The Status of Interdisciplinary Metaphor in Specialized Lexis

AbstractThe assertion we start from in our study is that in specialized languages metaphor is a figure of reason rather than a figure of speech. The general objective of the study is researching the interdisciplinary status of specialized metaphor – terminological and conceptual – by making reference to the hard core of terminology. Derived objectives: comparative research of the degree of scientificity of interdisciplinary metaphor, at the hard core of lexis, following metaphorical transfer; descriptive-linguistic and cognitive research of the general and particular conceptual features that are preserved within this type of internal terminology. The approach is descriptive-contrastive.One of the conclusions of the research is that the central sphere of specialized lexis, by expansion, supplies terms that may be specialized or may go through a new metaphorical transfer without altering the degree of scientificity in the target fields.

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The Israeli Unfinished Constitutional Revolution: Has the Time Come for Protecting Economic and Social Rights?

Israel Law Review ◽

10.1017/s0021223700012504 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 37 (2-3) ◽

pp. 299-345 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Yoram Rabin ◽

Yuval Shany

Keyword(s):

Supreme Court ◽

Constitutional Law ◽

Hard Core ◽

Social Rights ◽

Cultural Rights ◽

Basic Law ◽

The Supreme Court ◽

The Status ◽

Interpretive Strategies ◽

The Right

AbstractThis article addresses the constitutional discourse surrounding the status of economic and social rights in Israel. It examines the principal interpretive strategies adopted by the Supreme Court with regard to the 1992 basic laws (in particular, with respect to the right to human dignity) and criticizes the Court's reluctance to apply analogous strategies to incorporate economic and social rights into Israeli constitutional law. Potential explanations for this biased approach are also critically discussed. The ensuing outcome is a constitutional imbalance in Israeli law, which perpetuates the unjustified view that economic and social rights are inherently inferior to their civil and political counterparts, and puts in question Israel's compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. At the same time, encouraging recent Supreme Court decisions, particularly the YATED and Marciano judgments, indicate growing acceptance on the part of the Court of the role of economic and social rights in Israeli constitutional law, and raise hopes for a belated judicial change of heart concerning the need to protect at least a ‘hard core’ of economic and social rights. Still, the article posits that the possibilities of promoting the constitutional status of economic and social rights through case-to-case litigation are limited and calls for the renewal of the legislation procedures of draft Basic Law: Social Rights in the Knesset.

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Societal Self-Observation in the Time of Datafication: Interfunctional Analysis of the Chilean Open Data Web Portal

10.31235/osf.io/qw39a ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Maximilian Heimstädt

Keyword(s):

Social Research ◽

Technological Development ◽

Open Data ◽

Hard Core ◽

Functional Differentiation ◽

Web Portals ◽

Web Portal ◽

The Status ◽

Role Of Religion

Datafication, the technological development that emerged out of computerization and global interconnectedness, has spawned new forms of societal self-observations. In the present article I turn to the example of Open Data web portals – specialized websites that make large amounts of governmental datasets publicly available – to show how they relate to the status quo of social research on functional differentiation. For my analysis of the Chilean Portal de Datos Públicos I developed a method to link metadata categories from the web portal to a hard-core list of ten function systems. My results confirm literature, which finds economized or politicized forms of societal self-description. Moreover the results are in line with studies that show the vanishing role of religion. Interestingly, my study finds health to be of high importance – I might even speak of a “healthized” self-observation – which I argue is at odds with a negligible representation of the function system “sport” within the self-observation. For future interfunctional social research in the time of datafication, I recommend sharpening the empirical approach by exploring emerging text-as-data methods.

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Comparative Research on Public Institutions: Re-defining the Status of Law in Social Science Research on Law and Institutions

International Comparative Research ◽

10.1016/b978-0-08-031334-4.50011-4 ◽

1984 ◽

pp. 107-114

Author(s):

Chantal Kourilsky

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Comparative Research ◽

Social Science Research ◽

Science Research ◽

Public Institutions ◽

The Status

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Tort Victim’s Ability To Profit From The Proceeds Of Insolvent Tortfeasor’s Liability Insurance

Jurnal Ius Constituendum ◽

10.26623/jic.v5i1.2216 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 31

Author(s):

Yasser Mandela ◽

I Ketut Dharma Putra Yoga

Keyword(s):

Comparative Research ◽

Civil Law ◽

Legal Protection ◽

Liability Insurance ◽

Insurance Policy ◽

The Third ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Status ◽

Insolvency Proceedings ◽

Secured Creditors

This article describes and examines whether the tort victim can profit from the proceeds of the tortfeasor’s liability insurance. This article aims to reflect on which approach, either in common or civil law, provides more access for the tort victim to profits from the proceeds of insolvent tortfeasor’s liability insurance policy. The method used in this research is comparative research. The result of this research showed that the status of insurance proceeds becomes debatable because the tort victim (as the claimant) will have no better rights than any other unsecured creditors during insolvency proceedings. This is regardless of the fact that the tortfeasor already got a fund, albeit indirectly through the insurer, to compensate the tort victim’s losses. In relation to this issue, the United Kingdom has adopted the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 which gives right for tort victim to directly claim for compensation against tortfeasor’s liability insurer in the event of tortfeasor’s insolvency. Meanwhile, the Indonesian legal system provides no clear legal protection to the tort victim. Thus, in the event of insolvency, the tort victim cannot obtain compensation from the insurer, but only from tortfeasor’s bankruptcy estate as part of creditors’ debts. Furthermore, as an unsecured creditor, the tort victim will obtain the debtor’s bankruptcy estate after all secured creditors have received their payment.

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The Effects of Confessional Strife on Religious Authority in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198728818.013.17 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 303-324

Author(s):

Henk Nellen

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Hard Core ◽

Roman Catholic ◽

Religious Authority ◽

Church Fathers ◽

Biblical Authority ◽

The Bible ◽

The Status ◽

History Of ◽

The Church

This chapter discusses the confessional controversies on biblical authority and ecclesiastical tradition in the first half of the seventeenth century. While Protestant theologians upheld the status of the Bible as a divinely inspired, unique, coherent, and self-evident source of faith and stressed the subordinate significance of the patristic legacy, the Roman Catholic camp embraced the importance of the teachings of the Church Fathers, conciliar decrees, and papal decisions as a rock-solid criterion for a sound interpretation of the Bible. On the basis of treatises authored by eminent and hard-core exponents of Calvinism like Abraham Scultetus, Jean Daillé, Louis Cappel, and André Rivet, set against the views of the Jesuit Denis Pétau, expert in the history of the primitive church, it is argued that debates led to a reciprocal undermining of viewpoints, which eventually paved the way for more radical positions at the end of the century.

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Studying Middle Eastern Societies: Imperatives and Modalities of Thinking Comparatively

Middle East Studies Association Bulletin ◽

10.1017/s0026318400043315 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 151-158

Author(s):

Asef Bayat

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Comparative Research ◽

Theoretical Orientation ◽

Middle Eastern ◽

Global Studies ◽

East Region ◽

Limited Experience ◽

The Status ◽

Middle East Studies ◽

Middle East Region

Current debates about the status of middle east studies are informed by an assumption that separates ‘area studies’ from ‘global studies,’ and ‘area specialization’ from disciplinary or theoretical orientation. Arguing against such separation, I propose that a resort to comparative perspectives may help bridge the divide. To this end, I discuss imperatives and modalities of thinking comparatively in the context of the Middle East, and their implications for bringing other areas into comparative inquiries. Focusing on illustrations from Middle East social studies, I attempt to think through my own, albeit limited, experience of comparative research within the Middle East region.

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Challenging Grand Narrative through Little Narrative: An Analysis of Fatima Mernissi’s Perspectives

Journal of Religious and Social Studies ◽

10.53583/jrss05.0102.2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (02) ◽

pp. 61-74

Author(s):

Muhammad Salman Qazi ◽

Riaz Ahmad Saeed

Keyword(s):

Comparative Research ◽

Social Economic ◽

Arab Countries ◽

Modern World ◽

Grand Narrative ◽

Islamic Feminism ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Religious Identification ◽

Fatima Mernissi ◽

The Status

In this post-modern world, intellectuals and visionary scholars putting together Little Narratives on a tactical basis for challenging the ‘Grand Narrative. Most recently, religious identification has taken the status of political grand narrative in post-colonial Arab Countries. Social, economic, military, and political failures have galvanized, progressive religious responses to western domination and globalization. Feminism and especially Islamic Feminism, playing its role as a little narrative for challenging the grand narrative of religious authoritarianism. This paper will focus on the work and ideas of Moroccan thinker, Fatima Mernissi in the theoretical framework of Carool Krestan’s Progressive Category. In this paper, the Analytical, critical and comparative research methodology will be adopted with the qualitative research paradigm.

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Charakterystyka pojęć dotyczących Afryki zawartych we współczesnych słownikach języka polskiego

Adeptus ◽

10.11649/a.2012.005 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 71-82

Author(s):

Karolina Kwiecińska

Keyword(s):

Comparative Research ◽

Main Part ◽

Polish Academy ◽

Doctoral Thesis ◽

Cognitive Research ◽

The World ◽

Academy Of Sciences ◽

Slavic Studies

Comparison of the linguistic image of Africa in a specific Polish dictionaryThis project constitutes the main part of my doctoral thesis carried out under the supervision of Prof. Zbigniew Greń at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In order to conduct comparative research and to analyze the differences between lexemes in Polish and Swahili, I have chosen methodology connected within a course of cognitive research, namely the linguistic image of the world. As part of the project I would like to look into and describe the linguistic image of Africa in specific Polish reportages. In addition, and in order to show the differences in the ways of conceptualisation of the reality by representatives of other cultures, I am planning to visit Tanzania to do more research. This article contains the linguistic image of Africa in a specific Polish dictionary. I have analysed the lexemes: Africa, African and Negro to show the dissimilarities.

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Naturalisation policies beyond a Western focus

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v13i1.260 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 1-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tobias Schwarz

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Comparative Research ◽

Global South ◽

Immigrant Incorporation ◽

Special Issue ◽

The West ◽

National Belonging ◽

The North ◽

The Status ◽

Definition Of

Naturalisations do not happen automatically – unlike the acquisition of nationality at birth – but must be brought about deliberately. The varying ways naturalisations are organized in any society therefore offer an opportunity to gain clues as to which criteria are assumed to be relevant for the respective definition of national belonging. This introduction argues that most research on naturalisation still focusses on Western states, and that theories of naturalisation are largely derived from Western cases. It describes the ethnocentric bias of much of the universalizing comparative research on naturalisations, and outlines the main reasons for the lack of research beyond the West. It then presents the articles on naturalisation policies in the Global South brought together in this special issue. The contributions analyse ethnically exclusive nationality laws in Liberia and Israel; selective two-tier regimes of immigrant incorporation in Hong Kong and Singapore; investor citizenship schemes which are much more common in the Global South than in the North, exemplified by the case of Mauritius; and Mexico, whose norms assign naturalised Mexicans the status of “second-class citizens”.

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TORT VICTIM’S ABILITY TO PROFIT FROM THE PROCEEDS OF INSOLVENT TORTFEASOR’S LIABILITY INSURANCE

Jurnal Ius Constituendum ◽

10.26623/jic.v5i1.1954 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 31

Author(s):

Yasser Mandela ◽

I Ketut Dharma Putra Yoga

Keyword(s):

Comparative Research ◽

Civil Law ◽

Legal Protection ◽

Liability Insurance ◽

Insurance Policy ◽

The Third ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Status ◽

Insolvency Proceedings ◽

Secured Creditors

This article describes and examines whether the tort victim can profit from the proceeds of the tortfeasor’s liability insurance. This article aims to reflect on which approach, either in common or civil law, provides more access for the tort victim to profits from the proceeds of insolvent tortfeasor’s liability insurance policy. The method used in this research is comparative research. The result of this research showed that the status of insurance proceeds becomes debatable because the tort victim (as the claimant) will have no better rights than any other unsecured creditors during insolvency proceedings. This is regardless of the fact that the tortfeasor already got a fund, albeit indirectly through the insurer, to compensate the tort victim’s losses. In relation to this issue, the United Kingdom has adopted the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 which gives right for tort victim to directly claim for compensation against tortfeasor’s liability insurer in the event of tortfeasor’s insolvency. Meanwhile, the Indonesian legal system provides no clear legal protection to the tort victim. Thus, in the event of insolvency, the tort victim cannot obtain compensation from the insurer, but only from tortfeasor’s bankruptcy estate as part of creditors’ debts. Furthermore, as an unsecured creditor, the tort victim will obtain the debtor’s bankruptcy estate after all secured creditors have received their payment.

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