Song

Lyric Cousins ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Sampson
Keyword(s):  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
The Status ◽  
Song Lyrics

This chapter looks at how music and poetry meet in song. The ballad form is one way of recognising the continuity between genres, with its familiarity and narrative potential. Song also links music and poetry by the obvious means of making them collaborate directly with each other. But this is also where tensions between the two forms are most marked. Precisely because they must work most closely together, we see here the ways they struggle with each other: for example, in ongoing debate about the status of song lyrics. As well as such arguments about songs, makerly tensions exist within them, as music and words struggle for priority, and force each other into compromises.

Contest for Dominance: US–China Rivalry in Asia

China Report ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 484-500
Author(s):  
Mintu Barua
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Transition Theory ◽  
Territorial Disputes ◽  
Power Transition ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
Power Transition Theory ◽  
The Status

There is an ongoing debate whether China is a satisfied power or a dissatisfied revisionist power. On the basis of the concept of regime insecurity and power transition theory, this article argues that the resolution of this debate mainly depends on some essentially interrelated complex factors—China’s assertive behaviour, China’s core interests, China’s internal security, and China’s involvement in territorial disputes. Moreover, this article examines the validity of the usual claim of power transition theory that the dominant power is always satisfied with the status quo, and contrary to this idea of power transition theory, this article suggests that the dominant power can be dissatisfied and revisionist too if its hegemony is under threat.

scholarly journals Leisure, luxury and urban specialization in the eighteenth century

Urban History ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
JON STOBART ◽  
LEONARD SCHWARZ
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Urban Renaissance ◽  
The Status ◽  
Leisure Facilities ◽  
The Town ◽  
Luxury Service

ABSTRACTThis article forms a contribution to the ongoing debate about the nature of an English urban renaissance. We draw on Schwarz's designation of residential leisure towns to explore the spread of leisure and luxury through a broad range of towns. Our analysis reveals that leisure facilities and luxury service and retail provision were widespread, but that residential leisure towns appear as qualitatively different places, the status of which was contingent upon social profile and cultural-economy, rather than demographic, political or socio-economic make up. We conclude by arguing that urban typologies based on specialization should be tempered with older-established and more subjective categorizations based on the status of the town.

scholarly journals Evidentials and (relayed) speech acts: hearsay as quotation

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 676
Author(s):  
Natasha Korotkova
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Formal Semantic ◽  
Reported Speech ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Semantic Account ◽  
Original Proposal ◽  
The Status ◽  
Empirical Tests

This paper is devoted to what I will call quotative uses of hearsay evidentials, wherein they report a speech act made by a third party.  Occasionally mentioned in the typological literature, quotative uses were first given a formal semantic account by Faller 2002 and have received little attention since. The goal of this paper is to put the spotlight on them. An ongoing debate in the literature is on the semantic status of evidentials and the place of evidentiality among other categories (see Matthewson 2012 and references therein). For  Faller (2002, 2007), quotative uses are among the empirical tests that diagnose illocutionary evidentials, ones that deal with the structure of speech acts. In this paper, I re-implement Faller's original proposal within Krifka's (2014) framework that provides an explicit syntax-pragmatics interface. I then show that quotative readings may be the only argument, out of the currently provided in the literature, in favor of the existence of illocutionary evidentials. However, the status of such readings requires further research. I conclude by discussing quotative uses within a broader context of reported speech strategies.

scholarly journals Islamic Society in Practice

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-410
Author(s):  
Ahmed Sheikh Bangura
Keyword(s):  
Alternative View ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Islamic Society ◽  
New Tradition ◽  
Islamic Values

Islamic Society in Practice is written in a new tradition of Westernscholarship on Islam that seeks to represent an alternative view to that ofOrientalism. The author sets out to analyze Islam as lived and practiced ineveryday life, and brings out the human dimension of a region and a religioustradition that largely have been stereotyped in the West. Withoutadvocating conversion or the blurring of differences, she argues thatapproaching Islamic and Arab cultures on their own terms and recognizingtheir strengths and weaknesses will produce the crosscultural understandingnecessary for world peace in the twenty-first century.The book, the result of more than two decades of research and over fiveyears of residence in Khartoum, Cairo, and Tunis, covers a wide range ofsubjects. Among these are the five pillars of Islam, Islamic values andsocial practice, family and gender relations, the ongoing debate on thereform of family law, Islamic identities in a changing world, and the sociopoliticaldimensions of contemporary Islamic movements.The author's study of Islam and her residence among and closeinteraction with Muslims accorded her considerable access to Islamicculture and enabled her to debunk tenured stereotypes. She gives a veryintimate picture of the ethos of Muslim societies and pays special attentionto the structure of the extended Muslim family and the status ofwomen in Islamic societies. In a bid to explode the myth of theoppressed Muslim woman, she goes beyond facile observations to lookat the deeper social and ethical logic that informs apparent genderbaseddiscrepancies in Islamic laws and practices. She also documentsfacts about the strides that Muslim women have been making that nevermake it to the headlines: For instance, many major universities in theMiddle East, such as Cairo University, have about 50 percent femalestudents, and until recently, there was a greater proportion of femalemedical doctors and engineers in Arab Muslim societies than in theWest ...

scholarly journals ‘Grey zones’ within dependent employment: formal and informal forms of on-call work in Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-463
Author(s):  
Karen Jaehrling ◽  
Thorsten Kalina
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Time Work ◽  
The Status ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Dependent Employment ◽  
Low Pay ◽  
Part Time Work

This article aims to take stock of the various manifestations of on-call work in Germany. It is shown that formal on-call work is, by international standards, relatively strictly regulated in Germany, not least as the result of a 2019 reform of the law. Similar to other countries, however, other informal variants are used that lie outside the scope of the re-regulation or ‘normalisation’ of formal on-call work. Differentiated analyses based on survey data show that both formal and informal variants of on-call work are associated with disproportionately high levels of short part-time work, low pay and consequently with considerable risks of poverty. As a consequence, the ongoing debate on the erosion of the status of employee should not be too narrowly restricted to self-employed workers in the gig economy (Deliveroo, Uber) but should be extended to include the ‘grey zones’ in the area of dependent employment. Cet article vise à faire le point sur les différentes manifestations du travail à la demande en Allemagne. Il montre que le travail à la demande formel est, selon les normes internationales, réglementé assez strictement en Allemagne, grâce notamment à la réforme de la loi en 2019. Toutefois, comme dans d’autres pays, d’autres variantes informelles sont présentes et échappent au champ d’application de la re-réglementation ou de la “normalisation” du travail à la demande formel. Des analyses différenciées, basées sur des données d’enquête, montrent que les variantes formelles et informelles du travail à la demande sont associées à des niveaux proportionnellement trop importants de travail à temps partiel de courte durée, de faibles rémunérations et, par conséquent, à des risques considérables de pauvreté. Dès lors, le débat en cours sur l’érosion du statut de salarié ne devrait pas être strictement limité aux travailleurs indépendants de la gig economy - ou économie des petits boulots (Deliveroo, Uber), mais devrait être étendu aux “zones grises” présentes dans le domaine de l’emploi dépendant. Der vorliegende Artikel zielt auf eine Bestandsaufnahme der verschiedenen Erscheinungsformen von Abrufarbeit in Deutschland und zeigt, dass die formale Variante von Abrufarbeit hier im internationalen Vergleich relativ strikt reguliert ist, nicht zuletzt durch eine Gesetzesreform, die 2019 in Kraft trat. Ähnlich wie in anderen Ländern kommen jedoch andere informelle Varianten zum Einsatz, die außerhalb des Geltungsbereichs der Re-Regulierung oder ‘‘Normalisierung’’ der formellen Abrufarbeit liegen. Differenzierte Analysen auf der Grundlage von Umfragedaten zeigen, dass sowohl formelle als auch informelle Varianten von Abrufarbeit mit einem unverhältnismäßig hohen Anteil an kurzer Teilzeit, Niedriglöhnen und damit einem hohen Armutsrisiko assoziiert sind. Die gegenwärtige Debatte über die Erosion des Arbeitnehmerstatus sollte sich deshalb nicht zu eng auf die Solo-Selbständigen in der Gig-Ökonomie beschränken (Deliveroo, Uber), sondern auch die ‘‘Grauzonen’’ im Bereich der abhängigen Beschäftigung in den Blick nehmen.

scholarly journals Zarządzanie w antropocenie, czyli co w czym i co z tego. Analiza literatury dotyczącej splotu zjawisk

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-42
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Ćwikła
Keyword(s):  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Will ◽  
Negative Environmental Impact ◽  
Human Responsibility ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

Management in the Anthropocene and What Comes Out of It. Analysis of the Literature on the Entanglement of Phenomena The Anthropocene is a term that not only conjures up all kinds of images in the mind but provides an impulse to reconsider the scope of human responsibility for man-triggered processes and its place in the system of related factors on our planet. At the same time, it is a term treated by many with ambivalence, reluctance, and caution, as it often harbingers the imminent environmental doom, the awareness of which may change the current balance of political and economic forces. Additionally, it is still involved in emphasizing the central role of the human, it is sometimes romanticized and can lead to an aestheticization of the climate catastrophe instead of taking actions resulting not from the will of heroism, but from humility. The ongoing debate on the Anthropocene in the field of management studies is of extraordinary importance, because it provides a framework for undertaking any activity – the activity which either aggravates or alleviates the negative environmental impact. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the contexts in which the scientific literature in the field of management talks about the Anthropocene and to explore the level of gravity that is assigned to management in this conventional geological and cultural era. Particular attention is paid to the dominant trends of reflection which illustrate a wide variety of attitudes towards the Anthropocene, including the one that places the Anthropocene against the background of efforts to maintain the status quo and the one that perceives it as a prelude to concocting alternative or even anarchist visions of management. The paper focuses on theoretical voices, which determined the method of analysis based on the study of language and the interpretation of narratives and metaphors.

scholarly journals “Narten formations” versus “Narten roots”

2014 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-258
Author(s):  
H. Craig Melchert
Keyword(s):  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
The Status ◽  
Morphological System

Abstract Since the existence of a PIE “acrostatic” present formation with descriptive *ḗ/é ablaut was first established by Narten (1968), there has been an ongoing debate regarding the status of this type of inflection in the overall PIE morphological system. Is it a lexically determined feature, by which certain roots consistently (at least typically) display ablaut one degree higher than “standard” roots in a given morphological category? Or do “Narten presents” represent merely another means of deriving present (imperfective) stems (originally with a specific Aktionsart), alongside well-known suffixes like *-sḱe/o-? I will present further evidence for the latter viewpoint, thus supporting the independent conclusions in Kümmel 1998.

The Literary, Musical and Social Conditioning of the Czech Folk Song

Tekstualia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (53) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Josef Prokeš
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Social Conditioning ◽  
Czech Music ◽  
The Status ◽  
Song Lyrics

The article consists of three excerpts from the book Czech Folk Songs from the 60s to 80s of the 20th century by Josef Prokeš. The publication maps out the phenomenon of singer-songwriting in Czechoslovakia. The fi rst two extracts – „Folk Song lyrics in the context of Literary Studies” and „The Folk Song Genre in the context of Music Studies” – deal with methodological issues regarding the ways of analysing folk song lyrics in a wider cultural context, and the possibility of situating folk music in the fi eld of Czech Music Studies. The third excerpt, entitled „The Status of the Czech Folk Song in national culture”, discusses the sources of folk music in Czech culture, the inspirations of major singer-songwriters, the development of folk music in the analysed period as well as its signifi cance during the totalitarian era in Czechoslovakia, and fi nally poses questions about its future in the context of national culture.

“Business Without a Boss”: The Columbia Conserve Company and Workers' Control, 1917–1943

1997 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bussel
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Workplace Democracy ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Employee Stock Ownership ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Managerial Responsibility

Throughout the twentieth century, the role of workers in the management of business enterprise has been the subject of ongoing debate. Opponents of centralized, bureaucratic management have proposed a series of participatory alternatives—workers' control, industrial democracy, employee stock ownership, and more recently, employee involvement—that have sought to democratize workplace governance. Much of the literature on such initiatives, be it historical or contemporary, has implied that workers favor exercising greater responsibility over shop-floor matters but have been deterred by employer resistance and cautious labor leadership. This literature often fails to capture the complexity of workers' attitudes towards greater participation and the tensions felt by reform-minded business leaders seeking to share power and authority with their employees. It is in this context that the story of the Columbia Conserve Company, an Indianapolis-based producer of canned soups, assumes particular relevance as a pioneering attempt to implement workplace democracy. Between 1917 and 1943, Columbia Conserve's owner, William P. Hapgood, established a system of workers' ownership and management. However, workers at Columbia Conserve, while sympathetic to Hapgood's experiment, were reluctant to accept full managerial responsibility. Instead, they embraced a more familial concept that met their psychological needs for fellowship and security. William Hapgood's faith in worker self-management subsequently waned, revealing an authoritarian streak that undercut his democratic pretensions. The experience at Columbia Conserve illustrates the enduring problems involved in sustaining workplace democracy and illuminates the status of current efforts aimed at empowering workers on the job.

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