scholarly journals EXTRALINGUISTIC INFORMATION OF UKRAINIAN, ENGLISH AND FRENCH PROVERBS WITH THE COMPONENT “MIND”

2021 ◽  
pp. 114-120
Author(s):  
Kornieva S.Ye.
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Culture System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
Everyday Activity ◽  
Unique Reflection ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Selection Of

The article is devoted to the problem of extralingual information of the Ukrainian, English and French proverbs with a component “mind”. The result of the analysis is that the semantics of proverbs in three languages are determined and adjusting judgements which have the connection with the attitude of Ukrainians, Englishmen and Frenchmen toward intelligence are formed. The relevance of the topic is due to the fact that a proverb is a unique reflection of people’s beliefs, persuasions, system of values, culture, everyday activity and way of thinking. Modern linguists in their works pay attention to such features of proverbs, as: structuring, rhythm, semantics which is represented in both, direct and indirect meanings of the proverbs. For the research there are taken 106 Ukrainian proverbs with a lexeme «розум», 12 English proverbs with a lexeme “mind” and 12 French proverbs with a lexeme “esprit”. Analysis of the semantic meanings of proverbs and their comparison in three languages contribute to the selection of judgements that are common for: all three nations; Ukrainians and Englishmen; Ukrainians and Frenchmen; Englishmen and Frenchmen. It should be noticed, that judgements which are appropriate for each separate language are formed. The content of judgements shows that Ukrainians, Englishmen and Frenchmen, have similarities in some judgements, among which is the conviction that a clever man considers feelings. Among other peculiarities of Ukrainians such persuasion as the “mind” is God’s gift is distinguished. Comparing mind and wealth Ukrainians express hesitation concerning the necessity to clarify the interdependence of mind and incomes. The consequence of such hesitation is the existence of proverbs which have the contradictory meanings. From the one side, the incomes support the acquisition of knowledge, from the other side, the incomes prevent the person to become cleverer. As for the Englishmen, they are more confident in the idea that gaining incomes depends directly on person’s mind and knowledge. In the Ukrainian proverbs the other contradictory judgements take place. They have the connection with the interdependence of happiness and mind as well as mind and old age. Moreover, the majority of judgements about the mind in three languages is positive. This fact confirms the importance of developing of mind for representatives of three nations. Key words: paremiological unit, semantic meaning, adjusting judgement, mental abilities, culture, system of persuasions. Статтю присвячено дослідженню лінгвокультурної специфіки українських, англійських і французьких прислів’їв із компонентом «розум». У результаті аналізу визначено семантичне наповнення прислів’їв трьох мов і сформульовано настановні судження щодо ставлення українців, англійців і французів до розумової діяльності. Актуальність дослідження зумовлено тим, що прислів’я є унікальним відбиттям вірувань, переконань, системи цінностей, звичаїв, культури, повсякденної діяльності й способу мислення кожного народу. Сучасні лінгвісти у своїх працях звертають увагу на такі особливості прислів’їв, як структурованість, ритмічність, семантична наповненість, яка відбивається як у прямих, так і в переносних значеннях прислів’їв. Матеріалом дослідження для статті послугували 106 українських прислів’їв із лексемою «розум», 12 англійських – із лексемою “mind” і 12 французьких – із лексемою “esprit”. Аналіз змістового наповнення прислів’їв та їхнє порівняння в трьох мовах сприяло виокремленню суджень, що є спільними для: всіх трьох народів; українців і англійців; українців і французів; англійців і французів. Слід відзначити, що були також сформульовані судження, які притаманні окремо кожному народу. Зміст суджень показав, що українці, англійці й французи мають схожість у деяких судженнях, а саме стосовно переконаності в тому, що розумна людина зважає на почуття. Серед інших особливостей виокремлено таке переконання українців, за яким «розум» є подарунком від Бога, однак розвиток розуму залежить від людини. Порівнюючи розум із багатством, українці дещо сумніваються в необхідності вказувати на взаємозалежність розуму й статків, наслідком чого є існування прислів’їв, зміст яких суперечить один одному. З одного боку, саме статки сприяють набуттю знань, з іншого, – статки заважають людині ставати розумнішою. Щодо англійців, то вони значно впевненіше вказують на те, що здобуття матеріальних статків безпосередньо залежить від розуму й знань людини. В українських прислів’ях є й інші суперечливі судження, які стосуються взаємозалежності щастя та розуму, а також розуму й старості. Слід відзначити, що переважна більшість суджень про розумову діяльність у трьох мовах позитивна, що підтверджує важливість набуття цієї характеристики представниками всіх трьох народів.Ключові слова: пареміологічна одиниця, семантичний зміст, настановне судження, розумові здібності, культура народу, система переконань.

Note on Selection of Coordinate Systems for Geodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The One ◽  
Static Systems ◽  
Selection Of

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.

scholarly journals Evolution in the Brain, Evolution in the Mind: The Hierarchical Brain and the Interface between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-377
Author(s):  
Leonardo Niro Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Brain Evolution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Evolutionary Models ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Psychodynamically Oriented ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Shed Light

This article first aims to demonstrate the different ways the work of the English neurologist John Hughlings Jackson influenced Freud. It argues that these can be summarized in six points. It is further argued that the framework proposed by Jackson continued to be pursued by twentieth-century neuroscientists such as Papez, MacLean and Panksepp in terms of tripartite hierarchical evolutionary models. Finally, the account presented here aims to shed light on the analogies encountered by psychodynamically oriented neuroscientists, between contemporary accounts of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system on the one hand, and Freudian models of the mind on the other. These parallels, I will suggest, are not coincidental. They have a historical underpinning, as both accounts most likely originate from a common source: John Hughlings Jackson's tripartite evolutionary hierarchical view of the brain.

scholarly journals Carbon Valuation: Alternatives, Alternations and Lateral Measures?

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Dalsgaard
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Offsets ◽  
The Other ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Carbon Markets ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Science Literature ◽  
The One ◽  
Selection Of

This article refers to carbon valuation as the practice of ascribing value to, and assessing the value of, actions and objects in terms of carbon emissions. Due to the pervasiveness of carbon emissions in the actions and objects of everyday lives of human beings, the making of carbon offsets and credits offers almost unlimited repertoires of alternatives to be included in contemporary carbon valuation schemes. Consequently, the article unpacks how discussions of carbon valuation are interpreted through different registers of alternatives - as the commensuration and substitution of variants on the one hand, and the confrontational comparison of radical difference on the other. Through the reading of a wide selection of the social science literature on carbon markets and trading, the article argues that the value of carbon emissions itself depends on the construction of alternative, hypothetical scenarios, and that emissions have become both a moral and a virtual measure pitting diverse forms of actualised actions or objects against each other or against corresponding nonactions and non-objects as alternatives.

scholarly journals Developing Soft Skills among Potential Employees: A Theoretical Review on Best International Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Malykhin ◽  
Nataliia Oleksandrivna Aristova ◽  
Liudmyla Kalinina ◽  
Tetyana Opaliuk
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
The Other ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Common Language ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
A Company ◽  
Selection Of

The present paper addresses the issue of determining the best international practices for developing soft skills among students of different specialties through carrying out a theoretical review. Basing on literature on present-day theory the authors make an attempt to explain soft skills dichotomies, summarize existing approaches to classifying soft skills, consolidate and document best international practices for soft skills development among potential employees of different specialties including bachelor students, master students, doctoral and postdoctoral students. The data obtained in the theoretical analysis reveal that the possible ambiguities in the interpretation of the concept of “soft skills” are caused, on the one hand, by the dichotomic perception of their nature by present-day researchers and educators and, on the other hand, by the absence of the common language which makes it difficult to provide a more unified definition most satisfactory to all concerned. The authors are convinced that soft skills have a cross-cutting nature and regard them as personal and interpersonal meta-qualities and meta-abilities that are vital to any potential employee who is going to make positive contributions not only to his/her professional development but to the development of a company he/she is going to work for. The results of the conducted theoretical review clearly indicate that the absence of the unified understanding of the concept of “soft skills” is reflected in the existence of different approaches to classifying soft skills, let alone, the selection of didactic tools for developing soft skills among potential employees.

scholarly journals To write or not to write: censorship in "The Woman in the Photo" by Tia Șerbănescu and "A Censor’s Notebook" by Liliana Corobca

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-27
Author(s):  
Monica Manolachi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Psychological Process ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Mise En Abyme ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Compare And Contrast

Censorship as a literary subject has sometimes been necessary in times of change, as it may show how the flaws in power relations influence, sometimes very dramatically, the access to and the production of knowledge. The Woman in the Photo: a Diary, 1987-1989 by Tia Șerbănescu and A Censor’s Notebook by Liliana Corobca are two books that deal with the issue of censorship in the 1980s (the former) and the 1970s (the latter). Both writers tackle the problem from inside the ruling system, aiming at authenticity in different ways. On the one hand, instead of writing a novel, Tia Șerbănescu kept a diary in which she contemplated the oppression and the corruption of the time and their consequences on the freedom of thought, of expression and of speech. She thoroughly described what she felt and thought about her relatives, friends and other people she met, about books and their authors, in a time when keeping a diary was hard and often perilous. On the other hand, using the technique of the mise en abyme, Liliana Corobca begins from a fictitious exchange of emails to eventually enter and explore the mind of a censor and reveal what she thought and felt about the system, her co-workers, her boss, the books she proofread, their authors and her own identity. Detailed examinations and performances of the relationship between writing and censorship, the two novels provide engaging, often tragi-comical, insights into the psychological process of producing literary texts. The intention of this article is to compare and contrast the two author’s perspectives on the act of writing and some of its functions from four points of view: literary, cultural, social and political.

scholarly journals Host Society and Migrants / Searching for the Languages of Mutual Description

2020 ◽  
pp. 612-622
Author(s):  
Konstantin V. Grigorichev ◽  
Natalia P. Koptseva
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Host Society ◽  
The One ◽  
Migrant Groups ◽  
Selection Of

The article provides a selection of studies on the problem of developing languages for the mutual description of migrants and the host society. The authors consider the problem, on the one hand, through the prism of heterogeneity of the language for describing migrants in the host society, and on the other, through the absence of legitimate representatives of migrants representing them in the dialogue with the Russian society. It offers a point of view on the reasons for the dominance of ethnic discourse in the description of migrants and the migration situation, and wide pluralism in the use of ethnic categories in describing migration. It is shown that migrants do not participate in the development of rhetoric of organisations recognised by the authorities as their legitimate representatives. The article raises the question about the formation of new representatives of migrant groups, whose legitimacy is based not on powers delegated by the authorities, but on recognition by horizontal communities. It is assumed that, on the basis of the network representations, a mechanism is being formed for the humanisation of the image of migrants through the return of subjectivity in communication with the host society

scholarly journals The relationship between body weight and exterior measurements in domestic ostriches during the first four months after hatching

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Andrey Kurtenkov
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Phenotypic Correlation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

It is related leg problems to the realization of the necessity of doing a detailed analysis of the phenotype correlations between body weight and exterior measurements. As a result of the study, lower coefficients have been obtained of the correlation between the girth of the tarso metatarsus on one hand, and the body weight and the girth behind the wings, on the other hand (respectively 0.563 and 0.608), compared with the one between the body weight and the girth behind the wings (0.898). It is advisable in the selection of ostriches to take into consideration the necessity of a higher phenotypic correlation between the girth of the tarso metatarsus on the one hand, and the body weight and the girth behind the wings on the other hand, with a view to preventing leg problems.

scholarly journals Giono, Translator or Reader of Moby-Dick?

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-42
Author(s):  
Isabelle Génin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Moby Dick ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Paradoxical Situation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Word Translation ◽  
Jean Giono ◽  
The One ◽  
Selection Of

The article discusses the interaction between reading and translating, in the case of the first unabridged translation of Moby-Dick into French by Jean Giono, Lucien Jacques and Joan Smith, published by Gallimard in 1941. After a brief survey of the status of that translation—an important cultural landmark in France—the paper examines what the paratext (Giono’s diary, notes and letters) and the typescripts reveal about a seemingly paradoxical situation: Giono’s keen reading of Moby-Dick on the one hand and the simplification and clarification strategies adopted in the translation on the other hand. A selection of stylistic analyses illustrates both the choices made by the translators and the part played by each participant in the project. It appears that Giono did not necessarily misread Moby-Dick, underestimating its scope and significance. Instead, after reading the novel, he grew indifferent to its translation and concentrated his energy on his own writing in which he re-invested his reading experience. As to the other co-translators, Joan Smith provided a word-for-word translation of the text that made no attempt at interpreting the text, while Lucien Jacques strove to re-write Smith’s literal first draft, in spite of his difficult position as a non-reader (albeit an enthusiastic one) of Moby-Dick.

On the Veiling and Unveiling of Experience: A Comparison Between the Micro-Phenomenological Method and the Practice of Meditation

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-77
Author(s):  
Claire Petitmengin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
External Reality ◽  
Buddhist Meditation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

Abstract Both Buddhist meditation and micro-phenomenology start from the observation that our experience escapes us, we don’t see it as it is. Both offer devices that allow us to become aware of it. But, surprisingly, the two approaches offer few precise descriptions of the processes which veil experience, and of those which make it possible to dissipate these veils. This article is an attempt to put in parentheses declarative writings on the veiling and unveiling processes and their epistemological background and to collect procedural descriptions of this veiling and unveiling processes. From written and oral meditation teachings on the one hand, micro-phenomenological interviews applied to meditative experience and to themselves on the other hand, we identified four types of veiling processes which contribute to screen what is there, and ultimately to generate the naïve belief in the existence of an external reality independent of the mind: attentional, emotional, intentional and cognitive veils. The first part of the article describes these veiling processes and the processes through which they dissipate. It leads to the identification of several “gestures” conducive to this unveiling. The second part describes the devices used by meditation and by micro-phenomenology to elicit these gestures.

Reconstructing dependency: precarity, precariousness and care in old age

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-190
Author(s):  
Michael Fine
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Old Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Financial Fragility ◽  
Physical Ageing ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The One ◽  
Conditions Of Work

This chapter explores the potential for the development of critical approach to care based on the concepts of precarity and precariousness. Applying those concepts at the level of both theory and analysis, it is argued, serves to draw attention to both the socially constructed uncertainties of care provision conditioned by the labour market and corporate practices on the one hand, and the uncertainties of physical ageing and the ontological vulnerabilities that arise from our bodily existence on the other. Uncertainty also confronts those who provide care in either a paid or unpaid/informal capacity. The precarious conditions of work reflect the financial fragility of the economic supports and the changing and unequal markets that increasingly underpin the way care is provided to the increasing numbers of people who live extended lives today.

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