scholarly journals Exploring Thematic Progressions in Two Excerpts From Amma Darko’s Faceless

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Daniel T. Yokossi
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
Skin Bleaching ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Lexical Relations ◽  
Progression Patterns

This study explores thematic progressions in two excerpts from Amma Darko’s Faceless. The study aims at looking into the different types of thematic progressions used in the selected excerpts to decode there-from the deep meanings linguistically encoded by the author. The study further aims at examining how the different thematic progressions used in the studied texts contribute to their cohesion and contextual coherence. The research appeals to the mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology. Via this method, the number of thematic progression patterns identified has been quantified per excerpt to pave the way to the interpretation of the findings that ensued. The study has arrived at impressive results. Among several others available in the interpretation of the findings subsection, Amma Darko has purposefully not used the Split-Rheme Pattern to avoid a complex writing style that would make her writing not accessible to her readership. The simple linear thematic progression and the overriding theme reiteration patterns extensively used in both texts have allowed the author to emphasize the key thematic points of the studied texts. Moreover, the theme reiteration development strategy used in both texts has provided them with clear focuses. Some of these include skin bleaching, tradition and marriage in Africa, street children, women’s life conditions in Ghana to name but a few. For deeper meanings decoding in the studied excerpts, further studies on discourse-semantics, contextual coherence, conjunctive and lexical relations, as well as experiential and interpersonal meanings could pick up from this article findings.

Crime, Deprivation and Social Sustainability—Evidence across States in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramprasad Sengupta ◽  
Sovik Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
Developmental Factors ◽  
The Development Strategy ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Different Types

We focus in this article on the dimension of social sustainability of the development process— particularly on the determining factors of social tension which results in social disruption in violent forms of the different types of crime—murder, property-related, riots in the presence of polarization and Left-wing insurgency across major states in India. This article makes an attempt to explore the role of economic deprivation—thus, resulting in economic inequality and poverty in addition to infrastructural and other socio-economic developmental factors in determining such crimes in this context. While economic growth has a definite positive role in abating such violent forms of crime and their associated tension, the development strategy should give high priority to literacy, internal security and human development for building up peace and a socially sustainable society in India.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES OF ECONOMIC-MATHEMATICAL METHODS USING

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Ulanchuk ◽  
Olena Zharun
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Forage Production ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Sectoral Structure ◽  
Production Type ◽  
Regional Development Strategy ◽  
Different Types

The article deals with the problems of the regional development strategy, which primarily should be aimed at increasing the soil fertility in Ukraine. Suggested concept of innovation-investment development of agriculture, which is based on the objective necessity of providing agricultural enterprises in future with investments taking into account the state of their development, the most complete use of internal opportunities and adaptation to changes in the external environment. The economic-mathematical model for setting the prospects of agricultural production development has been developed. To substantiate the development of agricultural enterprises of different types of production prospects, the task matrix includes data on production and financial activities which was collected on the basis of typical agricultural enterprises. These enterprises data was determined on the basis of processing of statistical information on agrarian formations of a certain region. The proposed economic-mathematical model of the problem is designed in such way that it is possible to introduce other variants for the determined situations, by making minor changes in the limitations of its matrix. It gives opportunities to set the need for investments for the goal achievement with the maximum predicted profit by enterprises of each separate production type and in the whole region of enterprises which are engaged in the production of agricultural products. The solution of the problem by this model will enable to determine in each production type of agricultural enterprises such a sectoral structure of production, which gives the opportunity to obtain maximum profits and the minimum terms of return on investment. Developed activities at the stage of practical realization and commercialization of innovations allow increasing income of the agricultural enterprises from the cattle breeding and plant growing sectors, to organize their own production of the required amount of cultures to ensure optimum forage production beef cattle and dairy direction, to preserve quality characteristics of cultivated of soils.

scholarly journals “CONSTANT, ZIG-ZAG LINEAR, OR MULTIPLE?”: THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERNS ON EFL STUDENTS’ RECOUNT TEXTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Merina Devira ◽  
Makhroji Makhroji ◽  
Allif Syahputra Bania ◽  
Novia Sari
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Linear Pattern ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Progression Patterns

The main problem faced by EFL students in writing English texts includes the difficulties to produce a cohesive and coherent text that it seems necessary to show how the tools of Theme and Rheme can be used to help construct the students' good English writing. This study aimed to find out the types of thematic progression patterns in each clause of the recount texts written by students and the dominant pattern of thematic progression revealed from the texts. The research design of this study is a qualitative method which employed the study instrument of the students' recount texts at class IX of SMAN 2 Langsa, Aceh. A content analysis approach by using a Theme and Rheme framework generated from a theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) was used to analyze the thematic progression patterns on the students' recount texts, which included several steps: reading the student's texts, identifying the theme and rheme of every clause of the student's text, describing the thematic progression patterns of student's text and drawing the thematic progression pattern on student's text. The findings of the analysis indicated that there are three (3) thematic progression patterns found on the students' recount texts: the Theme Constant, the Theme Zig Zag Linear pattern and Theme Multiple patterns. The dominant type of thematic progression patterns constructed by the students into their recount texts was revealed mostly on 123 constant or reiteration patterns (76.8%), followed by zig-zag patterns of 35 times (21.8%)  and 9 times (1.25%) of multiple patterns. The results of this study will be facilitative as the tools for English language teaching and learning classrooms particularly for writing English texts. 

scholarly journals Improving Coherence of The Students’ Sentences by Applying Thematic Progression And Personal Blog In The Sentence-Based Writing Class

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Arif Suryo Priyatmojo
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Progression Patterns

This study was aimed at describing what kinds of thematic progression patterns mostly employed by the students, describing how to apply thematic progression theory and personal blog in the sentence-based writing class, and finding out whether the use of thematic progression theory and personal blog give positive significances to coherence of the students’ sentences. This is an action research study employing two cycles. The subject of the study was 24 students of group 2, in a class of sentence-based writing (SBW), and the object of the study was students’ sentences created by the students in the teaching and learning process (TLP). The result of the study shows that thematic progression patterns moslty employed by the students are constant theme pattern followed by zig zag and multiple theme patterns. In TLP, the materials were devided and given to the students in two cycles. The first cycle focused on introducing the thematic progression theory and its kinds of patterns. Then, in the next cycle the students focused on sharing ideas with other classmates via individual blogs. Based on the result of the study, teaching SBW using thematic progression theory gives its positive significance by varied patterns used by the students. It can be seen from the analysis of the students’ sentences from pretest, paragraf 1, paragraf 2, paragraf 3 and posttest. The students also give positive responses upon its teaching and learning process using thematic progression and personal blogs based on the pre and post test questionnaire data. It is hoped that the result of the study gives positive contribution to the students in preparing them to write in bigger contexts - paragraph-based writing, genre-based writng and academic writing in the next coming semesters. Keywords:  Thematic Progression; Theme-Rheme; Thematization; Personal Blog  

Sade for Sade’s Sake

Screen Bodies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Olivier Delers
Keyword(s):  
Visual Media ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Video Installation ◽  
Political Statement ◽  
Different Types

This article focuses on Paul Chan’s 2007 art project Sade for Sade’s Sake, which brings together a five-hour-long video installation, a number of drawings and collages, and a series of fonts inspired by the Marquis de Sade’s writings called “alternumerics.” I argue that Chan is engaged in a transmedial process that is intensely visual and performative and that actualizes Sade’s aesthetics by reconfiguring the textual logorrhea central to his writing style. In his video installation, Chan imagines a new kind of sexual tableau that seeks to “show it all,” but also turns the larger political statement that his project set out to make into an abstract exploration of forms. In Sade for Sade’s Sake, Chan suggests that Sade is caught in a transmedial loop. Sade’s writings are channeled into different types of visual media that try to convey the nature of his worldview and to capture its essence. In the end, however, images make way for a new kind of Sadean language that is based on the original texts but that also tends toward abstraction and the endless repetition of the same patterns.

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