scholarly journals The role of moving images in the conference interpreting classroom

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Susi Septaviana Rakhmawati
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Transcription Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Listening And Speaking ◽  
Regular Mode

This paper reports on the study of the student interpreters’ performance in conference interpreting classes in an Indonesian university when multimodal texts were provided as part of the teaching methods. It aims to answer how multimodal texts can influence interpreting performance among students. A case study design was used to allow an in-depth analysis of the students’ interpreting performance as the phenomenon described (Yin, 2003) using triangulation of data analysis. Observation, interview, and seven transcription analysis from three students were carried out. Observation and interview result shows that the students used visual information such as lips movement, running text on video, moving images, and the speakers’ gestures in their interpreting processes. Moreover, the students said that the existing method of teaching interpreting using multimodal texts is really helpful for them in developing their interpreting skills. Furthermore, transcription analysis also confirms that the student with multimodal strategies (facing the speaker, the screen/the video) performed better during interpreting process. However, a student who faces both did not seem to perform well. The indication is that he was unable to focus, being distracted and nervous. Thus, overall the student interpreters used visual information as part of multimodal communication, in addition to speech, working on the regular mode of listening and speaking during interpreting process, which suggest significant contribution of multimodal texts to better rendition in the target language.

scholarly journals The act of documenting: Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-104
Author(s):  
Cristina Demaria ◽  
Patrizia Violi
Keyword(s):  
Authoritarian Regime ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Opaque Context

The case study considered by the authors of this article is a peculiar example of a documentary that intervened in the landscape of democratization conflicts in the opaque context of current democracy in Indonesia. Half a century after the genocide, the film reopens the memory of a terrible and non- elaborated past, questioning the impact of the genocide in a difficult democratization process. Is it possible to move from an authoritarian regime that infected and corrupted all aspects of civil coexistence to a new and supposedly more democratic era without working through its traumatic legacy? What role might remorse and forgiveness play in the foundation of a possible new democratic pact? Joshua Oppenheimer’s film, The Act of Killing, confronts all these questions through the documentary use of the Indonesia genocide perpetrators’ words, body images, silences and denials. Engaging the images of this film through a semiotic perspective, the authors interrogate the relationship between aesthetic texts and political emancipating processes, as well as the role of traumatic memory elaboration in the foundation of democratization. Essential for their analysis is the investigation of how moving images are implicated in the imagination and actions of perpetrators, including their possible functions and effects in relation to the audience.

Meta-Information in Conversational Search

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Johannes Kiesel ◽  
Lars Meyer ◽  
Martin Potthast ◽  
Benno Stein
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Information Need ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Meta Information ◽  
Formed Part

The exchange of meta-information has always formed part of information behavior. In this article, we show that this rule also extends to conversational search. Information about the user’s information need, their preferences, and the quality of search results are only some of the most salient examples of meta-information that are exchanged as a matter of course in a search conversation. To understand the importance of meta-information for conversational search, we revisit its definition and survey how meta-information has been taken into account in the past in information retrieval. Meta-information has gone by many names, about which a concise overview is provided. An in-depth analysis of the role of meta-information in search and conversation theories reveals that they provide significant support for the importance of meta-information in conversational search. We further identify conversational search datasets are suitable for a deeper inspection with regard to meta-information, namely, Spoken Conversational Search and Microsoft Information-Seeking Conversations. A quantitative data analysis demonstrates the practical significance of meta-information in information-seeking conversations, whereas a qualitative analysis shows the effects of exchanging different types. Finally, we discuss practical applications and challenges of meta-information in conversational search, including a case study of VERSE, an existing search system for the visually impaired.

scholarly journals Religious Tastes and Styles as Markers of Class Belonging: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Pentecostalism in South America

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 1237-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Koehrsen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
South America ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Emotional Expressiveness ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Life Improvement ◽  
The Relationship

Studies on the relationship between social class and religion tend to highlight the demographic dimension of class, but neglect its symbolic dimension. By addressing the symbolic dimensions through a Bourdieuian approach, this article contends that religious tastes and styles can be employed as class markers within the sphere of religion. A case study on Argentinean Pentecostalism and in-depth analysis of a lower and middle class church illustrate how symbolic class differences are cultivated in the form of distinctive religious styles. While the lower class church displays a style marked by emotional expressiveness and the search for life improvement through spiritual practices, the middle class church performs a sober and calm style of Pentecostalism. The study highlights the role of styles in the reproduction of class boundaries, while shedding a critical light on the importance of tastes.

scholarly journals The Role of Social Media in Entrepreneurship: a Conceptual Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Lupa-Wójcik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Impact

The growing importance of social media in entrepreneurship has been observed for a long time already. Their impact is multidimensional and applies to all sectors: private, public and non-governmental. This article focuses on selected entrepreneurship aspects, and it aims to determine the role of social media in entrepreneurship based on selected issues with particular reference to the functioning of enterprises and influencing consumer behaviour. The author has considered the impact of social media on businesses and consumer behaviour. It was determined how social media enable enterprises to interact with consumers and affect demand and supply, including the phenomenon of prosumption. Thus, it can be assumed that social media influence economic equilibrium. Besides, social media allow the optimisation of operating costs and enable more efficient use of resources. They also have a real impact on consumer decisions. As a research method, an in-depth analysis of secondary data available in the literature was used. The article includes theoretical discussion supported by the research of other writers in the literature relating to the issue analysed. The analysis has shown the significant role of social media in the business entrepreneurship economy.

scholarly journals Beyond the Classroom: The Role of Self-Guided Learning in Second-Language Listening and Speaking Practice

2013 ◽  
pp. 85-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Davis
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Class Time ◽  
Guided Learning ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Second Language Listening ◽  
Listening And Speaking

There is a significant difference in most language instruction pro­­grams concerning the number of hours students spend practicing reading/writing skills versus listening/speaking skills. The primary cause for this is most likely due to the lack of class time that can be feasibly spent on meaningful conversation exchanges. Thus, the most logical answer is to have students practice outside the classroom. However, the transition from in-class learning to out-of-class practice is often not a very successful one. To address this deficiency and present possible options for creating successful learning environments beyond the classroom, this literature review offers an in-depth analysis of the role that guided learning plays in providing learning experiences for students beyond the classroom.

scholarly journals Bodybuilders as cyborgs: considering the actor-network-theory parallels

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie-Ann J. Bissonnette
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Hair Colour ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Level I ◽  
Participant Observer ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue

As a registered female athlete with the Ontario Physiques Association (OPA), I have first hand knowledge of bodybuilding at the non-competitive level. I have attended various figure, fitness and bodybuilding competitions and continue to participate in an ongoing dialogue with competing female bodybuilders. I believe that my first hand knowledge and experience allows me, as a member of this community, to provide a unique and in-depth analysis of the culture of female bodybuilding more profoundly than those outside of it. Adopting the role of participant-observer, I will explore the connection between the female bodybuilder as a cyborg and ANT. I will present my study as a micro-ethnography with autoethnography elements framed as a kind of case-study that incorporates both primary and secondary research. In conjunction with relevant academic literature, my analysis will be informed by my ongoing journal and an analysis of popular bodybuilding literature. I hope to understand how my own decision-making process as well as that of other female bodybuilders is subsequently enculturated into a cyborg's mindset. This study does not consider the ethics of building a body to unnatural proportions. I will not debate whether the choices made by a female bodybuilder are right or wrong. All persons shape their bodies in some way, through the food they decide to eat, the cigarettes they smoke, the tattoo or piercing they acquire or the hair colour they select for this season. I will focus only on the ways we may regard a female bodybuilder as a cyborg and show how ANT may help us better understand this phenomenon. It is, however, important to first understand the history and culture of bodybuilding.

scholarly journals Travel back to school: use of humour in intertwining of objective authenticity and staged experiences

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Maja Turnsek ◽  
Tatjana Zupančič ◽  
Barbara Pavlakovič
Keyword(s):  
Video Recording ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Heritage Interpretation ◽  
Prime Elements

From living museums to heritage escape rooms, edutainment is becoming a norm in interpretation of heritage, yet not much is known, of the specific role humour plays in the creation and performance of such educational products. This paper explores concepts of authenticity, functions of humour and experience design dimensions on an in-depth case study of a tourism product. The product “Smart Head Primary School” is a re-enactment of teaching as it occurred in the 1950’s in Slovenia. It gained a high extent of popularity primarily due to its extensive inclusion of humour. The product uses the role of a strict teacher to interpret to the “pupils” (visitors) the prime elements of the regions’ heritage. To analyse the intertwining of humour with heritage interpretation, the authors combine two research methods: (a) the in-depth analysis of a transcribed video-recording of a sample performance including the self-analysis and the reflections by one of the “teachers” and (b) a survey distributed to the visitors of the product. The results show that with the use of humour, visitors are able to perceive and recognize the difference between objective and constructive authenticity more effectively.

scholarly journals Enigma: Aspects of Multimodal Inter-Semiotic Translation

2016 ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Judith Leah Cross
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
World War ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Original Source ◽  
True Story ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Alan Turing ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

 Commercial and creative perspectives are critical when making movies. Deciding how to select and  combine elements of stories gleaned from books into multimodal texts results in films whose modes of image, words, sound and movement interact in ways that create new wholes and so, new stories, which are more than the sum of their individual parts. The Imitation Game (2014) claims to be based on a true story recorded in the seminal biography by Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983). The movie, as does its primary source, endeavours to portray the crucial role of Enigma during World War Two, along with the tragic fate of a key individual, Alan Turing. The film, therefore, involves translation of at least two "true" stories, making the film a rich source of data for this paper that addresses aspects of multimodal inter-semiotic translations (MISTs). Carefully selected aspects of tales based on "true stories" are interpreted in films; however, not all interpretations possess the same degree of integrity in relation to their original source text. This paper assumes films, based on stories, are a form of MIST, whose integrity of translation needs to be assessed. The methodology employed uses a case-study approach and a "grid" framework with two key critical thinking (CT) standards: Accuracy and Significance, as well as a scale (from "low" to "high"). This paper offers a stretched and nuanced understanding of inter-semiotic translation by analysing how multimodal strategies are employed by communication interpretants. 

Innovative and networked business functions: customer-driven procurement

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 302-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annalisa Tunisini ◽  
Roberta Sebastiani
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Business Function ◽  
Business Functions

Purpose – This paper aims to highlight the evolving and articulated role of purchasing as a “mediator” between the company’s customers and suppliers, thus showing the opportunities connected to the evolution of purchasing from a business function to a strategic business for companies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports on an in-depth analysis to investigate the case of IBM, which turned to the offering of services to transform itself from a pure product manufacturer into an outstanding service provider. Findings – The paper shows that as the company’s business strategy becomes focused on client value, its success is strongly dependent on the development of a customer-driven procurement. The evolution of the role of procurement is accompanied by the growing integration between the company’s procurement and sales functions, as well as by the growing interconnection and interaction between the procurement function and the company’s clients. Originality/value – The paper applies the conceptual approach and theoretical tools connected to servitization and procurement development processes to an innovative case study. The results make possible original suggestions both for literatures and management practices.

Law and Revolution

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nimer Sultany
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Arab Spring

What is the effect of revolutions on legal systems? What is the role of constitutions in legitimating regimes? How do constitutions and revolutions converge or clash? Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting. The book urges a rethinking of major categories in political, legal, and constitutional theory in light of the Arab Spring. The book is a novel and comprehensive examination of the constitutional order that preceded and followed the Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Jordan, Algeria, Oman, and Bahrain. It also provides the first thorough discussion of the trials of former regime officials in Egypt and Tunisia. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including an in-depth analysis of recent court rulings in several Arab countries, the book illustrates the contradictory roles of law and constitutions. The book also contrasts the Arab Spring with other revolutionary situations and demonstrates how the Arab Spring provides a laboratory for examining scholarly ideas about revolutions, legitimacy, legality, continuity, popular sovereignty, and constituent power.

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