scholarly journals Plaatsbepalingen: de Nederlanden in de wereld

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Jan Urbaniak
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Small Countries ◽  
Dutch Language ◽  
The University ◽  
Literature And Language

The idea for this issue of Neerlandica Wratislaviensia arose from an interest in the Low Countries – their culture, literature, and language. This interest has translated into a number of various approaches to the concept of Nederlandsheid, seen not only through the eyes of the authorities on the Dutch language and literature from the University of Wroclaw, but also representatives of other scientific disciplines within the philology department of this university. Their focus, supplemented with a look at Low Countries from the perspective of Dutch and Flemish ‘insiders’, created an interesting mosaic presenting Low Countries in an exciting and accessible way. The articles of the 32nd issue of Neerlandica Wratislaviensia mention both the former Dutch colonies and the modern Low Countries seen through the eyes of Polish travelers; they describe authors’ auto-images and tools to make a literary work more attractive. Here we find fairy tales, non-fiction, and linguistic considerations. This number shows how small countries can strongly influence scientists’ knowledge.

Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy: Politics in the Vernaculars

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernice Schrank
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Great Variability ◽  
The Political ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Autobiographical Fiction ◽  
Literature And Language

This essay examines the political uses to which Behan puts language in his autobiographical fiction, Borstal Boy, both as an instrument of domination and a means of liberation. Identifying Standard English language and literature as important components of the British imperial project, Behan creates, as a linguistic alternative, ‘englishes’, a composite language in which differences of geography, class, age, education, and occupation create a demotic speech of great variability and expressive force. In so doing, Behan sabotages the cultural assumptions and justifications for colonial exploitation embedded and validated in Standard English literature and language.

scholarly journals EXPRESS: Improving reading rate prediction with word length information: Evidence from Dutch

2021 ◽  
pp. 174702182110171
Author(s):  
Marc Brysbaert ◽  
Longjiao Sui ◽  
Wouter Duyck ◽  
Nicolas Dirix
Keyword(s):  
Word Length ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Reading Rate ◽  
English Word ◽  
Length Effect ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Word Length Effect ◽  
Best Fitting ◽  
Dutch Language ◽  
Processing Effort

Previous research in English has suggested that reading rate predictions can be improved considerably by taking average word length into account. In the present study, we investigated whether the same regularity holds for Dutch. The Dutch language is very similar to English, but words are on average half a letter longer: 5.1 letters per word (in non-fiction) instead of 4.6. We collected reading rates of 62 participants reading 12 texts with varying word lengths, and examined which change in the English equation accounts for the Dutch findings. We observed that predictions were close to the best fitting curve as soon as the average English word length was replaced by the average Dutch word length. The equation predicts that Dutch texts with an average word length of 5.1 letters will be read at a rate of 238 word per minute (wpm). Texts with an average word length of 4.5 letter will be read at 270 wpm, and texts with an average word length of 6.0 letters will be read at a rate of 202 wpm. The findings are in line with the assumption that the longer words in Dutch do not slow down silent reading relative to English and that the word length effect observed in each language is due to word processing effort and not to low-level, visual factors.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Materi Keterampilan Mengajar Berbasis Problem Based Learning untuk Meningkatkan Kompetensi Pedagogik Mahasiswa

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Imam Suwardi ◽  
Panut Setiono
Keyword(s):  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
Learning Modules ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Pedagogical Competence ◽  
Feasibility Test ◽  
The University ◽  
Expert Validation

Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh kevalidan, kepraktisan dan kemenarikan untuk produk pengembangan materi keterampilan mengajar berbasis Problem Based Learning untuk meningkatkan kompetensi pedagogik mahasiswa Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Jambi yang disusun kedalam bentuk modul belajar. Langkah – langkah yang dilakukan dalam penelitian ini mengikuti langkah – langkah Model Dick, Carrey & Carrey (2009) yang disederhanakan menjadi sembilan dari sepuluh langkah yang ada. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu angket validasi ahli angket kepraktisan dari teman sejawat dan uji kemenarikan dari mahasiswa. Dari hasil uji kelayakan produk pengembangan pada hasil uji validasi ahli mendapat skor presentase sebesar 84,62%, produk yang sudah dikembangkan sangat layak untuk digunakan. Uji kepraktisan berdasarkan hasil tanggapan dosen terhadap modul belajar sebesar 91,2 %, produk yang dikembangkan masuk dalan kategori kriteria digunakan tanpa revisi. Pada uji kepraktisan melalui tanggapan perserta didik diperoleh hasil dengan presentase rata-rata sebesar 75,16%, hasil ini berada pada tingkat kualifikasi layak. Kata Kunci: problem based learning, kompetensi pedagogik Abstract This study aims to obtain validity, practicality and attractiveness for the development of teaching skills based on Problem Based Learning materials to improve the pedagogical competence of students of the Jambi University Language and Literature Education Study Program at the University of Jambi which is organized into learning modules. The steps taken in this study follow the steps of Model Dick, Carrey & Carrey (2009) which are simplified into nine of the ten steps. The instruments used in this study were expert validation questionnaires from practical questionnaires from peers and tests of student interest. From the results of the product development feasibility test on the results of the expert validation test got a percentage score of 84.62%, the products that have been developed are very feasible to use. Practicality test based on the results of the lecturers' responses to the learning module was 91.2%, the products developed in the criteria category were used without revision. In the practicality test through student responses obtained results with an average percentage of 75.16%, these results are at the level of eligibility. Keywords: problem based learning, pedagogic competence

scholarly journals Museumsforskning som museumsutvikling

1970 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Anders Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Museum Studies ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Analytical Skills ◽  
University Courses ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Cultural Public Sphere ◽  
The University ◽  
Systematic Knowledge

Museum studies as museum development This text points to the strategic value of museological studies for the development of the museum sector. In Norway, the museum is the sole exception to the rule that a medium or a cultural institution of any importance be regarded as an academic field of study. Lacking the kind of systematic knowledge, critical reflection and discussion of basic premises which normally originate in independent outsider positions, Norwegian museums are consequently deprived of a vital stimulus. In the case of the university museums, the absence of attention to common, specifically museum related problems is seen as an obstacle to che development of coherent institutions out of the various scientific disciplines. In a wider perspective, museums are seen as being not fully established within the cultural public sphere. The enviable attention paid to other kinds of cultural products partly depends on university courses furnishing critics, reviewers and debaters with descriptive languages, analytical skills and evaluative standards. Without these courses, and without the research activity chat makes chem possible, even literature, painting, and film would miss che kind of qualified conversations that actually mediate between creative activity and the interests of a wider public. Hence the establishment of a museological field of research is seen as a precondition for comparable activities highlighting museum events, pointing out their more or less interesting problematics and their possible relevance to society. 

scholarly journals Oscar Peterson: The Man and His Jazz by J. Batten

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Luyk
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Music Criticism ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Jazz History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Adult Reader

Batten, Jack. Oscar Peterson: The Man and His Jazz. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2012. Print. This young adult non-fiction novel explores the life of the legendary Canadian jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson. Beginning with an account of Peterson’s 1949 breakthrough performance at Carnegie Hall as part of the influential Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) concert series, Batten traces the seventy year musical career of Oscar Peterson in an engaging and insightful style. This book seamlessly combines a personal and musical biography of Peterson with a history of the development of jazz from the 1920s to the time of Peterson’s death in 2007. True to the title of the book, Batten’s is indeed one about both the man and his music. From Peterson’s humble upbringing as the son of immigrants from the West Indies living in poverty in Montréal, the influence of his family on his personal and musical development is a consistent theme throughout the book. Batten does not hold back when describing the social conditions Peterson was operating under throughout his career. The racism Peterson encountered both at home and abroad, as well as the drug use prominent among jazz musicians is honestly explored, as are the personal tragedies Peterson faced, including his failed marriages and consistently poor health. Peterson’s many longtime musical collaborations are explored in great detail, with Batten highlighting the influential performing and recording achievements of his career. From his longtime relationship with the jazz promoter Norman Granz, through the many iterations of Peterson’s famous trio, Batten doesn’t leave out the details at any point. The addition of multiple photographs, quotes from Peterson’s teachers and collaborators, and a selected bibliography and discography add to the historical richness of this title. This book is recommended to the young adult reader with an interest in jazz history, and the life and accomplishments of one of Canada’s most cherished musicians.Recommended: 3 out of 4 starsReviewer: Sean LuykSean is the Music Librarian for the Rutherford Humanities and Social Sciences Library at the University of Alberta. Sean holds an MA in Music Criticism and B.Mus from McMaster University, as well as an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario.

scholarly journals the Balinese Pop Song which was Semiotic Heuristic study

Widya Accarya ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-129
Author(s):  
Ni Wayan Sariani ◽  
I Wayan Rasna
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Philosophical Language ◽  
Linguistic Rules ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Heuristic Study ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Language Styles ◽  
Result Analysis

Abstract. This research was about Balinese pop song which was Semiotic Heuristic study. The research underlined was the fact that occurred in the Balinese popular songs as a part of the literary work featured new vocabularies as well as old vocabularies modification and also a combination of vocabularies from other languages such as Indonesian and English, considered as the "Deviate" composition from the rules of standard grammar and literary conventions. The purpose of this research was to describe the phenomenon of linguistic structure in Balinese popular song texts and the philosophical meaning of the texts Balinese popular song based on semiotic-heuristic analysis. To be able to describe these purposes, semiotic theory and structuralism were used. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The data source was derived from two texts of Balinese popular songs entitled “Suksma Hyang Widhi” by Dek Ulik” and "Bungan Sandat" by AA Made Cakra. Both of these popular songs used different styles. The song of "Bungan Sandat" mostly used words based on the rules of language and literature that was, poetic. While the song titled "Suksma Hyang Widhi” mostly used a lot of ordinary words such as language used in daily life. There appeared some deviate words found out of the rules of grammar or literary conventions; however there were also words appropriately right based on the rules of language and literature, namely poetic, romantic, by symbolic and philosophical language styles. Based on the result analysis of those two songs heuristically towards the two texts of Balinese Pop songs were found the existence of violations of linguistic rules both grammatically, syntagmatically, paradigmatically, semantically and composition of these two Balinese popular songs. Keywords: the text of balinese popular song, semiotic-heuristi, philosophical meaning

“A Book One Can with Complete Confidence Call Important”: Albert Erskine, Ralph Ellison, and the Publishing of Invisible Man

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
DANIEL ROBERT KING
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Invisible Man ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
American Author ◽  
The University

In this article I examine the editing and publishing of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man by Albert Erskine. Over the course of the piece, I deploy letters, drafts, and other material drawn from both Ellison's archive in the Library of Congress and Erskine's own archive at the University of Virginia to unpack how Erskine, as a white editor at a powerful international publishing house, conceived of his role in shepherding to market and marketing what he saw as a major literary work by an African American author.

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