L. L. Kaid, J. Gerstlé, K. R. Sanders, eds, Mediated Politics in two Cultures. Presidential Campaigning in the United States and France

Politix ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (20) ◽  
pp. 174-176
Author(s):  
Brigitte Le Grignou
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Presidential Campaigning

scholarly journals Translingualism as Dialogism in Romanian-American Poetry

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
Oana Popescu-Sandu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
Globalized World

Abstract This essay examines how translingual poetry by immigrant Romanian writers who live in or travel to the United States requires a transnational community framing rather than a national one and raises new questions about cultural and linguistic identity formation that reflect on both national and world literature issues. This analysis of the Romanian-American contemporary poets Mihaela Moscaliuc, Andrei Guruianu, Claudia Serea, and Aura Maru uses literary and rhetorical translingual theory to show that the “national literature” framing is no longer sufficient to address works created between two languages in a globalized world—Romanian and English, in this case. Born between two cultures and languages, their poetry does not belong entirely to either. In its turn, the national framing—both the Romanian and the American one—can become more porous and inclusive if read through a sociolinguistic “regime of mobility” (Blommaert) lens that gives a more powerful voice to migrant writers.

Developmental Aspects of Ideational Fluency, Flexibility, and Originality: South Africa and the United States

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Ripple ◽  
Gail A. Jaquish
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Life Span Development ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Cross Cultural Study

A cross-cultural study was conducted to provide evidence related to previous research results on the life-span development of three divergent thinking abilities (fluency, flexibility, and originality). Samples from four age groups (children, adolescents, young adults, adults) in each of two cultures (South Africa and the United States) served as participants. Participants responded to presentation of four groups of auditory stimuli recorded on a casette tape. Responses were scored for fluency, flexibility, and originality. Developmental trends across the four age groups displayed a similar pattern in both cultures for all three variables. The developmental shape of these patterns was similar to those displayed In previous research using larger samples in the United States.

Effects of Choice on Performance in Two Cultures

2005 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-374
Author(s):  
Lawrence C. Perlmuter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Learning And Memory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Choice ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Japanese Studies ◽  
The Relationship

Research in Japan and the United States has demonstrated that learning and memory may be improved when individuals are permitted to choose materials to be learned. In Japanese studies, the effects appear to be limited to the specific materials actually chosen, whereas in the United States, choice enhances recall of chosen as well as other materials that are later assigned. In the United States, personal choice has been hypothesized to affect both the learner's relationship to the chosen materials as well as motivation; in Japan personal choice affects the relationship between the learner and the chosen materials. Apparently the consequences of choice may vary in these cultures.

scholarly journals The roles of social media in 21st century populisms: US Presidential campaigns

Teknokultura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
George Julian Hendrix
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Us ◽  
Presidential Campaigning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Networking Tools

In the United States, “populist” is a controversial and often misunderstood signifier in common discourse. In addition, the current state of mass media and introduction of social networking tools has created a hyper-partisan spectacle of politics – especially during presidential campaign seasons. Through the review of literature on populism, traditional and social media, and presidential campaigning in the United States, this article constructs a new view on the relationship between these three topics in the 21st century. Important steps in this article’s process include defining populism and its place within campaigning and media; presenting social media as a political tool and a dynamic personalized informer; and analyzing the US presidential elections since 2008.  Resultantly, because the trends of online activity, on the part of both the citizen and the candidate, impact social media users’ self-informing and political engagement, the process of selecting a new US president has become more susceptible to various populist practices in this century than before.  

scholarly journals Same-sex Couples in Children’s Picture Books in French and in English: Censorship Somewhere Over the Rainbow?

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-421
Author(s):  
Julie Tarif
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
The United States ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Academic Publications

This paper focuses on children’s picture books featuring same-sex couples in Anglophone and Francophone cultures, and more particularly in France and in the United States, with a particular interest in the censorship of these works. Censoring a book is common in the United States. This essay is a reflexion on the publication and reception of Francophone picture books on the topic – originals and translations. In this perspective, it also considers the question of the circulation of these books between the two cultures, as well as towards the two cultures respectively, Francophone picture books tending to be bolder in content than their Anglophone counterparts. Some references used to explain reception are gathered thanks to primary sources, in particular personal communications; others come from secondary sources, such as academic publications, blogs, and newspaper articles. This paper also explores the different forms of censorship, including the translation of a work from another culture or the alterations to the illustrations of an original work in an adaptation. The contrastive approach adopted reveals that, despite the growing number of picture books featuring same-sex couples, censorship is not only an American reality but a French reality as well.

Robin—My Gateway, Guide, Ears, and Voice in China

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Ruthellen Josselson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Two Cultures

This chapter is an intense portrait of the Chinese interpreter with some reflections on the slipperiness of language between the two cultures. The close relationship that developed between the author and the interpreter also revealed more nuanced aspects of cultural difference that could be narrated from different perspectives. When the interpreter came to a conference in the United States, subtle cultural differences became apparent in what she viewed as unusual. From her perspective, Americans seemed uncurious about people from China. In Mandarin, there is no word for “the Other.” China is largely an ethnically homogenous society and Western approaches to diversity are hard to understand.

Passing Before ‘Passing’: The Ambivalent Identity of the Narrator in Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Bassam M. Al-Shraah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Identity ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Racial Issue ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Invisible

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man is considered by many as an early seminal censure and commentary on the contested racial issue of African American in the United States of America. This paper argues that the ‘invisible’ protagonist of the Novel has passed for white as early as his childhood years. The narrator relinquishes his black identity for the conveniences and supremacy that the white identity entails. This paper brings to question the credibility of narrative in the novel; also, it proves that the narrator contradicts himself. The invisible narrator appears not to have a firm stance regarding the atrocities suffered by his own people—African Americans. People of color in the United States were caught between two cultures, identities, and lives. The un-named narrator has taken the least troubled road. He announces his passing for white at the end of the novel. This study contends that he has done so long time ago before he literally announces his passing.

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