scholarly journals On Irony in Pride and Prejudice from the Perspective of Pragmatic Presupposition

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 65-69
Author(s):  
Xuejiao Zhu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Situation ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
Pragmatic Presupposition

Presupposition, as a pragmatic concept, plays an important role in discourse construction. Pragmatic presupposition works inside and outside ironic discourse to help maintain cohesion and coherence as well as direction and integrity of it. This paper presents pragmatic analyses on irony selected from Pride and Prejudice with different functions of presuppositions from social standards, collusive agreement, physical situation, and previous circumstances, and hopes to provide a different way of theorizing irony and ironic discourse.

Satire and Realism in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: an Interpretative Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Rigorous Analysis ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
Interpretative Analysis

Jane Austen is acknowledged for the application of realism and satire in her novels. This paper focuses on the analysis of realism and satire in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; however, her entire oeuvre spotlights the features (of satire and realism) alongside robust feminism: typical of her literary taste and temperament, not necessarily of the Romantic Age which she lived in. Rigorous analysis and realistic observation reveals that the employment of realism and satire in Pride and Prejudice, are quite obvious, in all sorts of aspects including narrative, settings, themes and characters. Analysis of the novel under study leads to the observation that satire and realism go hand in hand in the said novel—intermittently—and thoughtfully. Conclusively, it is observed that Jane Austen’s literary life had a tremendous influence on how to subsume realism (primarily through matrimonies) of age and satire on a romantic society (whereby ideals collapse headlong), in Pride and Prejudice.

Multinationals from the BRIC-countries investing in German firms: Impacts on industrial relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1-2020) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Martin Franz ◽  
Sebastian Henn
Keyword(s):  
Current System ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Bric Countries ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
Target Firms ◽  
Patterns Of Communication ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Works Council ◽  
India And China

Often, investments from emerging economies in firms in industrialized countries evoke concerns among the employees in the targeted firms. Many of them are afraid of losing their jobs, or fear that the new owners could undermine existing social standards. Up to now, little is known about how such investments affect industrial relations in targeted countries. Using the example of investments from the BRIC-countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) in German firms, this paper analyses whether employees’ fears are well founded. To this end, four different factors are considered. These include: (1) the situation of the target firms in the run-up to an acquisition and the employees’ reactions to the takeover, (2) the investors’ knowledge of the current system of industrial relations, (3) the day-to day interactions with the new owners, and (4) the patterns of communication between works council representatives and the new owners. The empirical part of the article is based on an analysis of quantitative data as well as the application of problem-centered interviews with members of work councils, trade union representatives as well as managers.

L’Économie successorale dans Pride and Prejudice

XVII-XVIII ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou
Keyword(s):  
Pride And Prejudice

PRACTICES OF DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY FINANCIAL POLICY OF HIGHER EDUCATION INNOVATION OF UKRAINE

2017 ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Vitaliy MARTYNIUK
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Financial Policy ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
Key Factor

Introduction. Article reviews the current state and key aspects of financial policy in higher education and it’s innovative development in Ukraine. Through education institutions achieved increase of social standards, needs and increase welfare, increase the competitiveness of the state as a whole. Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to determine the characteristics of the development strategy of financial policy of innovative development of higher education and finding ways to improve its implementation. Results. The article deals with the importance of an innovative approach to the development of financial strategy in higher education. The ways to improve the effectiveness of the financial policy of innovative development of higher education are defined. Today an important form of state regulation of the economy is macroeconomic planning and forecasting. Conclusion. Innovative development of higher education is the foundation of economic growth of the economy and improvement of social standards. The financial policy of the state in this area is aimed, ultimately, to ensure the welfare of all members of society. Achieving high rates of innovation in the field of higher education facilities by building efficient system of economic mechanisms of financing. Important direct result of providing innovative educational services not only to order the state or the employer, but also on the personal needs of citizens in their development. The level of education is a key factor the ability of the workforce to adapt to new conditions, increase overall efficiency, etc.

Assigning Values and States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Healey
Keyword(s):  
Quantum State ◽  
Density Operator ◽  
Entangled State ◽  
Physical Situation ◽  
Born Rule ◽  
Correct Assignment ◽  
Significant Magnitude ◽  
Good Advice ◽  
Empirical Significance ◽  
Important Idea

If a quantum state is prescriptive then what state should an agent assign, what expectations does this justify, and what are the grounds for those expectations? I address these questions and introduce a third important idea—decoherence. A subsystem of a system assigned an entangled state may be assigned a mixed state represented by a density operator. Quantum state assignment is an objective matter, but the correct assignment must be relativized to the physical situation of an actual or hypothetical agent for whom its prescription offers good advice, since differently situated agents have access to different information. However this situation is described, it is true, empirically significant magnitude claims that make the description correct, while others provide the objective grounds for the agent’s expectations. Quantum models of environmental decoherence certify the empirical significance of these magnitude claims while also licensing application of the Born rule to others without mentioning measurement.

scholarly journals Of pride and prejudice: agent learning under sticky and persistent stereotype

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-410
Author(s):  
Georg D. Blind ◽  
Stefania Lottanti von Mandach
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Private Equity ◽  
Optimum Level ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Agent Learning ◽  
Economic Interaction ◽  
Level Of Effort ◽  
Group Agents ◽  
A Share

AbstractStereotypes matter for economic interaction if counterparty utility is informed by factors other than price. Stereotyped agents may engage in efforts to counter stereotype by adapting to in-group standards. We present a model informing the optimal extent of these efforts depending on an agent’s (a) share of total transactions between out- and in-group agents; and (b) share of repeated transaction pairings with in-group counterparties. Low values of (a) suppress the effect of adaptation efforts on the stereotype itself (persistence). In turn, low values of (b) mean that out-group agents cannot dissociate from stereotype (stickiness). Significantly, the model implies that the optimum level of effort may require adaptation beyond in-group standards, and that such over-adaptation attains maximum likelihood in cases where stereotype is sticky and persistent at the same time. We test our model with data on private equity buyout investments conducted in Japan between 1998 and 2015 by domestic Japanese and Anglo-Saxon funds. We document that the latter not only adapt, but eventually over-adapt. In addition, we show that their efforts are effective in reducing a premium initially asked by domestic counterparties.

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