Myth of the Lazy Genius

Today, I've asked Andrei Cimpian to share his tip of the week. Let's play a game. Close your eyes and think of a young person in your life who has a lot of intellectual potential but hasn't lived up to it because of a lackluster work ethic. Now, think of another young person who maybe isn't as gifted but has accomplished a lot because of sheer determination. Got them picked out? If I were to guess, I'd say you probably came up with a boy for the first example (the “lazy genius”) and a girl for the second (the “striver”). Just think of the Harry Potter series. Harry was born with great magical powers, which enabled him to defeat the villain even though he didn't spend much time studying at wizard school (and had the middling grades to show for it). In contrast, his female friend Hermione was very, very studious—yet, her magic powers were only those of a sidekick.

WhatsApp e o contexto discursivo como prova de violência contra a Mulher

n Brazil, the ‘Maria da Penha’ law (Law 11.340, of August 7, 2006) isconcerned with the crime of feminicide and it creates mechanisms to protect wo-men who are victims of psychological and/or physical violence. Despite this law,the number of femicides increases daily. In 2015, the Map of Violence estimatedthe number of femicides at 4.8% per 100,000 women – one murder every 90 minutesand 5 beatings every 2 minutes – which placed Brazil in fifth place. The documentshowed that we had with the rise of the extreme right spreading patriarchal andsexist propaganda, a 30% increase in acts of violence against women is expected.However, states of violence and psychological violence caused by abusive relati-onships are not counted in these data. Within social media, there are countlesssemioses that denounce violence and abuse, which could be used as evidence incourt, and even to prevent deaths. This article analyzes discursive stylistic markspresent in WhatsApp messages exchanged between a victim of femicide and herbest female friend – that indicate a state of violence, possible physical and psy-chological violence – in a case which had wide national repercussion. We useDiscourse Analysis applied in a forensic linguistics context to discuss the crime ofhomicide, using as theoretical support van Dijk (2012), Charaudeau (2001), Cano(2012), and Sousa Silva and Coulthard (2016). The analysis raises interesting lin-guistic issues such as the concepts of “context” that evidence constant situationsof state of violence within the interaction process.

Boomchee

At what point in a date do you owe the other party the duty to inform them you are engaged? Is marriage an exercise in love, or practicality? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the law school student narrator working at a summer factory job decides to set up her shy female friend, Susie, with her boyfriend’s shy brother, Barry. They go on a double date and everything seems to be going fine. Only later does the narrator and her boyfriend find out that Barry is engaged to a mail-order bride from Southeast Asia that will be arriving shortly. The shy Barry, it turns out, wanted to “practice” going on a date before his new wife arrived. The law student narrator is embarrassed, and struggles with the moral duty both she, and Barry, owe to Susie.

The Sexual Double Standard in the Real World

The sexual double standard (SDS) has traditionally been studied by examining evaluations of hypothetical targets. Although much knowledge has been gained regarding the SDS by using this methodology, the literature thus far has suffered from a lack of ecological validity. The goal of the present study was to determine whether the SDS emerged in evaluations of participants’ real-life friends and acquaintances. Participants ( n = 4,455) evaluated a single, randomly assigned male or female friend or acquaintance whose sexual history they were familiar with. Women were evaluated more negatively as their number of sexual partners increased, whereas number of partners was not related to evaluations of men. The SDS was not moderated by the closeness of the relationship between the participant and the target person.

From Wars to the Great War: A Hero Is Born

This chapter looks at Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's quest for heroism. As he expressed it in a personal letter to a female friend, he had “grand desires” to render extraordinary services to his homeland. Circumstances, however, were not yet favorable to the realization of that ambition. Up until the Great War, he remained an obscure figure little known outside the circle of young Committee of Union and Progress's (CUP) officers. The German-inspired reorganization of the Ottoman military on the eve of the Great War paved the way for Mustafa Kemal's ascendance. Like many of his colleagues, he agreed with Colmar von der Goltz's opinion that “to make war means to attack.” Mustafa Kemal maintained that only nations inspired by the Japanese attack code of “kōgeki seishin” (aggressive spirit) could carry out successful offensive wars.

Лингвокультурологический анализ концепта «дружба» в рус- ском языке: паремиологический и ассоциативный аспекты

Linguo-cultural analysis of the concept of “friendship” in Russian language: paremiological and associative aspectsThe present work is devoted to linguo-cultural analysis of the concept “friendship” in a so- cial and cultural area in Russia. The concept of “friendship” is one of the key concepts of Russian language, which presents a fragment of linguistic picture of the world of Russian linguoculture and the mentality of the inhabitants of modern Russia. Analysis of the material of associative dictionaries, phraseological units and proverbs helped to draw important conclusions, which were subsequently subjected to empirical verification. Moreover, questionnaire on associations, which let us explore the concept of “friendship” and examine reactions of native Russian speakers on words-stimulus: friendship male, female, male friend, female friend, friendly, was carried out in this paper.Analiza lingwokulturologiczna konceptu „przyjaźń” w języku rosyjskim: aspekt paremiologiczny i asocjacyjnyNiniejszy artykuł poświęcony jest analizie lingwokulturologicznej konceptu „przyjaźń” w rosyjskiej przestrzeni społeczno-kulturowej. Koncept „przyjaźń” jest jednym z istotnych kon- ceptów języka rosyjskiego, który przedstawia fragment językowego obrazu świata rosyjskiej lin- gwokultury oraz mentalność mieszkańców współczesnych Rosjan. Analiza materiału wyekscer- powanego ze słowników frazeologicznych, paremiologicznych i asocjacyjnych pozwoliła wysnuć wiele wniosków, które następnie zostały poddane weryfikacji empirycznej. Ponadto został prze- prowadzony eksperyment asocjacyjny, który pozwolił zbadać koncept „przyjaźń” i prześledzić reakcje rodzimych użytkowników języka rosyjskiego na słowa bodźce: przyjaźń męska, kobieca, przyjaciel, przyjaciółka, przyjacielski.

Widening the gap: Support gaps in same race versus different race female friendship dyads

Women frequently turn to other women for support to cope with stressors. The support they receive, however, is often not what they need or even expect from a friend. Based upon differences in racial backgrounds, this study tests whether the racial composition of female friendship dyads influences the experience of support gaps, or discrepancies among the types and amount of support women need, expect, and receive, as well as the outcomes associated with those gaps. Black and White women ( N = 312) recalled a supportive conversation with either a Black or White female friend about an identity-threatening stressor. The results show that women needed, expected, and received more of several types of support from friends of their same race and that several support gaps were more pronounced from friends of a different race. The racial composition of a dyad moderated the influence of support gaps on women’s perceptions of supportiveness, reappraisal, and affect improvement.

GENDERLECT AFFECTING ON POLITENESS STRATEGIES AND LANGUAGE

Since language is a system of spoken sounds or conventional symbols for communicating thought, we use language to express our thoughts, feelings, ideas, etc to make a communication. We communicate to other people by using language. Therefore, the way we speak is influenced by the culture belonged to social group where we interact. Language reflects the context in which it is used. People use language differently in formal and casual context. Besides, people adapt their talk to suit their audience and talk differently to children, friends, customers and colleagues. The linguistics’ form will also be affected by the purpose of people’s talk. They use variety of ways to express the ‘same’ message. Thus, this small project was done by interviewing two friends who had ever stayed abroad before, male and female (appendix) to see whether both of them use different politeness strategy in speaking English. They are coming from different origin, thus, the writer also wanted to see whether their L1 and their culture influence ways of their speaking. It is stated on Politeness theory that gender plays more prominently in the field of politeness but politeness theory has ignored the fact that based on gender, women and men will also perform politeness differently and it was proved in this small project. The writer interviewed two interviewees, male and female, by asking them to answer three questions prepared by the writer. The conversation was recorded and the writer analyzed the ways of their speech by listening to the recording. The writer found that both of them did not use any certain politeness strategies. The female friend talked more confident, were better in grammar and did not use more fillers or hedges. Vice versa, the male friend talked nicely, made many mistakes in grammar and use many fillers or hedges.