scholarly journals Radical Communication Types in William H. Gass’s "The Tunnel"

Tertium ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-161
Author(s):  
Sergii Sushko
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
Experimental Techniques ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Experimental Fiction ◽  
Figure Of Speech ◽  
Radical Content

Radical communication largely characterizes W. H. Gass’s The Tunnel. The novel incorporates many forms of radical speech and thought, it unfolds a number of radically charged issues of public and private life. It features a multitude of innovative experimental techniques and, in many instances, it demonstrates predominance of language and form over the content. In this paper, we have ascertained that the authenticity and multitude of radical communication forms in the said novel can essentially be grasped in terms of disjointing the Ich-Erzähler’s narrative voice and the authorial one. It has been ascertained that the sincerity in narrative largely governs its radical content while the book’s radical composition and radical language and style form the second set of the radical communication styles in the novel, reflecting Gass’s bent on experimental fiction. In the paper, the following radical communication style varieties have been singled out:  “breaking the narrative monotony,” “hate intensifying,” “filial unwillingness to forgive,” “revulsion invoking,” “provoking indecipherability/unreadability,” “accentuated total criticism,” or “downgrading metanarratives,” “ambivalent portrayal of the war and Holocaust,” “pictorial communication style,” “communication style of radically structured composition,” “communication style of verbal adornment,” “embellishment,” “conceit” (as a figure of speech).

scholarly journals COMMUNICATIVE STYLES IN THE NOVEL “SANG ETNOGRAF”

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Satriani Satriani
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Address Terms

The research is about the study of communication style based on the reader’ perspectif on novel “Sang Etnograf” by Murni Mahmud. the researchers tried to investigate the communication strategies of the performers in textual dialogues of a novel which includes linguistic form and some cultural aspects in Bugis society.The findings of this study are there are five extract based on the kinds of speech act production , there are four extract about discourse markers , there are three extract about the language choices, there are five extract about the address terms and the last is about the regional term consists of three extract is about ergative pronoun, exclusive and inclusive.This research was successful in making an attempt of determining communicative styles used by the several characters in the dialogue of novel of “Sang Etnograf”. This research have presented some extract which talks about some aspect of communication styles such as the speech act production, discourse marker, address term, language choice and regional term.  

scholarly journals The drama and the libretto "The Storm" by Alexander Ostrovsky: a historical plan in the image of the patriarchal world

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Nadezhda G. Mikhnovets
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
History Of

The article is devoted to the problem of studying the historiosophical views of Alexander Ostrovsky. The author examines it on the material of two works by the playwright written in different years: the drama "The Storm" and the libretto "The Storm". The article provides a comparative analysis of these works and substantiates the provision that they are in complementary relations. The author comes to the conclusion that Alexander Ostrovsky as a librettist restores the character of public and private life of the heroes of the 17th century, consistently removing the themes indicating the crisis state of the patriarchal world in the mid 19th century. The article shows that at the same time, the playwright reveals the causes of this crisis. The author points out the convergence between the libretto "The Storm" and the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well as the book "The History of a Town" by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. The study helps clarify the historical and cultural realities of the two works of the same name by Alexander Ostrovsky and deepen their interpretations, which is topical in the context of the preparation of his Complete works and letters to publish.

Perspectives on Harold Frederic's Market-Place

PMLA ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-405
Author(s):  
Jean Frantz Blackall
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Full Length ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Complex Character ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moral Statement ◽  
Self Interest

Joel Thorpe of The Market-Place is Harold Frederic's most complex character. Thorpe is portrayed as the psychological product of two worlds, the type of the financial buccaneer, and a moral double. In a full-length portrait, subjective as well as objective, Frederic renders Thorpe's character in dramatic terms and integrates his behavior in public and private life. Most important, he offers a moral probing of Thorpe's type. Frederic judges him morally both through the remarks of reliable characters and through his own ironic implications. Yet both plots, the terms in which the economic battle is defined, and certain sympathetic aspects of characterization all work against the assumption that Frederic wholly condemns Thorpe. If Thorpe is shown to sin according to traditional moralities by fulfilling his impulses, he is likewise shown to sin according to his own understanding when he ceases to exercise his own peculiar impulse to power. The ambiguity of Thorpe's portrait deepens his characterization but obscures the moral statement of the novel. This ambiguity may be explained in part by autobiographical factors and in part by an ambivalence toward the tycoon that Frederic shared with other nineteenth- century American writers. Specifically, Frederic's preoccupation with the type, his questioning whether self-interest and the public weal may both be served by such a figure, and his failure either to damn Thorpe wholly or to show how coexistence between the buccaneer and society might actually occur may all point to an imaginative source for The Market-Place in Emerson's essay on Napoleon.

State-cathedral nature of the first-rate Kiev

2000 ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
M. M. Nikitenko
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Local Version ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Main Center

The inclusion of Eastern Slavs in the sphere of religious and cultural influences of Byzantium was a tremendous event both in national and in world history. Since then, the main center of the culture of Kievan Rus, incorporating a complex of ideas and functions of the spiritual, public and private life of ancient Russian society, became the Eastern Christian temple in its local version

scholarly journals Lifestyle Changes Among Medical Students During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multicenter Study Across Nine Countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 109019812110192
Author(s):  
Francisco Perez-Dominguez ◽  
Francisca Polanco-Ilabaca ◽  
Fernanda Pinto-Toledo ◽  
Daniel Michaeli ◽  
Jadi Achiardi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Psychological Status ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Public And Private

The global pandemic caused by coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) disrupted both public and private life for many. Concerning medical students, practical teaching and classrooms were substituted with a virtual curriculum. However, how this new academic environment has affected students’ health and lifestyles has yet to be studied. In this study, we surveyed 2,776 students from nine different countries about changes in their university curricula and potential alterations in their daily habits, physical health, and psychological status. We found negative changes across all countries studied, in multiple categories. We found that 99% of respondents indicated changes in their instruction delivery system, with 90% stating a transition to online education, and 93% stating a reduction or suspension of their practical activities. On average, students spent 8.7 hours a day in front of a screen, with significant differences among countries. Students reported worsened studying, sleeping, and eating habits with substantial differences in Latin American countries. Finally, the participants frequently expressed onset and increase in both mental and physical health symptoms: backache, asthenopia, irritability, and emotional instability. Altogether, these results suggest a potential risk in the health and academic performance of future doctors if these new academic modalities are maintained.

scholarly journals Call them COVIDiots: Exploring the effects of aggressive communication style and psychological distance in the communication of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 096366252198919
Author(s):  
Haoran Chu ◽  
Shupei Yuan ◽  
Sixiao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Norm ◽  
Distance Perception ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Aggressive Communication ◽  
Close Distance

This study examined the influences of perceived distance to communicator on the effects of aggressive style (i.e. personal attacks and intense languages) in communicating scientific issues such as COVID-19 to the public. With a multi-site experiment ( N = 464), we found that aggression led to a heightened violation of expected social norm regarding communication styles. However, the interpretation of violation varied depending on the individual’s perceived distance to the communicator. Close distance articulated the urgency and severity of COVID-19 risks conveyed with aggression, which further increased compliance with the message. Far distance perception amplified aggression’s negative influence on writer likeability. The findings showed that aggressive communication may generate positive outcomes when dealing with public understanding of scientific issues such as COVID-19, but communicators need to build a closer connection with their audience.

Technology of optimization: An emerging configuration of productivity among professional software employees

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110302
Author(s):  
Vanessa Ciccone
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Software Industry ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Moral Ideals ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

In this article, I draw from several months of fieldwork from 2019 to assess professional subjectivity in the software industry of Canada. I assess employees’ constructions of and feelings about their own productivity. I argue that the ways in which subjects understand and feel about their productivity says a great deal about how power is ‘willfully’ negotiated within everyday professional tech settings of neoliberal societies. My findings suggest that optimization is emerging as a technology of self among the individuals I studied, and bringing political consequences. In the first section of the article, I provide a brief overview of the productivity imperative’s cultural trajectory, and show its relation to optimization. Then, in the empirical analysis and discussion, I outline that the technology of optimization involves a discourse around bringing one’s best to public and private realms, offering a specific set of moral ideals. I then show that another facet of this technology of self is centered on willfully entangling public and private life. Finally, I theorize subjects’ reported feelings about their own productivity, assessing how the technology of optimization relates to a politics of privilege. With this study, I seek to make a contribution to the relation between the culture of productivity and professional subjectivity in the software industry, in an effort to expose how power is negotiated at the level of the self in an increasingly influential sector.

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