Language: Experience on a Borderline Phenomenon

This article is focused on language’s nature and its role as a condition of understanding. In this context, the basic question remains whether language represents reality or, on the contrary, constitutes it. In order to answer this question, the study examines the border as a phenomenon. If we consider the border as nothing more than a limit, then the world within the boundaries of language appears to be something constructed only by language. If we presume that the border is a field of communication between reality and the subject, then the understanding should include elements of subjectivity, as well as reality itself. This could be the main statement of dialectical symbolism.

CREATIVE ETHNICITY: MUSIC AS AN ELEMENT OF ETHNICITY AMONG POLISH TATARS

The aim of this article is to analyse the role of ethnic music in the life of the Tatar minority in Poland as an example of creative ethnicity. On the one hand, modern Tatar musical practices construct an interesting example of “invented tradition” because the studied group does not have “musical memory”, while on the other hand, these activities are aimed at the group’s future. Music can fulfill different social functions. In the case of ethnic groups, three of these functions seem to be particularly relevant: integrational, political (ideological) and identity. Desk research reveals the formal and informal musical practices undertaken by Polish Tatars. The values and musical assets associated with Tatar culture reflect the minority’s identity. The main statement of the article is that music is an important element that contributes to constructing the contemporary group’s identity. Tatar music is becoming an essential element of Tatar culture, enhancing a sense of the group’s distinctiveness. The contemporary Tatar music groups construct a significant Tatar showcase to the audience outside of the Tatar ethnic group, as well as form an important identity element of the Tatar community and a manifestation of creative ethnicity. It is also possible to find correlations between their repertoire and contemporary group transformations, including those related to its identity.

Az utolsó császár Magyarországon – Hailé Szelasszié 1964-es látogatása

The visit of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie on 20-23 September 1964 was one of the most important events of the Hungarian foreign relations that time. This article aims to examine the circumstances of the meeting and its effects on the Ethio-Hungarian relations. The main statement of the paper is that although the visit did not bring a breakthrough in the collaboration, it helped to strengthen and fill with content the fresh connection between the parties, and it also determined the main frameworks of cooperation for the next two and half decades. Furthermore, the negotiations bred important practical experiences for the Hungarian administration, which knowledge helped not only in the relations with the developing world, but also in the wider international arena.

Question tags in Cameroon English

Although English is one of the two official languages in Cameroon, it is seldom used out of official circles where indigenous languages, French, and Pidgin English reign supreme (Jikong & Koenig, 1983). This has made the language a matter of concern for teachers, learners, and researchers. An aspect of the language which has so far been little investigated, but which is significant to English proficiency, is question tags. In fact, question tags contribute tremendously to the flow of language. They are ‘a very conspicuous phenomenon of spoken language’ (Tottie & Hoffman, 2006: 284). These short questions (tags), tagged onto a main statement (the anchor) play an important role in spoken English. While the question tag is taught from Sixième to Terminale (Grade 8 to Grade 13, i.e. the first to last years of secondary education in the Francophone subsystem of education), and from primary to secondary school in the Anglophone subsystem of education in Cameroon, researchers are still to question its teaching against the backdrop of its actual use in a country where the nativisation process of English is generally agreed upon (Schneider, 2009). Also, given that the canonical ‘type of tag question with reversed or constant polarity, (. . .) is typical of English’ (Tottie & Hoffman, 2006: 283), its teaching (textbooks focus solely on question tags with reversed or constant polarity) in a non-native setting like Cameroon is likely to foretell a conscious or unconscious desire to keep a certain standard of English. If one concurs with Schneider (2009) that Cameroon is on Phase Three of the Dynamic model (at least in the Anglophone part of the country) – that is, Nativisation where ‘structural nativization has made substantial progress’ (p. 298) – then keeping a native-like standard on school programmes (Ministry of Secondary Education, 2014), textbooks (see for illustration the English textbook Forbin et al., 2019), and official examinations would be likely to indicate some contradictions as per the apparent desire to cut the umbilical cord with the former colonial power.

Access to a Lawyer for Suspects at the Police Station and During Detention Proceedings

Directive 2013/48/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 on the right of access to a lawyer lays down minimum standards concerning access to a lawyer for suspects and the accused in criminal proceedings, as well as persons subject to the European arrest warrant proceedings. The present article focus on the subject of access to a lawyer at the earliest stage of criminal proceedings – in connection with arrest as well as during proceedings concerning the use of pre-trial detention. Author analyzes in sequence: subjective scope of the right to a lawyer, the right to a lawyer for the person deprived of liberty, confidentiality of communications between the person deprived of liberty and their lawyer. The main statement is that Poland does not meet that standard.

SUPPORTING ENGINEERING STUDENTS ON ACADEMIC PROBATION BY IMPROVING THEIR LEARNING SKILLS

This paper presents the experience of creating a student task force to support undergraduate engineering students on academic probation by strengthening their learning skills. The program described in the paper was designed based on the work of Professor Saundra Yancy McGuire, expert in the field of supporting student learning for over forty years. One of Professor McGuire’s main statement is the need to develop metacognitive skills among our student population [1]. Metacognition as a construct is frequently associated with John Flavell (1979) who defined it as “the ability to: think about one’s own thinking; be consciously aware of oneself as a problem solver; monitor, plan, and control one’s mental processing; and, accurately judge one’s level of learning” [2]. McGill’s ELATE (Enhancing Learning and Teaching in Engineering) initiative designed and implemented a program where students on academic probation meet in small groups on a weekly basis to receive support on the learning skills they struggle the most. Weekly meetings were conducted by engineering Graduate Students Instructors (GSIs) who received an intensive training on metacognition, growth mindset and learning skills. This project having completed the training phase with GSIs and Peer Tutors, we present in this paper survey data that describe challenges and benefits on initiating a project of this nature.

The Reuse of Technology in Electronic Art as an Expression of Social Conditions

The purpose of this research is to show part of the Mexican electronic art scenario, which in many cases is produce with limited resources, low-cost materials and free and open source data and software. What characterized the most this artistic works is the concept and the main idea, which is related to the Latin American context, because of that, these works of art are unique. The main statement of this research is to find evidence of the importance of the concept despite the materials, more than the spectacle that some works could offer to an audience with unlimited resources. Through this, an analysis of Electronic Art as an expression of social conditions take place.

A Discrete Limit Theorem for L-Functions of Elliptic Curves

In the paper, we prove the discrete limit theorem in the sense of the weak convergence of probability measures in the space of analytic on DV = {s ∈ C : 1 < σ < 3/2, |t| < V} functions for L-functions of elliptic curves LE(s). The main statement of the paper is as follows. Let h > 0 be a fixed real number such that exp {2πk/h} is an irrational number for all k∈Z\{0}. Then the probability measure μN(LE(s + imh)∈A), A ∈ B(H(DV)), converges weakly to the measure PLE as N→∞.

ЮМОР В ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ УКРАИНСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ

An integral part of any person’s life is humor. It makes our life more attractive, it hides a huge potential of vitality, wherein humor is a risk zone, where it can be presented as something devastating and derogative.The last 4 years of the most difficult social and political processes of Ukrainian reality we can observe a splash of interest to humorous programs of various kinds. Several separate channels began its functioning by offering to view only comical and funny content. This phenomenon makes one to think about humor specifics, about necessity of interaction with the comic, about its importance not only for one person but for the whole country. Thus, the aim of the research is to determine the place of the humor in the contemporary Ukrainian culture.The humor subject is well represented in the history of the humanitarian sciences, however, due to the ambiguity of the subject of the study, this topic remains open for further researches. There are three main theories of humor, such as consolation theory, superiority theory and discrepancy theory. And each theory finds its own proponent.The main statement of the consolation theory is that humor is a way to cope with inner tension and the opportunity to get a pleasure from laughing. In the superiority theory the sense of satisfaction from the excellence while observing a fun person as a week, stupid, unsuccessful takes the first place. In the discrepancy theory the contrast between expected and real is important for understanding the humor nature, detecting the discrepancies of our ideas about things (concepts, categories) to its real embodiments, that in the end bring out the laugh. The success of the joke is the success of finding the hidden absurdity in it.Ukrainian science also provides some developments in this sphere. Annual scientific and theoretical conference devoted to the humor theme takes place in Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University. The question of comical in human being and its cognition as well as forms of comical in literature and art are raised.To our mind, tragic social processes, which were taking place in Ukraine over the last 4 years, with no doubt lead to a rapid increase of society tension. In such conditions laugh is a good way to cope with negative consequences, as pointed in the consolation theory, humor and laugh are the opportunity to protect themselves painlessly, specifically Ukrainian society, from mental overload. As Freud pointed out, humor, irony and comic offer us a quick way not only to relieve tension, but also to get a pleasure, to live through the moment being happy. The moment of happiness and pleasure, the experience of consolation are the factors that determine the comical in the rank of priorities when choosing a particular discourse in conditions of the complex tragic situation.As any psychological protection the comical has two sides. To a certain moment, laugh is a relief from pain, as a result it becomes the cause of psychological anesthesia, the inability to fully experience the feelings and emotions that correspond to the situation context.However, this particularity of contemporary individual is connected not so with humor as with its overabundance. Also it is connected with overabundance of the information which is consumed in conditions of the informative society and society of consuming.On the other hand, humor supports Ukrainian society by contributing the stabilization of the social processes. Apparently, ironic discourse, which captured TV screens and Ukrainian YouTube, is the rescue for the Ukrainians and it proves one more time the ideas about consolation theory of humor.

Fundamentals of a Mereo-Operandi Theory to Support Transdisciplinary Modeling and Co-Design of Cyber-Physical Systems

The main statement of this paper is that synergetic modeling and co-design of the hardware, software and cyberware parts of complex cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are yet not solved, even from the perspective of an underpinning transdisciplinary theory. CPSs contain functionally tightly connected analog and digital hardware, control, and application software, and knowledge, data, and media contents as cyberware. The lack of a unified theoretical framework and an all-inclusive system conceptualization methodology can be traced back to professional, methodological and cultural differences between the abovementioned domains of development. The objective of our research is to make a step towards a theoretical framework that can support transdisciplinary modeling of CPSs. Architectural and operational modeling have been identified as two principal and interrelated dimensions of system modeling, and a mereo-operandi theory (MOT) has been identified as target. Mereotopology has been considered as the basis of architectural modeling. Operational modeling has been based on parameterized representation of the underlying physical principles, the morphological characteristics, the operation elements, and the overall operation flows. A demonstrative case study is presented to evidence the practical feasibility and utility of the proposed MOT. Our follow up research will focus on using this as a conceptual framework and computational basis for specification of system manifestation features and on a computational implementation to support embedded customization.