scholarly journals Functioning of Clichéd Constructions in the Speech Genre of Cinema Announcement (based on Internet Movie Announcements of Indian Films)

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-316
Author(s):  
Anand Kumar Khemka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Genre Studies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
Speech Genres ◽  
The Future ◽  
Speech Genre

The article touches upon current problems of speech genres functioning on the Internet and fits into the context of modern research in the field of virtual genre studies. The article discusses the speech genre of the movie announcement and describes the means of its language embodiment. The research is focused on the analysis of clichéd constructions and is based on 250 Indian film announcements written in Russian and posted on Indiankino.net. The author offers a descriptive model of the movie announcement speech genre which includes the following parameters: the communicative goal and type of speech genre, the image of the author and the addressee, the image of the future and the image of the past, the composition of movie announcement, the type of dictum content, means of its linguistic embodiment, non-verbal means. There is a special focus on the use of clichéd constructions in all compositional parts of the analyzed texts (name of the film, exposition, plot of the film, denouement). The research has shown that clichés function in every compositional element. The author singles out the main functions of clichéd constructions in the speech genre of the movie announcement: persuading function, advertising function, as well as text-building and genre-forming functions.

scholarly journals Pragmalinguistic Features of Informative Documentary Texts in Military Discourse (Based on Documents of the Great Patriotic War)

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Anastasiya Osipchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Written Communication ◽  
Military Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Speech Genres ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The Future ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
Content Factor ◽  
Informative Component

This article describes genre-forming features of informative documentary texts of military discourse, such as communicative goal, author’s image, addressee’s image, event content, factor of the future, and factor of the past. The following terms are studied here: documentary text, speech genre, and informative speech genres. The documentary text is considered as a kind of а speech genre, realized in writing. In the course of the research, the most frequent informative documents of military discourse (Great Patriotic War period) were selected, i.e. summary, dispatch, and report. Having analysed the definitions of the abovementioned speech genres and the corresponding documentary texts, the author was able to determine their communicative goals, single out the main (inform) and additional (ask, suggest) genre-forming intentions. It was revealed that the speech addressee in informative speech genres can be both an executive officer and a group of persons, information about them (detailed or not) being presented in the initial and final formulas of the document. The author’s image in the main texts of documents is either implicit or manifested with the help of performative verbs. The speech addressee is abstract and is only indicated in the initial formula of the document, in most cases by the person’s position. Informative documents should meet the following requirements: impersonal and multi-event nature, presentation of the informative component by events of the past and the present, creation of a futural perspective in texts with incentive intentions. The analysis of the factor of the past showed that the summary and the analytical report are initiative genres of written communication, while the dispatch and the operations report are reactive speech genres. Having studied the factor of the future parameter, the author concluded that informative speech genres underlie other informative and directive genres. For instance, dispatches and reports are created on the basis of summaries, whose main intention is to inform. The texts of dispatches and reports, having additional intentions of asking and suggesting, form the basis for directive documentary texts.

scholarly journals Contriving the Future by Tampering with the Past: A Deferral Tactic in Chinese Internet Censorship

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUSUNG SU ◽  
Siyu Sun ◽  
Jiangrui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Event ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Internet Censorship

How do Chinese information inspectors censor the internet? In light of the assumption that inspectors must follow specific rules instead of ambiguous guidelines, such as precluding collective action, to decide what and when to delete, this study attempts to offer a dynamic understanding of censorship by exploiting well-structured Weibo data from before and after the 2018 Taiwanese election. This study finds that inspectors take advantage of time in handling online discussions with the potential for collective action. Through this deferral tactic, inspectors make online sentiments moderately flow regarding an important political event, and thereafter, past discussions on trendy topics will be mostly removed. Therefore, reality is selectively altered; the past is modified, and the future will be remembered in a ``preferable" way.

Gaining a Past, Losing a Future: Web 2.0 and Internet Historicity

2012 ◽  
Vol 143 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Allen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
The Web

This article explore how, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the internet became historicised, meaning that its public existence is now explicitly framed through a narrative that locates the current internet in relation to a past internet. Up until this time, in popular culture, the internet had been understood mainly as the future-in-the-present, as if it had no past. The internet might have had a history, but it had no historicity. That has changed because of Web 2.0, and the effects of Tim O'Reilly's creative marketing of that label. Web 2.0, in this sense not a technology or practice but the marker of a discourse of historical interpretation dependent on versions, created for us a second version of the web, different from (and yet connected to) that of the 1990s. This historicising moment aligned the past and future in ways suitable to those who might control or manage the present. And while Web 3.0, implied or real, suggests the ‘future’, it also marks out a loss of other times, or the possibility of alterity understood through temporality.

The Whole World is Going Mobile

2015 ◽  
pp. 137-160
Author(s):  
Charles E. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Interactive Applications ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

The Internet is growing ever more mobile – meaning, that an ever greater proportion of Internet devices are mobile devices. This trend necessitates new designs and will produce new and even unpredictable conceptions about the very nature of the Internet and, more fundamentally, the nature of social interaction. The engineering response to growing mobility and complexity is difficult to predict. This chapter summarizes the past and the present ways of dealing with mobility, and uses that as context for trying to understand what needs to be done for the future. Central to the conception of future mobility is the notion of “always available” and highly interactive applications. Part of providing acceptable service in that conception of the mobile Internet will require better ways to manage handovers as the device moves around the Internet, and ways to better either hide or make available a person's identity depending on who is asking.

scholarly journals Toward the future: A conceptual review and call for research and action with online communities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Nicole Steltenpohl ◽  
Jordan Reed ◽  
Christopher Keys
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Community Support ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

The internet allows people to connect with virtually anyone across the globe, building communities based on shared interests, experiences, and goals. Despite the potential for furthering our understanding of communities more generally through exploring them in online contexts, online communities have not generally been a focus of community psychologists. A conceptual, state-of-the-art review of eight major community psychology journals revealed 23 descriptive or empirical articles concerning online communities have been published in the past 20 years. These articles are primarily descriptive and can be organized into four categories: community building and maintenance (seven articles, 30.43%), community support (six articles, 26.09%), norms and attitudes (six articles, 26.09%), and advocacy (four articles, 17.39%). These articles reflect a promising start to understanding how we can utilize the internet to build and enhance communities. They also indicate how much further we have to go, both in understanding online communities and certain concepts regarding community psychology more generally. Community psychologists involved in practice and applied settings specifically may benefit from understanding online communities as they become integral components of advocacy, community organizing, and everyday life.

scholarly journals Texts of Natural Written Speech as an Object of Genre Analysis: The Problem of Method

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Tyukaeva ◽  
Konstantin Brinev
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Methodological Principle ◽  
Universal Method ◽  
Semiotic Model ◽  
Diagnostic Potential ◽  
Speech Genres ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Speech Genre

The article defines the methodological problems of constructing a model of the speech genre and suggests the way of solving them. The existing models of Text – Text components – Genre type are recognized as the main tool for the study and description of speech genres. It is argued that the speech genre description methodology in modern linguistics should be focused on the ideas of systematic construction. The principles of text analysis in the aspect of speech genre studies are determined and some errors of scientifically employed approaches are identified. The elimination of these errors will allow genre studies to shift to a new methodological principle of constructing a genre model that has a diagnostic potential. The current problematic issues of genre studies are formulated. As a productive technology for describing a speech genre, we propose a universal method of functional modelling, which will enable designing genres and their modules on the basis of regularity, obligation, and oppositional character. In order to solve the problem of genre description in the attributive aspect, that is, to determine its units, it is productive to analyze the genre applying the so-called communicative semiotic model, as well as the method of transformational-and-oppositional analysis. The proposed principle of genre description is postulated as a method of objective modelling. Thus, within the framework of this study, the analysis of the theoretical problems of modern genre studies is carried out, the objectives of speech genres investigation are formulated and the approaches to their achieving are presented in an overview.

scholarly journals “Questionnaire of a Speech Genre” of T. V. Shmeleva: Past, Present, Future (for the 30th Anniversary of the Genre Model)

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 252-262
Author(s):  
Vadim Viktorovich Dementyev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Genre Studies ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Theoretical Justification ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Speech Genres ◽  
Quantitative Characteristics ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Speech Genre

The article reflects the scientific fate of the main genre model – the “questionnaire of the speech genre” of T. V. Shmeleva. The author discusses the reasons for the high demand for the “questionnaire” in genre studies: the parameters of the “questionnaire” affect the most important aspects, the “pain points” of the genre; the formal simplicity and consistency of the “questionnaire”. Along with the advantages and achievements (the article gives their brief description), the author points to a few critical issues concerning the “questionnaire”: the lack of items of the “questionnaire” (the juxtaposition of primary and secondary speech genres, direct and indirect speech genres, speech and rhetorical genres, cultural characteristics of speech genres, etc. are not presented in it) and its crucial points which are not commonly recognized, i.e. the ranking points of the “questionnaire”. In relation to modern genre studies, the article deals with the items that either should be or can be, or have already been added to the “questionnaire”, as well as the theoretical justification of their relations, which, according to the author of the article, will allow to clarify some other items of the “questionnaire”. The emphasis is on those points that are less spelled out in the “canonical” “questionnaire”, but that should be used for a more adequate study of genres (especially new ones), and are already actually used. The discussion focuses on the following points: typological, including the stadial-typological and historical-etymological, features of speech genres; determination of the place of the genre in the structural-hierarchical typology; cultural, linguistic and linguocultural characteristics of speech genres; characteristics of the communicative concept, through which the genre is presented and interpreted, and its components; the ability of the genre to form its variants; corpus and quantitative characteristics of speech genre; online genres.

scholarly journals MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF CONSUMER CHOICE IN FASHION: POTENTIAL STUDENT PROJECTS

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 912-918
Author(s):  
Anthony G Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Copying Machine ◽  
Financial Power ◽  
Student Projects ◽  
Purchasing Patterns

This paper suggests an unusual theme for undergraduate student projects. The future is now.  Repackaging the past has historical value but it is not a preparation for the range and scope of the internet as a vast copying machine which can not only detect purchasing patterns but can adjust bargain prices to fit the buyer’s calculated financial power and target them through intermediary subsidiaries in a universal online market. Quantitative techniques can now penetrate disciplines which once eschewed them.  This paper looks at three such approaches in the context of consumer choice in fashion.

Prognosen zum E-Commerce - Ungewissheiten über das zukünftige Potenzial des elektronischen Handels

2000 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Mai
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Business People ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Potential

AbstractE-Commerce - an application of the internet - has expanded exponentially over the past five years and is widely expected to continue to develop rapidly. The potential of electronic commerce has caught the imaginations of politicians and business people. Yet, it is difficult to measure the current (and future) magnitude of e-commerce. Even more challenging is trying to assess the value of transactions within the latter, since defining what constitutes electronic commerce has proven to be somewhat intricate. A number of consulting groups, however, has published estimates of e-commerce transactions. These projections will be discussed in this paper. Furthermore, the paper shows that the future potential of e-commerce is uncertain, and points out that political authorities have to take this into account when considering prospective regulations for this industry.

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