The Idea of Femininity in Cinematic Rites of Passage in Bollywood Cinema

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-92
Author(s):  
Amrita Satapathy
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
New Age ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Corporate Executive ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Comprehensive Study ◽  
Feminine Roles

Most movies pre-2000 focused on feminine stereotypes conceived within the confined ambit of societal constructs. It is only with the millennium that scriptwriters became bolder in their conception of femininity. Directors and women actors have begun experimenting with unconventional feminine roles which are definitively plausible. The portrayals of new-age peripatetic women like Deepika Padukone's single and successful architect Piku Banerjee, living with her septuagenarian father or Paravathy's urbane, sophisticated, English speaking, corporate executive, the widowed Jaya Shashidharan, prove that fixities have given way to flexibilities in portrayal and form. This chapter seeks to undertake a comprehensive study of the idea of femininity in cinematic rites of passage through an in-depth analysis of Shoojit Sircar's Piku (2015) and Tanuja Chandra's Qarib Qarib Singlle (2017), and show how itinerant women protagonists are negotiating identities by challenging alterity.

The role of the descriptor ‘broken English’ in ideologies about nonnative speech

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 649-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Lindemann ◽  
Katherine Moran
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideology ◽  
American English ◽  
Nonnative Speakers ◽  
Standard Language ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Standard Language Ideology

AbstractThis study investigates how the descriptor ‘broken English’ is used to construct speakers as nonnative within standard language ideology. In-depth analysis of examples found through WebCorp, used to search US websites, and the Corpus of Contemporary American English found that the term was largely used to refer to comprehensible English identified as nonnative. Users of such English were constructed as Other, usually highly negatively. The rarer cases of more positive descriptions referred to encounters outside English-speaking countries, consistent with monolingualist ideology, and when used for a more distantly superior person, made them more attractive through greater apparent accessibility. Four mechanisms are discussed by which use of the term naturalizes ideologies. Crucially, its ambiguity promotes slippage between ‘neutral’ and negative uses, allowing any English identified as nonnative to be characterized as ‘broken’, slipping into ‘not English’, with such descriptions treated as an acceptable way to identify nonnative speakers as public menace. (Standard language ideology, ideology of nativeness, monolingualist ideology, Othering, corpus-informed research)*

scholarly journals A profile of the belief in Jesus and salvation among the Afrikaans speaking Christian youth

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik J.C. Pieterse
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public School ◽  
South African ◽  
Private School ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New Age ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Belief Structures ◽  
African Youth ◽  
English Speaking

This article is based on the results of a large-scale empirical-theolo-gical research project on “Religion and Human Rights among South African Youth.” Using the extensive database of this project, the article focuses on the results on the images of Jesus and the belief in salvation of Grade 11 learners. The results present a profile of the pluralistic and diverse scale of nuances in the belief structures of Christian teenagers. The results of the English-speaking private school learners are placed alongside the results of the Afrikaans speaking public school learners in order to obtain a more prolific picture of the belief of the Afrikaans speaking youth. The effect their belief in salvation has on their views regarding human rights is also examined. The results challenge the preacher to think dialectically and hermeneutically in a new age and context.

Business and Self-regulation: Results from a Comparative Study on the Prevention of Economic Crime

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Ziegleder
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Comprehensive Study

AbstractEconomic crime seems to be of increasing concern to business companies themselves. Their responses to economic crime reflect not only civic and legal pressures but also an increasing awareness for certain risks. This article reports findings from a comparative study (USA and Germany) on internal company processes of preventing and sanctioning economic crime, which was part of a more comprehensive study. It is based on an in-depth analysis of company documents presenting business ethics or codes of conduct. It explores different codified strategies of in-house reaction to economic crime. The focus is on the company as a moral actor and its commitment, as well as on corporate approaches towards implementing this commitment through codified regulations.

A Comprehensive Review of the Security and Privacy Issues in Blockchain Technologies

2022 ◽  
pp. 180-199
Author(s):  
Mangesh Manikrao Ghonge ◽  
N. Pradeep ◽  
Renjith V. Ravi ◽  
Ramchandra Mangrulkar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Models ◽  
New Age ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Smart Contracts ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Application Potential ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Privacy Issues ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The development of blockchain technology relies on a variety of disciplines, including cryptography, mathematics, algorithms, and economic models. All cryptocurrency transactions are recorded on a digital and decentralized public ledger known as the blockchain. Customers may keep track of their crypto-transactions by looking at a chronological list rather than a centralized ledger. The blockchain's application potential is bright, and it has already produced results. In various fields, blockchain technology has been incorporated and deployed, from the earliest days of cryptocurrencies to the present day with new-age smart contracts. No comprehensive study on blockchain security and privacy has yet been done despite numerous studies in this area over the years. In this chapter, the authors talked about blockchain's security and privacy issues as well as the impact they've had on various trends and applications. This chapter covers both of these topics.

Black Flags and Social Movements

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Modern Era

Anarchism may be the most misunderstood political ideology of the modern era—it’s surely one of the least studied social movements by English-speaking scholars. Black Flags and Social Movements addresses this deficit with an in-depth analysis of contemporary anarchist movements, as interpreted by social movement theories and the analytical tools of political sociologists. Using unique datasets—gathered by anarchists themselves—the book presents longitudinal and international analyses that focus upon who anarchists are (similar, yet, different from classic anarchists) and where they may be found (most countries in the world, but especially in European and North American cities). Even though scholars have studiously avoided the contradictions and complications that anti-state movements present for their theories, numerous social movement ideas, including political opportunity, new social movements, and social capital theory, are relevant and adaptable to understanding anarchist movements. Due to their sometimes limited numbers and due to their identities as radical anti-authoritarians, anarchists often find themselves collaborating with numerous other social movements, bringing along their values, ideas, and tactics.

scholarly journals АНГЛІЙСЬКЕ ВЛАСНЕ ІМ’Я JACK І ПОХІДНІ ВІД НЬОГО ЕПОНІМИ: ГНІЗДОВЕ ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
MARIA OSTAPENKO
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Lexical Semantics ◽  
Structural Types ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Living Nature ◽  
Semantic Evolution ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The English name Jack is one of the most common names in English-speaking countries, which has become a derivate for a large number of derived eponyms. The lack of a comprehensive study of this word family determines the relevance of our research. The article is made within the framework of comparative-historical linguistics, lexical semantics, and onomastics. The article aims to explore the structure of the derivative-semantic word family with a stem anthroponym eng. Jack. As a result, the structural types of secondary word family constituents and the main directions of semantic evolution of the creative lexeme and its common nouns derivatives, including phraseological units, were identified. All derived eponyms of the name Jack were divided into the following micro-families: representatives of living nature (males, plants, animals), inanimate objects (mechanisms – any things that have replaced human labor or with which something can be done) and an intermediate link of lexemes denoting the image of a man.

Lingua Cosmica

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Major Work ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Anglophone World

Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from around the World consists of eleven scholarly essays on contemporary authors (born 1950 or later) of science fiction who publish in languages other than English, or who publish from the English-speaking “periphery”: i.e., outside the United States, the United Kingdom, and Anglophone Canada. Each essay examines one author, making a case for their importance internationally and contextualizing their work within the science-fictional traditions of their own culture and those of the genre globally (themes, tropes, tendencies, subgenres, etc.). Each also offers an in-depth analysis of a major work or works. The book thus identifies major contemporary authors of science fiction outside the “center” of the English-speaking world and presents them to students and scholars in the Anglophone world. The scholars respond to questions such as: Who are these authors, and why are they important? What innovative thematic material or formal elements do they offer? What unique elements from their culture do they bring to the genre? How do they dialogue with the history of the genre, and how do they fit into the contemporary SF scene? The authors studied are Angélica Gorodischer from Argentina, Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel writing collaboratively as Laurent McAllister (Francophone Canada), Liu Cixin (China), Daína Chaviano (Cuba), Johanna Sinisalo (Finland), Jean-Claude Dunyach (France), Andreas Eschbach (Germany), Sakyo Komatsu (Japan), Olatunde Osunsanmi (Nigerian American), Jacek Dukaj (Poland), and Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky (Russia/USSR).

American Neo-Hasids in the Land of Israel

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Steinhardt
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Age ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
The West ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Jewish Immigrants ◽  
New Age Spirituality

American Neo-Hasidism in Israel today is part of a sustained revival of traditional Judaism that began in the late 1960s among followers of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who sought to restore meaning to Jewish practice and identity. This unique religious subculture blends elements of New Age spirituality and American countercultural values with Hasidism, a mystical movement within Judaism dating back to the eighteenth century. The result is a new syncretistic Jewish culture and practice. At two English-speaking yeshivas, one in Jerusalem and the other in Bat Ayin in the West Bank, this Neo-Hasidic subculture exhibits kinship with both the conservative religious culture of Israeli settlers and the countercultural spiritual values of young American Jewish immigrants.

scholarly journals ПРЕЦЕДЕНТНІ ТОПОНІМИ В НЕОФІЦІЙНИХ НАЗВАХ АМЕРИКАНСЬКИХ МІСТ І ШТАТІВ

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-58
Author(s):  
О. В. Зосімова
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Native English Speakers ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
English Speaking

Nicknames or informal (alternative) names for geographical objects belong to particularly interesting phenomena in the sphere of proper names. The topicality of an in-depth analysis of this group of nicknames is determined by their wide spread in English-speaking countries as well as their important informative function and ethno-cultural value. The aim of the research is to identify and describe the main motivational types of informal names of American cities and states that contain precedent toponyms. Our task is also to determine what geographical names serve as precedent phenomena and classify them into groups. Precedent toponyms used in the nicknames under discussion include geographical names relating to the Old and the New Worlds. They can be both universal cultural symbols (e.g. Athens, Paris, Mecca; New York, Las Vegas) and phenomena that are familiar mostly to native English speakers, particularly Americans (e.g. Birmingham; Saratoga, Lexington and Pittsburgh). Among the precedent toponyms of the first group the component ‘Athens’ predominates: it functions in over ten nicknames in question as a symbol of art, culture and education. The most popular U.S. toponyms used in the informal place names are ‘Chicago’ and ‘Las Vegas’. The nicknames under discussion also contain mythonyms – biblical place names (e.g. Gomorrah, Eden), and lesser-known onyms that are mainly associated with American or British culture. The nicknames for some U.S. cities are based on the names of famous streets, districts and neighbourhoods (e.g. Wall Street, Hollywood). The main conclusion of the research is that the nicknames in question are mostly connected with the history, culture, economy and nationality of the first settlers or current inhabitants of various cities and regions.

Protest Camps in International context

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
International Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Protest camps are a common and recurring feature of social movements around the world. From Tahrir to Taksim, acts of occupying squares, parks and streets together, have made protest camps into a key site of democratic politics in the 21st century. Since the Arab Uprisings and Occupy movement of 2011 brought protest camps to global attention, more and more protest camps have occurred in hundreds of cities and dozens of countries around the world. People camping out in protest captures the public imagination, making media headlines and often triggering violent police responses. Across the world political leaders and security chiefs are concerned about the prospect of protest camps emerging, while everyday people are pegging their hopes and dreams on this form of coming together, in public, to voice their dissent. This book provides an in depth analysis of this new form of protest. With seventeen case studies from all around the world, it provides the most comprehensive study of protest camps to date.

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