scholarly journals Translating the Commune: Cultural Politics and the Historical Specificity of the Anarchist Text

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Functional Identity ◽  
Semantic Ambiguity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Historical Specificity ◽  
Specific Factors

Abstract Translating the Commune: Cultural Politics and the Historical Specificity of the Anarachist Text — This essay deals with three interrelated matters: the first is the role of discourse analysis and the conscious theorization of discourse typologies in translation methodologies; the second is the absence of any complete English translation of Jules Vallès's autobiographical/historical trilogy, Jacques Vingtras, comprised of L'Enfant (1879), Le Bachelier (1881), and L'insurgé (1885); and the third is the analysis of specific discursive characteristics which establish the formal and functional identity of the Discourse of the Commune. Though widely published in popular and scholarly editions in France, Vallès's novels have not been included in the lycée corpus through an act of conscious cultural exclusion. This has contributed to the exclusion of Vallès abroad and to the absence of translations of the trilogy. In order to remedy this situation the translator must be aware of the specific socio-political context surrounding these novels as well as the particular formal characteristics which make up the discourse from which these texts emerge. Radical decentralisation, narrative fragmentation, multiple enunciative positions, neologisms, a structure based on an unresolved binary dialectic, interdiscursive mixing and semantic ambiguity are common characteristics of the discourse of the Commune as they are transposed metaphorically from the anarchistic theoretical discourse of P.-J. Proudhon to the Vallès texts: these specific factors coupled with a cultural politics of exclusion have long marginalized the trilogy in various curricula and, in addition, led to its exclusion from non-francophone cultures both in the original French and in translation.

Separatism: a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted study of word-meaning development in a time of conflict

Corpora ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-416
Author(s):  
Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Word Meaning ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Word Usage ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Dominant Ideologies

This paper considers the role of historical context in initiating shifts in word meaning. The study focusses on two words – the translation equivalents separatist and separatism – in the discourses of Russian and Ukrainian parliamentary debates before and during the Russian–Ukrainian conflict which emerged at the beginning of 2014. The paper employs a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse analysis to investigate the way wider socio-political context affects word usage and meaning. To allow a comparison of discourses around separatism between two parliaments, four corpora were compiled covering the debates in both parliaments before and during the conflict. Keywords, collocations and n-grams were studied and compared, and this was followed by qualitative analysis of concordance lines, co-text and the larger context in which these words occurred. The results show how originally close meanings of translation equivalents began to diverge and manifest noticeable changes in their connotative, affective and, to an extent, denotative meanings at a time of conflict in line with the dominant ideologies of the parliaments as well as the political affiliations of individuals.

Advertising nationalism: Commemorating the liberation war in Bangladeshi print advertisements

2020 ◽  
pp. 175063522095036
Author(s):  
Kajalie Shehreen Islam
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Print Advertisements ◽  
The Media ◽  
National Significance ◽  
Discursive Constructions ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Underlying Theme

This article explores the role of the media as a discursive tool in the commemoration of Bangladesh’s war of liberation. The author critically engages with the notion of mediated memory in the foreground of corporate nationalism. Through a discourse analysis of print advertisements published in Bangladeshi newspapers on the country’s Independence and Victory Days over five decades, she traces the use of nationalism in advertising discourse and the shift from a development-oriented approach to corporate nationalism, with the underlying theme of glorification of war. The study found that nationalistic-based discourse is a key theme of Bangladeshi advertisements published on its days of national significance – history and its heroes, symbols and images, poetry and song, are all used to invoke a banal nationalism. These discursive constructions depend largely on the political context but, as long as the political line is adhered to, advertisers are free to use nationalistic discourse to promote their brands, products and services.

Melancholy, Hanuš Jelínek and Miloš Marten

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Jana Kantoříková
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Paul Claudel ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

The aim of this article is to present the roles of Miloš Marten (1883–1917) in the Czech–French cultural events of the first decade of the 20th century in the background of his contacts with Hanuš Jelínek (1878–1944). The first part of the article deals with Marten’s artistic and life experience during his stays in Paris (1907–1908). The consequences of those two stays to the artist’s life and work will be accentuated. The second part takes a close look at Miloš Marten’s critique of Hanuš Jelínek’s doctoral thesis Melancholics. Studies from the History of Sensibility in French Literature. To interpretate Marten’s reasons for such a negative criticism is our main pursued objective. Such criticism results not only from the rivality between Czech critics oriented to France, but also from different conceptions of the role of critical method and the role of the critic and the artist in the international cultural politics. The third part concludes with the critics’ „reconciliation‟ around 1913 by means of the common interest in the work and personality of Paul Claudel.

scholarly journals The State of the Cyprus Question

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette Renard
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Moral Imperative ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reconciliation Process ◽  
Broad Overview

The Cyprus question raises a wide number of questions and issues to be investigated. Using scientific literature mainly, this present work is giving a broad overview and understanding of the main issues at stake, while acknowledging that not all the aspects of the conflict and its resolution are brought up. Moreover, a theoretical approach is used to define the type of reconciliation process ongoing in Cyprus and the several challenges it has faced in the past. Thus, this paper is structured as follows: firstly, the historical and political context in which the Cyprus question erupted is detailed. Afterwards, the notion of reconciliation is theoretically developed. In the third part, we enounce the issues that challenge and delay the peace process. That section acknowledges: one, the important role of the “motherlands” on Cyprus’ reconciliation; two, the issue of identity and nationalism in this context, and three, the rejection of the Annan plan and its consequences are mentioned. In the conclusion, a formulated response to the research question is provided and a short reflection over the “almost moral” imperative to reconcile former enemies concludes the paper.

scholarly journals Endnu en gang: om at fortælle

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (101) ◽  
pp. 14-43
Author(s):  
Käte Hamburger
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
Käte Hamburger

Forsøg på et svar og en afklaring Once again: About NarrationIn 1957 the German literary scholar Käte Hamburger published an original and controversial book on the language of literary fiction (Die Logik der Dichtung, English translation The Logic of Literature (1973)). According to Hamburger the constitutive mark of epic fiction (the third-person form of narration) is that it represents human subjectivity in a manner that has no counterpart in ordinary life. Furthermore this »logic of literature« is not a matter of interpretation or stylistics, but is based on fundamental and distinguishable linguistic features, e.g. the loss of the sense of »pastness« in the praeterite tense. Hamburger’s book raised a lot of debate and objections, and in 1965 she summarized the discussion and gave her reply in the article »Noch einmal: Vom Erzählen« (Once again: About Narration), translated into Danish for this issue of K&K. The crucial elements of tense in the novel, the role of the narrator and the art of fiction are once again investigated by Hamburger in this final contribution.

Negotiating Cultural Allies: American Music in Darmstadt, 1946-1956

2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy C. Beal
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
English Translation ◽  
American Music ◽  
Experimental Music ◽  
West Germany ◽  
World War ◽  
Catalytic Role

In the context of postwar and Cold War cultural politics, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik set the stage for Germany's ambivalent reception of American music in the decades following World War II. This article weighs the catalytic role of American music in Darmstadt between 1946 and 1956; traces the relationships among U. S. cultural officers, German patrons, and representatives of American music in Darmstadt; and describes events in Darmstadt that led to a growing interest in American experimental music in West Germany. An English translation of Wolfgang Edward Rebner's 1954 Ferienkurse lecture "American Experimental Music" is included as an appendix.

scholarly journals To ‘see’ is to break an entanglement: Quantum measurement, trauma and security

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 450-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
K M Fierke ◽  
Nicola Mackay
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Quantum Measurement ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Medical Physics ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

This article seeks to explore the quantum notion that to ‘see’ an entanglement is to break it in the context of an ‘experiment’ regarding the ongoing impact of traumatic political memory on the present. The analysis is a product of collaboration over the past four years between the two authors, one a scholar of international relations, the other a therapeutic practitioner with training in medical physics. Our focus is the conceptual claim that ‘seeing’ breaks an entanglement rather than the experiment itself. The first section explores a broad contrast between classical and quantum measurement, asking what this might mean at the macroscopic level. The second section categorizes Wendt’s claim about language as a form of expressive measurement and explores the relationship to discourse analysis. The third section explores the broad contours of our experiment and the role of a somewhat different form of non-linear expressive measurement. In the final section, we elaborate the relationship between redemptive measurement and breaking an entanglement, which involves a form of ‘seeing’ that witnesses to unacknowledged past trauma.

Exception and Deputization under Today's NDP: Neo-liberalism, the Third Way, and Crime Control in Manitoba

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Woolford ◽  
Jasmine Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third ◽  
Legislative Assembly

AbstractThis article examines the discourses of crime and safety mobilized by Gary Doer's provincial NDP government in Manitoba between 1999 and 2009. Through a Foucaultian discourse analysis of statements made by Manitoba NDP members in the Legislative Assembly—in particular, the language and preconceptions drawn on by government members when speaking about matters of crime and safety—the authors assess the role of Third Way and neo-liberal rationalities of crime governance in a provincial crime-control assemblage that seeks to foster “security” beyond the limits of federally defined criminal law. Based on this analysis, the authors discuss how the Manitoba NDP is engaged in a process of “deputizing” public service and communities for purposes of crime control.

scholarly journals The Joke Is on You: Humor, Resistance through Culture, and Paradoxical Forms of Dissent in Communist Romania

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Bogdan Ştefănescu
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Moral Evaluation ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Cultural Discourse Analysis

The author of the article focuses on showing that resistance through culture is part of a social and political dynamic that is complicated and paradoxical. He claims that a discursive analysis of power relationships and of the rapport between the private and official idioms in the political context of communist totalitarian societies can evince the daunting complexity of some forms of resistance-through-culture discourse. The author argues that with the appropriate critical instruments, cultural discourse analysis can broach the intricacies and paradoxes of power relationships in oppressive environments and can ground a more accurate and unprejudiced moral evaluation of resistance through culture as a phenomenon typical of totalitarian cultural politics.

Conditional Giving: The Role of Conflict Specific Factors on Willingness to Sacrifice

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent A. Mattingly ◽  
Eddie M. Clark ◽  
Kiara J. Weaver ◽  
Tim M. Emge ◽  
Chris K. Adair
Keyword(s):  
Specific Factors ◽  
Willingness To Sacrifice
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