scholarly journals English in the 2010s – Getting up Close and Personal

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
John Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
First Person ◽  
English Speaker ◽  
British English ◽  
The World ◽  
Polynesian Languages ◽  
The Way ◽  
English I

The following is a personal enquiry into how our view of the world may be affected in some very specific ways by the language we speak, and more particularly the way we write, with specific reference to consensus and norms. These musings have arisen over many years of working as a translator, and are based on my interactions as an English speaker with texts in many European, and to a lesser extent, Polynesian languages. The English I speak of here is mainly my English, perhaps my idiolect as a 58-year-old New Zealander. Some of the preferences I mention may be less applicable in British English, for example, but every native speaker's idiolect reflects something of the language as a whole, and I hope my readers will identify linguistically with some of what I am saying. I hope I may be forgiven for writing rather colloquially and in the first person. This choice is entirely consistent with my subject-matter, however, as will become evident.

scholarly journals From the concepts of meaning and reference to the concept of prototypicality

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-87
Author(s):  
Carlos Assunção ◽  
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Carla Araújo ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Semantics ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
Reference Form ◽  
The Way

Meaning is a uniquely human phenomenon. In linguistics, this subject matter is especially complex, considering the multiplicity of theoretical approaches and the variety of disciplinary fields that address the issue. A similar concern applies to the concept of reference, because, although most linguists today agree that meaning and reference form two different realities, the discussion about the relation between these two terms has not yet been fully examined. Cognitive Linguistics has made a great contribution to this discussion by recognizing that we cannot present the postulate of the existence of a level of meaning that belongs only to language and is distinct from the level at which the meaning of linguistic forms is associated with the knowledge of the world. The objective of this work is to show that, with Cognitive Linguistics, the ideas of meaning and reference are re-equated and have gained strength in the scope of linguistic studies reinforced by the concept of prototype. For such purpose this text describes the way these concepts have evolved based on their theorisation, paying particular attention to cognitive semantics, but not intending to make an exhaustive theoretical-methodological analysis of them.

scholarly journals Vintage Ladies in Cubist Exhibitions: Pablo Picasso's Cubist Women and Judith Butler's Performativity

k ta ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Samaneh Saeid ◽  
Laleh Atashi
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Pablo Picasso ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Representations Of Women ◽  
The Way

As a prominent figure in the history of painting, Pablo Picasso has bestowed upon the world his uniquely striking paintings in different styles, the most revolutionary of which being his Cubist art. The representation of women occupies a significant space in Picasso’s Cubist works. While the painter’s style is highly revolutionary, rejecting the accepted principles of painting, the subject matter does not change as such: nude women are objectified with a cubist look. Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity which examines the roots of naturalized concepts of gender, has been applied to Picasso’s representations of women in his cubist paintings. This research examines the way naturalized definitions of gender have found their way into Picasso’s paintings.  By applying the Butlerian concept of gender performativity to a number of Picasso’s cubist artworks, we try to indicate how stereotypes of gender linger in the discourse of modernism. Analyses lead to the conclusion that although the cubist style of painting is an experimentation in form, hardly any avant-gardism can be traced in the representation of gendered identities in Picasso.

Structure, Form and Organisation for the Evaluation of Curriculum

1976 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-50
Author(s):  
Desmond Broomes
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The State ◽  
Structure Form ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Curriculum development and evaluation activities are inextricably inter­woven. Evaluation gathers and systematically orders evidence so that teachers and other curriculum workers may make decisions about the state of the learner, about organising and teaching subject matter, and about learning-outcomes. Thus the structure, form, and organisation for evaluation of the curriculum are most usefully described not as separate, distinct entities removed from curricu­lum activities, but as the way by which the persons (in particular teachers), materials and machinery are brought together for certain purposes. And all these purposes may be realised through enabling schools to become directly in tune with the world as it is.

Conclusion: Levinasian Films in the World

2019 ◽  
pp. 204-208
Author(s):  
Edward Lamberti
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The World ◽  
Film Style ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
The Way

The Conclusion sums up how studying Emmanuel Levinas and film in terms of style and performativity can expand our appreciation both of Levinas’s ethics and of the work of these significant filmmakers. This study of a range of films directed by the Dardenne brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader helps open up the different ways in which film style can perform ethics. This opening-up shows that there is no such thing as a singular ‘ethical style’ or ‘Levinasian style’ and no such thing as a singular ‘Levinasian topic’. Rather, the power and importance of Levinas’s ethics can be detected and explored in a range of subject matter and performed through a range of film styles. This realisation paves the way for other studies into ethics, performativity and film.

The Recitation in Mathematics

1921 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
School Life ◽  
Student Activity ◽  
Purpose Of Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Out Of School ◽  
The Way

The purpose of education is to help the individual better to meet both present and future life situations. The process by which this purpose is realized continues throughout life and the means of education includes every phase of our environment which tends to modify the way in which we react to a given situation. Clearly the school is only one of the means of education. Within the school various forms of student activity are rightfully assuming an ever increasing importance, but at present most teachers look upon the recitation as the most important educative factor in the school. The function of the recitation seems to be to pass on to the next generation an accumulation of experience which school authorities believe to be essential to the welfare of society and in so doing to develop certain desirable abilities and capacities in the individual. Unfortunately in our attempt to realize this function we have separated our subject matter from its useful relationships and in the child’s mind it is a mass of material almost wholly unrelated to the world in which he lives, and our very attempts have defeated our purpose. This paper discusses certain fundamental principles which will compel a closer relationship between mathematics and out-of-school life and will therefore make the recitation a more effective means of renlizing the aim of education.

Financial Distress Overview, Determinants, and Sustainable Remedial Measures

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-113
Author(s):  
Fredrick Ikpesu ◽  
Olusegun Vincent ◽  
Olamitunji Dakare
Keyword(s):  
Cash Flow ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Remedial Measures ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Operating Cash Flow ◽  
The Way

The failure of top firms in the world who once represented the icon of their industries has renewed the interest of research scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and academics on the subject matter of financial distress. A firm is financially distressed when the operating cash flow is not sufficient for meeting the current obligation of the firm. It also involves a situation where the firm constantly experiences loss, breach loan contract, and find it difficult in honouring organisational commitment. This chapter is set out to synthesize the recent development in the topics of financial distress and corporate recovery. This chapter primarily focuses on financial distress, its determinants, and the way forward on how firms can recover from financial distress. The chapter also discussed the financial distress theories as well as sustainable remedial measures of financial distress. Finally, the chapter provides the concluding remarks and policy implications.

Neronian Pastoral and the World of Power

Ramus ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Winsor Leach
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
Pastoral Tradition ◽  
Bucolic Poetry ◽  
The Way

As the third pastoral poet, Calpurnius Siculus was the first to take up the genre fully formed. For all their many differences, Theocritus and Vergil had given bucolic poetry an established frame of reference, a characteristic subject matter, and a self-contained mythology. From a poet in Calpurnius' position whose work would inevitably be measured against that of his predecessors, one would expect a certain amount of generic self-consciousness, taking such forms as an implicit evaluation of the tradition, numerous allusions and specific verbal borrowings, and, ideally, an assurance that the genre had not been exhausted, that is to say, some open-ended indication of the new directions in which pastoral might turn. The first of these elements is clearly present in the poetry, but the last remains elusive. A major imaginative influence upon his genre is something Calpurnius did not provide for antiquity. Unlike his contemporaries, Persius and Lucan, he has no conspicuous literary heir, nor do the Einsiedeln fragments or the slim corpus of Nemesianus give much proof of his having invigorated the tradition. Indeed the effect of Calpurnius upon the pastoral is rather comparable to that often assigned toParadise Lostupon the epic: he closed it off for centuries. But this fact need not stand in the way of an evaluation of the poet's artistry, nor originality. My argument in this paper is that Calpurnius' originality in adapting the pastoral tradition to his own sense of the temper of the Neronian Age was so extreme as to constitute a reluctant denial of the validity of pastoral mythology for contemporary Rome.

Haskalah and Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Wodzinski
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
Central Arena ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
The Way

The conflict between Haskalah and hasidism was one of the most important forces in shaping the world of Polish Jewry for almost two centuries, but our understanding of it has long been dominated by theories based on stereotypes rather than detailed analysis. This book challenges the long-established theories about the conflict by contextualizing it, principally in the Kingdom of Poland but also with regard to other parts of eastern Europe. It follows the development of this conflict in its central arena and reconstructs the way the conflict expressed itself. The book shows that it was primarily informed by non-ideological clashes at the level of local communities. Attention is devoted to the general characteristics of hasidism and the Haskalah, as well as to the post-Haskalah movements. Here too the book challenges the ideologically charged assumptions of a generation of historians who refused to see the advocates of Jewish modernity in nineteenth-century Poland as an integral part of the Haskalah movement. Consideration is given to the professional, social, institutional, and ideological characteristics of the Polish Haskalah as well as to its geographic extent, and to the changes the movement underwent in the course of the nineteenth century. Similar attention is given to the influence of the specific characteristics of Polish hasidism on the shape of the conflict. The book presents a synthesis that offers both breadth and depth, contextualizing its subject matter within the broader domains of the European Enlightenment and Polish culture, hasidism and rabbinic culture, tsarist policy and Polish history, not to mention the ins and outs of the Haskalah itself across Europe.

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

The problem of sex in the religions of the Abrahamic tradition

2001 ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
N. Nedzelska
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
First Person ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Systems

The paradox of the existence of the species Homo sapiens is that we do not even know: Who are we? Why are we? Where did you go from? Why? At all times - from antiquity to our time - the philosophers touched on this topic. It takes an important place in all religions of the world. These eternal questions include gender issues. In the religious systems of the religions of the Abrahamic tradition there is no single answer to the question of which sex was the first person. Recently, British scientists have even tried to prove that Eve is 84 thousand years older Adam

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