scholarly journals Language and Languaging from a Phonetic Point of View

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-28
Author(s):  
Fred Cummins ◽  
Bei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Specific Manner ◽  
Emic And Etic ◽  
Important Form

We differentiate between language-as-system, as exemplified by such constructs as “English,” or “Mandarin,'” and languaging, understood as a rich set of affiliative and coordinative behaviours that involve speech. The former is the more familiar term, and has been constructed in a specific manner that is inextricably bound to literacy, writing and normative social practices. But we argue that only the latter can inform us about what it was that happened to the human species to so differentiate us from other primates. To draw out this distinction, we lean on the contrast between emic and etic approaches, introduced by Ken Pike and rooted in the distinction between phonology and phonetics. We argue that an etic approach to speech can reveal forms of languaging that are not addressed by language-as-system. Joint speech is put forward as an important form of languaging that can be thematised for study only if the emic/etic distinction is taken seriously. Consequences for the self-understanding of phonetics as a discipline are cautiously put forward.

scholarly journals On Muzzles and Faces: The Semiotic Limits of Visage and Personhood

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Leone
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
European Languages ◽  
The Face ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
The One ◽  
The Sacrifice

AbstractThe essay investigates the anthropological concept of personhood from the point of view of the dialectics between two fundamental elements of the socio-cultural, linguistic, and semiotic construction of the self-identity of the human species: on the one hand, the human face and, on the other, the non-human muzzle. After demonstrating that their semantics is contrastively articulated in all Indo-European languages, and after showing that such contrast is featured also in several non-Indo-European languages, including those referring to supposedly alternative “ontologies of nature”, the essay criticizes such opposition through a close reading of Lévinas, Deleuze and Guattari, and Derrida’s philosophical texts on the face and on animality. Ultimately, it proposes that the construction of the animal muzzle as an interface of non-personhood is instrumental to the substitution of the human victim in the sacrifice that establishes the human community. Only through eradicating the primordial stigmatization of the muzzle, however, will a non-violent foundation of human personhood and community be possible.

Vídeo experimental e autorretrato

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filomena Antunes Sobral ◽  
Daniela Morgado Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Cindy Sherman ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Multiple Variable ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Creative Production

In the development of the relationship between the artist and his artistic creation, the deconstruction of concepts and ideas within the scope of artistic praxis leads to the reflection of the crucial role that the artist has in the conception and meaning of the work. His creative production, in turn, appropriates not only the expressive force of the author to assert itself as an artistic creation, but can also assume to be the reflection of the self, its identity and materializes in the form of self-portrait. The self-portrait expands the artist’s interiority, externalizing concerns and questions, and conveys a subjective point of view about himself and his view of art. But how does self-portrait contribute to self-awareness? And how does the artist reveal himself and communicate beyond his appearance?Based on these questions, the objective of this paper is to provide a reflection on self-portrait presenting the results of an artistic installation project that involved photographic language in the form of self-portrait and experimental video to represent feelings of disquiet. Influences such as Cindy Sherman, Lais Pontes or Francesca Woodman, whose creations approach the self-portrait in a not only original, but critical style, stand out.It is a project of academic and artistic nature supported by theoretical foundations. The results allow us to conclude that the artistic installation, which began by presenting a self-portraying self-seeking identity, frees itself from its creator to enhance multiple variable interpretations depending on the observer’s attention.

scholarly journals Telling the Untellable: Negotiating Maternal Bereavement in Sophie Daull's Camille, mon envolée (2015)

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-185
Author(s):  
Julie Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Infection ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Traumatic Loss ◽  
Death Scene ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Mother Figure ◽  
Maternal Motivation ◽  
Insight Into

Sophie Daull's Camille, mon envolée (2015) is an autobiographical depiction of the sudden and traumatic loss of an only daughter (Camille) due to an undetected fatal bacterial infection. It is recounted uniquely from the maternal point of view and directly addresses the daughter throughout. It concerns an incredibly recent bereavement as the writing of the text, the author tells us, commences just one week after the daughter's death. Camille, mon envolée is a markedly intimate and brutally honest account of a mother who is an active witness to and, one could argue, participant in her daughter's agonizing death scene. The text captures the sense of powerlessness that is experienced by the mother, the incomprehensibility of the loss, the self-blame, and, finally, the coming to terms with it and the learning to live on, not without guilt, however. It also offers insight into maternal motivation for writing such a text, ranging from a quest for understanding and an outlet for grief, to a desire to preserve the daughter's memory. Furthermore, through close examination of the physical, psychological and social impact of the death of a child on mother figure subjectivity, Camille mon envolée successfully traces out for the reader the very specific characteristics of maternal bereavement and its overwhelmingly embodied nature. Finally, the text represents an engagement on the part of the grieving mother with what has been termed 'scriptotherapy' in a bid to negotiate this trauma and find a means, not only of remembering the daughter, but also of surviving the tragedy. In this respect, Camille, mon envolée is a text of resistance, where the unthinkable is confronted and the untellable bravely told.

scholarly journals Social representations and information security of children and adolescents: the point of view of teachers (Part 3)

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-148
Author(s):  
I.B. Bovina ◽  
N.V. Dvoryanchikov ◽  
S.Yu. Gayamova ◽  
A.V. Milekhin ◽  
S.V. Budykin
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representations Theory

The presented text is the last part of the article that reported the results of the study about the information security of children and adolescents in groups of teachers. The study was based on the ideas of the social representations theory, in particular, it concerned with the relations in between social practices and social representations. The object of the study was teachers of secondary schools, the sample included 102 people aged from 22 to 65 years, (M = 39.36 years, SD = 11.12 years, 91 women and 11 men). As a matter of the experience with schoolchildren the sample was divided into three groups: teachers of children, teachers of adolescents, and teachers of children and adolescents. To test the assumption concerning the specificity of the social representations as a matter of practice, a questionnaire was developed, it consisted of 6 parts: In the first part, respondents were asked to evaluate information, in terms of the threat it poses to the safety of children and adolescents. In the next four parts of the questionnaire, respondents were asked to answer questions concerning the hypothetical situations, in each case it was necessary to propose a plan of action in the situation. The last part contained socio-demographic issues. The results about last two situations out of four were discussed.

scholarly journals Cartas privadas y actitudes lingüísticas en España y América durante los siglos XVIII y XIX. Algunos problemas en el modo de acceso al objeto de estudio

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Manuel Rivas Zancarrón
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Good Education ◽  
Oral Manifestation ◽  
Language History ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Together with an oral manifestation put into practice by tradition since birth, necessity drove ordinary people to develop the ability to speak with an absence of the self, the you and the communicative situation. Initially, it was the emigration to America, promoted by the miseries of a decadent homeland, which contributed to the development of a textual genre of urgency, without literary retensions, which in later years became a sign of good education on the part of those using it. With this work, we review the methodological pitfalls that are hidden when accessing this type of object. We analyse the difficulties that might be found by researchers when facing these documents from a philological point of view and from the sociolinguistic view of the attitudes of the speakers—both implicit and explicit. The concept of “discursive tradition” will act as a methodological moderator and will allow the construction of a bridge between diachronic Sociolinguistics and Language History in the recovery of oral remains from the speech of the 18th and 19th centuries in Spain and America.

‘Be Me’: I-Vampire/I-Zombie

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Person ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Cultural Anxiety ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Byronic Hero ◽  
Narrative Format ◽  
The Right ◽  
Subsequent Rise

This chapter examines the adoption and development of the first person narrative format within vampire, and more recently zombie, film and television. It considers how this trope has contributed to the rise of the sympathetic/romantic vampire figure from the Byronic hero within Polidori’s The Vampyre to Interview with the Vampire and Byzantium and the subsequent rise of the sympathetic zombie. This chapter questions if this first person point of view empties the vampire and zombie of symbolic agency, or manipulates the genre to explore new meanings. It considers how the genres of the vampire and the zombie are increasingly interconnected, moving away from themes of apocalypse and cultural anxiety to explore questions of identity and the self within a changing world, effectively queering the vampire and zombie for new audiences.Case studies include Let the Right One In, Byzantium, Only Lovers Left Alive, Warm Bodies, Colin, and In the Flesh.

THE MORALS OF YOUTH IN 1805 AS DESCRIBED IN AN EDITORIAL IN ONE OF OUR MOST RESPECTED NEWSPAPERS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-569
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Species ◽  
The Mind

Since newspapers were first published in this country, editorial writers have never seemed to tire of writing about the moral deficiencies of our young people. The quotation below, from an editorial published in a well-known newspaper in 1805, could have appeared (in a less ornate style) in the paper we read this morning. To a person of reflection and sensibility, there cannot be a subject of more painful thought, than that which the morals of our youth present. In many of them, we observe the brightest colours of the human character almost totally eclipsed by the foulest immoralities. We see them triumphing in vice as a proof of distinguished spirit and refinement, and permitting their passions to shoot wild in all the dreadful luxuriance of folly and guilt. Let us limit our remarks within a narrow sphere, and select from the cluster of youthful lusts, one which is more fashionable and perhaps more detrimental to them, in every point of view, than any other with which the present age is scourged: I mean the illicit indulgence of that passion which was given to us for the preservation of the human species. Considered merely with reference to this life, I know not a more deadly antidote to bliss than this lawless tyrant over man. How often does it dig the grave for genius and character! How are all the energies of the mind unstrung by its excess; all the affections of the heart deadened or empoisoned; every virtuous propensity put to flight, and all the charms of chaste society lost and forgotten.

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