans of the English in England. From this perspective, Bright was an American in the most pejorative sense of the word.

A scoping review of problems and challenges faced by school leaders (2003–2019)

2020 ◽  
pp. 174114322094252
Author(s):  
Mireia Tintoré ◽  
Rosário Serrão Cunha ◽  
Ilídia Cabral ◽  
José Joaquim Matias Alves
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Extensive Search ◽  
The Times ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Management Challenge ◽  
Careful Design

The purpose of this scoping review is to analyse the literature concerning principals’ problems and challenges, beginning in 2003 and ending in 2019. The research team conducted an extensive search to locate relevant academic literature, comprising 17 years of research, and a total of 153 documents were analysed. According to the findings, most of the documents (71%) correspond to the last six years (2014–2019), and most are studies from Anglo-Saxon countries (55%). The results point to eight main categories related to the complex nature of the job (the management challenge, the complexity challenge and the learning challenge), and interactions with different stakeholders (problems with educational authorities and educational policy; the staff and teaching process; the students; the families and the school community; and the society). Although the importance given to each category varies from one context to another, problems concerning the complex nature of the job and with the educational authorities and the educational policy are the most recurrent. A significant increase in the number and complexity of problems and challenges throughout the times was noticed, which seems to enhance the need for changes in educational policies and the careful design and implementation of leadership training programmes.

Autonomy, Governance and the Chinese University 3.0: A zhong–yong Model from Comparative, Cultural and Contemporary Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 244 ◽  
pp. 988-1012
Author(s):  
Jun Li
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Chinese Universities ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Comparative Case Studies ◽  
Additional Form

AbstractThis article builds on the ambiguous concept of the autonomy of universities with three historical turns in two dominant types of universities in the world – the Anglo-Saxon and American models, represented by the British and American institutions, and the Continental models, including the recently emerging Chinese University 3.0. Based on empirical data from two comparative case studies with a documentary analysis approach, I investigate the structure of the zhong-yong model of self-mastery, demonstrating how it may differ from the Western models and offering cultural interpretations for these nuances. The article concludes that self-mastery in the Chinese context provides an additional form of autonomy which is rooted in the pragmatic Confucian concept of zhong-yong. It is also found that through the pragmatism of self-mastery, the zhong-yong model enables Chinese universities to directly serve the state and, at the same time, to legitimate the priority given to their development by state power, thus creating abundant space and resources for them to fully unfold their potentialities. With multilayered and multidirectional power relationships, this model of governance has enabled Chinese universities to radically transform themselves in a short period of time and will allow them to eventually become global leaders, although they may have to sacrifice autonomous freedom in some ways.

scholarly journals Dialectics instead of dichotomy: Perspectives on the twin ambition of the disability movement.

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Lisbeth Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Local Chapter ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Level I ◽  
Disability Movement

This article discusses the mobilizing work of a disability organization, at the local chapter level. I have spent about a year following the work of a chapter, mainly through contacts, conversations and interviews with the persons who are active on its board. The analysis of the chapter’s work takes as its starting point two traditions that emphasize collective sense of community and mobilization of groups. These traditions, continental social pedagogy and Anglo-Saxon community development, are complemented by the theoretical concepts of recognition and redistribution. A number of dilemmas, which can be expressed in terms of dichotomies, are built into these theories. They can be challenged in different ways by the empirical data. Through these confrontations, we can see how the dichotomy is transformed into dialectics where phenomena cannot be regarded as either or but rather as both.

The Old English Genesis B poet: Bilingual or interlingual?

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-184
Author(s):  
Irmengard Rauch
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Old English ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Old Saxon ◽  
Second Language Learner

ABSTRACTAlthough the celebrated 1875 conjecture of Sievers hypothesizing an Old Saxon Genesis source for the translation of the Old English Genesis B (or Later Genesis) was confirmed by the 1894 find of Zangemeister, the question of the native language of the translator of the Old Saxon Genesis remains. The Genesis B evidence is reconsidered here from the viewpoint of contemporary empirical data to ascertain whether the translator was bilingual or interlingual, the former putatively associated with a native (Old Englishman in this case), the second with a second language learner (of Old English). The Old English data contrasted with the character of Old Saxon and configurated with extrapolations from differing cognitive strategies argue for an Anglo-Saxon provenance of the Genesis B poet.

Anglo-Saxon objectives at Sutton Hoo, 1985

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 139-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. O. H. Carver
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century ◽  
Political Affiliation ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
National Centre ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Times ◽  
The One

A modern field project in archaeology is a co-operative enterprise serving an extensive and diverse public. We can no longer afford to disturb the bones of our ancestors under the mantle of serendipity or academic intuition. The archaeologist, as the one person destined ever to see the evidence at first hand, strives for the virtue of enlightened impartiality, and sets off like an explorer, constrained by communal responsibilities and armed with a list of questions furnished by a wide variety of clients. Since Sutton Hoo has been hailed as the most vivid and instructive set of archaeological evidence for the seventh-century yet identified, Anglo-Saxon questions dominate this lengthy agenda. What was the status of the great ship burial discovered there in 1939? What was the role of the cemetery in which it lay? Why was it sited in that particular place, on a scarp above the River Deben in south-east Suffolk (see pi. V)? Was it the burial ground of kings, and were they kings of East Anglia? Was it a national centre or an overdeveloped version of the local mortuary culture? Is it diagnostic of a formative kingdom, or out of joint with the times, the outstation of a religious and political affiliation alien to the hinterland? What was its connection with Scandinavia and the Scandinavians? Were its people Anglo-Saxon, or Anglian or Saxon or British or multi-racial? Was it typical or unique?

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