scholarly journals Die kleine House-Apotheke: Reception of the American, German and Polish Gregory House and Varied Translations of the Pronoun you

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-321
Author(s):  
Anna Urban

Two audiovisual translations of the American hit medical drama, House M.D., German dubbing and Polish voiceover, and the analysis of translation strategies of the pronominal form of address you are the point of departure for choosing the right strategy for translation of the German book written by Michael Reufsteck and Jochen Stöckle Die kleine House-Apotheke. Ein Beipackzettel zur Kultserie which is the first German guide to the hit medical drama, providing unique insight into making of each episode of the first three series. The comparison of the two translation strategies - the German and the Polish one - shows that translation of the pronoun you determined the reception of the main protagonist. The reduced pronominal paradigm in English which does not distinguish between a formal and an informal address pronoun has created two different protagonists.

Africa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 810-831
Author(s):  
Augustine Agwuele

AbstractWork hard, work smart, make the right connections, get the right education, invest wisely – yet after doing all the supposedly right things, success remains elusive to many. For a few, however, who may or may not have done exactly these things, success seems to come effortlessly. Some are very fortunate and others not so much. The lack of correspondence between exertion and success or work and good fortune is an issue that confronts lay persons and professionals alike. Focusing on Yoruba people, I discursively present lay Yoruba persons’ apprehension and common-sense view of this conundrum as reflected in their contextualized language use and supported by other ‘mundane’ information from day-to-day life. By looking at their everyday language, it is possible to deduce their reality as socially constructed in their discourses and gain insight into how they reconcile individual exertions with a view that asserts determinism. Further, I will suggest that the basis of the Yoruba conventional knowledge system informing their utterances and actions pertaining specifically to people's earthly fortunes lies in their origination narrative and original life quest, the essence of which remains inarguable even if temporarily pliable. The popular saying ‘iṣẹ́ o kan oríire’, exertion does not relate to success, is used as a point of departure and sense contained in their orature – situational utterances, pithy proverbs, aphorism and anecdotes – to tease out the Yoruba ordinary meaning of success/fortune and how it is acquired, relative to individuals’ earthly journey and preoccupation. Based on the sampled day-to-day utterances, individual life, it seems, unfolds as presumably scripted, despite apparent avowal and disavowal of ordination in people's pronouncements. Orí (head) retains its position at the summit, assenting – or not – to earthly endeavours.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Aishath Muneeza ◽  
Zakariya Mustapha

Limitations of action designate extent of time after an event, as set by statutes of limitations, within which legal action can be initiated by a party to a transaction. No event is actionable outside the designated time as same is rendered statute-barred. This study aims to provide an insight into application and significance of Limitations Act 1950 and Limitation Ordinance 1952 to Islamic banking matters in Malaysia as well as Shariah viewpoint on the issue of limitation of action. In conducting the study, a qualitative research methodology is employed where reported Islamic banking cases from 1983 to 2018 in Malaysia were reviewed and analysed to ascertain the application of those statutes of limitations to Islamic banking. Likewise, relevant provisions of the statutes as invoked in the cases were examined to determine possible legislative conflicts between the provisions and the rule of Islamic law in governing the right and limitation of action in Islamic banking cases under the law. The reviewed cases show the extent to which statutes of limitations were invoked in Malaysian courts in determining validity of Islamic banking matters. The limitation provisions so referred to are largely sections 6(1)(a) and 21(1) Limitations Act 1953 and section 19 Limitation Ordinance 1953, which do not conflict with Shariah viewpoint on the matter. This study will prove invaluable to financial institutions and their customers alike in promoting knowledge and creating awareness over actionable event in the course of their transactions.


Paragraph ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-293
Author(s):  
Avital Ronell

Reflecting on the debts collected by Shoshana Felman's work, within the theoretical contexts of the time in which the 1977 Yale French Studies issue of ‘Psychoanalysis and Literature’ first appeared, this article takes as its point of departure Lacan's analysis of Hamlet's father as the barred Other, focusing on Hamlet's ‘complaint’. The nature of the complaint (plainte, or Klage, also closely allied to Anklage, or accusation) is then explored in relation to various writers and thinkers — Rilke, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Heidegger, among others — and more specifically via a reading of François Roustang's La Fin de la plainte (The End of the Complaint), and his own interpretations of Freudian narcissism. Scanning the wreckage for which the little narcissists are responsible, the article aims to give more insight into the structuring principles of those who whine incessantly.


Author(s):  
Deep K. Datta-Ray

The history of Indian diplomacy conceptualises diplomacy racially—as invented by the West—and restrictively—to offence. This is ‘analytic-violence’ and it explains the berating of Indians for mimicking diplomacy incorrectly or unthinkingly, and the deleting, dismissing, or denigrating, of diplomatic practices contradicting history’s conception. To relieve history from these offences, a new method is presented, ‘Producer-Centred Research’ (PCR). Initiating with abduction, an insight into a problem—in this case Indian diplomacy’s compromised historicisation—PCR solves it by converting history’s racist rationality into ‘rationalities’. The plurality renders rationality one of many, permitting PCR’s searching for rationalities not as a function of rationality but robust practices explicable in producer’s terms. Doing so is exegesis. It reveals India’s nuclear diplomacy as unique, for being organised by defence, not offence. Moreover, offence’s premise of security as exceeding opponent’s hostility renders it chimerical for such a security is, paradoxically, reliant on expanding arsenals. Additionally, doing so is a response to opponents. This fragments sovereignty and abdicates control for one is dependent on opponent’s choices. Defence, however, does not instigate opponents and so really delivers security by minimising arsenals since offence is eschewed. Doing so is not a response to opponents and so maintains sovereignty and retains control by denying others the right to offense. The cost of defence is courage, for instance, choosing to live in the shadow of nuclear annihilation. Exegesis discloses Balakot as a shift from defence to offence, so to relieve the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) leadership of having to be courageous. The intensity of the intention to discard courage is apparent in the price the BJP paid. This included equating India with Pakistan, permitting it to escalate the conflict, and so imperiling all humanity in a manner beyond history.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Warren ◽  
Edward Frongillo ◽  
Shana Alford ◽  
Erin McDonald ◽  
Jessica Escobar-Alegria

Abstract Objectives The objective of this study was to understand needs among seniors for food and food assistance and to develop a comprehensive taxonomy for these needs. Methods A total of 147 seniors were purposively sampled from 12 food-assistance programs in 9 states. Of the 12 programs, 10 provided unprepared foods and 2 provided pre-cooked meals. Data were semi-structured qualitative interviews. Coding and analysis of transcripts followed an inductive qualitative analysis approach. A series of thematic summaries were prepared to reflect the content of the interviews for discussion and refinement of the analytic approach. Results An emergent taxonomy comprised 3 categories consisting of abilities and ranges or variants of those abilities. The category of physical ability consists of physical strength, the ability to prepare food, the ability to walk or stand, and health status. These relate to an individual's functional abilities to live and act independently and may be considered pre-conditions for program uptake and benefit distinct from dietary and food security-related needs and limitations. The category of consuming food consists of preferences, accessibility, affordability, and dietary needs. This category highlights the relationship between economic constraints and dietary needs that often necessitates meaningful tradeoffs in consuming the right foods for their health. The category of access and use of transportation consists of own means, friends or family, and public or private services. This category highlights challenges in accessing programs and provides insight into seniors’ experiences of poverty, declining functional abilities, social networks and connectedness, geography, and public services. Conclusions The process used to develop the taxonomy and the taxonomy itself provide an exemplar for implementation research when the nature of need is complex and programs integrated across sectors are required to address the need. The taxonomy provides structure to facilitate the identification of key factors in program engagement—and insight into the economic and social environments in which they occur—that translate into needs relevant to the design, targeting, and uptake of food assistance in a diverse population of seniors. Funding Sources Enterprise Rent-a-Car Foundation.


2020 ◽  
pp. 108705472096456
Author(s):  
Yue Yang ◽  
Gang Peng ◽  
Hongwu Zeng ◽  
Diangang Fang ◽  
Linlin Zhang ◽  
...  

Objective: The present study aimed to examine the effects of SNAP25 on the integration ability of intrinsic brain functions in children with ADHD, and whether the integration ability was associated with working memory (WM). Methods: A sliding time window method was used to calculate the spatial and temporal concordance among five rs-fMRI regional indices in 55 children with ADHD and 20 healthy controls. Results: The SNAP25 exhibited significant interaction effects with ADHD diagnosis on the voxel-wise concordance in the right posterior central gyrus, fusiform gyrus and lingual gyrus. Specifically, for children with ADHD, G-carriers showed increased voxel-wise concordance in comparison to TT homozygotes in the right precentral gyrus, superior frontal gyrus, postcentral gyrus, and middle frontal gyrus. The voxel-wise concordance was also found to be related to WM. Conclusion: Our findings provided a new insight into the neural mechanisms of the brain function of ADHD children.


Problemos ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Skirmantas Jankauskas

Straipsnyje mėginama rekonstruoti platoniškosios meilės sampratos fenomenologinį aspektą. Šios sampratos kontūrus Platonas nužymi dar „Puotoje“, tačiau daugiausia dėmesio jai skiria bene poetiškiausiame ir mįslingiausiame savo dialoge „Faidras“. Įvadinėje dalyje teigiama, kad graikiškasis filosofavimas klostosi natūraliai, t. y. tematizuoja filosofavimui rūpimus turinius, tik susiklostant filosofavimui palankioms aplinkybėms. Brandą pasiekusi filosofija jau mėgina perprasti save, taigi ir įsisąmoninti tas natūralias prielaidas. Platonas dar „Puotoje“ nustato, kad palankiausia filosofavimui natūrali žmogaus būsena yra meilė. „Puotoje“ jam pavyksta išryškinti vertybinį meilės profilį, o filosofavimas čia aprašomas kaip grožio vertybės užangažuotas „teisingasis kelias“, kreipiantis mąstymą grynojo teorinio žinojimo link. Pati meilė čia traktuojama dar gana neapibrėžtai, t. y. kaip „gimdymas grožyje“. Sutelkdamas dėmesį į žmogiškąjį santykį, „Faidre“ Platonas kaip tik imasi detalizuoti „gimdymo grožyje“ fenomenologiją. Platonas struktūruoja sielą, t. y. pavaizduoja ją kaip vadeliotojo važnyčiojamą sparnuotą dvikinkę. Grožio veikiama ši dvikinkė pasikelia į uždangės sritį, ir vadeliotojui palankiausiu atveju pavyksta išvysti „tiesos lygumą“. Metaforiškai aprašytos sielos dalys straipsnyje susiejamos su atitinkamomis kasdienio ir etinio mąstymo temomis bei teoriniu mąstymu apskritai, o sparnuotumas – su vertybiškumu. Sekant Platono aprašyta sielos dalių dinamika pavyksta parodyti, kaip veikiant grožiui teorinis mąstymas gali tematizuoti etiškumo temą ir veikiai pelnyti būties įžvalgą. Pagrindiniai žodžiai: meilė, šėlas, tiesa, būtis, grožis, gėris, natūralus filosofavimas, fenomenologijaPhaidros: Phenomenology of “Giving Forth upon the Beautiful”Skirmantas Jankauskas   SummaryThe author makes an attempt to reconstruct the phenomenological aspect of Plato’s concept of love. The contours of this concept are only outlined by Plato in his Symposium to be later developed in his probably the most poetic and enigmatic dialogue Phaedrus. A hypothesis is put forward here that love as ‘madness’ – as described in Phaedrus – could be treated as a further elaboration of the concept of ‘giving forth upon the beautiful’ as portrayed in Symposium. The article starts with a thesis that Greek philosophizing  proceeds in a natural way, i.e. it thematises the preferred contents only within favorable external circumstances. As philosophy reaches its maturity, it tries to learn itself, i.e. to realize these favorable natural circumstances. It is already in Symposium that Plato establishes that love is the most favorable condition for philosophizing. In this dialogue Plato manages to elucidate the axiological profile of love. Philosophizing is presented as the ‘right way’ to be engaged by the beautiful and to lead towards pure theoretical thinking. Love itself is treated in an inde terminate way as ‘giving forth upon the beautiful’. By putting the human relation in the focus of attention, Plato reveals in his Phaedrus the phenomenology of ‘giving forth upon the beautiful’. He describes the soul as ‘a team of winged steeds and their winged charioteer’. Affected by the beautiful, this ‘team’ climbs the boundaries of the heavens and the ‘charioteer’, in the utmost case, manages to contemplate the ‘plain of truth’. In the article, those metaphorically described parts of the soul are associated correspondingly with themes of everyday thinking and ethical thinking as well as theoretical thinking in general, while wingness is related to valuesness. Tracing the dynamics of the parts of the soul, as portrayed in Phaedrus, the author manages to describe the way in which theoretical thinking thematises the theme of ethical thinking and attains the insight into being under the impact of the beautiful. Keywords: love, madness, truth, being, the beautiful, the good, natural philosophising, phenomenology.p;


2018 ◽  
Vol III (I) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rizwan ◽  
Manzoor Ahmad ◽  
Syed Asif Anwar Bukhari

Soon after its creation, Pakistan confronted many issues including refugee problem, scarcity of able political leadership, absence of mutual consensus between both wings of the country and confusing nature of the relationship between Islam and state etc. took almost nine years to frame the permanent constitution for Pakistan. Constitution, the basic document of a state, determines the shape of its laws, structure of governance and system of rights and duties. The effectiveness of a constitution is judged by its practicability in the given area where it is enforced by the state machinery. Although, all civilized states of the world do possess a constitution, yet a good constitution is one which must protect the basic human rights by ensuring the independence of judiciary. Due to countless hurdles at the beginning of its journey, Pakistan’s constitutional development in the right direction could not take place. The main objective of the present study is to provide deep insight into the events and factors causing a delay in the constitution-making for the newly created state of Pakistan. The various events which took place from 1947 to 1956 have been analyzed in a subtle way.


2017 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 145-166

It is not only Alexander alone who has the right to be proud because he rules over many men, but no less right to be proud have they who have true notions concerning the gods. This quotation from a letter of Aristotle to Antipater (fr. 664 Rose) repeatedly occurs in the Plutarchan corpus. Plutarch clearly agreed. He regarded rational thinking about the gods as a human's most divine possession and as the most decisive influence on their happiness (De Is. et Os. 378C–D), and, as we have already seen, he adopted the Platonic phrase of ὁμοίωσις θεῷ (κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν) (‘assimilation to God [as far as possible]’) as the final end of life (see above, Chapter II, §1). In several ways, then, God is, as it were, the keystone that lends bearing power to the whole vault of Plutarch's philosophical thinking. A correct understanding of his thought therefore presupposes a deeper insight into his conception of God.


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