scholarly journals A Cross-Linguistic Study of Super and Intensifiers in the Real World

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Shelley Ching-yu Depner
Keyword(s):  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Real World ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Linguistic Study ◽  
The Real ◽  
Linguistic Performance ◽  
Participant Roles

This study examined super in German (super) and in Mandarin Chinese (chao-ji 超級 ‘super’ and chao 超 ‘super’), with data taken from corpora. We aim to test whether intensifiers function as semantically vacuous fillers, as Huddleston and Pullum (2002) proposed, and show the sociolinguistic features of intensifiers while moving toward grammaticalization. The results indicate that German super is flexible morphologically and syntactically, while super in Mandarin Chinese has several constraints. Semantically, Mandarin Chinese chao enhances the gradable property of states and chao-ji often emphasizes modern technology and events. In comparison, German super has advanced itself in terms of linguistic performance and gradually lost its role as an intensifier. The study of super and the use of intensifiers display interesting linguistic diversity and also reveal how men and women, teenagers and children play different participant roles in the process of moving intensifiers toward grammaticalization.

Responsibility and obligation in the ‘Responsibility to Protect’

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (S1) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM BAIN
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Real

AbstractThis article takes up Louise Arbour's claim that the doctrine of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ is grounded in existing obligations of international law, specifically those pertaining to the prevention and punishment of genocide. In doing so, it argues that the aspirations of the R2P project cannot be sustained by the idea of ‘responsibility’ alone. The article proceeds in arguing that the coherence of R2P depends on an unacknowledged and unarticulated theory of obligation that connects notions of culpability, blame, and accountability with the kind of preventive, punitive, and restorative action that Arbour and others advocate. Two theories of obligation are then offered, one natural the other conventional, which make this connection explicit. But the ensuing clarity comes at a cost: the naturalist account escapes the ‘real’ world to redeem the intrinsic dignity of all men and women, while the conventionalist account remains firmly tethered to the ‘real’ world in redeeming whatever dignity can be had by way of an agreement. The article concludes by arguing that the advocate of the responsibility to protect can have one or the other, but not both.

scholarly journals Instability in Stable Marriage Problem: Matching Unequally Numbered Men and Women

Complexity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gui-Yuan Shi ◽  
Yi-Xiu Kong ◽  
Bo-Lun Chen ◽  
Guang-Hui Yuan ◽  
Rui-Jie Wu
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Small Deviation ◽  
Stable Marriage ◽  
Stable Marriage Problem ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Marriage Problem ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Stable Marriage Problem ◽  
Unequal Number ◽  
Two Sides

The goal of the stable marriage problem is to match by pair two sets composed by the same number of elements. Due to its widespread applications in the real world, especially the unique importance to the centralized matchmaker, a very large number of questions have been extensively studied in this field. This article considers a generalized form of the stable marriage problem, where different numbers of men and women need to be matched pairwise and the emergence of single men or women is inevitable. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations confirm that even a small deviation on the number of men and women from the equality condition can have a large impact on the matching solution of the Gale-Shapley algorithm. These results provide insights to many of the real-world applications when matching two sides with an unequal number.

scholarly journals Labels and the Treatment of Animals: Archival and Experimental Cases

1993 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Lee Rasmussen ◽  
Heather D. Craft ◽  
D.W. Rajecki
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Real

AbstractThe proposition that sheer labels or categories are important in people's reactions to the treatment of animals was supported by evidence from two sources. First, print archives showed that in the real world animals with a great deal in common such as (a) dolphins and tuna in the same nets; (b) cats and dogs, and pigs and goats in the same laboratories; and (c) native and feral species in the same parks are viewed or treated quite differently by humans. Second, original experiments were conducted wherein some hypothetical maltreatment of animals was held constant, but the animal label was varied over different respondents. Depending on the fictional maltreatment (hooking, shooting) and label (dog, cat, bird, fish, pig, goat) men and women respondents showed strong and systematic patterns of more or less tolerance for such treatment.

Real Sex/Fake Gender: A Reply to Robert Willmott

1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hood-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Real ◽  
And Gender

A series of claims relating to the sociological problematic of sex/gender are made by Robert Willmott in a critique of my article Goodbye to Sex and Gender (Hood-Williams, 1996). In his account he claims that: sociology is ‘impossible’ and feminism ‘impotent’ without the sex/gender distinction; that sex belongs to an order of real world objects that is ontologically distinctly from, and irreducible to, gender and that to oppose this view is to favour conflation; that men are ontologically distinct from women. In reply I argue that it is absurd to say that sociology, which pre-dates the sex/gender distinction by two hundred years, or feminism (also historically prior), cannot function without it; that the distinction between the real and the ideational rests on an ontology that is itself discursive and that the critique of the general distinction made between sex and gender does not necessitate conflating the objects of biological and sociological discourses; that men and women are no more ontologically distinct than people with black skins are from those with white. The ‘real world’ – an idea no longer of any use, not even a duty any longer – an idea grown useless, superfluous, consequently a refuted idea: let us abolish it! (Nietzsche)

scholarly journals HIPERREALITAS RELASI DALAM SINETRON KOMEDI “TETANGGA MASA GITU?”

INFORMASI ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Eldo Eka Saputra
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Real World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Media ◽  
Independent Individual

Emergence of non-mainstream way of women representations in soap operas, where women are constructed as an independent individual, brought an impact to the patterns of relation between men and women. If we look at Indonesian soap operas, there are not many of them that can manage to present a non-mainstream construction of female characters. The shift on women representation is associated to how the men were represented in said soap operas, therefore this is a form of the role of the media in altering gender stigma in the society. However, in the process of construction there is a new reality presented by the media through soap operas. Baudrillard established that hyperreality is a condition in which the reality that are presented by the media overtook the real world. This makes the society, as a consumer, became convinced that the newreality is a description of real life. This research is a qualitative study on a sitcom titled Tetangga Masa Gitu? with the analysis on the contents of the sinetron. Relation between men and women shown in this sitcom is based on the factors of economic ownership, resulting in hyperreality in the patterns of relation.Munculnya representasi perempuan yang tidak mainstream di dalam sinetron, dimana perempuan dikonstruksikan sebagai individu yang independen berdampak kepada pola relasi antara perempuan dan laki-laki. Apabila melihat kondisi sinetron di Indonesia, belum banyak sinetron yang berhasil menampilkan konstruksi yang tidak mainstreamterhadap tokoh perempuan. Perubahan konstruksi perempuan tidak terlepas dari bagaimana konstruksi laki-laki ditampilkan di dalam sinetron tersebut sehingga hal ini merupakan salah satu bentuk peran media dalam mengubah stigma peran gender kepada masyarakat. Namun dalam proses konstruksi tersebut terdapat suatu realitas baru yang ditampilkan oleh media melalui sinetron. Baudrillard menjelaskan bahwa hiperrealitas merupakan suatu kondisi dimana realitas yang dibangun di dalam mediamelebihi kondisi yang sebenarnya. Hal seperti ini menjadikan masyarakat sebagai konsumen meyakini realitas baru tersebut sebagai ilustrasi dalam kehidupan nyata. Penelitian ini merupakan suatu penelitian kualitatif terhadap sinetron komedi Tetangga Masa Gitu? dengan menggunakan metode analisis isi wacana sinetron. Relasi antara laki-laki dan perempuan dalam sinetron ini ditunjukan oleh adanya faktor kepemilikan ekonomi dalam diri perempuan sehingga pola relasi yang terjadi menunjukan adanya kondisi hiperrealitas.

Current Issues: Evidence-Based Practice for the Real World: Thoughts on Clinical Education in Communication Disorders

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne K. Bothe
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Real ◽  
Language Pathology

This article presents some streamlined and intentionally oversimplified ideas about educating future communication disorders professionals to use some of the most basic principles of evidence-based practice. Working from a popular five-step approach, modifications are suggested that may make the ideas more accessible, and therefore more useful, for university faculty, other supervisors, and future professionals in speech-language pathology, audiology, and related fields.

The Real-World Fellowship

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
LEE SAVIO BEERS
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Real
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