scholarly journals The Phenomenon of Regional Euphemisms and the Work of City Managers (the Analysis of Euphemisms in the Internet-Based Discourse)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
N. А. Krasovskaya ◽  
Y. I. Kuzina
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Area ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
City Managers ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Made In

This article discusses the issue of the relationship between euphemisms and regional phenomena. The author dwells on the definition of euphemisms and the indication of their main features, emphasizing that the main aspect in understanding euphemisms is replacing a rude or undesirable word with a softer and more appropriate one. According to the author, understanding euphemisms that are found in the speech of residents of a certain geographical area is very important for heads of administrations at various levels, employees of departments, working with the local residents, i.e. for managers who ensure the well-being of city dwellers. The notion of euphemisms is closely related to culture and social attitudes that are developed in society. It is the link between euphemisms and culture, certain stereotypes, traditions of society, systems of values, etc. that makes the existence of regional euphemisms possible. In this study, a hypothesis is put forward about the presence of euphemistic substitutions, characteristic of a certain region. As part of the research, an attempt was made to identify euphemisms characteristic of the Tula region (Russia). Examples of direct discussion of Russian-language publications made in the “Overheard in Tula” community of the VKontakte social network serve as the empirical material for the study. As a result of the analysis, it was proved that in most cases, participants in communication use euphemisms when discussing the shortcomings and problems of their region. Understanding such use of euphemisms can help city managers in their work. The research reveals which regional events most often induce the residents of the Tula region to use euphemistic substitutions. Based on the comparison of selected discourse samples and data from lexicographic sources, it is determined whether the used substitutions can be considered euphemisms. The authors come to the conclusion that it is possible to speak about the existence of the very phenomenon of regional euphemisms and that its further study is much needed as it can improve the efficiency of city managers.  

scholarly journals Uma revisão bibliográfica do tipo scopping/mapping sobre a Agricultura Urbana e Periurbana

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1242
Author(s):  
Victor Bueno Sellin ◽  
Tania Pereira Christopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Dynamics ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Sustainable Urbanization ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Periurban Agriculture ◽  
The Relationship

The world is undergoing an accelerated urbanization process marked by social and environmental imbalances. In this context, urban and periurban agriculture (UPA) emerges as an alternative to sustainable urbanization mainly due to its contribution to food security, reduction of environmental impact, revitalization of urban areas, integration of households and physical and psychological well-being increasing. The purpose of this paper is to understand how academic literature deals with urban and periurban agriculture. For that, a scoping / mapping literature review was carried out and its results were presented after identification of relevant scientific studies on UPA, its main aspects, ways in which the term has been defined; and discussion about themes from the selected articles. After this review, the conclusions are: the scientific production on the subject is undergoing high growth rates in recent years; the relationship between UPA and urban dynamics is more important for the definition of UPA than the location of agriculture; and that the aspects that authors found most interesting are: concept and panorama, urban planning and governance, quantitative potential, environment, risk of contamination and techniques and productivity.

scholarly journals Well-Being and Romantic Relationships: A Systematic Review in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (13) ◽  
pp. 2415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercedes Gómez-López ◽  
Carmen Viejo ◽  
Rosario Ortega-Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

Adolescence and emerging adulthood are both stages in which romantic relationships play a key role in development and can be a source of both well-being and negative outcomes. However, the limited number of studies prior to adulthood, along with the multiplicity of variables involved in the romantic context and the considerable ambiguity surrounding the construct of well-being, make it difficult to reach conclusions about the relationship between the two phenomena. This systematic review synthesizes the results produced into this topic over the last three decades. A total of 112 studies were included, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) guidelines. On the one hand, these works revealed the terminological heterogeneity in research on well-being and the way the absence of symptoms of illness are commonly used to measure it, while on the other hand, they also showed that romantic relationships can be an important source of well-being for both adolescents and emerging adults. The findings underline the importance of providing a better definition of well-being, as well as to attribute greater value to the significance of romantic relationships. Devoting greater empirical, educational, and community efforts to romantic development in the stages leading up to adulthood are considered necessary actions in promoting the well-being of young people.

scholarly journals Does being a grateful person increase one’s level of well-being? The mediating role of indebtedness

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Bernabé-Valero ◽  
C Moret-Tatay ◽  
T Navarro-Sancho
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Consistency ◽  
The Relationship

In this work, we define gratitude, paying attention to interpersonal gratitude and its relationship with dispositional debt. We examined the disposition to feel indebted through analysis of convergence and divergence, exploratory and confirmatory analysis of the most used measurement instrument. The Revised Indebtedness Scale depicted a four factor solution interrelated with a high consistency of content, which allows their labeling and describing. To do this, two samples of university students were selected; one of the sample sizes had 229 Spanish participants and the other 200 participants. Subsequently, a mediation model was tested in which the “Self-sufficiency and discomfort in receiving help” factor mediates the relationship between interpersonal gratitude and the “Positive relations with others” dimension of the Wellbeing scale. The results are discussed in relation to the need for conceptual definition of the constructs in Positive Psychology.

scholarly journals Eating Experiences of People with Disabilities: A Qualitative Study in Spain

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 512
Author(s):  
Carmen Cipriano-Crespo ◽  
Marta Rodríguez-Hernández ◽  
Pablo Cantero-Garlito ◽  
Lorenzo Mariano-Juárez
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Food Ingestion ◽  
Perceived Burdensomeness ◽  
Intervention Models ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Functional Deficiency ◽  
Made In

Background: Disability causes changes in the eating process, which is central to the definition of each individual’s social and psychological spaces. Methods: This is a qualitative study based on grounded theory. Interviews were carried out in clinical hospital settings and headquarters of several disability organisations. The study included 27 individuals, aged between 18–75 years. All participants had a disability that caused a functional deficiency in the occupational aspects of the eating process. Results: The respondents’ narratives were analysed through observations made in different contexts, allowing us to describe and understand the significance attributed by the participants to their reality and experiences. Three key themes emerged from the analysis: (1) waning bodies (assumption of a diminished corporality); (2) redefinition of food-related social spaces; and (3) perceived burdensomeness, shame, and loneliness. Conclusions: Assisted feeding tends to prioritise the nutritional component of food ingestion. However, cultural, social, and contextual factors have a critical impact on an individual’s well-being and quality of life. This study stresses the importance of re-addressing intervention models affecting differently-abled people and incorporating approaches that take into account the contextual aspects of occupational therapy.

scholarly journals SOCIAL IMPACT OF FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AREA. CASE STUDY: MENTARI COURT, SELANGOR, MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Ling Hoon Leh ◽  
Nik Nurul Farahanis Mohd Rosli ◽  
Farah Ayuni Marhalim ◽  
Siti Nur Afiqah Mohamed Musthafa
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Housing Price ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Housing Area ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Relationship

Social impact can be defined as the net effect of an activity on a community and the well-being of individuals and families in the community. Among the activities that give rise to social impacts is the influx of foreign immigrants into a locality. This study examines the impacts of foreign immigrants’ presence on the local society at an affordable housing area in Selangor. A questionnaire survey was carried out among respondents that were selected from the local residents to examine impacts on family relationship, the relationship among local residents, the relationship between locals and foreigner, acceptance of foreigners by local residents, sense of belonging, housing price, job opportunity, and safety. Overall, the results show that most of the respondents felt that the presence of foreign immigrants in the study area has negatively affecting them with regard to family and community relationship, sense of belonging, safety and housing price/rental.

scholarly journals Phonetics and orthoepy: Status, object and tasks of two disciplines

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-581
Author(s):  
Maria L. Kalenchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sound Level ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Sound System ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The Status ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Russian Language

It is known that two linguistic disciplines — phonetics and orthoepy — coexist on the sound level of the Russian language. The question of the relationship between the status, object and tasks of these sections as independent linguistic disciplines is debatable. In the works of modern scientists, two main approaches to the definition of phonetics and orthoepy can be found. Some linguists traditionally believe that both sections of the science of spoken speech study the same language material, but from different angles. Others attempt to differentiate the areas of responsibility of phonetics and orthoepy, showing that they operate in principle with different sound facts. The article formulates and analyzes these points of view and offers a new approach that allows not to contrast phonetics and orthoepy, but to combine them on the basis of the principle of positional structure. The implementation of a phoneme under the action of an orthoepic regularity is probabilistically predicted by a number of factors of different nature — phonetic, lexical, grammatical, word-forming, graphic and sociolinguistic, which were previously proposed to be called orthoepic positions. These factors do not operate in isolation, but there is a complex hierarchical system of relationships between them. It is possible to provide a description of the sound system of the Russian language, in which pronouncing patterns are divided not into phonetic and orthoepic, but into positional and non-positional. The concepts of phonetic and orthoepic positions can either be combined into a single concept of pronouncing positions, or, while preserving the concepts of phonetic and orthoepic positions, the former can be considered as a particular manifestation of the latter, which removes the question of differences between phonetics and orthoepy.

scholarly journals The Semantics of Participation in the Russian Language as a Reflection of the Cultural Universal «Own/Foreign» Concept and the «West/East» Opposition

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 1538-1546
Author(s):  
Igor Kim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The West ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Empirical Material

This paper deals with the issues of an important ethnic trait through the reflection in the Russian language and in the speech behavior of native speakers. This trait is focused around the need for actualization of «participation» or complicity in speech and social behavior as an invisible connection established in the inner world of the subject of the relationship of participation with other persons, animals, objects, spatial and social objects and even eras and ideas. The developed semantics of participation in the Russian language reflects the cultural universal concept of «own/foreign». L. Levy-Bruhl studied one member of that opposition theoretically and on the basis of extensive empirical material created the anthropological theory of participation. Russian linguists V. V. Ivanov, Yu. D. Apresyan, V. S. Khrakovsky and A. P. Volodin, I. I. Kovtunova studied concepts associated with the notion of participation in the mid‑1980s using the material of Russian deixis and the category of possessiveness. In the Russian language, the semantics of participation is expressed by various linguistic means: the means of verbal and pronominal deixis, diminutives, possessive syntactic constructions and affixes, words with the semantics of emotional attitude and assistance

scholarly journals Ethnic Identity and Psychological Well-Being of Russians in Post-Soviet Space: The Role of Diaspora

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
N.M. Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The article analyzes the role of different forms of diaspora activity as a mediator of the relationship between ethnic identity and psychological well-being of Russians in Kyrgyzstan and Estonia (N = 609). The results of structural equation modeling showed that ethnic identity salience is significantly positively associated with the involvement in all types of Russian diaspora activities both in Kyrgyzstan and in Estonia. Russians’ participation in all types of diaspora activity is significantly higher in Kyrgyzstan than in Estonia. Participation in different types of diaspora activity mediates the relationship of ethnic identity and psychological well-being: in Kyrgyzstan — participation in public actions and activity aimed at preservation of collective historical memory; in Estonia — activity aimed at maintenance of Russian language and culture. The results can serve as the basis for practical recommendations for supporting the Russian diaspora in the post-Soviet space.

Religious Identity, Citizenship, and Welfare

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-233
Author(s):  
Waqar I. Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Salient Points ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In ◽  
Critical Aspects

In addressing the situation of Muslim communities in Britain, it isapparent that one of the major frameworks for understanding their situationhas been the notion of "Citizenship," for citizenship is a means ofidentifying critical aspects of the relationship between the individual andthe state. Following Bottomore (1992), we may make a useful distinctionbetween "formal" and "substantive" citizenship: the former being Simplydefined as "membemhip in a nation state" and the latter as "an array ofcivil, political, and especially social rights, involving also some kind ofparticipation in the business of government'' (ibid.).There are a number of salient points that should be made in relationto examining the implications of this distinction. First, we may note thatthe legal definition of citizenship is always informed by the cultural andethnic agendas historically rooted in the foundation myths of each nationstate.Thus in France, for example, just as the revolutionary iconographyof the Tricolor, Marianne, and Liberty, Equality, and Fratemity continueto serve contemporary national sentiments (Hobsbawm 1983), so todayFrench legal framing of formal citizenship is infused with its revolutionaryroots:La tradition centraliste francaise interdit la reconnaissance dansl'espace public des 'communautes', au sens oii elles existent auWtats-Unis. (Schnapper 1990).Consequently, in France neither ethnicity nor religion are formally relevantin determining access to citizenship ...

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