scholarly journals The Aesthetics of Everyday Life as a Translation Problem (as Based on the Chronicle Tale of the Baptism of Princess Olha)

2018 ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
T. Shmiher
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Lexical Semantics ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Primary Chronicle ◽  
Communicative Effect ◽  
Single Material ◽  
Broad Understanding

The author deals with the study of narration in the 'Primary Chronicle' (the year 6463 (955): 'The tale of baptizing Princess Olha') as an object of translation (into New Ukrainian by Leonid Makhnovets and Vasyl Yaremenko as well as into English by Samuel Cross under the revision of Olgerd Sherbowitz-Wetzor). Narration is a complex system of relations between the narrator and the narrative, and although the emphasis is on the ways and specific features of presenting referential information, the search for semantic structures is conducted on the levels which are higher than the level of lexical semantics. Meanwhile, it also justifies the cultural and historical interpretation of some aspect of reality from the viewpoint of specific individuals. The appropriate rendering of lexical structures shapes the narrative projections of a text, but it affects the interpretation of the whole text differently. A focus on the situational and cultural context stimulates the search for the interpretation of parts, and it defines a broad understanding of life and its aesthetics, which includes images of the physical world around the character, his/her single material things, and, in particular, the representation of certain behaviours via things. It is the way – via material indicators – how one can interpret both the very behaviour, and its broad cultural context. The material indicators are also geographical names containing permanent cultural associations. Rendering the aesthetics of everyday life, which is based on the combination of things and behaviour patterns, is assessed by the translation’s success in creating a relevant communicative effect.

scholarly journals Asexuals negotiate the ‘onslaught of the heteronormative’

Sexualities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136346072199338
Author(s):  
Tiina Vares
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Past ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Gap

Although theorizing and research about asexuality have increased in the past decade, there has been minimal attention given to the emotional impact that living in a hetero- and amato-normative cultural context has on those who identify as asexual. In this paper, I address this research gap through an exploration of the ‘work that emotions do’ (Sara Ahmed) in the everyday lives of asexuals. The study is based on 15 individual interviews with self-identified asexuals living in Aotearoa New Zealand. One participant in the study used the phrase, ‘the onslaught of the heteronormative’ to describe how he experienced living as an aromantic identified asexual in a hetero- and amato-normative society. In this paper I consider what it means and feels like to experience aspects of everyday life as an ‘onslaught’. In particular, I look at some participants’ talk about experiencing sadness, loss, anger and/or shame as responses to/effects of hetero- and amato-normativity. However, I suggest that these are not only ‘negative’ emotional responses but that they might also be productive in terms of rethinking and disrupting hetero- and amato-normativity.

scholarly journals An Approach to the Analysis of Religious Reality in the Social Phenomenology of Alfred Schütz

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-327
Author(s):  
Alexey Sitnikov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Social Phenomenology

The article deals with the social phenomenology of Alfred Schütz. Proceeding from the concept of multiple realities, the author describes religious reality, analyses its relationship with everyday, theoretical, and mythological realities, and identifies the areas where they overlap and their specifics. According to Schütz’s concept, reality is understood as something that has a meaning for a human being, and is also consistent and certain for those who are ‘inside’ of it. Realities are structurally similar to one another as they are similar to the reality that is most obvious for all human beings, i.e., the world of everyday life. Religious reality has one of the main signs of genuine reality, that of internal consistency. Religious reality has its own epoché (special ascetic practices) which has similarities with the epoché of the theoretical sphere since neither serve practical objectives, and imply freedom from the transitory issues of everyday life. Just as the theoretical sphere exists independently of the life of a scientist in the physical world and is needed to transfer results to other people, so the religious reality depends on ritual actions and material objects in its striving for the transcendent. Individual, and especially collective, religious practices are performed physically and are inextricably linked with the bodily ritual. The article notes that although Schütz’s phenomenological concept of multiple realities has repeatedly served as a starting point for the development of various social theories, its heuristic potential has not been exhausted. This allows for the further analyzing and development of topical issues such as national identity and its ties with religious tradition in the modern era, when religious reality loses credibility and has many competitors, one of which is the modern myth of the nation. Intersubjective ideas of the nation that are socially confirmed as the self-evident reality of everyday life cause complex emotions and fill human lives, thus displacing religious reality or forcing the latter to come into complex interactions with the national narrative.

Harold Monro, Poetry Anthologies and the Rhetoric of Textual Materiality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Collier
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
English Verse ◽  
Century Poetry ◽  
Textual Politics

This chapter meditates upon the role of the poetry anthology and its claims on literary value at the turn of the twentieth century. By sorting the output of poets, the anthology might seem to stabilize literary value; but like all print artefacts in the period, the anthology was overproduced, and therefore could also be seen as positing multiple, competing canons. The anthology form was in flux in these years as well, with such familiar conventions as tables of contents and the grouping of poems by poet not having emerged as norms. In this context, the textual materiality of anthologies became a complex system for intervening in debates about value. The chapter revisits the most popular anthologies of the era—Palgrave’s Golden Treasury and the Oxford Book of English Verse—to sketch out the emerging codes of the anthology form. Poet and publisher Harold Monro, the chapter argues, pursued a more egalitarian textual politics than these popular anthologies, particularly his underappreciated 1929 anthology, Twentieth Century Poetry. The chapter reads the content and the metatexts of Twentieth Century Poetry as asserting a catholic vision of modern poetry as vital to everyday life.

Intersections of Gender, Sex, and Power

2017 ◽  
pp. 1746-1764
Author(s):  
Lubna Ferdowsi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Cultural Ideologies ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
British Bangladeshi

This chapter highlights the dilemma of being immigrant diasporic women in a British cultural context by focusing on the everyday life of British Bangladeshi women who are being controlled in the private sphere based on empirical research. Particularly, the chapter shows how cultural ideologies are intersecting with patriarchal norms to gain control over women bodies and sexuality. Finally, the chapter discusses the process and system of differentiation and domination through an intersectional analysis to understand how women ostensibly belonging to the same ethnic group may have different and competing experiences of migration and Diaspora.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Cecilia Sayad
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Spatial Relationship ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
Image Capture ◽  
Analog To Digital ◽  
Found Footage ◽  
Film And Video

The book’s introduction revisits questions around the ontology of photographic and filmic images in order to lay out the role of technology in making supernatural entities become part of everyday life. An examination of theories about the transition from analog to digital image capture considers the potential of photography, film, and video to expand our senses, enhance our perception of the physical world, and work as evidence. The indexical link between the object placed before the camera and its image extends to a discussion about the spatial relationship between the contents of the framed image and the surrounding physical world, which informs discussions about framing techniques in found-footage horror films and participative spectatorship in experiential cinema and video games.

“I-Do” Feminism Courtesy of Martha Stewart Weddings and HBC’s Vow To Wow Club

Ethnologies ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Eve Matrix
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Visual Rhetoric ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
Martha Stewart

This article examines the wedding gift registry as a newly invented tradition and part of the increasing commodification of everyday life and its rites of passage. The research involves both a deconstructive discursive analysis and a critique of the visual rhetoric in advertisements promoting registries for the newly engaged. To consider the cultural context within which marketing for wedding gift registries is proliferating, the author begins with the stories of two connected figures, both lifted from national newswires. Then she argues that the escalating trend of the wedding registry gains momentum because of its placement between these two conjoined images, namely: the spectre of the scandalous and hysterical “runaway bride” and her sister, the hip and paradoxical “I-Do Feminist.”

scholarly journals VERBA BERENDONIM INDRA PENGLIHATAN DALAM BAHASA INDONESIA : KAJIAN LINGUISTIK KOGNITIF DAN SEMANTIK LEKSIKAL

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Nuny Sulistiany Idris
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Lexical Semantics ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Schematic Representation ◽  
Mental Space ◽  
Representation Scheme ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

AbstrakIndra penglihatan merupakan salah satu organ tubuh yang penting untuk manusia sehingga dihasilkan berbagai varian verba berendonim indra penglihatan, akan tetapi penelitian tentang hal ini sangat terbatas. Melalui penelitian ini yang menggunakan teori linguistik kognitif dan semantik leksikal diperoleh bahwa (1) verba berendonim indra penglihatan yang paling banyak digunakan adalah verba yang berhubungan dengan aktivitas sehari-hari yang paling sering dilakukan dan semakin tinggi pendidikan seseorang, semakin banyak digunakan varian verba berendonim indra penglihatan, sebaliknya semakin rendah pendidikan seseorang semakin sedikit varian verba yang digunakannya; (2) skema representasi verba berendonim indra penglihatan mengambarkan hubungan antara makna verba ini dengan pemaparannya pada kamus dan penggunaannya pada kehidupan sehari-hari; dan (3) kognisi menentukan ranah penggunaan verba berendonim indra penglihatan dengan cara menghubungkan ruang mental dengan pengalaman indrawi penuturnya.Kata-kata kunci: Endonim, skema representasi, kognisi, ranah AbstractThe sense of sight is one of the vital organs for humans to produce many variants of verbs sight endonym;however, research on this area is very limited. Using the theory of cognitive linguistics and lexical semantics, this study reveals that the most widely usedverbsof sight endonym are the ones associated with most frequently performed daily activities; the higher the education, the more variants of the verbsused, and vice versa.It also indicatesthe schematic representation of the verbs of sight endonym reflects the relationship between the meaningsand descriptions of the verbsin a dictionary and their use in everyday life; and the domain of cognition determines use of the verbs by linking mental space with the sensory experience of the speaker.Keywords: endonym, representation scheme, cognition, domain

Intersections of Gender, Sex, and Power

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Lubna Ferdowsi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Cultural Ideologies ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
British Bangladeshi

This chapter highlights the dilemma of being immigrant diasporic women in a British cultural context by focusing on the everyday life of British Bangladeshi women who are being controlled in the private sphere based on empirical research. Particularly, the chapter shows how cultural ideologies are intersecting with patriarchal norms to gain control over women bodies and sexuality. Finally, the chapter discusses the process and system of differentiation and domination through an intersectional analysis to understand how women ostensibly belonging to the same ethnic group may have different and competing experiences of migration and Diaspora.

THE LANGUAGE OF OLD BELIEVERS' COUNCIL DECISIONS. ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE CONCEPT "SOBOR"

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Ekaterina V. Lüdke ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Lexical Semantics ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Semantic Description ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Speech Genre

The paper includes the results of research into the language reflected in the texts of Old Believers’ council decisions. For that purpose a large diachronic corpus of such texts of speech genre was used. The research focused on the concept “sobor”, one of the central concepts in the discourse on Old Believers and very frequent in their sources. The analysis consisted of a lexical-semantic description based on the interrelation between the language material and the socio-cultural context of the corresponding historical period. The methods of sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics and lexical semantics were combined in order to obtain a new approach to the texts of Old Believers’ council decisions. The result of the research is a detailed overview of the specific way the concept “sobor” evolved in the Old Believers’ sources. It outlines the dynamics within that confessional community and compares the development of the described concept to the processes in the standard Russian language

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