Cultural Regulation, Geographical Indication and the (re) Signification of an Artisanal Cheese

Abstract Laws and norms can change the production processes of an organization, with repercussions for the tangible and symbolic composition of its products. Based on this assumption of Cultural Studies, we seek to understand how the practice of cultural regulation by a group of small producers is (re)signifying the rennet cheese produced artisanally in the Agreste region of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. We use discourse analysis to analyze interviews and documents such as the decrees and regulations that deal with processing dairy products in Brazil, as well as those governing the process of Geographical Indication, and compare the cultural meanings that have emerged in two spheres of regulation: the public and the private. Findings reveal governmental characterization of artisanal rennet cheese has been justified by a discourse of “quality” at both the state and federal levels. However, the regulation put in place in the private sphere of the Producers Association makes use of different arguments to construct the discourse of quality with respect to the same food.

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A Discourse Analysis of Canadian PM’s Speech after New Zealand Christchurch Mosque Shootings

University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature ◽

10.33195/jll.v2iii.166 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-14

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

New Zealand ◽

General Public ◽

Social Practices ◽

The Public ◽

Persuasive Strategies ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

Linguistic Characterization

We use language for different purposes that are mostly related to the social practices in different contexts and perspectives. Discourse analysis is one of the disciplines which examines the use of language from different perspectives to reach a possible understanding of the discourse. This paper is also an attempt to analyze language used in a particular context and perspective to understand and expose some constructed realities. The objective of this study is to examine the Canadian PM’s moral and ideological standpoint, his commitment to show solidarity with the grieved community, his determination to eradicate terrorism and his linguistic characterization of terrorism that he confirmed in his speech in the House of Common on March 18, 2019 after the Christchurch Mosque Shootings in New Zealand. The analysis is based on Fairclough’s conceptions in CDA. It claims that ideologies and texts are interrelated, and it is not possible to break this link between ideologies and texts because the texts can be interpreted in maximum possible ways. This study analyzes the components of ideology and persuasion used in Justin Trudeau’s speech to reveal his commitment and persuasive strategies against terrorism, and it gives new hopes to the targeted communities worldwide as well as the general public. He tried to ensure the public that they are not alone because the world leaders and the heads of the states are unconditionally united to eradicate worldwide terrorism.

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A Discourse Analysis of Canadian PM’s Speech after New Zealand Christchurch Mosque Shootings

University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature ◽

10.33195/uochjll/2/2/1/2018 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

New Zealand ◽

General Public ◽

Social Practices ◽

The Public ◽

Persuasive Strategies ◽

The World ◽

Linguistic Characterization

We use language for different purposes that are mostly related to social practices in different contexts and perspectives. Discourse analysis is one of the disciplines which examines the use of language from different perspectives to reach a possible understanding of the discourse. This paper is also an attempt to analyze the language used in a particular context and perspective to understand and expose some constructed realities. The objective of this study is to examine the Canadian PM’s moral and ideological standpoint, his commitment to show solidarity with the grieved community, his determination to eradicate terrorism and his linguistic characterization of terrorism that he confirmed in his speech in the House of Common on March 18, 2019, after the Christchurch Mosque Shootings in New Zealand. The analysis is based on Fairclough’s conceptions in CDA. It claims that ideologies and texts are interrelated, and it is not possible to break this link between ideologies and texts because the texts can be interpreted in maximum possible ways. This study analyzes the components of ideology and persuasion used in Justin Trudeau’s speech to reveal his commitment and persuasive strategies against terrorism, and it gives new hopes to the targeted communities worldwide as well as the general public. He tried to ensure the public that they are not alone because the world leaders and the heads of the states are unconditionally united to eradicate worldwide terrorism.

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A Discourse Analysis of Canadian PM’s Speech after New Zealand Christchurch Mosque Shootings

University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature ◽

10.33195/jll.v2i2.89 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

New Zealand ◽

General Public ◽

Social Practices ◽

The Public ◽

Persuasive Strategies ◽

The World ◽

Linguistic Characterization

We use language for different purposes that are mostly related to social practices in different contexts and perspectives. Discourse analysis is one of the disciplines which examines the use of language from different perspectives to reach a possible understanding of the discourse. This paper is also an attempt to analyze the language used in a particular context and perspective to understand and expose some constructed realities. The objective of this study is to examine the Canadian PM’s moral and ideological standpoint, his commitment to show solidarity with the grieved community, his determination to eradicate terrorism and his linguistic characterization of terrorism that he confirmed in his speech in the House of Common on March 18, 2019, after the Christchurch Mosque Shootings in New Zealand. The analysis is based on Fairclough’s conceptions in CDA. It claims that ideologies and texts are interrelated, and it is not possible to break this link between ideologies and texts because the texts can be interpreted in maximum possible ways. This study analyzes the components of ideology and persuasion used in Justin Trudeau’s speech to reveal his commitment and persuasive strategies against terrorism, and it gives new hopes to the targeted communities worldwide as well as the general public. He tried to ensure the public that they are not alone because the world leaders and the heads of the states are unconditionally united to eradicate worldwide terrorism.

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Homicide in Scotland, 1800–1849: Numbers and Theories (2)

The Scottish Historical Review ◽

10.3366/shr.2019.0401 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 98 (2) ◽

pp. 214-240

Author(s):

W. W. J. Knox

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Cause Of Death ◽

Family Members ◽

Private Sphere ◽

The Public ◽

Common Location ◽

Spontaneous Action

This article challenges a series of orthodox propositions put forward by historians writing on the decline in homicide levels over the last three hundred years. Firstly, there was a decline in impulsive violence; secondly, there was a shift from stranger to intimate killing; and thirdly, there was a transition of the site of murder from the public to the private sphere. It will be argued that murder remained a mainly spontaneous action, a response to highly charged or impassioned insults and words, sometimes alcohol-fuelled and while the killing of spouses and other immediate family members increased over the course of 150 years (1700–1849), the pattern established in the second half of the eighteenth century was hardly disturbed since most victims were known to their assailants as family, friends or workmates. Stranger killing became more commonly associated with drunken brawls in taverns or in the streets; homicides that involved premeditative action, such as robbery, were rarely the cause of death. It is also clear that the street rather than the home was the most common location, again reflecting the spontaneous and opportunistic character of homicide.

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Facing the Challenge of Democracy

10.23943/princeton/9780691151106.001.0001 ◽

2011 ◽

Keyword(s):

Political Participation ◽

Interest Groups ◽

Political Knowledge ◽

The Political ◽

Political Thinking ◽

Democratic Representation ◽

The Public ◽

Party Polarization

Citizens are political simpletons—that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters. Certainly, there is no shortage of evidence of citizens' limited political knowledge, even about matters of the highest importance, along with inconsistencies in their thinking, some glaring by any standard. But this picture of citizens all too often approaches caricature. This book brings together leading political scientists who offer new insights into the political thinking of the public, the causes of party polarization, the motivations for political participation, and the paradoxical relationship between turnout and democratic representation. These studies propel a foundational argument about democracy. Voters can only do as well as the alternatives on offer. These alternatives are constrained by third players, in particular activists, interest groups, and financial contributors. The result: voters often appear to be shortsighted, extreme, and inconsistent because the alternatives they must choose between are shortsighted, extreme, and inconsistent.

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An Alternative Postsecularism

Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” ◽

10.24030/24092517-2019-0-3-35-48 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 ◽

pp. 35-48

Author(s):

Wayne Hudson

Keyword(s):

Private Sphere ◽

Specific Context ◽

The Public ◽

The Enlightenment ◽

Alternative Version

This paper outlines an alternative version of postsecularism, one that involves a critique of many Western approaches to postsecularism. This alternative postsecularism accepts secularity for certain purposes and domains, but not secularism. It inherits the Enlightenment in some institutional respects, but not necessarily its philosophical conceptions or its anti-religion. It does not make detailed prescriptions for any specific context, but it does imply that a mature postsecularism will take account of spiritual performances in both the public and the private sphere.

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Multicultural differences in the public sphere

Phänomenologische Forschungen ◽

10.28937/1000107786 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 (1) ◽

pp. 285-300

Author(s):

Rudi Visker

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Academic Question ◽

Present Article ◽

Private Sphere ◽

Great Length ◽

The Public ◽

Religious Symbols ◽

Private Realm ◽

The Public Sphere

The present article plays off two conceptions of the public sphere against one another. The first one sees in it a sign of what is already present in the private sphere, whereas the second regards it as a symbol that has to inscribe its own symbolic force into the private realm. That this is by no means a mere academic question becomes obvious by way of several examples analyzed at great length: the institution of mourning and the discussion about the presence of religious symbols in the public sphere. An argument for considering the Muslim veil as a protection against the divine is put forward in an attempt to clarify the presuppositions of our current predisposal against it. Ultimately, pluralism should perhaps not just be taken to refer only to the presence of others outside of us who we are able to numerically count, but might be the more difficult plight of having to cope with an otherness within each of us. Should the latter be the case, then we are in need of a public sphere where we can leave behind and thus honor what is not only differentiating us from others but also from ourselves.

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Privatpolitik und Aufklärung: Johann Christoph Gottscheds Veröffentlichungsstrategie

Sprache und Literatur ◽

10.30965/25890859-04901002 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 15-43

Author(s):

Nadja Reinhard

Keyword(s):

Academic Writing ◽

18Th Century ◽

Private Sphere ◽

Academic Education ◽

Rhetorical Strategies ◽

The Public ◽

Female Authorship ◽

Education Of Women ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Scientific Integration

Abstract According to Jürgen Habermas, equality amongst those of unequal social standing in 18th-century society was limited to the private sphere. Though Gottsched shows how to use this sphere strategically for private policy and cooperation, he knows how to modify his publication strategies wisely in order to achieve the greatest and best possible effectiveness in his attempt to popularise Enlightenment. By his Moralische Wochenschriften as well as by his more popular way of academic writing for students he spreads controversial ideas such as theoretical and practical reason’s primacy over theologic argumentations, the academic education of women, or female authorship. Yet, he does so prudently and expertly uses the opportunities offered by publishing anonymously or under a pseudonym to support scientific integration of women. Gottsched relied upon a variety of rhetorical strategies to introduce controversial ideas to the broader public without embracing them openly. Employing different strategies of publication, he pursued his agenda as a moral educator, promoted emancipation from religious authorities, and advanced his own brand of cultural nationalism in order to unfold and popularise the German literary tradition. He thus significantly contributed to the structural transformation of the public sphere as described by Heinrich Bosse.

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Characterisation of Katarni rice for its Geographical Indication in of Bihar India

Journal of AgriSearch ◽

10.21921/jas.5.4.2 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (04) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

MANKESH KUMAR ◽

SATYENDRA . ◽

SP SINGH ◽

ANAND KUMAR ◽

SMRITI . ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Export Market ◽

New Delhi ◽

Geographical Indication ◽

Rice Varieties ◽

Rice Landrace ◽

Exclusive Right ◽

Intellectual Properties

“Katarni Rice” is the most prevalent, ceremonial and finest quality scented rice of Bihar. It is famous for its aromatic flavour, palatability and chura (beaten rice) making qualitiesofGeographical area of production of Katarni Rice includes districts of Munger, Banka and South Bhagalpur of Zone IIIA of Bihar. The unique features of Katarnirice is developed only when it is grown in its territory areas. It has an immense scope of trading in local as well as export market. But, the available Katarni rice is poor yielder (25-30 t/ha) and farmers are tending towards the cultivation of non-aromatic high yielding rice varieties. Hence, in order to save this landrace from extinction and promote and protect the interest of Katarni growers, attempts were made to get its geographical indication (GI). With objective of providing exclusive right to the farmers for growing this premium quality rice and getting remunerative price through its marketing, an application for getting the tag of geographical indication was submitted by a Katarnigrowers’ association. Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour as a technical facilitator for this application, served to characterize and document this rice landrace on the basis of morphological, biochemical and genetical traits. The present study deals with purification, documentation and characterization of Katarni rice which helped in getting the GI tag in 2018 from the office of Intellectual Properties Rights, New Delhi, India.

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