scholarly journals Psychological Determinants of Meta-Linguistic Skills by Pre-School Children

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Jachimowska ◽  
Paulina Pawłowska
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Determinants ◽  
Linguistic Awareness ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Linguistic Skills ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Semantic Skills

The paper concerns psycholinguistic phenomena connected with meta-language, meta-linguistic awareness and children’s semantic skills. The main aim of empirical activities was to analyze psychological and linguistic conditionings of acquiring the meanings of words by 4- and 6-year-old children. It was examined how children understand the meaning of words from two categories: home and family. The analyses and conclusions on the creation of meaning presented in the paper are focused around the symbiosis of two planes: cognitive and linguistic. An analysis of the collected empirical material shows that their compilation reveals the unique nature of children’s meta-language reflection, the character of concepts and notion profiles which are closely determined by mental processes.

The institutional change in action: Transitioning to Economic Man

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 363-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelina Tverdohleb
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Planned Economy ◽  
Economic Man ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
Western Market ◽  
Economic Ideology ◽  
The Creation

This article sketches the roots and social underpinnings of both Economic Man (EM) and Soviet Man (SM) and looks at the interaction between the two archetypes during the transformation of former socialist nations since 1990. It depicts the creation of SM as the bearer of socialist “planned economy” ideology while also showing how EM was able to survive, albeit often underground, in the Soviet Union and its satellites. It also looks at the unique nature of the Soviet EM and to what extent SM has been dismantled. This paper concludes by examining how well the Western, market-oriented economic ideology was implemented and why the process occurred differently in various former socialist countries. It illustrates the varying malleability of the human mentality and provides some insights into the possible outcomes of future efforts at sociopolitical transformation.

Resisting the Opportunity for Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
James N. Druckman ◽  
Martin J. Kifer ◽  
Michael Parkin
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Previous Election ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Online Campaigning ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
The Web

This article explores congressional campaigning on the web in 2016. What impact did the unique nature of the 2016 election have on those involved with the creation and maintenance of congressional campaign websites? Did it cause them to alter their approach to online campaigning? Using data from a survey of campaign insiders, we find that the factors that influence how congressional campaigns view and use their websites were largely impervious to the unique electoral environment. Results show that, consistent with previous election years, campaigns maintained a fairly uniform view of likely visitors and target audiences, and they tended to see their campaign websites as digital hubs, best used for capturing the campaign’s overall message. We also find that, as in other years, nonincumbents continued to use their websites to campaign more aggressively than incumbents. Overall, the results suggest that congressional campaigning on the web is primarily driven by stable factors that transcend technological advancements and shifts in the political environment.

scholarly journals Assessment of the capacity to create and understand wordbuilding structures by a child with minor intellectual disability

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Szurek Mateusz Szurek
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
School Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Children With Intellectual Disability

The research conducted on language of children with intellectual disability (ID) shows that they exhibit language dysfunctions on every level of language. Up to now, literature did not include linguistic studies concerning issues of wordbuilding in the language consciousness of pre-school children with intellectual disability. The objective of the article is the assessment of the level of wordbuilding competences of a child at pre-school age with minor intellectual disability (MID) concerning the creation and comprehension of nominal derivates in the area of selected wordbuildin categories (case study). In addition, the author wishes to stress that the assessment of the level of wordbuilding competences should be a component on comprehensive logopaedic diagnosis.

scholarly journals Mikrotoponimy jako sposób kreowania ludowych miejsc kulturowych – podejście antropologii lingwistycznej

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Dudziak ◽  
Marina Paiunena
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Linguistic Activity ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Empirical Material

Microtoponyms as a way of creating folk cultural places – the approach of linguistic anthropologyThe paper deals with selected issues of linguistic anthropology with the purpose to examine a few theoretical assumptions of its methodology, taking into account Keith H. Basso’s study on the creation of cultural places as a result of linguistic activity. The research is based on the empirical material obtained from Polish native speakers, namely, folk tales of the residents of the Augustów County. Mikrotoponimy jako sposób kreowania ludowych miejsc kulturowych – podejście antropologii lingwistycznejTematyka artykułu dotyczy wybranych zagadnień antropologii lingwistycznej. Celem opracowania jest rekonesans głównych założeń metodologicznych antropologii języka z uwzględnieniem badań Keitha H. Basso z zakresu „tworzenia miejsc kulturowych” w rezultacie działalności językowej. Jako materiał empiryczny wykorzystano wypowiedzi polskich natywnych użytkowników języka – opowieści etniczne mieszkańców powiatu augustowskiego.

scholarly journals A beautiful flourish. The foundation story of Wroclaw (and Wroclaw residents)

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Kamilla Biskupska
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
The City ◽  
Empirical Material

In the article, I present the content and the context of the foundation story of Wroclaw – created after 1945 in one of the largest and most destroyed cities which joined Poland after World War II (Polish Western and Northern Territories). The analyzed empirical material consists of personal documents – statements of Wroclaw residents written and submitted in 1966 for the competition entitled: “What does the city of Wrocław mean to you”. The most important element of this story about the creation of the city is the figure of a pioneer, shaped in the image of a mythical hero. The features of pioneers (such as courage, uncompromising love for the city and openness to others) have become an important narrative co-creating the discourse about the city in the narratives of subsequent generations of Wroclaw residents.

Factors of Coalitional Governments Formation Between Regionalist and Nationwide Political Parties in Regions of Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
E. Filippova
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Autonomous Communities ◽  
Federal Research ◽  
Multilevel Politics ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ideological Dimension ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Coalition Size ◽  
Empirical Material

Received 09.09.2020. The paper focuses on one of the most significant arenas of multi-level politics – the interaction between regionalist and state-wide parties in the creation and functioning of government coalitions at the regional level. The research is aimed at determining the factors influencing the creation of such coalitions in which regionalist parties act as coalition partners with a specific agenda. Spain provides significant empirical material for research on this issue, where regionalist parties function in most regions, and state-wide parties often enter government coalitions with them at the level of autonomous communities. A comparative analysis of the practices of concluding coalition agreements between statewide and regionalist political parties in the regions of Spain during the democratic period is a key research method. The theoretical part of the article provides an overview of the theories of party coalitions accumulated by Political Science since the 1950s and updated by researchers due to actualization of new circumstances in the context of multilevel politics. The empirical part of the article examines the influence of three categories of factors on the construction of coalition deals between regionalist and state-wide political parties in the Spanish autonomous communities, including: the size of the coalition, the ideological inter-party distance (comprising the regionalist-ideological dimension) and correspondence of the alignments of party forces at the regional and national levels. The research demonstrates that the factor of coalition size is fundamental for transactions between regionalist and state-wide political parties, while the other two categories of factors manifest themselves situationally. Acknowledgements. The research was carried out at the expense of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 19-18-00053 " Subnational regionalism and dynamics of multilevel politics (Russian and European practices)") at the Perm Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Proculturation: Self-reconstruction by making “fusion cocktails” of alien and familiar meanings

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdia
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Temporal Dimensions

This paper considers mental processes unfolding during humans’ movement in a foreign environment and aims to overcome theoretical discrepancies concerning culture and acculturation between sociocultural anthropology and cross-cultural psychology under the frame of cultural psychology. I propose to perceive culture as a multi-self-centered semiotic field, which is populated by signs and meanings, necessarily emphasizing its heterogeneity and incoherence. Cultures have hazy boundaries and are embedded into the wider web of meanings. In fact, there is one big global culture and all humans are involved in mediating it through intersubjective interactions. Further, the term proculturation is used to fill the gaps left by mainstream acculturation research, which has been mainly oriented on measuring ontologized trait-like characteristics in terms of bidimensional mechanic relationship between cultures and related correlations. Namely, proculturation specifically reflects real-life human experiences and the role of (inter)subjectivity in the process of adaptation in emigration or elsewhere in any unfamiliar environment. Most importantly proculturation implies triadic semiotic relations and the possibility of the creation of novel fusions of meanings, by mixing various ingredients in the process of mediation between familiar and unfamiliar ideas and experiences. Proculturation is catalytically conditioned by references to temporal dimensions and essentially is ever-continuing process.

P01-347-Cognitive function in children. gander specific difference in general public primary school children in pakistan

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 349-349
Author(s):  
A. Shaheen ◽  
S. Ullah
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Mathematical Ability ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Female Age ◽  
Child Cognition ◽  
Linguistic Skills

ObjectiveThe primary objective of this study was to assess the gander specific cognitive function of primary school children in Pakistan.DesignProspective observational study conducted in 4 schools in a small district of Pakistan.MethodTwo hundred children (90 male,110 female), age 7–12 years class 3, 4 and 5 were assessed using McCarthy scale of child cognition. Verbal and linguistic skills, mathematical skills, reasoning in conversation, memory (word, number, picture, past) and Gross fine movements were assessed.ResultsVerbal and linguistic skills: Better skills demonstrated in girls mean score 3.99 SD(0.84), 95% CI (3.81,4.17) when compared to boys mean score 3.81 SD(0.91),95% CI (3.64,3.98).Comparison of two groups did not reach to the statistical significance T = 2.05, P = 0.15.Mathematical abilityGirls mean score 2.66 SD (0.52), 95% CI (2.55,2.77) whereas boys mean score 2.40 SD (0.69),95% CI (2.27,2.53).It was statistically significant T = 8.3,P = 0.004. Reasoning in conversation: Better reasoning among girls demonstrated with mean score 3.90 SD (2.17), 95% CI (3.44,4.36) whereas boys scored 3.47 SD(1.89), 95% CI(3.11,3.83).It was not statistically significant T = 2.19,P = 0.14.MemoryGirls mean score 3.52 SD(0.60),95% CI (3.40,3.65) whereas boys scoring 3.22 SD (0.87) 95% CI(3.05,3.38).It was statistically significant with T = 7.8,P = 0.006.Gross movementsGirls scored 4.29SD(0.75),95% CI (4.13,4.45) whereas boys scoring 4.08 SD(0.91), 95% CI (3.91,4.25).Though better gross movements demonstrated by girls they did not reach to statistical significance T = 2.98,P = 0.08.ConclusionGirls demonstrate better cognitive function in general and there mathematical ability and memory in particle are better than there age and background matched male classmates.

scholarly journals The Birth of the Post-War World: Planning and Realities (To 75 Anniversary of the Great Victory and the creation of the UNO. Article one)

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Alexey Gromyko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
World War ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World

The article is dedicated to the 75-th anniversaries since the end of the Second World War and the creation of the United Nations. The author explores the evolution of key ideas, including the contribution of the Soviet diplomatic strategy, on the post-war world and interaction among the great powers. Special attention is drawn to the phenomenon of the ―Roosevelt course‖ and the atmosphere in the Soviet-American relations during the war. The main approaches of the allies’ diplomacy towards principles of post-war cooperation are analysed. It is shown that the emergence of the Cold War was not inevitable and did not correspond to the national interests of great powers. In the course of the war their vision was based mainly on pragmatism and security interests rather than on antagonistic ideologies. In terms of chronology the start of the Cold War is proposed to attribute not to a concrete year but to a period from 1945 to the end of the decade. The author underlines the outstanding and unique nature of the UN as the most enduring legacy of the Second World War, which has not lost its acute role in 2020. This research will be continued in the next paper by the author.

scholarly journals Designing Digital Educational Environment for the Individualization of Learning and the Development of Gifted Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Viktoriya Solomatina
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
School Children ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Project Method ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Empirical Material

The article presents the authors’ project of designing a digital educational environment for the actualization and development of creative giftedness in primary school children by means of a network of project activities. The educational environment was designed within the conceptual framework proposed by E. D. Patarakin and based on his idea of using network interactions to support the project method. This approach enables a transition from the concept of "educational environment" to the concept of “educational ecosystem". The model of an ecological system is used in the article to analyze the contemporary educational environment. The empirical material presented in the paper can be implemented in developing new forms of interaction between educational process participants in the context of e-learning.

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