scholarly journals A Sociolinguistic Study of Choosing Names for Newborn Children in Jordan

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abeer Harb Al-Qawasmi ◽  
Fawwaz Al-Abed Al-Haq

<p>This study aims at the study of newborn names in Jordan of a sociolinguistic perspective. This study tries to detect the difference in naming newborns in Jordan over the decades - from the seventies to 2015 due to the result of some factors that may have affected the Jordanian society, whether historical, religious and/or social. The data necessary to complete the study was obtained from the Civil Status Department and the Department of Statistics. The data obtained consisted of names of both sexes during the time period from the seventies until the early year of 2015, a random sample of personal names within the same family were also provided. The data was analyzed quantitatively. The study revealed that there is a clear change in the choice of newborn names-male and female-in Jordan, whether a change in sounds or in morphemes. In specific, names during the seventies were strongly linked to the culture and the values, religious or social, in which the people believed in. During the eighties and nineties, names were associated with certain social values, however, some names were shown to be affected by urbanization or modernization. And with the beginning of 2000 up to 2015, peoples directions towards naming newborns changed due to the advent of globalization, associating with development and urbanization, and moreover, the influence of different cultures on the community.</p>

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-219
Author(s):  
Anastasiia A. Osmushina

Introduction. The research is determined by the current trends of globalization and the need to build a dialogue of cultures based on justice and giving the priority to the local models of justice. The subject of the research is the model of justice in Moksha and Erzia tales. The purpose of the work is to identify different models of justice of the Moksha and Erzia ethnic groups, their identity and the difference with models of other cultures, to generalize the content of the category of justice in the Mordovian ethnoculture. Materials and Methods. The research material includes Mordovian folk tales. The method of analysis is applied to identify the models of justice in the studied material. When comparing the similar tales of different cultures, we use the method of comparison and the principle of the reduction of the identities, which detects differences in the similarities; the method of generalization allows us to systematize the results, the method of synthesis lets us draw conclusions. The model of justice in folklore and tales has not been studied much, so the theoretical basis of the research covers the works devoted to the analysis of Mordovian folklore as a whole as well as various studies of the category of justice. Results and Discussion. The model of Mordovian justice includes collective labor, mutual assistance, collective ownership and self-government, creative work and a decent remuneration, ethnic education, upbringing in the tradition, freedom of the development, the perfectionism and the vertical social mobility, the reward of the virtue and the denunciation of the vice, fair judgment, everyone’s equality in the court, the marriage of the equals, reproduction, the identity and the identification, the unity of the human and the nature. The private ownership of resources, the work that does not save from poverty, unfair courts, restrictions on the freedom of development and education, the abuse of children and women, and the neglect of the elderly are assessed as unfair. Conclusion. The set of models obtained in accordance with different cultural approaches allows us to obtain a dimensial, complete, systematic image of ethno-cultural justice which provides us a better understanding of the culture of the people. The research has shown that the models of justice in Moksha and Erzia folklore are similar. It has revealed the general content of the Mordovian models of justice, as well as the unique features of the Moksha and Erzia models, their identity and differences with the models of other cultures.


Rusin ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 227-239
Author(s):  
I.St. Sholia ◽  

The article studies the extralingual factors that influenced the choice of female and male names of Uzhhorod citizens during the 20th century. The research draws on the Uzhhorod civil registry books stored in the Transcarpathian State Regional Archive. It has been found out that dynamic historical events (the region’s becoming a part of various states with their language policy), economic, political, cultural and educational changes in Transcarpathia over the centuries influenced the cultural and linguistic situation and manifested in the changes of personal names. The choice of male and female personal names was also influenced by the changes in the population ethnic composition as well as people’s national and confessional identity. The coexistence of more than 70 nationalities and nations, including Ukrainians, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians, Belarussians, Bulgarians, Poles, Romanians, Moldovans, Roma, Swabians, Jews, Germans, Azerbaijanis, Gagauz, Armenians, Uzbeks, etc., certainly influenced the Uzhhorod name repertoire, since it was different cultures, ethnic naming traditions, and various names. Although the religion and ethnicity affected the anthroponymic repertoire and matter for choosing names for newborns, they were not so much significant as to affect the general system of personal names of Uzhhorod residents in the 20th century.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Aladesami Ọmọ́bọ́lá Agnes

<p><em>Culture is one of the marks by which a community of people of a nation is normally identified. Culture is a phenomenon that distinguishes one ethnic tribe from the other. Various cultures can be identified among the people that are found in a particular community setting. Some cultures can be similar among different people but cultures that differ one from the other are peculiar to people of various tribes. Culture and tradition are sometimes used interchangeably. However, these two concepts have some differences. Tradition is rooted in religious beliefs of a people while culture is embedded in the social activities and social values of a people. Culture is multi-dimensional. Among the Yorùbá ethnic group of South Western Nigeria, there are different cultures that can be identified. Some of these cultures include but not limited to: tribal marks, mode of greetings, dressing/hairstyle and music in which drums are embedded. The focus of this paper is on the use of traditional drums among the Yorùbá. The paper shall examine the origin of drum beating, types of drums and the type of drum beating that is peculiar to each activity and the phenomenon of drum beating in the past and now. The paper discusses the influence the modern technological development has brought into the issue of traditional drums both in positive and negative ways.  The paper concludes that this culture is gradually fading away among the Yorùbá people and observed that this is due to the fact that not much value is placed on Yorùbá culture anymore and this is very inimical to the socio-cultural belief of the people.</em></p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong><em>culture, traditional Drums, technology, socio-cultural belief</em></p><p>_________________________________________</p><p>DOI &gt; <a href="https://search.crossref.org/?q=10.24071%2Fjoll.2019.190214">https://doi.org/10.24071/joll.2019.190214</a></p><p><em><br /></em></p><p> </p>


Author(s):  
H. W. Bachynska ◽  
T. P. Vilchynska ◽  
I. M. Babii ◽  
O. S. Verbovetska ◽  
N. O. Svystun

The article analyzes the composition of male and female personal names of Ternopil in the second half of the twentieth century, taken from act records and journals of birth certificates of the city department archive of civil registration of Ternopil City Department of Justice; the statistical organization of the names of the twentieth century is determined, their analysis is carried out. A continuous study of personal names of a certain territory, carried out over a long period of time, allows to identify diachronic changes in the name of a certain territory, the main trends in this case, to trace the patterns of development and functioning of the national directory as a whole. The processes of formation and evolution of person existence are closely connected with the customs and peculiarities of the spiritual culture of the people, their history. The system of our own names, which has developed over the past centuries, reflects various aspects of social, cultural and linguistic activity of the people at different historical stages. One of the most pressing problems of Ukrainian linguistics is the comprehensive study of anthroponymy, in particular the collection of specific anthroponymic material. The name of the city of Ternopil as one of the historical and cultural regions of Ukraine has not previously been the subject of in-depth research. The lack of a comprehensive study of the directory of this region, which would be based on the analysis of relevant material and reveal the dynamics of the naming system, determines the relevance of the chosen topic. The purpose of the work is to investigate male and female personal names of Ternopil in the second half of the XX century. This goal involves the following tasks: - to find out the composition and statistical organization of the name of the city of Ternopil in the second half of the twentieth century; - to trace changes in the repertoire of names, to characterize the composition of the noun of the studied period; - to carry out its analysis of personal names of Ternopil of the second half of the XX century. The source base of our study were birth records and birth certificates. The object of the study are male and female names of newborns in Ternopil in the second half of the twentieth century. The subject of analysis is the qualitative and quantitative composition of the anthroponymicon of Ternopil in the second half of the twentieth century. We emphasize that the term "anthroponymicon" is used to define, first, a dictionary or list of anthroponyms, which is usually compiled separately for personal names (patronymics), for surnames, nicknames, obsolete non-canonical names; secondly, the repertoire of the names of a certain people or society in a certain period. Same as a directory. In our study, we are guided by the second definition. To achieve the goal and solve the tasks we use such basic methods as descriptive, statistical (by a continuous sample of names). The paper involves the method of chronological sections and quantitative-qualitative method, introduced by VD Bondaletov. The technique of chronological sections is that the names are divided into groups, the socalled chronological sections for decades. We resort to the quantitative-qualitative method to determine widely used and underused names. The article systematizes and generalizes scientific ideas about personal names as signs of individualization and identification of the person, analyzes the personal male and female names of Ternopil in the second half of the twentieth century by V. Bondaletov qualitativequantitative method. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Kurilla

The article presents results of a study on the dynamics between Donald Trump’s use of terms that relate COVID-19 to China and news media publications concerning this use. Qualitative content analysis with elements of discourse analysis was conducted to 1) describe the case as a type of populist discourse on COVID-19, and 2) illustrate the following hypotheses with the help of empirical material: 1) News media and the dynamics of political communication based on the difference of friend and enemy help legitimizing populist claims and directing public attention toward them while feeding into a narrative of a diffuse category of threats that creates objects of angst and thereby enhances social cohesion. 2) With resources derived from popular culture, populists exploit the culture of political correctness, which is facilitated through the ascription of authenticity. The hypotheses emerged in the course of organizing and preliminarily examining the data collected for an ongoing broader study on populist communication and its repercussions in different public spheres in view of the following assumptions: 1) Political communication is guided by the distinction of friend and enemy. 2) In populist communication, this distinction appears as the difference of ‘the people’ and allegedly corrupt elites, including news media. 3) Angst enhances social cohesion among the audiences of populist speakers directly or mediated by fear. 4) Populist communication is more likely to produce a type of fear that populists benefit from when it depicts the elite as a diffuse category composed of various interlinked enemies. Trump’s contextualized use of the following terms in the time period between March 13 and September 15, 2020, was examined: China flu, China plague, China virus, Chinese plague, Chinese flu, Chinese virus, Wuhan virus, and Kung flu. 38 speeches from Trump’s election campaign or rallies, 28 talks at presidential events or meetings, 47 interviews, 37 press conferences, 35 tweets and seven re-tweets as well as selected news media responses were subjected to analysis. The case has been successfully described as a type of populist discourse on COVID-19 and both hypotheses have been illustrated with empirical material.


Kavkaz-forum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
С.Г. КЦОЕВА

Этническая религия осетин – сложный объект для изучения по ряду причин. Актуальность ее исследования возрастает с каждым днем. Не­смотря на то, что в последнее десятилетие она переживает некоторое возрождение, современное этнорелигиозное мировоззрение осетин суще­ственно отличается от дореволюционного, об аспектах которого мы имеем возможность судить, в частности, благодаря массиву нарратив­ных источников, фиксирующих народные легенды, предания, травелоги путешественников с описанием элементов традиционной культуры народа. Поэтому необходима конкретизация временного периода, в рам­ках которого мы исследуем этнорелигиозное мировоззрение. Не менее важным является учет социальной среды, поскольку социально-группо­выми различиями (прежде всего, территориально-населенческими) опре­делялась разница и религиозного мировоззрения. Мы изучаем религиозные представления, бытовавшие в среде горской части осетинского этноса в конце XIX – начале XX в., поскольку именно эти люди являлись носите­лями того, что можно считать квинтэссенцией традиционной осетин­ской религии. Этническая религия осетин, безусловно, самобытна, в силу чего мо­жет представлять сложность для исследователя, по логике нуждающе­гося в разработке уникального исследовательского инструментария под стать изучаемому объекту. В настоящей статье впервые представлена апробация структурной методологии Клода Леви-Стросса как наиболее оптимальной для изучения традиционных культур, в частности, рели­гиозной культуры осетинских горцев в указанный период. В этом заклю­чается новизна настоящего исследования. Нашей целью является демон­страция того, как метод структурной антропологии Леви-Стросса спо­собствует поискам научной истины в области реконструкции аспектов религиозного мировоззрения в традиционном осетинском обществе. Для этого в рамках статьи мы решили ряд исследовательских задач, к числу которых, помимо изложения сути методологии Леви-Стросса, относится поиск структурных универсалий в рамках традиционной религии осе­тин и их анализ по аналогии с подобными объектами в иных культурах. The ethnic religion of the Ossetians is a difficult subject and a number of reasons make its study complex. The relevance of its research is increasing every day. Despite the fact that in the last decade it has been experiencing some revival, the modern ethno-religious worldview of the Ossetians differs significantly from the pre-revolutionary one, the aspects of which we can judge, in particular, thanks to the array of narrative sources that record folk legends, traditions, travel logs of travelers with descriptions of elements of traditional culture of the people. Therefore, it is necessary to concretize the time period within which we study the ethno-religious worldview. It is no less important to take into account the social environment, since social and group differences (primarily, territorial and population ones) determined the difference in religious worldview. We study the religious ideas that existed among the mountainous part of the Ossetian ethnos in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, since it was these people who were carriers of what can be considered the quintessence of the traditional Ossetian religion. The ethnic religion of Ossetians is undoubtedly original, which makes it difficult for a researcher who logically needs to develop a unique research tool to match the object under study. In this article, for the first time, the approbation of the structural methodology of Claude Levi-Strauss is presented as the most optimal for the study of traditional cultures, in particular, the religious culture of the Ossetian highlanders during this period. This is the novelty of this study. Our goal is to demonstrate how the Levi-Strauss method of structural anthropology contributes to the search for scientific truth in the field of reconstruction of aspects of religious worldview in traditional Ossetian society. To this end, within the framework of the article, we solved a number of research problems, which, in addition to stating the essence of the Levi-Strauss methodology, include the search for structural universals within the traditional religion of the Ossetians and their analysis by analogy with similar objects in other cultures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-56
Author(s):  
Elyna Amir Sharji ◽  
Lim Yan Peng ◽  
Peter Charles Woods ◽  
Vimala Perumal ◽  
Rose Linda Zainal Abidin

The challenge of transforming an empty space into a gallery setting takes on the concept of place making. A place can be seen as space that has meaning when the setting considers space, surroundings, contents, the people and its activities. This research concentrates on investigating how visitors perceive the space by gauging their sense of place (sense of belonging towards a place). Galleries are currently facing changes in this technological era whereby multiple content and context, space and form, display modes, tools and devices are introduced in one single space. An observational study was done during the Foundation Studies Annual Exhibition held at Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University. The exhibition was curated and managed by staff and students of Foundation Year showcasing an array of design works. Analogue and digital presentations of paintings, drawings, sculptures, photography and video works were displayed.. The outcome of this research will contribute towards a better design criteria of place making which affects individual behaviour, social values and attitudes. Characterizing types of visitor experience will improve the understanding of a better design criteria of place making, acceptance, understanding and satisfaction.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Narendra Kumar Singh ◽  
Nishant Goyal

Background: Schizophrenia is associated with a high familial, social and economic burden. Schizophrenia is also associated with a high level of disability which may create impediments on the social and economic areas of the patients as well as on their respective family networks. Families with schizophrenia may encounter problems such as impairment of health and well being of other family members, restriction of social activities of the family members and shrinking of support from the social network. Aims: The present study examined the difference in perceived social support and burden of care between the male and female caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study examining the difference in perceived social support and burden of care between the male and female caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. The sample consisted of 60 (30 male and 30 female) caregivers of the patients with the diagnosis of schizophrenia as per ICD-10-DCR. Results and Conclusion: This study revealed that male caregivers perceived more social support and less burden of care as compared to female caregivers. Key words: Gender, social support, burden


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
С. И. Дудник ◽  
И. Д. Осипов

The article discusses the problems of evolution and the formation of the ideology of an enlightened monarchy in Russia. In this regard, the philosophical and political ideas of Catherine the Great, as well as their theoretical and ideological premises, are analyzed. It is noted that the philosophy of education in Russia was closely connected with the concepts of Voltaire, Didro, Montesquieu, Beccaria, Bentham, their views on natural law and human freedom, humanism and the rule of law. These concepts in the philosophy of Catherine received a specific interpretation, due to the sociocultural conditions of Russia. This was manifested in the famous work of Catherine the Great “The Nakaz”, which recognized Montesquieu's argument in favor of the autocracy, but at the same time, his point of view on the separation of powers was rejected. The specificity of the doctrine of enlightened monarchy lies in the combination of liberal and conservative values, which form eclectic forms. This was the dialectic of the supreme power, the difference between the enlightened monarchy and the ideology of absolutism. The article also notes that education in Russia is associated with fundamental socio-political reforms, processes of secularization of culture. At this time, the natural and human sciences are developing. The changes positively influenced the development of medicine, beautification of towns and public education. Also considered are the views on the autocracy of the opposition nobility intelligentsia: A. N. Radishchev and noted that his criticism of the autocracy was determined by an alternative cultural policy, proceeding from the protection of the interests of the people. The doctrine of enlightened monarchy is characterized by internal worldview inconsistency and political inconsistency, which did not allow solving the pressing social problems of the establishment of legal state, democratization of society and the abolition of serfdom.


Author(s):  
Judith A. Bennett

Coconuts provided commodities for the West in the form of coconut oil and copra. Once colonial governments established control of the tropical Pacific Islands, they needed revenue so urged European settlers to establish coconut plantations. For some decades most copra came from Indigenous growers. Administrations constantly urged the people to thin old groves and plant new ones like plantations, in grid patterns, regularly spaced and weeded. Local growers were instructed to collect all fallen coconuts for copra from their groves. For half a century, the administrations’ requirements met with Indigenous passive resistance. This paper examines the underlying reasons for this, elucidating Indigenous ecological and social values, based on experiential knowledge, knowledge that clashed with Western scientific values.


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