Attracting a following to high culture functions for a language of everyday life: The role of the Tshernovits Conference in the rise of Yiddish

The concept of shape is widely used by musicians in talking and thinking about performance, yet the mechanisms that afford links between music and shape are little understood. Work on the psychodynamics of everyday life by Daniel Stern and on embodiment by Mark Johnson suggests relationships between the multiple dynamics of musical sound and the dynamics of feeling and motion. Recent work on multisensory and precognitive sensory perception and on the role of bimodal neurons in the sensorimotor system helps to explain how shape, as a percept representing changing quantity in any sensory mode, may be invoked by dynamic processes at many stages of perception and cognition. These processes enable ‘shape’ to do flexible and useful work for musicians needing to describe the quality of musical phenomena that are fundamental to everyday musical practice and yet too complex to calculate during performance.

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Mystery in the poetics of romantic tragedy genre (“The Spaniards” by Mikhail Lermontov)

Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal ◽

10.17223/18137083/75/5 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 67-81

Author(s):

E. V. Golovenkina ◽

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Human Experience ◽

Mikhail Lermontov ◽

Inner World ◽

Loss Of A Child ◽

Moral Choices ◽

Ideal Sphere ◽

The Ideal ◽

Tragic Conflict

This paper focuses on the role of the poetics of mystery in the formation of the romantic trag-edy genre. “The Spaniards” by Mikhail Lermontov is considered as a characteristic example of this genre, manifesting “melodramatization” of tragedy and tendency towards genre-generic synthesis. The action of “The Spaniards” is based on events related to the sphere of the mysterious, which are exceptional in life and common in melodrama. Central to the plot is the motif of the loss of a child. The secret of Fernando’s birth and “ignobility” form the con-flict and organize two storylines (love and family) and two (everyday life – melodramatic, and existential – tragic) levels of conflict. Mystery also plays an important role in revealing the inner world and expressing the romantic ideal of the hero. The ability to comprehend the mysterious, to pass beyond human experience and logic is not only the motivation of his ac-tions, but it also connects the hero with the ideal sphere. The study examines how the charac-ters’ anticipation of the “terrible” motivates their moral choices. Analyzing the interaction of lyrical motifs, the author suggests the motif of mystery as important for implementing the main (tragic) conflict, unlike melodrama, where the functions of mystery are plot-forming, stimulating the spectator’s interest and maximizing the dramatic tension. Mystery in the plot and the lyrical concept of the tragedy contributes to the understanding of the essence of the romantic conflict, has a suggestive impact on the audience, and deepens the psychologism.

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Verhalend onderzoek

KWALON ◽

10.5117/2014.019.001.025 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Cees Grol

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Research Methodology ◽

Narrative Research ◽

Narrative Form ◽

Research Needs ◽

Civic Dialogue ◽

Complex Phenomena ◽

Appropriate Education

Story research. Doing justice to the complexity of stories from the field Story research. Doing justice to the complexity of stories from the field The article derives from the author’s thesis Exploring voices exploring appropriate education: practitioners’ discourse and focuses on its methodological part.Cilliers claims that scientific research needs new approaches in order to understand complex issues. Lefebvre and Letiche assert that managers and policymakers simplify the complexity of everyday life in their reorganization proposals from higher levels. Smaling sketches what the role of qualitative research can be in studying complex phenomena. In the article it is explained how story research as a form of narrative research methodology can do justice to the complexity of stories from the field.Boje’s ‘antenarrative’, ‘antinarrative’ and ‘narrative’ form the conceptual framework to search for diversity within and between told and transcribed stories from the field. A ‘paragrammatic’ (Gabriel) use of deconstructive tools may help to find the diversity.Boje’s ‘emplotment’ and Holman Jones’ ‘civic dialogue’ offer clues to present the diversity of everyday life in a way that does justice to the complexity of stories from the field. The form of a polylogue was chosen to represent the different stories from the field.

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The role of media within young people’s socialization: A theoretical approach

Communications ◽

10.1515/commun-2018-2016 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 407-426

Author(s):

Ingrid Paus-Hasebrink

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Theoretical Approach ◽

Panel Study ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Integrative Approach ◽

Subjective Perception ◽

Developmental Tasks ◽

Structural Components ◽

Perception Action

Abstract Researching the role of media within young people’s socialization requires an integrative approach that understands socialization as a contextual, interlinked process in which children construct their approach to life against the background of ‘developmental tasks’ and of the relevant social contexts. This article presents a praxeological approach that combines subjective and structural components of practice and that has been put into practice by means of a qualitative longitudinal-panel study on children’s socialization. The approach is based on three analytical concepts, options for action, outlines for action, and competences for action, and advances an interlinkage of subjective perception, action-driving orientations, and everyday-life practices against the backdrop of (changing) socio-structural conditions.

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'To do or not to do'? The neurobiology of decision-making in daily life: I. Getting the basics

Dementia & Neuropsychologia ◽

10.1590/s1980-57642008dn10100003 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 10-17 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

André Palmini ◽

Victor Geraldi Haase

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Moral Issues ◽

Temporal Perspective ◽

Prefrontal Cortical ◽

Cortical Regions

Abstract The constant conflict between decisions leading to immediate pleasurable consequences versus behaviors aiming at long-term social advantages is reviewed here in the framework of the evolutionary systems regulating behavior. The inescapable temporal perspective in decision-making in everyday life is highlighted and integrated with the role of the executive functions in the modulation of subcortical systems. In particular, the representations of the 'non-existent' future in the prefrontal cortical regions and how these representations can bridge theory and practice in everyday life are addressed. Relevant discussions regarding the battle between emotions and reasons in the determination of more complex decisions in the realm of neuroeconomics and in moral issues have been reserved for a second essay.

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The terroir of bureaucratic practice: Everyday life and scholarly method in the study of policy

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space ◽

10.1177/0263774x18802954 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 617-633 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Merje Kuus

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Cultural Geography ◽

The European Union ◽

Policy Studies ◽

Policy Practice ◽

Michel De Certeau ◽

Do So

This article seeks to connect political geographic scholarship on institutions and policy more firmly to the experience of everyday life. Empirically, I foreground the ambiguous and indeterminate character of institutional decision-making and I underscore the need to closely consider the sensory texture of place and milieu in our analyses of it. My examples come from the study of diplomatic practice in Brussels, the capital of the European Union. Conceptually and methodologically, I use these examples to accentuate lived experience as an essential part of research, especially in the seemingly dry bureaucratic settings. I do so in particular through engaging with the work of Michel de Certeau, whose ideas enjoy considerable traction in cultural geography but are seldom used in political geography and policy studies. An accent on the texture and feel of policy practice necessarily highlights the role of place in that practice. This, in turn, may help us with communicating geographical research beyond our own discipline.

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