scholarly journals The slang of young Russians and French: reinventing scientific linguistic collaboration in the age of coronavirus and containment

XLinguae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-253
Author(s):  
Larisa G. Vikulova ◽  
Larisa V. Ukhova ◽  
Zhanna K. Gaponova ◽  
Lina V. Razumova ◽  
Polina S. Ukhova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
Youth Language ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Linguistic Units

From the beginning, remote work was considered in connection with social and environmental problems. The pandemic and coronavirus have left many teachers and researchers unable to experiment with online work. This new way of organizing work is at the heart of exciting research in various fields: remote collaborative science, imaging, training, and distance learning are an opportunity to demonstrate relevance and find new ways of working and interacting. This article is in the framework of a scientific project carried out over a year at a distance. He deals with the problem of learning the youth language (youth slang, the term is used in Russian linguistics) and aims to present the results of a comparative study of the structural and semantic features of shale of Russian and French youth. Language experiments are based on data from students of Yaroslavl State University and the University of Poitiers. The first part deals with the description of the procedure for collecting, verifying, and processing language data, as well as the methodology for collecting; it is based on psycholinguistic experiments, field studies, and sociological studies conducted in the student environment of the two countries. The second part of the article presents the results of the semantic and structural analysis of lexical units, morphological and semantic families representing argotisms (slanguismes, in Russian) of young people recorded during the survey. The derivational mechanisms used in French and Russian youth slang are studied and interpreted. This allowed the authors to discover language universals common to young Russian and French speakers, as well as to identify culturally relevant linguistic units capable of modelling and presenting the collective identity of Russian and French students, their language image of the world, and their language personality.

Russia–Ethiopia: Humanitarian Ties Cooperation in Scientific Research

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Alexander Tkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Modern World ◽  
State University ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Scientific Project

The report shows the results of the Russian-Ethiopian historic and ethnographic expedition – a joint scientific project of two countries, successfully implemented in the early 1990s. Advanced results achieved by this expedition were much owed to participation of several leading Russian and Ethiopian scientific centers and universities – the Institute for African Studies, the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Addis Ababa University and Institute for Ethiopian Studies, The Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, and others. The participants of the expedition gathered and summarized a large body of data acquired during opinion polls, held in the course of the visits to a number of educational, medical, economic and manufacturing centers and organizations, including workshops, agricultural farms, banks, scientific centers. The collected scientific data has allowed, based on multi-factor analysis, to specify the nature of evolutionary processes in communal relations, efficiency of various aspects of federalism policy in a cosmopolitan country. Its value is reflected by applicability and sharp demand for a scientific view on one of the most troubled sides of social and political life of many African countries, and of the modern world. Based on the field research, a high number of articles and monographs have been prepared and published in the Russian Federation. They include “Report on Field Studies of Ethiopia Carried Out by Russian Historical, Ethnic, Sociological, Expedition, 1990–1992”, “Ethiopia: History, Culture and Ethnicity”, “Ethiopia: the Particular Features of Federalism”, “Drama in Modern Ethiopian Literature and Theatre”, “Mission in Ethiopia. African Policy of the USSR in the eyes of the Soviet Diplomat. 1956–1982”, two volumes of “Africa” encyclopedia and others.

scholarly journals Rabies in Our Neighbourhood: Preparedness for an Emerging Infectious Disease

Pathogens ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 375
Author(s):  
Michael P. Ward ◽  
Victoria J. Brookes
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Emerging Infectious Disease ◽  
Disease Response ◽  
Canine Rabies ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Potential Reservoir ◽  
Modelling Studies ◽  
Sociological Studies

Emerging infectious disease (EID) events have the potential to cause devastating impacts on human, animal and environmental health. A range of tools exist which can be applied to address EID event detection, preparedness and response. Here we use a case study of rabies in Southeast Asia and Oceania to illustrate, via nearly a decade of research activities, how such tools can be systematically integrated into a framework for EID preparedness. During the past three decades, canine rabies has spread to previously free areas of Southeast Asia, threatening the rabies-free status of countries such as Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea and Australia. The program of research to address rabies preparedness in the Oceanic region has included scanning and surveillance to define the emerging nature of canine rabies within the Southeast Asia region; field studies to collect information on potential reservoir species, their distribution and behaviour; participatory and sociological studies to identify priorities for disease response; and targeted risk assessment and disease modelling studies. Lessons learnt include the need to develop methods to collect data in remote regions, and the need to continuously evaluate and update requirements for preparedness in response to evolving drivers of emerging infectious disease.

Structure and Semantics of Tactile Verbs in a Comparative Aspect (On the Material of the English, German and Russian Languages)

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-63
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Sakhno
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Semantic Classification ◽  
Comparative Aspect ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Linguistic Units

This article deals with the study of the structural and semantic features of tactile verbs (hereinafter TVs) in English, German and Russian. Particular attention is paid to the comparative study of TVs, which allows us to identify structural and semantic similarities and differences of linguistic units studied. The structural and semantic classification of TVs in the compared languages is also provided.

Telework and Remote Work

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Vartiainen
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Remote Workers ◽  
Personal Devices ◽  
People Today

“Telework” and “remote work” have both increased sharply in recent years during and after the pandemic. The basic difference between telework and remote work is that a teleworker uses personal electronic devices in addition to working physically remotely from a place other than an office or company premises, whereas remote work does not require visits to the main workplace or the use of electronic personal devices. “Mobile tele- and remote workers” use several other places in addition to home for working. “Digital online telework” is a global form of employment that uses online platforms to enable individuals, teams, and organizations to access other individuals or organizations to solve problems or to provide services in exchange for payment. Often tele- and remote workers cowork in virtual teams and projects. The prevalence of various types of tele- and remote working vary. Although there are conceptual challenges to operationalizing the concept, it is estimated that hundreds of millions—and possibly more—people today earn their living working at and from their home or other places using digital tools and platforms. In the future, it is expected that new hybrid modes of working will emerge enabled by digital technologies. These changes in working increase the complexity of job demands because of the increased variety of contextual job characteristics. The main benefits of these new ways of working are organizational flexibility and individual autonomy; at the same time, unclear social relations may increase feelings of isolation and challenge the work-life balance.

scholarly journals Remote Working in a Public Bureaucracy: Redeveloping Practices of Managerial Control When Out of Sight

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Hartner-Tiefenthaler ◽  
Melanie Goisauf ◽  
Cornelia Gerdenitsch ◽  
Sabine T. Koeszegi
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Managerial Control ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Public Bureaucracy ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Future Work

This article examines managerial control practices in a public bureaucracy at the moment of introducing remote work as part with a new ways of working (NWW) project. The qualitative study builds on 38 interviews with supervisors and subordinates conducted before the advent of COVID-19. By interpreting interviewees’ conversations about current and anticipated future work practices in the changing work setting, we reveal tacit and hidden practices of managerial control that are currently prevalent in many organizations introducing remote working. Three constitutive moments of the organization’s transformation to NWW are analytically distinguished: (i) how implicit becomes explicit, (ii) how collective becomes self, and (iii) how personal becomes impersonal. Our findings emphasize that the transition to NWW must take into account prevailing institutional logics and must reconnect to a fundamental and often neglected question: What does doing work mean within the particular organization? Negotiating this fundamental question might help to overcome supervisors’ uncertainties about managerial control and provide clarity to subordinates about what is expected from them while working remotely. Finally, we discuss how the transition to NWW may serve as both an opportunity and a potential threat to established organizational practices while highlighting the challenge supervisors face when the institutional logics conflict with remote working.

scholarly journals Working from home is the new black: into the private world of remote collaboration in COVID-19 lockdowns

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnaud Prouzeau ◽  
Lonni Besançon ◽  
Joanne Mihelcic
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Remote Collaboration ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Private World ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

To mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the globe implemented Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs), one of which being Working From Home (WFH). In this paper we present an ethnographic investigation into the adaptations of working spaces and habits due to the adoption of WFH. We interviewed 12 participants from different industry contexts in order to cover a wide range of tools and practices used to conduct remote work. We focus on the importance and benefits of the different technologies available and how they impact collaboration. We discuss challenges experienced by participants in organizing their workspace at home, the impact of workload on practices, and the growing worries about isolation. The findings highlight the importance of understanding the changing physical, social and technological environments in designing new ways of working and collaborating remotely. From our results, we finally derive new directions for the HCI and CSCW research agenda on the topic of WFH.

scholarly journals The The Syntax of Personal Pronouns in the Bima Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. p13
Author(s):  
Arafiq Arafiq
Keyword(s):  
Personal Pronoun ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
The Real ◽  
Austronesian Language ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Syntactic Properties ◽  
Linguistic Units

This article aims at describing the syntactic properties and distributions of Personal Pronouns in the Bima Language, a language spoken by approximately 9000 people who inhabit the eastern part of Sumbawa Island. This number of speakers does not include those who live in Reo Pota Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara. The Bima Language is grouped into Sumba-Bima Subgroup of Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) branch of Austronesian Language. Data in this study are the linguistic units from morphems level to clausal level. The data were taken from conversations and monologues recorded in the real situations in which the Bima Language is used. The focus of this paper is to describe the personal pronoun system of the Bima Language, describing types of personal pronouns and their syntactic properties and distributions. Based on the analysis, the Bima Language has a set of morphologically independent personal pronouns (full pronouns) and a set of clitics. Both sets of personal pronouns show the same syntactic properties and distributions. These two sets of personal pronouns are able to occur as independent clausal arguments of both intransitive and transitive constructions. In addition to their distributions, these two sets of personal pronouns can occur with numerals, relatives, and NPs. However, only full personal pronouns can combine with demonstratives.

Is the French sociology of organisations specifically French?

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Frederic Livian
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Based ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
French Sociology ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Sociology Of Organisations

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the contribution of French sociology of organisations (mainly represented by M. Crozier, E. Friedberg and J.D. Reynaud) to the knowledge of organisations in the French context, specially through the “bureaucratic phenomenon”. Design/methodology/approach – The author shows that the work has provided a relevant picture of some of the main characteristics of a “French way of organising”, but shows in a second part that French specificities are only a part of the authors’ scientific project, and discusses some of the reasons why it did not get a large international recognition in the English-speaking literature. Findings – The article provides a summary of the analysis and a discussion of its relevance to the French context today. It opens a reflection about the question as to whether a sociological school based on field studies can be used outside of its original context of conception. Research limitations/implications – The author does not have the ambition of an exhaustive overview of the international impact of this school. Practical implications – The author aims at a reevaluation of the contribution, for English-speaking academics, and at a development of the thinking about the use of the “strategic analysis” model. Originality/value – An examination of the today relevance of the “bureaucratic” model in France, and a better knowledge of the interest of this school outside France.

scholarly journals Post-Pandemic Office Work: Perceived Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Work Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 294
Author(s):  
Maral Babapour Chafi ◽  
Annemarie Hultberg ◽  
Nina Bozic Yams
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Office Work ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Future Work

The widespread adoption of remote and hybrid work due to COVID-19 calls for studies that explore the ramifications of these scenarios for office workers from an occupational health and wellbeing perspective. This paper aims to identify the needs and challenges in remote and hybrid work and the potential for a sustainable future work environment. Data collection involved two qualitative studies with a total of 53 participants, who represented employees, staff managers, and service/facility providers at three Swedish public service organisations (primarily healthcare and infrastructure administration). The results describe opportunities and challenges with the adoption of remote and hybrid work from individual, group, and leadership perspectives. The main benefits of remote work were increased flexibility, autonomy, work-life balance and individual performance, while major challenges were social aspects such as lost comradery and isolation. Hybrid work was perceived to provide the best of both worlds of remote and office work, given that employees and managers develop new skills and competencies to adjust to new ways of working. To achieve the expected individual and organisational benefits of hybrid work, employers are expected to provide support and flexibility and re-design the physical and digital workplaces to fit the new and diverse needs of employees.

The Future of Maritime Business Management and Leadership in Global Business Sustainability and Remote Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 262-283
Author(s):  
Nihan Senbursa
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Business World ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
New Ways Of Working

It is observed that the global business world has significantly diverted towards new technologies in terms of remote work as a result of digitalization, which forces organizations to adapt new normal during the COVID-19 pandemic. Maritime organizations that keep up with this change can manage to continue their existence; however, those who cannot adapt are eliminated by the system. Developments in the global business world, new ways of working, and their reflections inside and outside the organization force leadership to adapt to changing conditions by also affecting the understanding of “leadership.” This chapter aims to reveal the importance of merging new leadership paradigms and governance, digitalization, sustainable changes in global business, continuity of work, work-life balance, and the concepts of “work,” “workforce,” “workplace,” and “leadership.”

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