scholarly journals Opposing Discourses of Terror:

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-53
Author(s):  
Zoltán Lechner
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Military Interventions ◽  
Collision Point ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Syrian Conflict

The primary goal of the paper is to examine how the Turkish and Russian Governments are using the term terrorist in their diplomatic communication towards the Syrian conflict. Following the introduction, the study outlines the theoretical framework – namely the securitisation theory –, then presents a concept of terrorism, which is focusing on the instrumentalisation of the terrorist label in discursive processes. Henceforward, the paper attempts to accomplish the aforementioned goal by examining the Turkish and Russian security discourses on two interrelated issues of the Syrian war: Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring in October 2019, and the Russian–Syrian offensive codenamed Operation Dawn of Idlib between April 2019 and March 2020. Based on the detailed analysis of relevant speeches and articles given or written by high-ranking Russian and Turkish diplomats, the paper displays how the two states justified their military interventions, defined their own roles, and framed the non-governmental actors involved in the conflicts. According to the conclusion of the author, despite the numerous similarities in their discourses, Turkey and Russia define oppositely, who is, and who is not a terrorist in Syria, which constitutes a major collision point between their geostrategic perspectives.

Moving beyond the Basics

2016 ◽  
pp. 24-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Dickenson ◽  
Martin T. Hall ◽  
Jennifer Courduff
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Participatory Media ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way ◽  
Professional Interactions

The evolution of the web has transformed the way persons communicate and interact with each other, and has reformed institutional operations in various sectors. Examining these changes through the theoretical framework Connectivism, provides a detailed analysis of how the web impacts individuals' context within communities as well as the larger society. This chapter examines the evolution of the web and the characteristics of various iterations of the web. A discussion on the emergence of participatory media and other participatory processes provides insight as to how the web influences personal and professional interactions. Research on how the web has changed cultural contexts as well as systems such as education, governments and businesses is shared and analyzed to identify gaps and provide direction for future research.

scholarly journals Subtitling Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) in a Chinese Context: The Transfer of Sexuality and Femininity in A Chick Flick

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Lisi Liang
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Feminist Ideology ◽  
Chinese Markets ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

This paper explores how sexuality and femininity1 are transferred in the Chinese subtitles of the chick flick, Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001). In order to address this question, the article is divided into three main parts. In the first section, a review of how the film is received in the Anglophone and Chinese markets is presented respectively, also including the challenges posted to the subtitlers, e.g. the translation of sexuality and swearing in the discourse of women. The second section offers a theoretical framework that structures the paper, adopting Ernst-August Gutt’s (1986) “Relevance Theory” and Anthony Baldry and Paul Thibault’s (2006) “Multimodality” to examine how the Chinese subtitles work for primarily the Chinese female audiences. What follows is a detailed analysis of two situational categories of recurrent features (swearing and sexuality) in the Chinese subtilties of this chick flick, specifically proving constructions of feminist ideology. The paper concludes that the Chinese subtitles articulates a relatively moderate version compared to the original explicit sexuality and taboo language. Such moderation reflects an increasingly improved entanglement of feminine identity in a contemporary Chinese context.

scholarly journals A Contrastive Study of Anaphora in English and Chinese

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Simo Jia
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
English Text ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Oxford Dictionary ◽  
Chinese Texts ◽  
The Way

Recently, there has been growing interest in the study on cohesion of texts, particularly in the aspect of anaphoric reference. The problem under discussion is within the scope of similar and different usages of anaphors in English and Chinese. Although much work has been done, more studies need to be conducted to ascertain the convincingness of the theories. This essay will demonstrate language materials in real situation in English text and its Chinese translations to prove, explain and enrich the theories about the distinction of English and Chinese anaphora. The thesis for this essay is the contrastive study of anaphora between English and Chinese texts that is the dissimilarities of anaphora in these two language texts and discuss the reasons that caused these differences. And for arguments, four cases of Han’s Andersen’s fairy tales and their Chinese translations and one example from New Oxford Dictionary are selected for the purpose. For methodology, quality analysis is employed. But in general, it is to compare and to contrast in the light of Halliday’s theory on cohesion. The way adopted is to compare broad wise, which means to list similarities and dissimilarities of things needed to be contrast -- anaphora in English and Chinese texts, and then conducts further analysis on them with the theoretical framework. In aspect of detailed analysis, the author adopts the way of illustration, combining language phenomenon listed above with arguments.

The shape of musical improvisation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton Mermikides ◽  
Eugene Feygelson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Violin Concerto ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
Musical Space ◽  
The Third

This chapter presents practitioner–researcher perspectives on shape in improvisation. A theoretical framework based in jazz improvisational pedagogy and practice is established, and employed in the analysis of examples from both jazz and classical-period repertoire. The chapter is laid out in five sections. The first section provides a brief overview of improvisational research, while the second discusses the concept of improvisation as ‘chains-of-thought’ (a logical narrative established through the repetition and transformation of musical objects). The third reflects upon improvisation as the limitation and variation of a changing set of musical parameters. Using this concept, the fourth section builds a theoretical model of improvisation as navigation through multidimensional musical space (M-Space). The final section uses this model in a detailed analysis of the nineteenth-century violinist Hubert Léonard’s cadenza for Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Op. 61.

African Interventions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emizet F. Kisangani ◽  
Jeffrey Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
African History ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Historical Methods

Foreign military intervention has had a profound impact on post-colonial African history and politics. Interventions have destabilized borderlands, overthrown governments, and taken a devastating toll on populations. Emizet F. Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering advance a new theoretical framework and combine quantitative, qualitative, and historical methods to shed fresh light on these important but understudied events. Their detailed analysis brings understanding to supportive and hostile interventions and to interventions by former colonial states, non-colonial foreign actors, and African countries. Kisangani and Pickering also analyse military incursions into ungoverned territories and lands engulfed in civil war. Showcasing a variety of examples from the Second Congo War to the Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict, the book offers a rich and accessible examination of military intervention on the continent.

Exploring the Culture of Surveillance: A Qualitative Study in Portugal

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Délcio Faustino ◽  
Maria João Simões
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Surveillance Culture ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Subjective Meanings

By following the theoretical framework of the surveillance culture this article aims to detail the surveillance imaginaries and practices that individuals have, capturing differences and social inequalities among respondents. We present an in-depth look into surveillance awareness, exploring subjective meanings and the varying awareness regarding commercial, governmental, and lateral surveillance. Furthermore, a detailed analysis is made on how individuals sometimes welcome surveillance, expanding on the cost-benefit trade-off, and detailing it on three distinct trade-offs: the privacy vs. commercial gains/rewards, the privacy vs. convenience and, the privacy vs. security. Lastly, we present a section that explores and analyzes resistance to surveillance.

scholarly journals The Role of Anomalous Data in Knowledge Acquisition: A Theoretical Framework and Implications for Science Instruction

1993 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clark A. Chinn ◽  
William F. Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Science Instruction ◽  
Theory Change ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Science Classrooms ◽  
Anomalous Data

Understanding how science students respond to anomalous data is essential to understanding knowledge acquisition in science classrooms. This article presents a detailed analysis of the ways in which scientists and science students respond to such data. We postulate that there are seven distinct forms of response to anomalous data, only one of which is to accept the data and change theories. The other six responses involve discounting the data in various ways in order to protect the preinstructional theory. We analyze the factors that influence which of these seven forms of response a scientist or student will choose, giving special attention to the factors that make theory change more likely. Finally, we discuss the implications of our framework for science instruction.

The Construction of a Logical-Empirical Structure of Knowledge for Differential Calculus Using a Theoretical Framework Based on Learning Hierarchy Theory and Order Theory

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-164
Author(s):  
James Martin Devecchi
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Differential Calculus ◽  
Order Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Principal Result ◽  
Hierarchy Theory ◽  
Empirical Validation ◽  
Structure Of Knowledge

The principal result of this study is a logically and empirically valid structure of knowledge for differential calculus constructed using a methodology based on Learning Hierarchy Theory (LHT) and Order Theory (OT). A review of existi research into calculus learning is presented, and properties of the structure of knowledge that address deficiencies in existing knowledge are discussed. LHT is developed, and techniques for the empirical validation and generation of hierarchies are discussed. Included in this discussion is a detailed analysis of the important properties of OT.

scholarly journals Humanitarian, hospitable and generous

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Sandrin ◽  
Victor Toscano
Keyword(s):  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Military Interventions ◽  
Justice And Development Party ◽  
Growing Economy ◽  
The Many ◽  
At Home

This article aims to analyze Turkish Public Diplomacy (PD) since the Justice and Development Party (AKP, in Turkish) came to power in 2002. In particular, it aims to make sense of the plurality of public diplomacy discourses and practices which attempt to enact a particular identity for Turkey and to tell a particular ‘story’ to foreign and domestic audiences. Based on a post-structuralist theoretical framework, we present the many institutions responsible for Public Diplomacy in Turkey and analyze the ‘stories’ told by them, arguing that PD is one of the many practices engaged by the AKP government in its attempt to enact a particularidentity and in its pursuit of legitimacy and influence. The particular identity the AKP has been trying — and keeps failing — to enact is that of a ‘benign’, benevolent, humanitarian, hospitable and generous emerging power, a model of a Muslim democracy with a growing economy, heir of a (positive) Ottoman legacy. The article also attempts to understand how AKP public diplomacy has been trying to modulate such a ‘story’ in a context marked by Turkish military interventions abroad and growing authoritarianism at home.

scholarly journals Biographical meanings of work: the case of a Polish freelancer

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karol Haratyk ◽  
Kamila Biały ◽  
Marcin Gońda
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Social Orders ◽  
The Given

The sociological analyses of contemporary society mostly emphasize its liquid and flexible character, which provides new opportunities, but also threats, on both the macro and individual level. The incoherence of the present times could, however, also be perceived as the interference of various social orders that have been described by scholars as “premodernity,” “modernity” and “postmodernity.” In Poland, these tensions are particularly acute because of the collision of the regimes of modernity, postmodernity and elements of traditional culture that are still more visible than in the West. The aim of this paper is to present the relationships between two of the above-mentioned orders: modernity and postmodernity in the sphere of work, with reference to the biographical structure of an individual’s experience. An empirical example of these tensions is demonstrated in the autobiographical story of Piotr, a freelance business psychologist. The article’s first part focuses on the theoretical framework and methodology that were applied while investigating the biographical manifestations of the clashes between these orders. The second part includes a detailed analysis of the narrator’s life story, linking the psychological and sociological perspectives. Furthermore, two meanings of work and their implications for the given case are presented. Finally, the analyzed interview is discussed in a broader perspective, in comparison to other cases.

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