The Message It Is Not: The Work of the Medium Known as Documentary

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-202
Author(s):  
Rey Chow
Keyword(s):  
Ideological Assumptions

This article is a brief discussion of Pooja Rangan’s book Immediations, highlighting her argument for the need to analyze carefully the audiovisual materialities and ideological assumptions of documentary as a medium.

Individualism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serene J. Khader
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Gender Division Of Labor ◽  
Individual Person ◽  
Transition Costs ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

This chapter argues that independence individualism, a form of individualism that is the object of decolonial feminist critique, is conceptually unnecessary for feminism, and in fact undermines transnational feminist praxis. Opposition to sexist oppression does not logically entail individualism. Adopting the specific form of individualism called “independence individualism,” which holds that individuals should be economically self-sufficient and that only chosen relationships are valuable is likely to worsen the gender division of labor and obscure the transition costs of feminist change. The perceived relationship between independence individualism and feminism is traceable to ideological assumptions that associate capitalism with liberation from tradition, and tradition with patriarchy. The concept of independence individualism is arrived at by examining the justificatory discourses behind ostensibly feminist policies that proclaim the value of the individual person while harming “other” women.

Kukiz’15 – geneza, idee, próba klasyfikacji

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (254) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Matuszek
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Political Group ◽  
Political Scene ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

The aim of this article is to raise a few issues related with the political group of Kukiz’15,which is an unprecedented phenomenon on the Polish political scene after 1989. First of all,the paper tried to present the genesis of the formation, including the factors that contributedto its creation and development. Secondly, the analysis of ideological assumptions was made.Thirdly, an attempt was made to classify the formation based on its characteristics. Thecontent analysis method was used to carry out this task, and the source base was made upof press enunciations by nationwide opinion-forming magazines, such as “Rzeczpospolita”and “Gazeta Wyborcza”, monographs and elaborations, as well as Internet sources. It shouldbe emphasized that this study was assumed to represent an introduction to the in-depthresearch into the phenomenon that is undoubtedly this political group.Keywords: Kukiz’15, Polish Political Scene, Political Formations

Case Studies–Political and Non-Political Cartoons

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Charles Forceville
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Cartoons ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
Verbal Mode ◽  
High Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
Accessible Form ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

The genre of political cartoons purports to present a wittily critical visual or visual-plus-written-verbal commentary on politicians and states of affairs in the world. The genre is thereby of high interest for critical discourse analysts, as it lays bare a community’s ideological assumptions and does so in a pithy, easily accessible form. Moreover, the genre can get away with proposing ideas that, when presented in the verbal mode, would be unacceptably offensive or crude. From an RT perspective, it is clear that since cartoons typically appear in specific newspapers and magazine, cartoonists have a fairly precise idea of the target audience to whom they want to be optimally relevant. The chapter outlines the conventions of the cartoon genre in some detail, then examines four political and two non-political cartoons in the light of their communicative and informative intentions, aspects of reference assignment, implicated premises, and explicatures and implicatures. Other aspects that are briefly addressed are cartoons’ artist-dependent style, need for stereotypical depiction and caricaturization, deployment of metaphors, and loose use of visuals.

Relevance Theory and Mediated Mass-Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Charles Forceville
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Cognitive Environment ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

The examples analyzed in classic RT pertain to face-to-face communication, that is, a situation in which one communicator speaks to a single addressee standing next to her. The shift from this situation to mass-communication affects several dimensions of RT. In this chapter, the central RT tenet that relevance is always relevance to an individual is discussed in light of the fact that mass-communicative audiences consist of (very) many individuals. Concepts affected pertain to the recognition and fulfillment of the communicative and informative intention and to the cognitive environment (≈ background knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, etc.) of the numerous individuals in the envisaged audience, who after all may not share the ideological assumptions of the communicator. Moreover, mass-communication is usually mediated. Some of the technical, financial, institutional, and ideological consequences of mediated mass-communication for RT are sketched.

Reading The 1835 Parish Censuses from Bahia: Citizenship, Kinship, Slavery, and Household in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. Barickman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Qualitative Information ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

Since the late 1960s, a growing number of studies have drawn on local manuscript censuses, also known as household or nominal lists, to reshape the historiography of late colonial and early nineteenth-century Brazil. While many of those studies focus on family or household composition, manuscript censuses have also been used to explore topics ranging from proto-industrialization and demographic trends to patterns of slaveholding and the status of women. In working with this documentation, scholars have generally restricted themselves to quantitative analyses; they have seldom devoted much explicit attention to the format of censuses and to the categories found in them. As a result, the ideological assumptions and political concerns that census-takers in late colonial and early nineteenthcentury Brazil brought to bear in enumerating, classifying, and ordering the population have remained largely unexplored topics. To detect those assumptions and concerns, we need to go beyond quantification and to read Brazilian manuscript censuses for the qualitative information they contain. At the very least, reading censuses qualitatively holds out the possibility of raising questions that complement and enhance the findings from the more familiar quantitative studies.

scholarly journals Modals as Carriers of Ideology in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Gibreel Sadeq Alaghbary ◽  
Ohood Ali Al-Nakeeb
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Novel ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
East And West ◽  
Newspaper Articles ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

Modality encodes speakers or writers’ attitudes towards, and evaluations of, people and states of affairs. These evaluative attitudes are often ideologically motivated. This paper investigates ideology as carried by modal expressions in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Of the ten genres constituting the narrative, the newspaper articles have been selected for analysis. The paper adopts Simpson’s (1993) analytical framework, aka Critical Linguistics, in order to achieve three objectives. It aims to identify the modal expressions employed in the selected newspaper articles, classify the relevant modalized, and modally unmarked, statements, and explore the ideological assumptions and evaluations generated by the modal expressions, or their absence, in relation to the characters’ attitudes towards each other and towards the thematic developments in the novel. Analysis uncovers a dichotomy constructed between the East and West. The East, represented by the salmon project, Sheikh Muhammad and the Yemeni government, is projected as submissive and inferior.

scholarly journals Dziewiętnastowieczne wydania polskich przekładów pism Świętej Teresy z Ávili

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 352-371
Author(s):  
Marta M. Kacprzak
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Mysticism ◽  
Teresa Of Avila ◽  
Saint Teresa Of Avila ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

From the 1840’s to the end of the 19th century more than twenty editions of Polish translations of texts by Saint Teresa of Ávila, as well as the ones attributed to her, were released. It was attempted to popularise her works, information about her life and thought, as well as the cult of her, knowledge about Christian mysticism and the revival of religious life. Two important bibliographies presenting the reception of Teresa in Poland: one by Stefania Ciesielska-Borkowska (1939) and the other one by Benignus Wanat (1972) require complementing and corrections, which should find reflection in contemporary editions and catalogues. The paper presents all the editions of works by Teresa (fragments, all works, collections of works, as well as paraphrases), released in Polish in the 19th-century books and periodicals. It corrects the mistakes in bibliographical descriptions, which result from mistakes in the publications themselves, as well as errors in attribution. It refers to the authorship of anonymous translations and their undetermined bases, it characterises briefly the environments in which Saint Teresa’s works were translated and published. It presents the religious, literary, social and scientific purposes accompanying the texts by Teresa, as well as translation, editorial and ideological assumptions. It shows the editions of Saint Teresa’s texts in translations or paraphrases by: Sebastian Nucerin, Ignacy Hołowiński, Nina Łuszczewska, Eleonora Ziemięcka, Michał Bohusz Szyszko, Eleonora z Paprockich Szemiothowa, Zygmunt Krasiński, Lucjan Siemieński, Ignacy Domeyko, Karmela Wiktima od Jezusa (Amalia Zenopolska), Tadeusz Miciński, Henryk Piotr Kossowski, as well as anonymous translators.

scholarly journals Utworzenie Kasy Oszczędności w Wolnym Mieście Krakowie i jej działalność w latach 1844-1857

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-155
Author(s):  
Mateusz Mataniak
Keyword(s):  
National Archive ◽  
Detailed Data ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Savings Bank ◽  
Statutory Law ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

The article presents the activity of the Savings Bank in Cracow between 1844 and 1857. It recreates the course of works undertaken during its creation by the Representatives Assembly. The basic ideological assumptions on which it was based were shown. Moreover, the paper presents the participation in the creation process of the Brotherhood of Mercy and of the Mount of Piety (Latin Mons Pietatis). The legal basis of the Savings Bank’s functioning was analyzed in detail. The foundation had the shape of statutory law from the 3rd of July 1844, the organization of the Management of the Savings Bank, the rules of depositing and withdrawing the savings, keeping accountancy and its control by the authorities. Also detailed data was included pertaining to the size of the deposit and the size of the withdrawal made from the Savings Bank. The basis of the article consists of the archival materials from the National Archive in Cracow and of the announcements made by the Management of the Savings Bank, which were published in “The Governmental Gazette”.

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