The Arab Jews and the Arabic Language in Israel: An Ongoing Ambivalence between Positive Nostalgia and Negative Present1

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maisalon Dallashi
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The One ◽  
Time Form

This article, written by Maisalon Dallashi, relates to a rather tragic survey which demonstrated a significant decline in knowledge of Arabic among Arab Jews following their immigration to Israel. The survey results, presented here in English for the fi rst time, form the backdrop for an analysis of command of Arabic among three generations of Arab Jews in comparison with non-Arab Jews living in Israel. Dallashi’s nuanced analysis of the complex relationship between Arab Jews and Arabic demonstrates that language is harnessed to promote two different discourses in Israel: on the one hand, it is a means of connection, while, on the other hand, it is a tool of segregation. By focusing on the Arab-Jewish community in Israel, Dallashi sheds light on processes that have resulted in what she calls ‘the dialectical relations in which Arabic concomitantly represents various, contradicting and even dissonant values’.

scholarly journals and nature, a complex relationship

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (26) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Maria Antonietta Maria Antonietta Sbordone ◽  
Barbara Barbara Pizzicato
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Evolutionary Line ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The One

Over the course of its history, design has never lost sight of nature as a term of comparison, sometimes taking from it, sometimes moving away from it. To investigate the complex relationship between the two terms, design and nature, we cannot ignore the evolution of man and how it has been profoundly influenced by technological innovation, which is the most evident result of science. Tracing an evolutionary line of design thinking, a double trajectory can be registered: on the one hand the tension towards progress and the myth of the machine, on the other hand the idea of a harmonious co-evolution with nature and the need to be reconnected with it. Besides, it is progress that allows mankind to thoroughly investigate natural mechanisms and make them their own. Contemporary design, autonomous but at the same time increasingly interdisciplinary, has got blurred boundaries which intersect with the most advanced fields of biological sciences. This evolution has opened up a whole new field of investigation that multiplies the opportunities of innovation, especially from a sustainability-oriented point of view. Today the dramatic breaking of the balance between man and nature has turned into the concept of permanent emergency, which is now matter of greatest interest for design, a design that attempts to react, mend, adapt to change in an authentically resilient way.

“Every Act of Preservation is an Act of Creation”: Paul Schrader’s Eco-theology in First Reformed

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Tatiana Prorokova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Current State ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The One

This chapter scrutinizes the complex relationship between climate change and theology, as represented in First Reformed, as well as Paul Schrader’s understanding of humanity’s major problems today. Analyzing the issue of ecological decline through the prism of religion, Schrader outlines the ideology that presumably might help humanity survive at the age of global warming. Through the complex discussions of such issues as despair, anxiety, and hope, Schrader deduces the formula of survival in which preservation is the key component. Equating humans to God, Schrader, on the one hand, censures those actions that led to progress but destroyed the environment, yet, on the other hand, he foregrounds the fact that humans can also save the planet now. Schrader portrays both humans and Earth as living organisms created by God. He draws explicit parallels between the current state of our planet and the problems that we experience – from political ones, including war, to more personal ones like health issues.

scholarly journals The contradictory duals: The meaning and the term: الثّنائيّات الضّدّيّة: الماهيّة والمصطلح

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Abd alazaiz Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Classical Arabic ◽  
Internal Texture ◽  
The Prestige

The presence of existence on the binaries, was a feature of the main that left nothing but a problem for its features, and literature one of them; we find the diodes have intersected the joints, and formed its internal texture, and showed its purposes and themes in a striking way to the recipient who felt the beauty and beauty of rhythms and images express. Classical Arabic is characterized among all other semiotic languages; It's characteristics ate unique to them which reflected the prestige and ability for expression. Amongst these Fixed characteristics in Arabic language there is the contradictory duals. In this study, I tried to trace the terms "binary" and "contrast": language and language, and the approach between them to arrive at a single integration, forming another term " contradictory duals", and its role in the literary text on the one hand and on the receiver on the other hand.    

scholarly journals A Experiência Transatlântica do Padre António Vieira e o Quinto Império

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (49) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Patrícia Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Brazilian Population ◽  
The Other ◽  
Perpetual Peace ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Kingdom Of Christ ◽  
The One

<p>Os escritos proféticos do Padre António Vieira (1608-1697) foram marcados pelas suas constantes deslocações, que lhe permitiram contactar com realidades muito distintas. Por um lado, o seu trabalho como missionário no Brasil levou-o aos confins da selva Amazónica e fê-lo aprender algumas das línguas nativas brasileiras de forma a poder comunicar com a população indígena dessas regiões. Por outro lado, o seu conhecido talento como pregador conduziu-o à corte portuguesa da Restauração, a Amsterdão, onde discutiu teologia com a membros da comunidade judaica, e aos círculos intelectuais de Roma do século dezassete. Os escritos proféticos de Vieira, onde postula o advento iminente do império de Cristo na terra – o Quinto Império – baseado na igualdade, na justiça e na paz perpetua, são inspirados nestas experiências bastante díspares. No seu império utópico, a distância entre a população nativa do Brasil que tinha encontrado na América, os Judeus, e os Cristãos da Europa diminuiria progressivamente, na medida em que todos se uniriam no Reino de Cristo por ele profetizado.</p><p>The prophetic writings of Jesuit Priest António Vieira (1608-1697) were determined by his constant displacements between very different realities. On the one hand, his work as a missionary in Brazil led him to the confines of the Amazon jungle and prompted him to learn native Brazilian languages in order to better communicate with the indigenous population of those regions. On the other hand, his renowned skill as a preacher took him to the Portuguese court of the Restauration period, to Amsterdam, where he discussed theology with members of the Jewish community, and to the intellectual circles of 17th-century Rome. In his prophetic writings, where he postulates the coming of an earthly empire of Christ — the Fifth Empire— predicated on equality, justice and perpetual peace, Vieira draws on these very disparate experiences. In this utopian empire, the distance between the native Brazilian population he had encountered in America, the Jews and the Christians of Europe would progressively fade, as all would come together in the kingdom of Christ he envisioned.</p>

scholarly journals The Conquest and Resistance, a Woman and a Man: Feminist and Imagological Reading of W. S. Maugham’s “The Unconquered”

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
Negative Phenomena

In the paper, the national and women’s contexts closely interrelated in W. S. Maugham’s “The Unconquered” short story (1943) are being examined. While analysing the ground of the conquest and resistance, it is concluded that war conquering and sexual violence are aimed to establish the men’s power over certain part of the world. In some ways, capturing a woman and occupying the land are considered equal things under the patriarchal rules. With this in mind, any male conqueror tries to reach both of them not only for the sake of victory, but also for approval his status of a worthy member of a men-ruling society (a nation). Next, the role of stereotypes as an engine of all negative phenomena of national and gender non-understanding, in particular, war and various kinds of inequality, is stressed. Tracing the complex relationship between, on the one hand, Frenchmen and Germans, and women and men, on the other hand, it should be token that the final infanticide is multivalued whereas it means the woman’s liberation and revenge for the men’s world, as well as is an apogee of national resistance.

Language of Empire: Politics of Arabic and Persian in the Abbasid World

PMLA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 384-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayrettidn Yücesoy
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
The Political ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The One

This essay aims to contribute to current studies of language and empire by considering arabic and persian in the ninth and tenth centuries. Following the lead of Edward Said on colonial empires and translation, I focus on the political aspects of language and translation in “premodern” trans-Asian societies, which have not received the nuanced attention they deserve. Accentuating the act of adopting and supporting a language as political, I argue that the wax and wane of imperial languages were predicated on two usually simultaneous dynamics: intra-imperial interests and, to use Laura Doyle's term, inter-imperial competition. Imperial patronage aimed, on the one hand, to consolidate power, exercise control, stabilize administration, and order lived reality for imperial subjects and, on the other hand, to create a discourse to fashion and project an image of rule capable of competing with rival claims in Afro-Eurasia. On both fronts, the promotion of one vernacular as “high language” entailed resisting another one in an already filled political, sociocultural, and linguistic space. The new language thus proceeded in an intrusive and even disruptive way since it involved a construction of new meanings to conform to alternative sociopolitical and cultural norms and priorities and to tame the multiplicity of language. Yet, such a political engagement or competition with existing language(s) and discourse(s) also led to new forms of hybridity of language and discourse, as was the case for Persian when the Samanids (819-999) adopted the script of the Arabic language and much of its vocabulary and idioms to express their thoughts.

scholarly journals Tolerance of the Quranic Linguistic Approach in Semantic Linguistic Linguistics And the analysis of vocabulary in the context of Paradise

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Mohammed Jaafar Al Ardhi
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Semitic Languages ◽  
Cultural Aspect ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Linguistic Approach

The research examines the keenness of the Qur'anic discourse on the production of a linguistic brotherhood through the employment of one of the non-Semitic languages of the Semitic languages. This view is based on linguistic tolerance and the system of Quranic linguistic policies, in order to show that the existence of such words in the Koranic language did not come from deficiencies in the Arabic language, but came to achieve goals of a universal human nature, namely creating an atmosphere of openness to the other Community through the other language, which achieves a deliberative function on the one hand, and achieves the function of civilizational dialogue and human integration with the societies of these languages taken from the other hand.As for the cultural aspect, it appears that the Quranic discourse places the Arab in front of civilizations and countries surrounding him. He must turn to the discovery and the necessity of competing. On the other hand, the recruitment in the context of Al-Naim creates a Quranic will to call for the urbanization, settlement and stability of the Arab Bedouin man, and his call to think about improving his retirement, clothing and the requirements of his life from food and architecture.

Corporeal Exploration in György Pálfi’s Taxidermia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Bugaj
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Physical Nature ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Form ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Family Saga ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One

In the recent decades ample attention within the study of cinema has been paid to the human body, yet few films deal so directly with our physical nature as Hungarian director György Pálfi’s Taxidermia. This 2006 surreal family saga presents three generations of men obsessed with their corporeal needs. In its reflection on the body, the film juxtaposes the extremes of the human form. On the one hand, it probes the inside and the outside of the body. On the other hand, it investigates Bakhtin’s carnivalesque corporealities and considers Baudrillard’s notion of the body ‘as the finest of the consumer objects’. In contemplating the corporeal exterior, Taxidermia celebrates the senses as well as the varied textures and hues of the skin. Revisiting the visceral depths of the body, it imposes its own aesthetics as it exhibits the interior anatomy. Furthermore, while the film begins with grotesque depictions of the corporeality and its urges, in its conclusion these are replaced with the image of a modern, constructed physicality whose enslavement to its needs is rebuked. Such a body, emptied of its organic connections and ultimately likened to a taxidermist mount, constitutes a commentary on the contemporary perception of our own physical nature. Tracing Taxidermia’s exploration of the human body, this chapter analyses the film’s references to different theories revolving around the human corporeality.

scholarly journals THE FUNCTION OF THE SEMANTIC FIELD OF MOTION VERBS IN PROMOTING THE QUR’ANIC INTENTIONS

2018 ◽  
pp. 349-369
Author(s):  
Zehra Alispahić
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Motion Verbs ◽  
Word Class ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Verbs, as the most important open word class, and prepositions, holding the same status among closed classes, are involved into particular syntactic-semantic relations in the Arabic language. Despite that, verbs and prepositions, as meaningful units, have been treated separately in scientific analyses. Relevant classic grammar texts do not offer the answer to the question which specific verbs are associated with specific prepositions, i.e. which prepositions are associated with specific verbal semantic fields. Ideas like these can be found only in some recent linguistic enquiries, which attempt to connect prepositions and verbal semantic fields through research in two directions: analyzing verbs and the related prepositions, on the one hand, and prepositions and the corresponding verbs, on the other hand. The presence of a significant number of verbal triliters in the text of the Qur'an and their associations with prepositions have led to the formation of numerous verbal semantic fields. This paper draws attention to the most frequent semantic field in the Qur'an, the one related to motion verbs.

Stories and the Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Krause ◽  
Markus Appel
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Contrast Effects ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.

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