Jules Verne’s ‘Around the World in 80 Days’: Multilingualism, Multiculturalism and Symbols

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ii (15) ◽  
pp. 146-182
Author(s):  
Haroula Hatzimihail ◽  
Ioannis Pantelidis
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Jules Verne ◽  
The World ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Different Cultures

In this announcement, the various –linguistic and non-linguistic- symbols used in the literary work 'Around the world in 80 days', written by Jules Verne, are examined from an intertemporal and contemporary point of view. The references through these points of view, in matters of multiculturalism and multilingualism, are becoming classical in nature: they concern the necessity of the applied ability to communicate between individuals who belong to different social classes and age groups, speak the same or different languages, come from different cultures, with rights and obligations in their various areas of life, etc. Key-words: linguistics, multilingualism, multiculturalism, semiotics, semiotic systems, symbols

On Literary Understanding

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-92
Author(s):  
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Experience

Several recent approaches to literature—what the chapter describes as moral, aesthetic, and cognitive models of literary experience—allow us to consider its relevance in epistemic terms. Through an examination of the insights and limits of these approaches, the chapter presents the case for the experiential, generative, and expressive dimensions of understanding the literary work, and for their implications beyond literary reading. That literary understanding is experiential will mean that, beyond knowledge of what the text is about, one must have acquaintance with what it is like to undergo the imaginings prompted by the text. That literary understanding is generative means that what we understand in literary experience is not merely the objects or events in the world from which the work may draw, but how these are transformed in the specific literary presentation created by the work. That literary understanding is expressive will mean that the object of understanding issues from, and brings us into contact with, a point of view, even if one known only through and as the work itself. These dimensions of literary understanding, I suggest, enable understanding beyond the experience of literature as such.

scholarly journals Linguistic Features of the Concept “Beauty” in English, Uzbek and Tajik National Cultures

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 3862-3866
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
Concept Of Beauty ◽  
Different Cultures

Questions such as What is beauty? What is beautiful? Who's handsome? are as ancient as the world itself. The answers to these questions are of interest to everyone from Plato to the present generation. These questions, first of all, require an understanding of the philosophical and aesthetic nature of "beauty". However, the problem of analyzing the expression of the concept of "beauty" in the language (in the English, Uzbek and Tajik national cultures) has not been studied from the point of view of cognitive linguistics and linguistic Culturology. Consequently, the aesthetic picture of the world in English, Uzbek and Tajik languages, the possibility of expressing and reflecting the concept of "beauty" on the phraseological and lexical tiers of the language, the interpretation of values in different cultures, comparative analysis of linguistic and cultural features, and the study in direct connection with cognitive linguistics, linguoculturology, general linguistics determine the relevance of the topic of the article

scholarly journals Komunikasi Antar Budaya Dalam Perspektif Antropologi

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Putri Ayuni ◽  
Anni Zuhro Syafrida Hasibuan ◽  
Suhairi Suhairi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Cultural Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Cultural Experts ◽  
Separate Discipline

Intercultural communication develops based on two interconnected premises. First, you live in a time when changing technology, travel, economic and political systems, immigration patterns, and population density have resulted in a world in which you regularly interact with people from different cultures. Second, nowadays, people are very sensitive to the fact that the influence of culture on communication is very close and great. Your cultural background and experience help you determine how the world should be for you and how you will interact with it. Anthropological perspective in intercultural communication is looking at intercultural communication from an anthropological point of view, because the communication already contains cultural values. Intercultural communication is part of the marriage between the disciplines of anthropology and communication which later became a separate discipline both in communication science and in anthropology. Anthropology is one of the fields of science that is the root or foundation of the birth of communication science. In subsequent developments, cultural experts realized the importance of communication in the cultural field.

scholarly journals A genetic perspective on human origins

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Matthew Williams ◽  
João Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Information ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Geographical Locations ◽  
Scientific Fields

Who are we? Where did we come from? Why are we here? These fundamental questions have been widespread throughout human history, shared across different cultures from distant epochs and geographical locations. The search has been as much a philosophical as an empirical one, capturing the imagination of the philosopher, the theologian, the artist and the scientist alike. Hence, the quest for unveiling our origins is probably as old as humanity itself. From a scientific point of view, which we address in the present article, the question of human origins became deeply intertwined with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in the late 19th century. This led to the development of scientific fields such as palaeoanthropology, which analyses fossil remains, stone tools and cultural artefacts to piece together our past. Recently, however, the possibility to assess genetic information from thousands of individuals across the world and, more importantly, to obtain DNA from specimens that lived thousands of years in the past (so-called ancient DNA [aDNA] analyses) is rapidly transforming long-held beliefs about our origins. As such, we have never been in a better position to ask what do our genomes have to tell us about where we came from. Ultimately, however, can they tell us who we are?

COVID-19: WHAT PEDIATRICIANS LEARNED ABOUT PECULIARITIES OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO A NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTION AFTER YEAR OF FIGHTING IT

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 32-51
Author(s):  
L.S. Namazova-Baranova ◽  
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A.A. Baranov ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
The World ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The Impact

A year ago, the world heard about an outbreak of a new severe coronavirus infection in China, which later, after its rapid spread across the globe, WHO defined as a pandemic. Pediatricians, of course, expected the worst-case scenario and mass illness of the most vulnerable patients – children and people of older age groups with a new infectious disease. From the immunological point of view, everything is obvious – the new pathogen is most dangerous for those who have not yet formed a defense against it, or for those with weakened defense. But it quickly became clear that, unlike, for example, a flu pandemic, there is an unexpected situation when adults, including elderly and senile patients, become seriously ill and die, and children remain practically outside the spread of the infectious process. During a year of living «in a new reality», not only physicians, but all of humanity learned to respond to a new infectious challenge, empirically looking for possible therapeutic or diagnostic interventions and at the same time trying to plan and implement scientific research that would help shed light on the questions posed. For the first time, the international medical community united to perform serious clinical trials of drugs that were proposed for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19. As a result of actions of scientists and clinicians around the world, answers to some questions were obtained, however, most of the information on the impact of the new coronavirus on the human body, including children, is still unavailable to medical practitioners. The review presents latest data on the causative agent of the new coronavirus infection, its effect on the body of children and adults, describes peculiarities of immune response to the new virus, and outlines basic principles of managing such patients in real clinical practice.

Polyphonic collegiality of points of view in the “poetic composition” by B.A. Uspenskiy

Neophilology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 385-392
Author(s):  
Yuee Guan
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Organic Unity ◽  
Relative Independence ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
National Spirit ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Poetic Composition

We consider the problems of composing a literary text based on the material of texts by B.A. Uspenskiy. It is proved that as a compositional possibility in the formation of a work can be elicit one or many points of view from which the narration in the literary work is conducted on the concept of “polyphonic collegiality”, in the other words, it finds expression both “internal” (with respect to the work) and “external” points of view on how the point of view of collegiality in the text is understood and determined. Collegiality is one of the main characteristics of the Russian national spirit, which has a telling Impact not only on the creative thoughts of Russian writers, but also on the thinking of Russian theorists in the construction of literary theories. It is justified that the poetics of B.A. Uspenskiy's composition is a continuation and development of M.M. Bakhtin's theory, that M.M. Bakhtin's polyphony is only one of the components in the relation of various points of view in ideological terms. According to B.A. Uspenskiy, the composition of literary text is a multidimensional spatial “free and organic unity”, consisting of multifaceted points of view, possessing both their relative independence and interconnected among themselves.

Bat or Batman?

Philosophy ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (248) ◽  
pp. 207-217
Author(s):  
David Pugmire
Keyword(s):  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Thomas Nagel ◽  
The World ◽  
Theories Of Mind ◽  
Points Of View

Thomas Nagel claimed that subjectivity is what distinguishes those states known in the vernacular as conscious or as experiences. And he argued that subjectivity eludes reductivist theories of mind, which are obliged to ignore it and hence to fail. I shall be concerned here primarily with the formulation of the concept of subjectivity. Nagel tried to delineate subjectivity in a well known phrase: ‘an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism’. Nagel offers to explain this condition of being host to conscious experience as the organism's having a point of view on the world, a point of view which is its own and nothing else's, however much or little the world as disclosed by it may agree with what is presented from other points of view.

Going Nowhere: Nagel on Normative Objectivity

Philosophy ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 65 (254) ◽  
pp. 501-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Reasons For Action ◽  
Thomas Nagel ◽  
The World ◽  
Objective Understanding ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Objective Side

In The View from Nowhere, Thomas Nagel develops a theory of practical reasoning which attempts to give the personal, or subjective, point of view its due2 while still insisting on the objectivity of ethics.On the objective side, Nagel affirms that there are truths about values and reasons for action which are independent of the ways in which reasons and values appear to us, independent of our own particular beliefs and inclinations (p. 144). The objective foundation for these truths consists in a certain distinctive process of understanding. Objective understanding is explicated in terms of an objective standpoint, a standpoint defined as impersonal, that is, as detached from the subjective point of view. The objective standpoint is structured by a conception ‘of the world as centerless—as containing ourselves and other beings with particular points of view’ (p. 140). As with scientific reasoning, ‘we begin from our position inside the world and try to transcend it by regarding what we find here as a sample of the whole’ (p. 141).

scholarly journals Le symbolisme dans la gastronomie française et indonésienne : Revue interculturelle

FRANCISOLA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Tania INTAN ◽  
Nurul Hikmayaty SAEFULLAH ◽  
Ferli HASANAH ◽  
Vincentia Tri HANDAYANI
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Mots Clés ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

RÉSUMÉ. La gastronomie est un élément inséparable de la vie humaine. Elle possède sa propre cosmologie qui s’attache à la culture d’une nation. Comparer deux cultures différentes vers la gastronomie ouvre un nouveau paradigme de réfléchir pour recueillir un point de vue sur le monde puisqu’il s’agit de la communication interculturelle qui amène aux étudiants au savoir-vivre côte à côte. Cette étude tente donc d’analyser l‘interculturalité pour résoudre les problèmes de la compréhension culturelle à partir des termes culinaires en français et en indonésien ainsi que les valeurs comprises. La recherche est menée en utilisant la méthode descriptive-qualitative, en observant les données d’une manière linguistique et culturelle. Comme les données viennent de cultures différentes, il est pratiqué donc de mesures comparatives. Les résultats de cette recherche montrent que la gastronomie comprend des symboles et qu’elle prend une position pertinente dans la conception culturelle surtout dans la formation de stéréotypes basée sur la langue. Ce résultat d’analyse n’est qu’un simple exemplaire de l’étude interculturelle qui propose encore de possibilités à développer. Mots-clés : interculturalité, gastronomie, symbolisme.     ABSTRACT. Gastronomy is an inseparable element of human life. It has its own cosmology that ties into the culture of a nation. Comparing two different cultures towards gastronomy opens up a new paradigm of thinking to gather a point of view on the world since it is about intercultural communication which brings students to life skills side by side. This study therefore attempts to analyze interculturality in order to solve the problems of cultural understanding from culinary terms in French and Indonesian as well as the values understood. The research is conducted using the descriptive-qualitative method, observing the data linguistically and culturally. As the data come from different cultures, there are therefore comparative measures. Research results show that gastronomy includes symbols and that it takes a relevant position in cultural conception, especially in the formation of stereotypes. This finding of the analysis is only a simple copy of the intercultural study which still has possibilities to develop. Keywords: interculturality, gastronomy, symbolism.  

scholarly journals Dibalik Fakta dan Mitos Fenomena Super Blue “Blood” Moon

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Yunina Surtiana
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Shift ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientific Phenomenon ◽  
Points Of View

This article discusses a natural phenomenon namely Super Blue (Blood) Moon (later to be referred as SBBM) in terms of scientific and mythical points of view. The method used in this study is literature study promoting library research as its instrument.Thus, as much literature as possible in a variety of types such as books, journals, and any articles is collected and later analyzed. Having synthesized the literature, this study finds out that in terms of science, it is a very phenomenal occurrence since there are three natural phenomena namely super moon, blood moon, and blue moon happening simultaneously. Researchers and scientists usually seize this moment for science. For instance, some of them study the temperature shift of the moon. In the meantime, in terms of mythical point of view, some beliefs starting from the moon fights with the sun, the moon is eaten by a dragon, and the moon contributes to maternal fertility, still exist among people around the world. In conclusion, there needs to be further socialization that SBBM is a scientific phenomenon and that it has nothing to do with the existing myths around the globe.  

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