Slangs as a Special Group of Words

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (11) ◽  
pp. 103-107
Author(s):  
Mehriban Zeynal Hajizade ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Special Group ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The World ◽  
Normative Status ◽  
Over Time

In modern times, the processes in the world have affected the field of linguistics as well as all other fields.These processes require a diffferent approach to issues related to the use of specific word groups. Over time, language develops and changes occur at all levels. Taking into consideration that the main function of language is a means of communication between people, all changes should be taken into account to make the function more convenient and more suitable. Some of the processes that take place in the language are directly related to the speech process, and ends with getting the gradual normative status of variants in the speech of native speakers. Native speakers use some expressions that gained and didn’t gain status of norms in their speech. They use specific word groups to make their speech more specific and expressive. These word groups are used by some groups of people for special goals. Slangs are new meaningful words used in different social groups. Slangs are presented as non-literary concept. Slangs are various and colorful according to their tones. Key words: slang, morphem, term, communication, society

scholarly journals Dangerous narratives: politics, lies, and ghost stories

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-41
Author(s):  
Louise Katz
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Ghost Stories ◽  
Cultural Imagination ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The World ◽  
Over Time

Narratives that resonate in the cultural imagination inform the ways in which we apprehend the world. This paper considers how certain images and stories that have been valorised over time, bleed into reality and become socially and politically affective. The identity of an entire people, for example, can be rendered down so that those social groups come to seem more spectral than human, through either misrecognition or a lack of acknowledgment. This idea will be discussed through two examples: one provided by traditional anti-Semitism, in which the Jew is viewed as a vampiristic agent of decay; and another in which the Arab presence becomes ‘spectralised’ in contemporary Israel/Palestine. We will look at the development of narratives that create these images, and also consider the liminal zone wherein those images have their source, because it is through imagination and storytelling that we continually create and recreate the realities we must then inhabit.

scholarly journals Non-Native English Teachers and Varieties of English: Ready, or Not?

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-341
Author(s):  
Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
First Language ◽  
Native English Speakers ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
British English ◽  
International Language ◽  
The World ◽  
L1 Influence ◽  
Over Time

Language is dynamic. And thus, for English as an international language, it keeps on changing and developing over time. Now there are more non-native English speakers compared to native speakers around the world. Thus, intelligibility becomes fundamental in the world of Englishes. Besides teaching in the English accent (i.e. American or British English) as part of the educational policy given by schools, respectively, non-native English teachers must also be prepared to inform their non-native students of the Englishes around the world. Moreover, research in identifying the varieties of English spoken in different areas around the world are rapidly progressing. Especially in the field of acoustic phonetics, in which the studies here assist researchers and teachers to identify vowel distinctions among different group of English speakers and the extent of the first language (L1) influence. Specifically, the analysis in phonological variations can help teachers deal with variation in varieties of English. Understanding the varieties of English that exist today and having mutual intelligibility can improve communication with different people from different countries around the world.

scholarly journals Stereotypes in female images of the Siberian epos

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
E. N. Kuzmina ◽  
◽  
L. N. Arbachakova ◽  
N. V. Shulbaeva ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Female Character ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Genetic Origin ◽  
Imaging Device ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
And Function ◽  
Normative Status ◽  
Over Time

In the heroic legends of the peoples of Siberia, a special role is played by typical descriptions (stereotypes) that carry plot-forming and compositional functions. They reflect the syncretism of aesthetic and moral popular views in their content and the semantic guidelines that epic heroes are endowed with. As ethno-poetic constants, these stereotypes embodied the people’s value attitude to the world around them and, being transmitted for a long time, became ethnically differentiated cultural universals acquiring a normative status over time. In this study, an axiological approach has been applied to consider traditional portrait descriptions of warlike heroes and virgins, based on the comparative material from the epic of Buryats, Khakasses, and Shors. This approach allowed us to conclude that the similarity in imaging the characters of these peoples’ epic has a natural and genetic origin and that the descriptions show the syncretism of aesthetic and moral assessments. The descriptions used in the depiction of female characters are intertextual stereotypes taken from the general epic fund. The structure of these stereotypes comprises supporting phrases that tend to become epic formulas and function independently in the epic. Of the poetic and visual means, stereotypes steadily involve the comparisons and epithets easily correlated with the phenomena and objects of Nature and Space. The generally accepted statement that hyperbole is the main imaging device in the heroic epos is also confirmed in the female character description stereotypes.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 pandemic: local to global implications as perceived by urban ecologists

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Douglas ◽  
Mark Champion ◽  
Joy Clancy ◽  
David Haley ◽  
Marcelo Lopes de Souza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
All Solutions ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Greenspaces ◽  
Disaster Preparation

Abstract The global COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyone, but in many different ways, stimulating contrasting reactions and responses: opportunities for some, difficulties for many. A simple survey of how individual workers in urban ecology have been coping with COVID-19 constraints found divergent responses to COVID-19 on people’s activities, both within countries and between continents. Many academics felt frustrated at being unable to do fieldwork, but several saw opportunities to change ways of working and review their engagement with the natural world. Some engaging with social groups found new ways of sharing ideas and developing aspirations without face-to-face contact. Practitioners creating and managing urban greenspaces had to devise ways to work and travel while maintaining social distancing. Many feared severe funding impacts from changed local government priorities. Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified issues, such as environmental injustice, disaster preparation and food security, that have been endemic in most countries across the global south in modern times. However, developing and sustaining the strong community spirit shown in many places will speed economic recovery and make cities more resilient against future geophysical and people-made disasters. Significantly, top-down responses and one-size-fits-all solutions, however good the modelling on which they are based, are unlikely to succeed without the insights that local knowledge and community understanding can bring. We all will have to look at disaster preparation in a more comprehensive, caring and consistent way in future.

scholarly journals Book Review: Race in American Film: Voices and Visions That Shaped a Nation

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 228
Author(s):  
Amanda K. Sprochi
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
American Film ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Over Time

Race in American Film is a three-volume encyclopedic treatment of race and racism in American cinema, from the early film era to modern times. The editors, Daniel Bernardi and Michael Green, address the question of “American cinema’s place in American and world culture with respect to the question of race” (xxx). For the purpose of this three-volume set, they define “race” broadly, using Omi and Winant’s definition of race as a “‘shifting yet reforming’ complex of meanings that works to shape our sense of selves and those we see as similar—thereby allowing us to see others as different.” (xxi) The concept of race, therefore, is subject to change over time and among different social groups.

scholarly journals Personal name as a universal tool of globalization

Kavkaz-forum ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Э.С. Парастаева
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Historical Aspect ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Separate Branch ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Over Time

Вопрос изучения имени личного представляет очень большой интерес как для науки, так и для общества в целом. Вся совокупность имен личных (и шире – собственных) относится, как известно, к той части лексической системы языка, исследования которой представляют огромную ценность. В научном языкознании для изучения имени определена отдельная отрасль – ономастика. Деэтимологизация ономастических единиц является важнымне только для языкознания, но и для различных отраслей знания, в частности, для исторической науки в деле изучения древнейшей истории народов (реконструкции архаичных социальных систем, верований, религий, быта), мест их расселения в различные периоды. В настоящей статье нами рассмотрены имена людей – антропонимы в социально-историческом аспекте нового и новейшего времени, времени тотальной глобализации и демократизации. Исторически сложившаяся система наименования людей уходит в глубокую древность, но она не была консервативна и с течением времени, со сменой эпох, постепенно менялась. Когда-то закрытые национальные именные системы (именники), под влиянием все более усиливающихся социальных и культурных взаимодействий народов мира, медленно, но верно «сдавали свои позиции». Началось активное взаимозаимствование личных имен среди различных по этнической принадлежности групп. В современных национальных именных системах вполне мирно уживаются исконные и заимствованные (чужестранные) имена. В то же время между ними наблюдается некий антагонизм, вызванный к жизни понятием исконности/неисконности, который, в свою очередь, основан на значении слова (апеллятива), из которого произошло имя. Есть имена пришлые (заимствованные), которые на чужой почве принимающего языка получают облик, соответствующий нормам последнего. Транснациональными именами, по нашему мнению, следует считать ономастические единицы, не знающие этнических и государственных преград, легко преодолевающие географические барьеры. Именно они служат одним из действенных инструментов глобализации. The question of studying the personal name is of very great interest both for the researchers and for the society as a whole. The entire set of personal (and more broadly - proper) names refers to that part of the lexical system of any language, the research of which is of great value. In linguistics a separate branch is defined for the study of a name - onomastics. De-etymologization of onomastic units is important not only for linguistics, but also for various branches of knowledge, in particular, for historical science in the study of the ancient history of peoples (reconstruction of archaic social systems, beliefs, religions, everyday life), places of their settlement in different periods. In this article, we examined the names of persons - anthroponyms in the socio-historical aspect of the new and modern times, the time of total globalization and democratization. The historically established system of naming people goes back to antiquity, but it was not conservative and gradually changed over time, with the change of eras. Once closed national nominal systems (names), under the influence of ever-increasing social and cultural interactions of the peoples of the world, slowly but surely "gave up their positions." An active inter-borrowing of personal names began among groups of different ethnicity. In modern national naming systems, primordial and borrowed (foreign) names coexist quite peacefully. At the same time, there is a certain antagonism between them, brought to life by the concept of originality / non-originality, which, in turn, is based on the meaning of the word (appellative) from which the name originated. There are new names (borrowed), which, on the basis of the foreign soil of the receiving language, acquire an appearance that corresponds to the norms of the latter. In our opinion, transnational names should be considered onomastic units that do not know ethnic and state barriers, easily overcome geographic barriers. They serve as one of the most effective tools for globalization.

BETWEEN ALBEE’S DOG AND GOAT: IMAGES OF ANIMAL COMPANIONSHIP

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hind Naji Hussein ITHAWI
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Edward Albee ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The World ◽  
Animal Companionship ◽  
Key Words Animal ◽  
Human Animal

Modern times seem to have been inflicted with a puzzling sickness that pervades humans’ existence on every possible level. The modern sickness of loneliness and loss of connection assumes center stage position whether in social contexts or personal spaces. This modern ailment is clear within the modern American setting particularly; therefore, many dramatic pieces try to dramatize its manifestations and consequences. The present paper attempts to explore the manifestations of this sickness in the representations of animal companionship. Such representations populate many modern American plays from the beginning of the twentieth century and moving on to the millennium. The paper suggests that images and representations of animal companionship are only expressions of modern individuals’ isolation and loss of connection. The paper examines two plays by Edward Albee, The Zoo Story (1959) and The Goat or Who’s Sylvia? (2000), that represent a new kind of companionship that may or may not sustain the struggle of their modern protagonists to establish some kind of connection with the world around them. Key words: Animal Companionship, Human-Animal Studies, Loneliness

scholarly journals GENIUS LOCI IN WOT BATU

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (04) ◽  
pp. 328-344
Author(s):  
Khairi Ilman Chandra ; Caecilia S. Wijayaputri
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Spatial Structures ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Concrete Properties ◽  
The World ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Abstract- In a modern environment, the existence of genius loci is starting to become rare. Places seem to lose their defining characteristics and this diminishes people’s experience with them. In 2015, Sunaryo succeeded in building Wot Batu as a place that can exemplify a “man-made place” created in “modern” times that can showcase the existence of a genius loci. Therefore, this research discusses the factors that contribute to the emergence of genius loci and how it emerged in Wot Batu. This research employs a descriptive-qualitative approach. The researcher analyzes theories that are related to definitions of, factors that constitute place, and types of genius loci, which are then utilized to provide an observation of the object. The data that is gathered consist of organizations of spatial structure and articulation of concrete properties. In addition, the researcher also interviewed Sunaryo Sutono about the background of Wot Batu.  The researcher identifies and classifies said data in a table of factors that constitute place which are then summarized to serve as a basis for explaining the genius loci that is established in Wot Batu. In Wot Batu, the creator’s strong intent to express spiritual meanings is accomplished in a specific way. The complexity of that spiritual understanding is manifested in its spatial structures and concrete properties that are impressively detailed. The ideas and personal life experiences that were once only found in Sunaryo Sutono’s mind are brought into the world as a very specific place, and those things eventually coalesce into a totality and form genius loci that is meaningful to its user.  Key Words: genius loci, Wot Batu, Sunaryo, Ciburial Bandung

Problems of digitization of archival documents

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (12) ◽  
pp. 152-156
Author(s):  
Saida Novruz Guliyeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Office Work ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
Archival Work

In modern times, the digitization of archival documents is one of the most global problems in the field of archives. Modern sources of innovation in archival work are directly related to technological development in office work. Digitization of documents is the conversion of documents into electronic form. The main problems of electronic archives in modern times can be divided into several blocks. These include legal, organizational and technical issues. Sometimes there are appropriate technical solutions to problems, but they are not regulated by existing legislation. In modern times, the electronicization of archival documents remains the most pressing problem. Work is being done in this area both in our country and around the world. Key words: archive, document, legislation, information, electrification

Globalization and interconfessional communications

2001 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Serhii Viktorovych Svystunov
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The World ◽  
Target Set ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Rapid Appearance

In the 21st century, the world became a sign of globalization: global conflicts, global disasters, global economy, global Internet, etc. The Polish researcher Casimir Zhigulsky defines globalization as a kind of process, that is, the target set of characteristic changes that develop over time and occur in the modern world. These changes in general are reduced to mutual rapprochement, reduction of distances, the rapid appearance of a large number of different connections, contacts, exchanges, and to increase the dependence of society in almost all spheres of his life from what is happening in other, often very remote regions of the world.

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