scholarly journals Culture generating texts: functions, genres, authors

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Karasik
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Electronic Network ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Mass Circulation ◽  
Everyday Routine ◽  
General Truth

The paper deals with culture generating texts treated as speech products corresponding to dominant features of civilization in cultural history. Three types of such texts - sacral regulations, mass circulation products and virtual net messages - have radically changed the idea of authorship and corresponding attitudes of public to texts. The first text type brought to life selected priests who were regarded as keepers of sacral knowledge to be transmitted to coming generations, the second text type initiated numerous artisans who produced various one-time texts suitable for everyday purposes, the third text type generated illusionists who launch secondary texts through the world electronic network for the sake of carnival play with life. The characteristics of three types of text as indicators of culture have been described on the material of aphorisms. Autosemantic sentences of the first type are usually expressed as manifestations of general truth or common norms of behavior, the second type phrases function as trivial observations or specific recommendations in particular situations, whereas the third type texts have a paradoxical nature or are used as banter expressions uttered to fill the gaps in conversation. Sentences of the first type make the core golden reserve of human wisdom, and they are often used in situations of social inequality when people demonstrate their experience and right to give lessons to others. Sentences of the second type are very important for everyday routine life, and they appear in corresponding habitual situations. Sentences of the third type are applied mainly in interactions which require a critical reaction to any type of edification, either moral or utilitarian, their aim is to establish equality as such by means of ridicule of any kind of self-admiration.

scholarly journals Value and moral component of the concept «future» in Russian linguoculture

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Alexandra G. Stolyarova
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Electronic Network ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Mass Circulation ◽  
Everyday Routine ◽  
General Truth

The paper deals with culture generating texts treated as speech products corresponding to dominant features of civilization in cultural history. Three types of such texts - sacral regulations, mass circulation products and virtual net messages - have radically changed the idea of authorship and corresponding attitudes of public to texts. The first text type brought to life selected priests who were regarded as keepers of sacral knowledge to be transmitted to coming generations, the second text type initiated numerous artisans who produced various one-time texts suitable for everyday purposes, the third text type generated illusionists who launch secondary texts through the world electronic network for the sake of carnival play with life. The characteristics of three types of text as indicators of culture have been described on the material of aphorisms. Autosemantic sentences of the first type are usually expressed as manifestations of general truth or common norms of behavior, the second type phrases function as trivial observations or specific recommendations in particular situations, whereas the third type texts have a paradoxical nature or are used as banter expressions uttered to fill the gaps in conversation. Sentences of the first type make the core golden reserve of human wisdom, and they are often used in situations of social inequality when people demonstrate their experience and right to give lessons to others. Sentences of the second type are very important for everyday routine life, and they appear in corresponding habitual situations. Sentences of the third type are applied mainly in interactions which require a critical reaction to any type of edification, either moral or utilitarian, their aim is to establish equality as such by means of ridicule of any kind of self-admiration.

scholarly journals ‘THE RULE OF THREE’ IN THE GROWTH STORIES – GANGBAIK LEE’S DRAMA “LIKE LOOKING AT THE FLOWER IN THE MIDWINTER”

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Mansu KIM
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Real ◽  
Final Destination ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Rule Of Three ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World

This paper focused on the structure of the growth stories, especially in surveying Gangbaek Lee’s (이강백) drama “Like Looking at the Flower in the Mid-winter (동지섣달 꽃 본 듯이)”. It is structured by ‘rule of the three’. In this text, three sons go to seek their mother, they experience the tests three times. Third son wins the game because he succeeds to find his true and alternative mother. It is similar to the story of English fairy tale “Three Little Pigs”.  In Freudian terms, the characters of the both texts are superego, ego and id. The core of the growth story is that third son (id) wins the first son (superego) and the second son (ego) by using his own energy (meaningful labor). In Levi Strauss’ terms, the contrast between the third and the others can be schemed the contrast between culture and nature. Lee’s drama presents the third son as the real hero who overcomes two elder brothers. The first is so conservative (oversleep), the second is so selfish (overeat). Two brothers were too political or too ideal to become a true, humanistic and warm-minded adult. In his view, ‘drama’ related to the third son is the most humanistic and warm-minded action in the world. These both stories are based on the plot ‘rags to riches’ which contains the success of the poor and powerless. In other words, the poor and weak child can grow to the true hero, and reach the final destination, according to the Gustav Jung’s expression, ‘the Self as a Whole’.

The Mediterranean culture of fishing: Continuity and change in the world of Jewish fishermen, 1500–1929

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-304
Author(s):  
Shai Srougo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Mediterranean Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Sea Tenure ◽  
Maritime Community

This essay discusses the maritime Jews and their changing role in the fishing occupation in the Mediterranean sea. The first part presents the trends in historiography regarding the Thessalonikian Jewish fishermen in Ottoman and Post Ottoman periods. The second section explores the maritime world of Jewish fishermen in Ottoman Thessaloniki between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. We will establish the cultural identity of the Jewish fishermen, which expressed itself in Thermaikos Bay. The third part depicts the reasons for the collapse of the Jewish sea tenure in Greek Thessaloniki, especially between the years 1922-1924, and continues to describe one of the responses; the settlement of several fishing families in Acre (in Mandatory Palestine). Their experience in the new environment was short (1925-1929) and we will investigate the linkage between their cultural marginality in the core society to the failure of forming a Jewish maritime community in Acre.

Urban Class and Communal Consciousness in Colonial Punjab: The Genesis of India's Intermediate Regime

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
World System ◽  
Intermediate Regime ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Unequal Exchange ◽  
The World ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Third World

A cornerstone of Wallerstein's (1974) theory of the capitalist world system is that economic development occurs in certain (core) regions of the world system at the expense of development in other (peripheral) regions. This thesis, accepted in one form or another by scholars following a dependency, neo-Marxist, or unequal exchange conception of economic development (as, for example, Amin 1976 or Laclau 1971; see discussion in Foster-Carter 1973 and Kahn 1980: 203ff) provides the foundation for their avowal of the ‘development of underdevelopment.’ The development of the core industrial capitalist nations required, so they argue, the distorted and repressed economic development of the third world.

Door Onderzoeken Leren Lezen

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 202-214
Author(s):  
E. Bol
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Experimental Program ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Insufficient Knowledge ◽  
Insight Into

According to the speech theory of e.g Bühler and Wittgenstein the understanding of speech is more than transforming linguistic forms into semantic structures. The core of the process of understanding has to do with interpreting human activity. Modern research in the field of reading comprehension has demonstrated that knowledge of scripts, frames etc. plays a crucial role in the reading process. This also indicates that speech reflects the world of human ac-tivity. This means that, even when a reader has a good command of the language but has insufficient knowledge of and insight into this background, his reading comprehension will be poor. We take the position that the basic sense of speech is social meaning, which is enclosed in the relation between an utterance and the situation of interpersonal communication and co-operation. E.g. someone wants to sell a house, to inform about a country etc. Within such domains of co-operation language offers the means to indicate and to describe things in a world. Indication and des-cription in speech are always based on social meaning, i.e. they go back to common human activity. When we confine ourselves to informative texts, we think that description of the world we live in is based on common methods of exploring reality. Some of these methods are feature analyses, comparison, classification, process analyses and explanation. In a learning experiment during the third till the end of the sixth class in two elementary schools we taught the pupils to use these methods systematically by engaging them in the formal exploration and description of things, events etc. In this paper the outline of the experimental program is sketched. Some results are reported. It seems acceptable to conclude that reading comprehension is fostered by the experimental program. However, more data are needed for more definite and precise conclusions.

Antaios: a mythical and symbolic Hermeneutics

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Luca Siniscalco
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
German Journal ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Ontological Pluralism ◽  
The Core ◽  
Symbolic Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Levels Of Reality

The aim of my research is to define the Religious Hermeneutics that can be identified as the specific core of Antaios (1959-1971), the German journal directed by the historian of religions Mircea Eliade and the writer and philosopher Ernst Jünger. We’ll focus on the philosophical-religious interpretation of Antaios contents: the so called “mythical-symbolic hermeneutics” is probably the most interesting theoretical theme connected to the Weltanschauung of Antaios. This cultural journal could embodies a counter-philosophical perspective that is at the same time intrinsic to Western speculation. This position has been repeatedly emerged in many phases of our cultural history. I am referring to a mythical-symbolic thought, characterized by an analogical interpretation of the world, whose structure is considered as a stratification of truth levels, that are complementary ontological levels of reality. This tradition sees reality as a specific kind of totality that allows human perception to take place through the structures of myth and symbols. The theoretical unity of the project is rooted in the mythical-symbolic tradition that, starting from the religious and esoteric pre-philosophical meditations, crosses the Platonic thought, the various neoplatonisms, passes through medieval mysticism and alchemy, reappears in Romanticism and is revealed in the twentieth century by the reflections of the “thinkers of Tradition”. With this paper I would like to communicate the main topics that from this Hermeneutics can be identified: speculations about symbol, myth, coincidentia oppositorum (coincidence of opposites), archetypes, ontological pluralism are at the core of this paradigm.

Epistemological Exercises: Encyclopedias of world cultural history in twentieth-century Japan

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
MIRIAM KINGSBERG KADIA
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Objective Knowledge ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Third ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract Encyclopedias are purportedly all-encompassing, authoritative presentations of information compiled mainly by experts for an audience of non-specialists. Believed to offer only universal ‘facts’, they have long been associated with objectivity. Yet, by arranging information into a usable form, encyclopedias inevitably convey particular ideologies and ideals. As a result, they offer a lens into the changing ‘truths’ upheld by or expected of readers. This article compares three successive, high-profile Japanese encyclopedias, each bearing the title Sekai bunkashi taikei [Encyclopedia of world cultural history]. Somewhat differently from today, the field of world cultural history purported to ‘objectively’ cover the widest relevant space (earth) and time (the human past). However, the specific concerns and commitments of world cultural historians changed greatly between the 1920s, when the first encyclopedia was published, and the 1960s, when the final volumes of the third series appeared. By looking closely at both the production and consumption of these texts, this article shows the deeply politicized ways in which ‘objective’ knowledge of the world was interpreted, implemented, marketed, and received by the Japanese public during the years of nation-building, imperial expansionism, and the Cold War.

ADDRESS OF SPIRITUAL AND MORAL NATURE FROM AN UNIDENTIFIED PERSON TO THE FAITHFUL BRETHREN

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-154
Keyword(s):  
Religious Culture ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Moral Nature

The published document contains several messages of the spiritcontrols of the Moscow spirit circle. Those messages reflect the main features of the circle’s eschatological teaching. The essence of that teaching is catastrophism – the members of the Circle believed that the world will be renewed through global disasters. The text makes it possible to judge how the members of the circle could perceive the events that took place in 1918 and allows you to get an idea of the status of the spirit leaders. The messages highlight the views of the members of the circle on the status and place of the human in the global eschatological process and contain the description of the forthcoming eschatological events. The document demonstrates the sustainability of the eschatological sentiments of the members of the circle. The message also reflects the core eschatological tendencies of the Russian spiritualism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, above all the notion that spirits are precursors of the Third Testament. In the commentary to the publication, the most significant fragments of the source are characterized and the contexts necessary for understanding its content are indicated, in particular, its relationship with other texts created within the framework of the MSC, the Gospel text is indicated. The document may be of interest to researchers of eschatological communities and anyone interested in religious culture of the Silver Age.

The Contemporary Relevance of Muhammad Iqbal

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basit Bilal Koshul
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Philosophical Importance

This chapter analyses Muhammad Iqbal's continuing relevance in three parts. The first part examines the ‘One/Many’ problem in the universe through Iqbal's concepts of khudi and the reality of God. It shows how Iqbal's philosophy is an ‘achievement possessing a philosophical importance far transcending the world of Islam’. The second part offers an illustrative example of how religion and science come into dialogue in Iqbal's thought. It shows Iqbal critiquing and repairing the cosmological, teleological, and ontological arguments for the existence of God by combining the findings of modern science with the wisdom of the Qur'an. Lastly, the third part suggests that the dialogue between religion and science at the core of Iqbal's thought can be better understood through the lens provided by Charles Peirce's pragmatism.

Social inequality in the world: trends during 2000—2016

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Grigoryev ◽  
V. A. Pavlyushina
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
The World
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