scholarly journals About the combinatorics of language, politics and identity

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-58
Author(s):  
Nail Mukhamyarov ◽  
Olga Yanush
Keyword(s):  
Political Influence ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Language Politics ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Flexible Response ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Analytical Development ◽  
Political Dimensions

The article discusses the conceptual ways of interaction of cognitive structures reflecting the diverse forms of co-presence of the phenomena of language, identity and politics in their peculiar combinatorics – variants of compatibility in both ontological and epistemological senses. The types of conjugation of linguistic functioning (communicative practices and situations, individual and group behavior) with relations about identity and with political dimensions that arise on this basis, form a complex with a multilateral turnover of roles. Analytical reflections in this area, understandably, also form a fragmented and even polarized picture. On one flank, such conjugation is interpreted in the spirit of isomorphism (in the logic of mutual substitution and unambiguous mapping), in the form of a synthesis, which is based on a certain general ascriptive nature, or essentialist principles of understanding. Identity is set even before identification is attempted, and language is present as an attribute, that is, inseparable. The diametrical position lies in the divergence of language and identity, since the abstract vision of “language” as a system does not at all presuppose a conscious unity of the participants in communication and the carriers of verbal behavior. In the “middle” zone, there is a wide range of judgments regarding the fact that language and identity can interact at the level of modi (but not attributes). Linguistic subjectivity reflects both the motivation for mutual understanding (communicative function) and the need for identification. This leads to logical consequences – languages and identity touch in the plane of the symbolic, and political influence can occur both in terms of traditionally understood language policy, and language politics. The article is distinguished by significantly less institutionalization, the absence of “hard” formal procedural grounds and decisions. Semantic properties in this case suggest a much wider agent composition, and multilevel structures (macro-, meso- and microscales). The expediency of analytical development of this type of politics is associated with the possibility of flexible response to the correlation of language and politics in their situational dynamics, including at the “grassroots” level.

The call to Hawaii: Holistic practitioners’ perspectives of their communicative practices of healing

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Geist-Martin ◽  
Catherine Becker ◽  
Summer Carnett ◽  
Katherine Slauta
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Holistic Health Care ◽  
Mutual Action

The big island of Hawaii has been named the healing island – a place with varied interpretations of healing, health, and a wide range of holistic health care practices. This research explores the perspectives of holistic providers about the communicative practices they believe are central to their interactions with patients. Intensive ethnographic interviews with 20 individuals revealed that they perceive their communication with clients as centered on four practices, specifically: (a) reciprocity – a mutual action or exchange in which both the practitioner and patient are equal partners in the healing process; (b) responsibility – the idea that, ultimately, people must heal themselves; (c) forgiveness – the notion that healing cannot progress if a person holds the burden of anger and pain; and (d) balance – the idea that it is possible to bring like and unlike things together in unity and harmony. The narratives revealed providers’ ontological assumptions about mind-body systems and the rationalities they seek to resist in their conversations with patients.

9. ‘They don’t speak our language’

2019 ◽  
pp. 100-113
Author(s):  
Florian Coulmas
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Instrumental Function ◽  
Symbolic Function ◽  
Linguistic Differences ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
The Relationship

‘ “They don’t speak our language”: identity in linguistics’ considers the relationship between language and identity. For individuals and groups, language has instrumental and symbolic functions, which can be in conflict with each other. The instrumental function of communication stands for inclusion, while the symbolic function of identity manifestation stands for exclusion. Language serves identity manifestation with regard to nation, region, social class, ethnicity (race), gender, and age. The respective linguistic differences can be highlighted or downplayed. Yet, on the level of individual expression in both speech and writing, language has biometric qualities allowing for highly reliable speaker identification.

“Anything but …”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick N. Labrador
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between language, identity, and politics, and Filipino responses to broader racializing discourses. Where do language and identity fit in Filipino identity territorializations? How do Filipinos present themselves to each other and how do they present themselves to a society that sees them as somewhat familiar but primarily assigns them a cultural and linguistic otherness? Using the Katipunan Club at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, it analyzes events that employ a nationalist ideology of language and identity that equates one language, “Filipino/Tagalog,” with one nation-state, “the Philippines,” to create one people, “Filipino.” In short, language serves a critical role in shaping identity territorializations in terms of how the boundaries of the social group are defined and what political interests are deemed meaningful and important.

Language and identity of migrants

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ladilova
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Dominant Language ◽  
Wide Range

Collective identity construction as a discursive action is highly dependent on language use. Migration settings offer a wide range of linguistic repertoires to fall back upon in order to mark identity. While the ‘majority’ language is usually neutral in this sense, the use of the ‘minority’ or the heritage language, defined as a language “other than the dominant language (or languages) in a given social context” (Kelleher 2010, 1), can act as a specific means of identity construction. Moreover, the heritage language acts as a vehicle for transmission of collective memory which is also central in the process and will thus be discussed in this paper. These questions will be analysed by drawing on the results of an empirical study carried out in 2010 in Volga German communities in Argentina.

scholarly journals Understanding the Social Studies Curricula in Turkey as a Political Text Within the Context of Citizenship Education: Views of Academics and Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Fadıl Şiraz ◽  
Erdal Bay
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Curriculum Structure ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Effect ◽  
Political Dimensions

This study attempted to understand the curricula in conveying the state’s own understanding to individuals, according to the reconceptualization approach. As content, the social studies curricula (SSC), with the assumption that political influence would be seen most in these curricula, were examined. This study aims understanding the social studies curricula as a political text within the context of citizenship education in order to see how politics affect these curricula. To determine what political factors affected SSCs in which way, the opinions of academics and teachers were examined regarding curricula from 1998, 2005 and 2018, prepared during different government periods in Turkey. It was tried to determine how the changes in SSCs were defined in political/non-political dimensions, explanation and definition, the criticism, reasons and recommendation regarding these changes. This study was designed as a case study, one of the qualitative methods. Data analysis was done by content analysis method. It was determined that the changes in social studies curricula in 1998, 2005 and 2018 were affected by different political reasons and that there were some prominent ideological elements in all 3 curricula. As a result, it was determined that political effect on SSCs prepared in different government periods and can be seen radical changes were made in terms of curriculum structure and content from 1998 to 2005 and that the SSC of 2018 is similar to that of 2005 in terms of structure.

scholarly journals Academic Success: a student’s guide to studying at university

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Disciplinary Discourse ◽  
Limited Experience ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
English Speaking

Aimed at students with limited experience of the culture and conventions of English-speaking universities, this book introduces readers to a wide range of academic communicative practices. It assumes no prior knowledge or experience of the (mostly) unwritten behaviours, attitudes and values required for academic success and provides a comprehensive breakdown of these, clarified throughout with examples, explanations and practical guidance.The book’s scope is broad, rather than deep, and therefore represents a useful and pragmatic introductory text for any student preparing for a transition or return to higher education. The text is underpinned throughout by two recurring themes that are directly transferable into LD practice. The idea that academic knowledge is developed and communicated via debate and argument is directly linked to the notion of ‘academic apprenticeship’ in which students are encouraged to begin participation in active and current disciplinary discourse.  

scholarly journals "I Know How You Feel": Multifaceted Insights into the Expression of Support Strategies in Computer-Mediated-Communication

10.29007/wfnj ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Maíz-Arévalo ◽  
Alfonso Sánchez-Moya
Keyword(s):  
Partner Violence ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Linguistic Support ◽  
Support Strategies ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Communication Environments ◽  
Definition Of

This study seeks to explore the wide range of strategies that online users employ to express their linguistic support in computer-mediated-communication environments. Based on a purely semantic definition of the term support, this research puts forward a taxonomy containing several strategies by means of which support can be discursively transmitted in digital contexts. This taxonomy is thus applied to data collected from two prototypical communicative practices taking place online: a Facebook group and an Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) forum, which amounts to a total of 12,327 and 26,452 words respectively. Findings show the most salient realisations for expressing support in these two online settings, drawing on the implications the use of a particular sort of strategy may have with regard to the communicative practices under investigation.

scholarly journals The Politics of Privacy—A Useful Tautology

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-236
Author(s):  
Johanna E. Möller ◽  
Jakub Nowak ◽  
Sigrid Kannengießer ◽  
Judith E. Möller
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Organizational Information ◽  
Group Information ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Communicative Actions

While communication and media studies tend to define privacy with reference to data security, current processes of datafication and commodification substantially transform ways of how people act in increasingly dense communicative networks. This begs for advancing research on the flow of individual and organizational information considering its relational, contextual and, in consequence, political dimensions. Privacy, understood as the control over the flow of individual or group information in relation to communicative actions of others, frames the articles assembled in this thematic issue. These contributions focus on theoretical challenges of contemporary communication and media privacy research as well as on structural privacy conditions and people’s mundane communicative practices underlining inherent political aspect. They highlight how particular acts of doing privacy are grounded in citizen agency realized in datafied environments. Overall, this collection of articles unfolds the concept of ‘Politics of Privacy’ in diverse ways, contributing to an emerging body of communication and media research.

Ecocinema

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiu-wai Chu
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Film Criticism ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Political Dimensions

This article introduces recent English scholarship in the expanding field of ecocinema studies. Often seen as a sub-branch of ecocriticism, ecocinema studies (also referred to as “green film criticism,” “eco-film criticism,” or “eco-cinemacriticism”) started to develop only slightly over the past decade or so. All books and articles cited have been published after the mid-1990s, thus revealing the field’s short history and fast expansion. This article is organized in three broad sections. The first five sections focus on the theory and practice of ecocinema studies. General Anthologies introduces edited volumes dedicated to a wide range of thematic issues and theoretical approaches in ecocinema studies. Theorizing Ecocinema: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics introduces film scholarship that contribute to define, conceptualize, and define “ecocinema” from ethical, aesthetic, and political dimensions. Eco-Genres: Documentary, Animation, Sci-Fi, and Horror highlights several genres that are often discussed in ecocritical scholarship. As ecocinema studies are, to a large extent, a study of the interplay among film, ecology, and the human mind, books that focus on human’s affective, cognitive, and emotive responses to ecocinema are also a major aspect in the field’s theorization, as reflected in Affect, Cognition, Emotions. Reading Beyond the Text: From Theory to Practice goes beyond a textual analysis of films and puts ecological and environmental ideologies into practice by incorporating writings on the ecological footprint of film, environmental film festivals, and audience studies, as well as pedagogical practices in ecocinema. The next sections introduce works that center around five major themes in ecocinema studies. The Environment: Landscapes and Seascapes and Wildlife, Animal Justice, and Human–Animal Relationships discuss humans’ relationships with the nonhuman world—namely, the (natural and urban) environments—and the nonhuman creatures such as animals and wildlife. The sections on Food Studies; Weather, Climate Change, and Eco-Disasters; and Pollution, Waste, and Toxicity center on those issues, highlighting the urgency of the worsening environmental issues in the contemporary world. The final sections are structured according to geopolitical territories. In addition to books and articles on Hollywood and American Independent Cinema and European Cinemas, recent scholarly works that focus on Asian and the Global Indigenous Cinemas, particularly films from the Global South, have also been introduced. Despite the hope for this entry to be as comprehensive as possible, film scholarship has not been included from neglected countries and regions that are beyond Western and East Asian contexts, such as the relatively under-discussed scholarship from Australasia, Africa, Antarctica, and other parts of the world, because of the limited availability and accessibility of works on these countries.

scholarly journals The Agro-Industrial Sugarcane System in Mexico: Current Status, Challenges and Opportunities

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor Emmanuel Sentíes-Herrera ◽  
Fernando Carlos Gómez-Merino ◽  
Apolonio Valdez-Balero ◽  
Hilda Victoria Silva-Rojas ◽  
Libia Iris Trejo-Téllez
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Market Penetration ◽  
High Fructose ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
High Processing

Sugarcane cultivation in Mexico occurs under a wide range of socioeconomic, environmental and agricultural conditions, with the last three harvests (2010/2011, 2011/2012 and 2012/2013) providing yields ranging from 36-125 t ha-1 (variation > 347%), with an average yield of 70.2 t ha-1, which is below the world average of 80 t ha-1. The total area allocated to sugarcane production in Mexico is close to 800 thousand hectares, and could rise to nearly 5 million hectares given adequate conditions for its cultivation. This activity generates approximately 1 million direct jobs, 2.2 million indirect jobs, and more than 2.5 billion dollars (0.4% of GDP) per year. Climate change and the rapid market penetration of high fructose corn syrup are among the greatest threats to this agribusiness, including severe disintegration of production processes in the field, industry, commerce, and consumption of cane sugar. Technology lags, low investment, high processing costs and shortcomings in production sales are issues the industry must address by leveraging their resources and coordinating processing links to be more efficient and competitive. Political influence has imposed a suboptimal policy framework to achieve the projected potential. To overcome current lags in the field and refineries within the country, significant innovations across the value-chain are underway, including a robust breeding program, digitalization of sugarcane fields and novel investments in research and development. The sugarcane value-chain has great potential for Mexico, and exploiting this potential is possible if technological, organizational and commercial management innovations currently in progress in fields and factories are applied.

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