scholarly journals Gender associations in the twentieth-century English-language literature

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Schulz ◽  
Štěpán Bahník
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Past ◽  
English Language Literature ◽  
Google Books ◽  
Language Literature

The data required to study stereotypes held in the past are often not available. Using Google Books Ngram corpus, we explored the depiction of male and female characters in the twentieth-century English-language fiction. By analyzing adjective-noun bigrams, we examined adjectives used in association with “man”, “woman”, “boy”, and “girl”. Men were described in more positive terms than women. Girls were depicted in more positive terms than boys at the beginning of the twentieth century, but the tendency reversed in the middle of the century. Boys were described in more masculine terms than girls; however, men were described in similarly masculine adjectives as women. Despite limitations of interpretability of the results, the study presents a possible approach of exploring past stereotypes.

Pre-dicting the Past, Re-membering the Present: Theorizing Memory in Complicite's Mnemonic

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Núria Casado-Gual
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
The Past ◽  
English Language Literature ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The University ◽  
Phd Thesis ◽  
Language Literature

In Mnemonic, a play conceived and directed by Simon McBurney and devised by Theatre de Complicite, words are not only time capsules in which different fictionalized memories are preserved, but also mnemonic objects in their own right. The playtext they conform acts, of course, as a reminder of the show that this British company created in 1999 for the Salzburg Festival, and that toured internationally again in 2002: at the same time, the published text of the work contains the perspectives and potential techniques from which the notion of memory – and of individual and collective forms of remembrance associated with it – can be explored and semiotized. Núria Casado-Gual's article looks at the dramaturgical strategies and theatrical techniques used by the company in their particular theatricalization of memory. Mnemonic, she contends, is not only relevant as an outstanding piece of contemporary theatre, but also as a ‘memorable’ text that helps us decipher our enigmatic selves in apparently oblivious and eroding postmodern times. Núria Casado-Gual lectures in English language, literature, and theatre at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. She is author of a PhD thesis on the the Caribbean playwright Edgar Nkosi White, and combines her academic work with creative theatrical projects as both playwright and performer with the company Nurosfera.

scholarly journals Origins of management accounting according to different research approaches

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (87(143)) ◽  
pp. 153-170
Author(s):  
Anna Szychta
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Accounting History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Review Analysis ◽  
English Language Literature ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Language Literature

The aim of the article is to specify the causes, places and periods of origin of the application of manage-ment accounting in accordance with the views of the foreign supporters of the four main approaches to research on the development of management accounting. The article highlights the various possibilities of interpretation by historians of past events and processes in the practice of management accounting dependingon the types of sources included in research and conceptual basis for discussion and interpretation of the past. The author uses the review, analysis and synthesis of thoughts and opinions of the authors of select-ed publications from the extensive English-language literature of the subject. This article constitutes an input to the discussion about the need to extend the research in Poland in the area of accounting history, including management accounting history.

An historical analysis of species references in American English

Corpora ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-349
Author(s):  
Craig Frayne
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
American English ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Corpus Studies ◽  
Google Books

This study uses the two largest available American English language corpora, Google Books and the Corpus of Historical American English (coha), to investigate relations between ecology and language. The paper introduces ecolinguistics as a promising theme for corpus research. While some previous ecolinguistic research has used corpus approaches, there is a case to be made for quantitative methods that draw on larger datasets. Building on other corpus studies that have made connections between language use and environmental change, this paper investigates whether linguistic references to other species have changed in the past two centuries and, if so, how. The methodology consists of two main parts: an examination of the frequency of common names of species followed by aspect-level sentiment analysis of concordance lines. Results point to both opportunities and challenges associated with applying corpus methods to ecolinguistc research.

Migrant Voices in the Polish Classroom: Canadian Literature on the Tertiary Level of Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-427
Author(s):  
Dagmara Drewniak
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
English Language ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Cultural Heterogeneity ◽  
English Language Literature ◽  
Language Literature

Abstract This paper explores the possibilities of introducing contemporary Canadian texts into a Polish university classroom. It contextualizes teaching English language literature in Poland as well as seeks options for promoting values such as openness and tolerance while facilitating global reading and raising students’ awareness on global conflicts and their meaning in the contemporaneous world. The paper aims at demonstrating that Canadian literature courses composed of texts concerned with immigration and multiculturalism turn out to have an enormous potential in creating valuable debates on the problem of embracing otherness, seeking bridges in mutual understanding, and promoting openness towards different identities. On the basis of close readings of three texts, M. Ondaatje’s The English Patient, A.J. Borkowski’s Copernicus Avenue, and E. Stachniak’s Necessary Lies, the present article also demonstrates how Canadian literature enriches and rescales students’ perception of cultural heterogeneity and responsibility of reading, thus offering new perspectives on the rapidly changing world.

scholarly journals D.E. Serebrennikov [Rev.] Ehrlich E. Fundamental Principles of the Sociology of Law. [Russ. ed.: Erlikh O. Osnovopolozhenie sociologii prava. Transl. from Germ. by M.V. Antonov; Ed. by V.G. Grafskiy, Yu.I. Grevtsov. St Petersburg: OOO “Universitetskii izdatel’skii konsortsium” publ., 2011.]

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-189
Author(s):  
Dmitrii E. Serebrennikov
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Sociology Of Law ◽  
Specific Strategy ◽  
Modern Reader ◽  
English Language Literature ◽  
Language Literature

It’s commonly believed that the book “Fundamental Principles of the Sociology of Law” (1913) of Eugen Erlich (1862–1922) was historically the first work in which was made an attempt to create a sociology of law as a specific scientific discipline. However the translation and publication of this work in Russian (2011) was insignificant to the sociological community, while in the English-language literature of the last decades we can observe a growing interest to the classic. The author of the article tries to emphasize the main points and advantages of the theory of the “living law” of Ehrlich, showing how the “Fundamental principles...” may be interesting for the modern reader. For this, the author of the article offers a specific strategy for reading the book.

Acute delirium induced by intravenous trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole therapy in a patient with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
A R Salkind
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Reaction ◽  
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Literature ◽  
Acquired Immunodeficiency ◽  
Immunodeficiency Syndrome ◽  
Language Literature

The development of a rash in response to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) administration is a fre-quent adverse reaction in people with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In contrast, there are no published reports in the English language literature describing TMP-SMX induced delirium in an AIDS patient. This report describes the development of frank delirium in a person with AIDS receiving TMP-SMX. The episode resolved completely within 72 h of withdrawal of the drug.

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