scholarly journals Cultural Difference in Chinese and English Euphemisms

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongping Xiang ◽  
Yanfei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Lubricating Oil ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Chinese And English

The term “euphemism” comes from Greek and the literal meaning of the word is “to speak with good words or in a pleasant manner”. Euphemism is not only a linguistic phenomenon, but also a cultural phenomenon. It originates from “word fetishism” in the early age of human civilization. Now, it is commonly used by people in every aspect of social life and functions to avoid taboos, be polite and disguise etc. To a great extent, it serves as the “lubricating oil” in language communication. Without proper application of euphemism, people may usually feel confused or embarrassed in communication. The study of euphemism has long been the focus of researchers home and abroad. Both English and Chinese have a lot of euphemisms.Language is the carrier and reflector of culture, euphemisms in different cultures may have different characteristics of the social culture. We know more about the traditional cultures of both languages. The findings in the comparison of cultural aspects can provide us knowledge helpful for the better understanding and use of euphemisms.

scholarly journals Poetry as a Social Document: The Social Position of the Arab Woman as Reflected in the Poetry of Nizâr Qabbânî

1975 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-494
Author(s):  
Arieh Loya
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Harsh Environment ◽  
Arab Woman ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Nomadic Life ◽  
Social Document

No other people in the world, perhaps, have given more information in their poetry on their cultural and social life than have the Arabs over the centuries. Many years before the advent of Islam and long before they had any national political organization, the Arabs had developed a highly articulate poetic art, strict in its syntax and metrical schemes and fantastically rich in its vocabulary and observation of detail. The merciless desert, the harsh environment in which the Arabs lived, their ever shifting nomadic life, left almost no traces of their social structure and the cultural aspects of their life. It is only in their poetry – these monuments built of words – that we find such evidence, and it speaks more eloquently than cuneiform on marble statues ever could.

scholarly journals Diseño de la comunicación gráfica y comunicación de salud: la expresión gráfica social de la enfermedad / Design and graphic communication health communication: the social graphic expression of the disease

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-140
Author(s):  
Maria del Socorro Juarez Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Health Communication ◽  
General Expression ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Graphic Communication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Expression ◽  
Different Cultures

ABSTRACTThe work is part of studies for the Get the degree of PhD in Mexico. Thereof are intended widen the theoretical and practical relations between the design of graphic communication and health communication. What else a through observation of the graph of the disease posters diabetes health . In this sense, figurative relationships found in the historical, artistic and social expression of diseases of different cultures and eras are studied; as these may influence or clashing in the figuration of contemporary mexican cartels Health. To analyze the correlation, is important to place attention on six works of art. Related to diseases in different contexts; as well as, three health posters diabetes. Released by the Ministry of Health (SSA) and the Alliance for Health Food. In the samples, figurations of the phases of individual and social life, being experienced people to suffer diseases are compared, by authors such as: Schumann (1965), Sontag (2003) and the "Law for the Promotion of Personal Autonomy and Care for people in situations of dependency (BOE, 2006; SEPAD, 2006). The results exhibit various groups of social, economic, sense of life and adaptation to different conditions in the general expression of the disease in art. Some of these are taken up by the design of images of health, to testify guilt and dependence on other subjects, to developing a disease. While others, far from attempting the rejection as unnatural disease of humans.RESUMENEl trabajo forma parte de estudios para obtener el grado de doctorado en México. Estos tienen como objeto, ampliar las relaciones teóricas y prácticas entre el diseño de la comunicación gráfica y la comunicación de salud; a través de la observación de la gráfica del miedo en motivaciones de miedo de carteles de salud para la diabetes. En este sentido, parte de la tesis corresponde al estudio de relaciones gráficas encontradas en la expresión histórica, artística y social de las enfermedades en diversas culturas y épocas, que pudieran influir o contraponerse en la figuración de carteles contemporáneos de salud mexicanos.Para analizar las correspondencias, es importante colocar atención en seis obras de arte que figuran enfermedades en diversos contextos; así como tres carteles de salud de diabetes, difundidos por la Secretaría de Salud (SSA) y Alianza por la salud Alimentaria. En los dos grupos de imágenes, se compara ciertas figuraciones con las fases de convivencia individual y social, por las que atraviesan las personas al padecer enfermedades. Según autores como Schumann (1965), Sontag (2003) y la “Ley de Promoción de la Autonomía Personal y Atención a las personas en situación de dependencia (BOE, 2006; SEPAD, 2006). 

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF DAILY LIFE TRACES DUE TO CULTURAL CHANGE ON FIKRET MUALLA'S ART

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (86) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Time

Culture is the values that constitute the unity of life, thought and belief that a society creates in the historical and social development process. These values, which determine the lifestyle of a nation, people and society, have been passed down from generation to generation. The unique life models, art, morality, laws and order of the society determine the culture of that society and shape the daily lives of the people who make up the society. When the social structure and life of different nations are examined, it is noteworthy that the cultures differ significantly and diverge from each other. While human beings adapt to all kinds of changes with the instinct of survival, they consciously or unconsciously keep pace with their social life in order to continue their social life within the changing cultural structure. Fikret Mualla, a Turkish painter, was born in 1903, until his mid-thirties naturally lived and produced works by being influenced by Turkish culture and society. Although he went abroad for a short time many times during this period, he went to Paris in 1939 and lived there for twenty-six years. During this long period, his art, like himself, was influenced by the culture he lived in, and he reflected the daily life in Paris and artistic expression forms on his works. Cafes, circuses and streets in Paris have become the main subject of the artist's works. To analyze the effects of contemporary life in the context of cultural change through artists and works of art; It is aimed to contribute to the relevant literature by examining the changes brought by the French culture and life in Fikret Mualla's works. In addition, it is aimed to examine how the cultural difference affects the works of the artist in question in terms of subject and technique. Qualitative research methods and techniques were used in the study in which general scanning model was used. Keywords: Culture, Turkish Art, Fikret Mualla

scholarly journals Subordinasi Kepemimpinan Perempuan dalam Budaya Batak Toba

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Rispritosia Sibarani ◽  
Yurulina Gulo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Toba Batak ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Ideal

In this paper we analyze the position of women in the social life of the Toba Batak community, in influencing others to do something called a leader. In the context of such thinking, the author wants to see why women in Toba Batak have not experienced development in leadership and want to elaborate on the process of socio-cultural transmigration in Batak Bangso especially Batak Toba in political, social and cultural aspects, the majority of whose leaders are men. This paper uses a descriptive-analytic approach and with a qualitative approach. The results of the study mentioned that women experience gender inequality which is characterized by the occurrence of subordination (numbering) and marginalization of Batak women. In the field of politics, the ideal leadership is always measured from a men's perspective, so that the position of women is increasingly weak in their interaction with the surrounding community. Domestication and marginalization of women in the public sphere seems to have been exhausted and enjoyed by women because they are educated and live in a patriarchal culture by believing and believing in diverting religious teachings that are understood in a discriminatory way, and perpetuating women's alienation.

scholarly journals Kulturologiczne aspekty życia rodzinnego Vuka Karadžicia w świetle jego korespondencji

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylwia Nowak-Bajcar
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Civil Codes ◽  
Different Cultures

Cultural aspects of Vuk Karadžić’s family life in the light of his correspondenceThe source material for the study, which is the correspondence between Anna and Vuk Karadžić, spouses coming from different cultures, was used to highlight the issues of legitimacy of the fear of cultural difference of the Orient. The cultural sphere of family life (manifested in particular by the status of the child) becomes herein an excuse to touch upon the question of whether and to what extent the legal system governing family relations in Serbia after the period of the Ottoman rule was different from the civil codes in Western Europe. Kulturologiczne aspekty życia rodzinnego Vuka Karadžicia w świetle jego korespondencji Materiał źródłowy, jakim jest korespondencja Anny i Vuka Karadžiciów, małżonków wywodzących się z odmiennych kręgów kulturowych, posłużył do wydobycia problematyki zasadności lęku „Zachodu” przed odmiennością kulturową Orientu. Sfera kultury życia rodzinnego (manifestowana szczególnie poprzez status dziecka) stanowi w niniejszym tekście pretekst do postawienia pytania o to, czy i w jakiej mierze system prawny regulujący relacje rodzinne w potureckiej Serbii odbiegał od kodeksów cywilnych na Zachodzie Europy.

scholarly journals Main Values of Wedding Traditions and Representation of Wedding Concept by Language Means

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 321-328
Author(s):  
Zh. Zhalieva ◽  
S. Abdykadyrova
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Category ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Cultural Linguistics ◽  
Comprehensive Study

This work is devoted to the linguo-cognitive and linguocultural study of the concept of "wedding". The concept as a universal category plays a very important role in the culture of every nation; in all languages they reflect not only universal concepts, but also completely different meanings and properties of the objective world, which explains their different manifestations in language. The linguistic picture of the world influences people and forms their linguistic consciousness, and with them their cultural and national identity. The influence of cultural and human factors on the formation and functioning of various linguistic units (lexemes, free and non-free phrases or idioms, and even texts) are culturally marked in the content, which is embodied in national connotations. This study illustrates a comparative study of wedding traditions reflected in English, Russian and Kyrgyz cultural linguistics. Marriage, being a universal human “universal” - the only possible form of social life, although extremely variable, has a national specificity. Marriage is a mirror that reflects the social, legal, demographic and cultural aspects of the life of peoples. It shows the complex palette of the social relations system. The relevance of this study is due to a number of factors: the high importance of the linguocultural concept "wedding" for the Russian, English and Kyrgyz cultures; the lack of existing research approaches to the description of the highlighted concept; the need for a detailed and comprehensive study of this concept, which is a fragment of a separate concept sphere. The aim of the research is a linguo-cognitive and linguocultural analysis of the universal concept “wedding”, which is actualized in correlated fragments of Russian, English and Kyrgyz cultures.

scholarly journals Aspects of the master-disciple relationship: Dimitrie Gusti and Mircea Vulcănescu

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-135
Author(s):  
Nicu Gavriluţă
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Sufficient Reason ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Phenomenology ◽  
Present Text

The present text analyzes some cultural aspects of the master-disciple relationship between Dimitrie Gusti and Mircea Vulcănescu. Insist especially on the topicality of Gustian sociology while taking Mircea Vulcănescu’s receiver. Mircea Vulcănescu’s discipleship starts with the coordination of the bachelor’s degree in sociology by Professor Dimitrie Gusti, and then continues with the writing of other studies. Participation in sociological campaigns field, seminars and sociology conferences will follow afterwards. The present study also has the interpretation that the disciple Mircea Vulcănescu gives to the sociological system of the declared teacher Dimitrie Gusti. The precise references are to the Aristotelian substrate of the relation between possibility and actuality, reflected by Dimitrie Gusti in the relation between cadres and manifestations; to the social will understood as an original expression of the voluntarism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; to the archetypal character of the four Gustavian cadres; to Gusti’s sociological system defined as “system of social philosophy”. In this sense, Dimitrie Gusti’s system does not exclude science. On the contrary, it includes it in the sense of “sufficient reason” of all those existing in social life. Finally, I illustrated the importance of the social phenomenology practiced by Mircea Vulcănescu in the field sociological campaigns coordinated by Dimitrie Gusti with two classic examples and one current one. The first two refer to the analysis of a magico-religious phenomenon (the enchantment) and to the subtleties of the speculative vocation of the Romanian reflected linguistically. The present example is an attempt, partially original, to interpret in the spirit of the phenomenology proposed by Vulcănescu certain forms of popular culture that illustrate the non-canonical power of evil in Romanian history. At the limit, these fantasies of the efficacy of evil could more deeply explain the suspicion and distrust of Romanians.

scholarly journals TAKHAYUL SEPUTAR KEHAMILAN DAN KELAHIRAN DALAM PANDANGAN ORANG LABUAN BAJO: TINJAUAN ANTROPOLOGI SASTRA

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Uniawati Uniawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social

AbstrakPenelitian ini dilandasi oleh pemikiran bahwa takhayul merupakan salah satu bentuk tradisi lisan yang sulit dipisahkan dari kehidupan masyarakat, baik masyarakat tradisional maupun modern. Salah satu kelompok masyarakat yang hingga kini masih kuat terpengaruh dengan pola pemikiran lama adalah kelompok masyarakat Labuan Bajo. Masyarakat Labuan Bajo adalah salah satu kelompok masyarakat tradisional yang di dalamnya subur dengan kepercayaan yang bersifat takhayul. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjawab dua permasalahan, yaitu mengungkapkan bentuk dan isi takhayul yang terdapat di lingkungan masyarakat Labuan Bajo serta mendeskripsikan aspek-aspek budaya masyarakat tersebut berdasarkan takhayul yang terdapat di lingkungan mereka. Untuk menjawab kedua permasalah tersebut, digunakan pendekatan Antropologi Sastra. Data yang dianalisis dalam penelitian ini adalah data yang diperoleh secara lisan di lapangan berupa ungkapan tentang kepercayaan terhadap sesuatu yang bersifat takhayul. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa orang Labuan Bajo pada dasarnya masih mengakui keberadaan takhayul hingga sekarang, namun tingkat kepercayaannya sudah berkurang dibandingkan dengan kepercayaan yang dimiliki oleh para pendahulunya. Para pendahulu (nenek moyang) orang Labuan Bajo memandang takhayul sebagai suatu bentuk kepercayaan yang akan menimbulkan bahaya atau bencana apabila dilanggar, sedangkan orang Labuan Bajo sekarang sebagian besar memandang takhayul sebagai sarana menyampaikan pendidikan akhlak, etika, dan budi pekerti dalam lingkungannya agar masyarakat hidup lebih beradab dan berbudaya. Untuk itu, beberapa takhayul masih dipelihara dalam komunitas masyarakat tersebut. Abstract This research was based on the fact that superstitions are a kind of oral tradition that is inherent in the social life of a society, either in modern or traditional ones. The aims of the research are, firstly, to reveal forms and contents of superstitions that live among Labuan Bajo people and secondly, to describe cultural aspects of the people based on their superstitions. The author approaches the problems by using literary anthropology. The result shows that superstitions still exist among Labuan Bajo people but in a lower degree. Contrary to their ancestors who thought of superstitions as harmful if they were broken, today the Labuan Bajo people consider superstitions as a means to convey messages of morals and ethics to the young. Therefore, they tend to maintain some superstitions stories in the society.

scholarly journals The Civilizational Dimension of the Structurating of Societies

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-175
Author(s):  
Ruslan Braslavskiy ◽  
Vladimir Kozlovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Aspects

The civilizational approach in contemporary sociology aims at clarifying the relationships between social structure and culture, and institutions and actors. The civilizational dimension of the structuring of societies focuses on uncovering the complex interactions between the civilizational pattern and social structure. The focus is on a historically-defined combination of interpretive models and institutional frameworks in which the social dynamics of society unfolds. The fundamental premise of civilizational analysis in sociology is the rejection of social or cultural reductionist determinism. The key moments are distinction and autonomy, and are contingent on the interweaving of the structural, institutional, and cultural aspects of social interaction. The basic concepts of the civilizational dimension of structuring societies are (a) the determination of the method of differentiation and integration of the spheres of social life; (b) the establishment of basic norms and “debentures” for the main institutional sectors; (c) the building a social center and establishing its relationship with the periphery; (d) the construction of collective identities; (e) giving order to the formation of social stratification and the social division of labor; and (f) a self-representation and the strategies of sociopolitical elites, and their management practices. The key aspects of the civilizational structuring of social formations are highlighted and considered in the examples of the Imperial and the Soviet periods in the history of Russian society. Contemporary societies in the civilizational dimension are a combination of (a) inherited local civilizational traditions (often with their own anticipations of modernity), then (b) perceived in the course of inter-civilizational encounters with cultural and institutional influences of “other” traditions and reactions to them, and then (c) develop, inherit their own, borrow, or take on imposed-from-the-outside articulations and visions of the problems of modernity civilization, including models of modernity which receive universal meaning and value.

Understanding the Relational Self

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Pouliasi ◽  
Maykel Verkuyten
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Relational Self ◽  
Cognitive Representation ◽  
Social Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines spontaneous social self-representations in two different cultures (the Netherlands and Greece) and among adults and early adolescents. A distinction between three levels of the social self is made: the relational self, the communal self, and the collective self. Supporting the notion of the general primacy of the relational self the findings show that the relational self is the most prominent and important one in both cultures and among both age groups. Yet, there is a cultural difference in the cognitive representation of the relational self. In the Dutch context, participants tended to understand their relational self in terms of a personalized or dyadic mode of connection (pair-wise mode). In contrast, in Greece participants understood their relational self in terms of units of significant others (group-wise mode). Implications for the relationship between culture and the self-concept are discussed.

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