scholarly journals FORMATION OF A LINGUISTIC-AND-RHETORICAL PERSONALITY IN THE TEXTBOOK “A BRIEF HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN LITERATURE” BY SERHII YEFREMOV

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-171
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Sanivskyi ◽  
Oksana Tsyhanok
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
New World ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Language ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Artistic Heritage

It was investigated in the article, based on thorough reading of the textbook “A Brief History of Ukrainian Literature” by Serhii Yefremov, how the teacher revealed the problem of forming a linguistic-and-rhetorical personality in the process of studying the works of Ukrainian writers.The role of the Word in the formation of a linguistic-and-rhetorical personality was defined. That is such a person who owned the Word, respected and learnt native language, understood his role in preserving cultural memory, and was responsible for the speech act.It was found that considerable attention in the textbook was paid to the development of language, in particular the Word and its path from spoken to written, from “short sentences, as in conversation, to one long and fluent sentence”, from a fairy-tale language to the height of Shevchenkoʼs poetry. According to S. Yefremov, a writer is a master of the Word, a master of the native language, who created a new world of beauty and art by all literary means and methods, using allegories and symbols.The specifics of the textbook were the short and unobtrusive characteristics of each literary direction offered to the readers’ attention with the names of the most prominent representatives of one or other literary school.Among many writers, Serhii Yefremov was focused on I. Kotliarevskyi, P. Hulak-Artemovskyi, H. Kvitka-Osnovianenko and M. Shashkevych – the only representative of Galicia. Much attention to the activities of the Cyril and Methodius Society and the work of T. Shevchenko, P. Kulish, M. Kostomarov, as well as Marko Vovchok, Oleksa Storozhenko was paid.The author of the textbook referred artistic heritage of M. Drahomanov, I. Nechui-Levytskyi, P. Myrnyi, I. Franko, M. Starytskyi, M. Kropyvnytskyi, I. Tobilevych (Karpenko-Karyi), B. Hrinchenko and Lesia Ukrainka to the period called “chasy lykholittia (times of trouble)”.An exceptional role in the formation and popularization of the Ukrainian language belonged to the activities of Borys Hrinchenko, who was not only a talented writer, translator, but also a linguist, compiler of the “Dictionary of the Ukrainian language”.Our performed analysis of the textbook “A Brief History of Ukrainian Literature” by Serhii Yefremov gives the grounds for claiming that the facts and generalizations presented by the author, offered to readers, contribute to the formation of a linguistic-and-rhetorical, nationally conscious personality, Ukrainian patriot, who is able to acquire information adequately and critically, systematize it, formulate logical conclusions, make informed decisions, take responsibility for their own actions and for their speech act. Keywords: Serhii Yefremov, Ukrainian literature, Ukrainian language, Word, authorship, public education, linguistic-and-rhetorical personality, speech act.

scholarly journals The treatise on the history of spanish by B. de Aldrete (1606) as the first textbook of romance philology

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-145
Author(s):  
M. A. Kossarik
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
State Building ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Functional Variation ◽  
Xvii Century ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Romance Philology

The paper analyses the role of B. de Aldrete’s treatise “Del Origen y principio de la lengua castellana o romance que oi se usa en España” (1606) in the development of Romance philology. The XVII-century author writes about the most important aspects of internal and external history of Spanish, such as: pre-Romance Spain and substratum languages; Roman conquest and romanization; Hispanic Latin; German conquests of Spain; Arabic conquest and the Reconquista; formation of kingdoms in the north and state-building processes; sociolinguistic situation in Spain; the role of Spanish in the New World; changes from Latin to Spanish in phonetics and morphology; sources of Spanish lexis; early written texts; territorial, social, functional variation of Spanish. Apart from the aspects of Spanish philology, B. de Aldrete pays attention to the formation and functioning of Pyrenean languages: Catalan, Galician, and Portuguese. However, B. de Aldrete does not limit himself to examining Ibero-Romance languages. Many aspects of the history of Spanish are shown against a wider, Romance background, bearing in mind the earlier tradition (the Antiquity, in the first place). He also confronts Spanish with other Romance languages and Latin. The analysis of the first treatise on the history of Spanish makes one reconsider B. de Aldrete’s contribution to the development of language description models and the bases of Romance philology. The treatise sets up a model of Romance philology as a full-fledged philological discipline.

Moment's Monument

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Hecker
Keyword(s):  
Art World ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Single Culture ◽  
Modern Sculpture ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Account ◽  
Modern Experience ◽  
Artistic Heritage

Medardo Rosso (1858–1928) is one of the most original and influential figures in the history of modern art, and this book is the first historically substantiated critical account of his life and work. An innovative sculptor, photographer, and draftsman, Rosso was vital in paving the way for the transition from the academic forms of sculpture that persisted in the nineteenth century to the development of new and experimental forms in the twentieth century. His antimonumental, antiheroic work reflected alienation in the modern experience yet showed deep feeling for interactions between self and other. Rosso's art was transnational: he refused allegiance to a single culture or artistic heritage and declared himself both a citizen of the world and a maker of art without national limits. This book develops a narrative that is an alternative to the dominant Franco-centered perspective on the origin of modern sculpture in which Rodin plays the role of lone heroic innovator. Offering an original way to comprehend Rosso, the book negotiates the competing cultural imperatives of nationalism and internationalism that shaped the European art world at the fin de siècle.

Scriptural Battlefields: The Old Testament, Legal Culture, and the Polemics of the Spanish New World Empire, 1492–1821

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra ◽  
Adrian Masters
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Social Order ◽  
New World ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
Group Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Social Order

Scholars have barely begun to explore the role of the Old Testament in the history of the Spanish New World. And yet this text was central for the Empire’s legal thought, playing a role in its legislation, adjudication, and understandings of group status. Institutions like the Council of the Indies, the Inquisition, and the monarchy itself invited countless parallels to ancient Hebrew justice. Scripture influenced how subjects understood and valued imperial space as well as theories about Paradise or King Solomon’s mines of Ophir. Scripture shaped debates about the nature of the New World past, the legitimacy of the conquest, and the questions of mining, taxation, and other major issues. In the world of privilege and status, conquerors and pessimists could depict the New World and its peoples as the antithesis of Israel and the Israelites, while activists, patriots, and women flipped the script with aplomb. In the readings of Indians, American-born Spaniards, nuns, and others, the correct interpretation of the Old Testament justified a new social order where these groups’ supposed demerits were in reality their virtues. Indeed, vassals and royal officials’ interpretations of the Old Testament are as diverse as the Spanish Empire itself. Scripture even outlasted the Empire. As republicans defeated royalists in the nineteenth century, divergent readings of the book, variously supporting the Israelite monarchy or the Hebrew republic, had their day on the battlefield itself.

Cultural memory and the role of literature

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
RENATE LACHMANN
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Repressed Memory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dimension Functions ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Cultural Data

The history of mnemonic concepts encompasses utopian and sceptical views that produce either a hypertrophic memory or denounce any representation as false. Each literary text incorporates or stores other texts, thus mnemonic space unfolds between and within texts. In storing and accumulating cultural data, the literary text in its intertextual dimension functions as part of cultural memory. A fantastic text points to a silenced repressed memory, confronting culture with its oblivion. Yet the fantastic in restoring the displaced and vanished parts of culture is not merely a mnemonic memory: its speculative potential strives for arbitrary creations that erase the accepted mnemonic imagery.

The role of stylistics in Japan: A pedagogical perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayuki Teranishi ◽  
Aiko Saito ◽  
Kiyo Sakamoto ◽  
Masako Nasu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
English Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Efl Students

This article surveys the history of English studies and education in Japan, paying special attention to the role of literary texts and stylistics. Firstly, the role of literature and stylistics in Japan is discussed from a pedagogical point of view, including both English as a foreign language and Japanese as a native language. Secondly, the way in which stylistics has contributed to literary criticism in the country is examined, with reference to the history of literary stylistics since 1980. Finally, this article considers further applications of stylistics to language study in Japan, offering two examples: analysis of thought presentation in Yukio Mishima’s Megami (2006[1955]), and the teaching of an English poem and a Japanese haiku to Japanese EFL students. The overall aim of this article is to demonstrate that literature as language teaching material and stylistics as a critical and teaching method are significant not only in understanding English, but also in appreciating our own native language if it is not English.

scholarly journals Andrewes's christmas fairy tale: atypical thinking about cancer aetiology in 1935

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeraja Sankaran ◽  
Ton van Helvoort
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Research Community ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
International Medical Research ◽  
Viral Aetiology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fairy Story

This paper uses a short ‘Christmas fairy-story for oncologists’ sent by Christopher Andrewes with a 1935 letter to Peyton Rous as the centrepiece of a reflection on the state of knowledge and speculation about the viral aetiology of cancer in the 1930s. Although explicitly not intended for public circulation at the time, the fairy-story merits publication for its significance in the history of ideas about viruses, which are taken for granted today. Andrewes and Rous were prominent members of the international medical research community and yet faced strong resistance to their theory that viruses could cause such tumours as chicken sarcomas and rabbit papillomas. By looking at exchanges between these men among themselves and other proponents of their theories and with their oncologist detractors, we highlight an episode in the behind-the-scenes workings of medical science and show how informal correspondence helped keep alive a vital but then heterodox idea about the role of viruses in causing cancer.

scholarly journals Zelensky's Image in Russian and Ukrainian News: Presidential Campaign 2019 in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1(28)) ◽  
pp. 62-76
Author(s):  
Katrin Dkhair ◽  
Polina Klochko
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
The Other ◽  
Electoral Campaign ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academic Resources

The work explores the portrayal of the sixth president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Russian and Ukrainian media sources during the pre-electoral campaign in 2019. The study used network analysis, n-grams’ generation, and LDA-based topic modeling. The study reveals that Russia’s media focused on Zelensky as a media personality, while Ukrainian sources paid attention to the portrayal of a novel popular politician. The target audience of the candidate’s campaign was the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine. Media in Ukraine’s native language were more inclined to mention elections, the role of the other candidate Petro Poroshenko and the nationalist mood, while defining Zelensky as just an ordinary candidate in an electoral race. The article is based on academic resources concerning the history of the development of political and media contexts in Ukraine, paying particular attention to agenda-setting, framing and priming techniques, and the personality of Volodymyr Zelensky.

scholarly journals The Influence of Milan on the Development of the Lombard Koiné in Fifteenth-Century Italy: the Letters of Elisabetta of Pavia

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Brown
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Religious Writings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Tendency ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
The One

The main tendency characterizing the development of language in Lombardy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is the formation of a koiné. The extent to which Milan influenced the Lombard koiné is the subject of ongoing debate. On the one hand, scholars suggest that Milan provided a centralizing force for the “Milanization” of other Lombard vernaculars, similar to what occurred for Piedmont and the Veneto. On the other hand, studies have pointed out that Milan was not a centralizing force for the Lombard koiné and that it remains to be verified whether the prestige of Milanese influenced non-Milanese vernaculars. This paper looks at the extent to which Milan influenced the koiné in fifteenth-century Lombardy. I consider eight linguistic items, previously described as unique to the vernacular of Pavia, to verify their presence or absence in a corpus of religious writings from the fifteenth-century nun Elisabetta of Pavia and whether Milanese items can be identified. I consider aspects of phonology and morphology in Elisabetta’s letters and conclude that her language is best characterized as a pre-koiné. The article concludes by arguing for less emphasis on the role of Milan in histories of the vernacular in Lombardy. This finding has implications for the history of non-literary writing in northern Italy and the importance attributed to capital cities in processes of koineization.

scholarly journals Belleville rouge, Belleville noir, Belleville rose: The Complex Identity of a Parisian quartier

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Stott
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Roman Noir ◽  
The Face ◽  
Single Identity

The Parisian quartier of Belleville has long been the subject of scholarly literature and popular culture due to its colourful history and diverse population. Its symbolic boundaries extend beyond the geographical limits imposed by its administrative demarcation. Myths abound as to the extent of its rebellious past, its contemporary image as a melting pot and its prevalence as a décor for the noir genre. In this article a three-tiered categorisation of Belleville is adopted which corresponds to various representations of the suburb in literature, popular culture and from the perspective of its inhabitants. Belleville rouge reflects the quartier’s revolutionary past and the late 20th century struggle associated with its physical metamorphosis. Belleville noir focusses on the quartier’s criminal face, as it is depicted in Parisian film and roman noir and as it exists in reality. Belleville rose highlights the pleasures of the quartier: its cosmopolitan character whose representation verges at times on utopian.    In his Malaussène series (1985-1995), writer and former resident Daniel Pennac portrays Belleville as a unique blend of rouge, noir and rose. This fusion of fairy tale, detective fiction, myth and reality establishes a complex Bellevillois identity distinct from other contemporary representations. The article concludes that it is impossible to associate a single identity with Belleville. The quartier’s contemporary face is inextricably linked to its past, the memory of which is preserved by its inhabitants and by social and literary commentators such as Pennac. In keeping with historian Pierre Nora’s concept of cultural memory, Pennac thus assumes the role of guardian of Belleville’s cultural memory in the face of the quartier’s perpetual evolution.

scholarly journals Is securitization theory racist? Civilizationism, methodological whiteness, and antiblack thought in the Copenhagen School

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Howell ◽  
Melanie Richter-Montpetit
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Moral Imperative ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Copenhagen School ◽  
History Of ◽  
Securitization Theory

This article provides the first excavation of the foundational role of racist thought in securitization theory. We demonstrate that Copenhagen School securitization theory is structured not only by Eurocentrism but also by civilizationism, methodological whiteness, and antiblack racism. Classic securitization theory advances a conceptualization of ‘normal politics’ as reasoned, civilized dialogue, and securitization as a potential regression into a racially coded uncivilized ‘state of nature’. It justifies this through a civilizationist history of the world that privileges Europe as the apex of civilized ‘desecuritization’, sanitizing its violent (settler-) colonial projects and the racial violence of normal liberal politics. It then constructs a methodologically and normatively white framework that uses speech act theory to locate ‘progress’ towards normal politics and desecuritization in Europe, making becoming like Europe a moral imperative. Using ostensibly neutral terms, securitization theory prioritizes order over justice, positioning the securitization theorist as the defender of (white) ‘civilized politics’ against (racialized) ‘primal anarchy’. Antiblackness is a crucial building-block in this conceptual edifice: securitization theory finds ‘primal anarchy’ especially in ‘Africa’, casting it as an irrationally oversecuritized foil to ‘civilized politics’. We conclude by discussing whether the theory, or even just the concept of securitization, can be recuperated from these racist foundations.

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