The Spatial Cognitive Meaning of Across

Spatial relation is a basic existent relation in the objective world, and in English, prepositions are the important spatial terms to describe spatial relations people perceive. Using Langacker’s trajector-landmark theory from cognitive grammar, this paper attempts to analyze the cognitive process of the six main spatial meaning of English preposition across based on the entries collected by the Collins Dictionary, with data from the the Leeds Collection of Internet Corpora. The findings can be concluded: (1) The use of across should include at least a tr and a lm, and the lm cannot be covert. (2) The spatial relations across contains could be divided into simple atemporal relation and complex atemporal relation. (3) The tr in some dynamic relation of across sometimes will represent some kind of schema, such as source-path-goal schema.

The Becoming of the Scholarly Editor

Paul Eggert’s The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies makes an important intervention in textual scholarship by redefining scholarly editions as functions of a process enacted in dynamic relation to an idea of a work on one hand and imagined readers — including the author as a first reader of drafts — on the other. This essay responds to The Work and the Reader by pursuing the definition of the “reader” toward a rethinking of edition-making as both a material and an ethical practice.

A new physical pattern – consistency of the factor of dynamic relations between velocity vector modulus and longitudinal acceleration of missile warheads

The paper describes the existing problems in determination of all scheduled evaluations of missile warhead performance during flight tests and puts forward one of the possible methods of problem solving. Besides, the paper gives the results of investigation of the properties of the factor of dynamic relations between the velocity vector modulus and longitudinal acceleration of missile warheads within the atmospheric passive flight leg – the dynamic relation factor is constant in different flight test conditions. The notion of the reference dynamic relation factor is reasonably introduced for both parameters under study in order to provide reliable determination of parameter estimates, and hence, to conduct a complete analysis of experimental launch results.

Exploring Complexity of First Names from a Theoretical Approach

This work explores the possibility of first names as a complex phenomenon in which not only language, but society and culture are involved. Given names are a category of the natural languages in which different facets of human beings as sociocultural subjects are intertwined. Not only do such names belong to the language they are expressed in but also, they integrate their bearers into the social and cultural structure of their communities. By understanding speakers as ongoing members of different groups within the community and by integrating their interaction as well as the symbolic constructions that emerge from such interaction, the category can be conceived as the result of a dynamic relation between a set of inseparable heterogeneous elements. Hence, language in use, society and culture cannot be isolated or considered separately as they all become the category. Because of this, both the process of name-giving (which first names come to be used by) and the changing repertory resulting from such a process becomes of great relevance to this endeavour. Taking these into consideration, a model of a complex adaptive system will be presented to propose the category of first name as its emergent property.

The visual digital self: A discourse theoretical analysis of young people’s negotiations on gender, reputation and sexual morality online

Young people’s self-presentations on Instagram often display considerate discourses on gender, reputation and (sexual) morality. Previous studies have explored how these discourses are embedded in cultural narratives, while overseeing the significance of visibility and visual storytelling cultures online. Using a Foucauldian Feminist approach, we explore how young people’s discourses reflect the visual performance of aesthetic and neoliberal subjectivities online. Through six groups of young people between thirteen and twenty years old, we investigate how the visibility afforded by Instagram affects the negotiations of young people on gender, reputation and sexual morality. We gave them the agency to create, narrate and reflect upon fictious social media profiles with ‘good’, ‘bad’ or ‘ideal’ self-presentations, using a discourse theoretical analysis to examine the visual artefacts, individual stories and group conversations. Our analysis shows that youth’s discourses on self-presentation are based on a dynamic relation between self-determination and self-monitoring. Ideal self-presentations are understood as self-determining performances of visual, aesthetic and neoliberal subjectivities, whereas bad self-presentations are often negotiated as self-monitoring performances regarding sexual morality.

Women Dined Well: Bakhtinian Carnivalesque in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls

Caryl Churchill’s most celebrated play Top Girls begins with a remarkable supper scene, where various women from history and art come together to dine, celebrate, and share stories. Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of carnivalesque provides a conceptual vocabulary to explore and analyze the firct act of Top Girls and show how the dinner scene functions as a “carnivalesque” that shows the reader the symbolic essence of food, act of consumption and its complex and dynamic relation with gender identities. (abstract to be reviewed/changed before publication)

Pragmatic impacts, representation, and regulation

This article suggests a model of uttering/énonciation as representational activity (Energeia) throughout the observable case of both impersonal injunctions and collaborative interaction. Being a dynamic relation at the intersection of notions, language and world, reference, this model integrates a new paradigm into the realm of discursive linguistics, the described morphodynamic language phenomenon instead of the described hypothesis emanating from “structuralized” grammars. We thus discuss one aspect of the interaction adjustment/distortion beyond mere projection (stasis of both virtual social markers and uttered stable forms), considering distortion as a relevant marker of the described observable (an interaction from a translation course for instance). Henceforth, beyond the speech act frame, we present a mathematical attempt to study the variation of the pragmatic impact taking place between projection and result; this last implies two sources positions and praxical levels. As a conclusive note, we expose a brief insight into the phenomenon misunderstanding between both neurocognitive and linguistic studies.

Conclusion

The conclusion is summative, its purpose being to bring together insights drawn from the preceding chapters. It interrogates, more closely, the aspiration described in the Introduction; to explore the dynamic relation of law, literature and history in the closer context of modern British drama. It confirms that the theatre, and theatrical writing, is especially suited to realising one of the abiding ambitions of ‘law and literature’ scholarship, which is to humanise the legal text. An insight familiar to students of Shakespeare or Chekhov and various other dramatists whose work is already established in the literary jurisprudence ‘canon’, but which is just as persuasive in the context of modern and contemporary drama.

EUROPEAN UNION FUNDING FOR PRESERVATION OF RELIGIOUS CULTURAL HERITAGE IN POLAND

As there is a dynamic relation between religious cultural heritage, tourism and local development, the European Union supports preservation of religious heritage through regional policy funds available in Poland under operational programmes. The aim of the research was to define and look into the main outcomes of this support, based on qualitative and quantitative data from SIMIK 2007–2013 and central teleinformation system (CTS) SL2014 for 2014–2020. Findings show that the 618 projects for the preservation of religious cultural heritage in Poland comprised a very small share of all investments under operational programmes. They were also a very small share of the total value of all projects and of EU funding co-financing them. However, comparing the financial perspective of 2007–2013 and 2014–2020, there is an increase in the number of these investments and in the number of projects that obtained the best relation of EU funding to their total value, i.e. 85%.