Woman as a Stereotypical Image of National and Cultural Identity in the Context of Literary Comparativistics

People live in a world of stereotypes that exist everywhere, in all spheres of human life and activity. A stereotype is a cultural phenomenon, that can be found in any society in the form of centuries-old experience of a given society, transmitted from generation to genera-tion by images transformed in accordance with the era and the level of society develop-ment.The culture and literature of any nation contain a rich gallery of stereotypes. The existence of a stereotype without culture is inconceivable. And culture itself is a certain set of stereotypes that defines and, therefore, limits human actions.One of the priority areas of modern anthropocentric and human sciences is the study of the formation and functioning of gender stereotypes, the identification and analy-sis of their intercultural specificity. Contrary to the objectives of the aforementioned study, our multilateral research is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of a woman, as repre-sentations of the stereotypical image of national-cultural identity in different literary eras. The present article deals with the study of the stereotypical image of a woman in medieval Western and Georgian literature.For this purpose we have identified and analyzed the rich material that exists in the culture and literature of different people. Our study is based on the depiction of a stereo-typical image of a woman from a different perspective, for example: woman - king, woman - diplomat, woman – public figure, woman - creator, woman - mother, woman - wife/lover, woman - strong/weak creature, woman - symbol of fidelity, etc.

Genericity of Representations of p-Adic Sp2n and Local Langlands Parameters

Let G be the F-rational points of the symplectic group Sp2n, where F is a non-Archimedean local field of characteristic 0. Cogdell, Kim, Piatetski-Shapiro, and Shahidi constructed local Lang- lands functorial lifting from irreducible generic representations of G to irreducible representations of GL2n+1(F). Jiang and Soudry constructed the descent map from irreducible supercuspidal repre- sentations of GL2n+1(F) to those of G, showing that the local Langlands functorial lifting from the irreducible supercuspidal generic representations is surjective. In this paper, based on above results, using the same descent method of studying SO2n+1 as Jiang and Soudry, we will show the rest of local Langlands functorial lifting is also surjective, and for any local Langlands parameter , we construct a representation such that and ¾ have the same twisted local factors. As one application, we prove the G-case of a conjecture of Gross-Prasad and Rallis, that is, a local Langlands parameter is generic, i.e., the representation attached to is generic, if and only if the adjoint L-function of is holomorphic at s = 1. As another application, we prove for each Arthur parameter , and the corresponding local Langlands parameter , the representation attached to is generic if and only if is tempered.

Incomplete vs. divergent representations of unaccusativity in non native grammars of Italian

The term 'near-native', used to refer to speakers at the most advanced stage of second language acquisition, may denote either incompleteness of their competence (lack of given L2 properties) or divergence (interlanguage representations of L2 properties that are consistently different from native representations). An undifferentiated use of the term conceals the fact that incompleteness and divergence are two distinct states of grammatical compe tence, corresponding to two qualitatively different kinds of ultimate attain ment. This article looks at the linguistic intuitions of French L1 and English L1 near-native speakers of Italian L2 about some syntactic and semantic properties related to unaccusativity in Italian, and concludes that the near-native grammar of French subjects exhibits divergence whereas the near-native grammar of English subjects exhibits incompleteness. It is argued that these competence differences reflect differences in the overall repre sentations of unaccusativity in French and English.

The Disabilities of Medico-Psychologists

The disability of Medico-Psychologists connected with private asylums, from being appointed as Lunacy Commis sioners within a year of such connection, is in a fair way to be abolished. This is due to the initiative of Dr. Mercier, resulting in a deputation to the Lord Chancellor, consisting of Dr. Mercier and other members of this Association, whose repre sentations were very favourably received.