scholarly journals Functional verb specificity in the report

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-417
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Kon’kov ◽  
◽  
Huejcin’ Chzhan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Functional Identity ◽  
Past Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Information Reporting ◽  
Russian Verb ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media

The work analyzes the functionality of the Russian verb in the genre of information reporting. The use of the verb in the form of this actual (real reportage) is considered one of the main features of the genre of reporting. However, the analysis shows that along with the forms of the present topical in the report are actively used forms of verbs of the past time of imperfect kind. The authors pay attention to the functional identity of these verb forms. The present reportage (real topical) can only be formed from the verbs of an imperfect kind. It is the imperfect ap pearance of the verb that gives the reader a sense of inclusion in the event, which is mentioned in the report. It does not matter whether the verbs of an imperfect kind are in the form of the present or the past. The functionality of the verb in the text of the report is described in close connection with the nature of the media text, in particular with the category of social space time. The concept of the communicative status of the media library is introduced — the degree of relevance of the media text for society, due to the nature of its connection with the coor dinates of social space-time. There are three communicative statuses. The actual mediatext is such at the time of publication, when it is part of the general practical activity of the society. The mediatext is being created for here and for now. Texts of the past time lose direct connec tion with the present topical society, but do not lose their importance. They store important information, experience acquired by society. Mediatexts that have lost touch with society be come artifacts of a bygone era, acquiring the status of a cognitive text. The ability to describe a mediate based on the chronotop category is analyzed. The use of the category of chronotop in the understanding of M. M. Bakhtin can be considered correct only in relation to the study of the essay and reportage of a large volume with a developed visual and analytical beginning.

A contrastive look at the present perfect/preterite opposition in English and Norwegian

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Elsness
Keyword(s):  
Zero Point ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Present Perfect ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Past Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
The Difference

This article deals with the opposition between the present perfect and the preterite in English and Norwegian from a contrastive point of view. The use of these verb forms is very similar in the two languages, and markedly different from that in closely related languages such as German and French, where the present perfect is used much more widely. In English and Norwegian the preterite is the norm if the reference is identified as being to past time which is clearly separate from the deictic zero-point, for instance through adverbial specification, while the present perfect is used of situations extending from the past all the way up to the deictic zero-point, and of situations located within such a time span. In many intermediate cases, where the reference is to a loosely defined past time, either verb form may be used in both languages, although several writers have claimed that the present perfect is more common in Norwegian than in English in such cases. The difference between the two languages is more distinct if the reference is to what can be seen as unique past time, in which case the present perfect is usually blocked in English but very common in Norwegian. Also, the so-called inferential perfect in Norwegian is not matched by any similar perfect use in English. These claims are amply confirmed by an investigation of the English–Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC), where the present perfect is more frequent in the Norwegian as compared with the English sections, at the expense of the preterite. Moreover, there is found to be a marked difference between the original and the translated texts of the ENPC: the ratio between the present perfect and the preterite is generally higher in Norwegian than in English but not quite so high in Norwegian texts translated from English as in Norwegian original texts, and somewhat higher in English texts translated from Norwegian than in English original texts. This difference is ascribed to interference from the source language in the translated texts.

scholarly journals Insights into Gender, 'Rurality' and the Legal Practice Experience

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 430
Author(s):  
Trish Mundy
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
Practice Experience ◽  
Women Lawyers ◽  
The Status

There has been a sustained focus over the past two decades on the status and position of women lawyers in the Australian legal profession. However, limited attention has been given to the particular experiences and retention of women lawyers in rural, regional and remote (RRR) legal practice. Feminist scholarship has highlighted the gendered way in which rural social space shapes understanding of identity and experience, suggesting the need to explore the ways in which the ‘othering’ of women in ‘rural’ space might bear on their legal practice experience. This article seeks to explore the intersection of gender and rurality in the context of RRR practice and the relevance of this intersection to the legal practice experience. It highlights some particular issues for women in RRR practice, considers ways in which gender is constructed in rural space and, through the case study examples of two female rural/regional lawyers, offers some experiential insights into the intersections of law, gender and ‘rurality’.

Expert Review and Educational Reform: The Case of Student Assessment in Queensland Secondary Schools

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Royce Sadler
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Operating Life ◽  
Technical Adequacy ◽  
Expert Review ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media

Major reforms in assessment policy in Queensland secondary schools have occurred during the past 30 years. In each case, the reforms resulted from the adoption of recommendations, produced by a panel of experts, which constituted the design for a new system. Two features of the designs—their underlying philosophy and the status and technical adequacy of the recommendations—affected their prospects of success. Other influences were the experiences of teachers and public opinion as expressed and shaped through the media. Although substantial procedural changes were made to each assessment system during its operating life, these adjustments seemed incapable of warding off a crisis of professional and public confidence. In this article, crises in the reform cycles are analysed and interpreted in terms of legitimation theory.

scholarly journals A History, Several Stories, and a Dramatic Narrative: L’Honneur d’un Capitaine [A Captain’s Honor], a Film by Pierre Schoendoerffer

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
José Maurício Saldanha Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
The Media ◽  
Dramatic Narrative

The film L’Honneur d’un Capitaine (1982), directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928–2012), is the media option chosen to address the dramatic accounts of one French colonial soldier’s struggles to rehabilitate his memory. Objectives: Instead of writing a story essay or a novel, since he was a gifted author, he preferred to play the soldiers' drama in a film. Result: As a fictional account, however, L'Honneur recovers the past in images imbued with the status of plausibility. Conclusion: By taking advantage of his enormous experience as a documentary filmmaker, Schoendoerffer produces scenes of a brutal conflict and gives them great authenticity.

scholarly journals Regional Text as a Factor of Organizing Modern Social Space

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-107
Author(s):  
Victoria Khrapova
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
Syntactic Relations

In the context of modern social transformation, the role of regions as territorial-economic complexes and administrative units, gaining the status of entities in the national system of relations, is strengthening. Important indicators of the formation of the region are regional culture and regional self-awareness, due to the commonality of experiences of significant events occurring in a certain territory at a certain time. The key values of the regional culture are fixed in the regional text – a symbolic complex that accumulates the concepts of regional culture. The specificity of the regional text is due to its formation bades on local symbolic and symbolic structures with explanatory potential and translating the idea of stability, reliability, and also, to a large extent, development in the media environment, dissemination in the media format that informs the regional text of innovative qualities that former media (mobility, flexibility, interactivity, fundamental openness at the semantic and structural-compositional levels) didn't have. The regional text carries an identification code, it contains life-preserving constants and lifesetting values. Possessing a built-in mechanism for the correction of semantic and syntactic relations, aimed at self-preservation of the social whole, the regional text performs constructive and projective functions in the context of modern social dynamics. Sign-symbolic complexes with regional semantics play an important role in the self-description of regional communities, allowing them to maintain self-identification, to recreate the conditions necessary for optimal interaction and life in the modern social space. The regional text plays a large role in shaping the image of the region, which determines its socio-economic status and cultural status. The modern regional text is mobile, multi-layered, discrete, and has no rigid structure. It is synergistically transforming into a dynamically changing society, depending on the goals and values that guide the regional community. The presence of control parameters in the structure of the regional text makes it an important factor in sustainable development and determines the need for the conscious participation of the political and intellectual elite in the creation of regional semiotic spaces.

scholarly journals The Speech Structure of the Media Environment and the Place of Stage Speech in It

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-319
Author(s):  
Vladimir Konkov ◽  
Tatiana Solomkina
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Theatre ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Main Components

The paper analyzes the speech structure of the media sphere and determines the place of theater speech practices. The main characteristic of media text, which determines its ontology, is utilitarianism — direct and spontaneous involvement in the general activities of society. The media text is always connected with the time and place of its publication, with the specific coordinates of social space-time. At the time of publication it has the communicative status of the real-time text. With the increase in the time span separating the time of publication of the text from the time of its reading, the communicative status of the media text changes, it becomes the text of the past tense. The main components of the media sphere (in the communicative environment of both traditional media and the Internet) are the speech practice of the media, aimed at forming and maintaining the stability of public consciousness, speech practice of advertising, marketing, PR, GR. This set is open. Analysis of the theatre speech practice provides the basis for referring theatrical speech to the sphere of media speech. Several types of theatrical speech have been identified based on the specifics of the use of semiotic systems and the degree of immediacy of the relation to the audience: the polycode scenic speech of the actor at the moment of his interaction with the audience; speech of actor, director, screenwriter, broadcast in the communicative environment of the media and the Internet. The basis for the analysis is the Russian drama as well as the performances of Erwin Piskator, the creator of the "Political Theatre" movement in Germany in the 20th century. It analyzes the director's approaches to the search for dramatic material, the methods of organizing theatrical time and space, the special relationship between the actor and the viewer, and non-traditional principles of casting performers.

Preverbation and narrativity in Lithuanian. The distribution of finite simplex and compound verbs in narrative main clauses

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 167-192
Author(s):  
Lea Sawicki
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Text ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
The Past ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
Compound Verbs ◽  
Finite Verb

The article deals with the use of simplex and compound (prefixed) verbs in narrative text. Main clauses comprising finite verb forms in the past and in the past habitual tense are examined in an attempt to establish to what extent simplex and compound verbs exhibit aspect oppositions, and whether a correlation exists between the occurrence of simplex vs. compound verbs and distinct textual units. The investigation shows that although simple and compound verbs in Lithuanian are not in direct aspect opposition to each other, in the background text portions most of the verbs are prefixless past tense forms or habitual forms, whereas in the plot-advancing text portions, the vast majority of verbs are compound verbs in the simple past tense.  

Lot's Offer of his Daughters to his People in the Torah and the Qur'an: A Comparative Study in Two Parts (Part One)

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-224
Author(s):  
ʿĀʾiḍ B. Sad Al-Dawsarī
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Status ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The story of Lot is one of many shared by the Qur'an and the Torah, and Lot's offer of his two daughters to his people is presented in a similar way in the two books. This article compares the status of Lot in the Qur'an and Torah, and explores the moral dimensions of his character, and what scholars of the two religions make of this story. The significance of the episodes in which Lot offers his daughters to his people lies in the similarities and differences of the accounts given in the two books and the fact that, in both the past and the present, this story has presented moral problems and criticism has been leveled at Lot. Context is crucial in understanding this story, and exploration of the ways in which Lot and his people are presented is also useful in terms of comparative studies of the two scriptures. This article is divided into three sections: the first explores the depiction of Lot in the two texts, the second explores his moral limitations, and the third discusses the interpretations of various exegetes and scholars of the two books. Although there are similarities between the Qur'anic and Talmudic accounts of this episode, it is read differently by scholars from the two religions because of the different contexts of the respective accounts.

Impact of Social Media on English Language: A Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Dr. Neha Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
English Language ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
International Level ◽  
Class Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Subsequent Rise

Language being a potent vehicle of transmitting cultural values, norms and beliefs remains a central factor in determining the status of any nation. India is a multilingual country which tends to encourage people to use English at national and international level. Basically English in India owes its presence to the British but its subsequent rise is not fully attributable to the British. It has now become the language of wider communication which is now spoken by large number of people all over the world. It is influenced by many factors such as class, society, developments in science and technology etc. However the major influence on English language is and has been the media.

LEGAL RESEARCH AT AHMAD IBRAHIM KULLIYYAH OF LAWS, INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA: TRENDS AND POLICIES

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hunud Abia Kadouf ◽  
Umar Aimhanosi Oseini ◽  
Ainul Jaria Maidin
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Status

The primary function of Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Laws, at the very beginning of its inception, was that of teaching civil law and Sharî’ah subjects. As it matured, its vision has been varied from teaching to that of research with the aim of attaining the status of a full research institution that provides both quality research and best legal education in the region. Similar to other institutions of higher education in Malaysia, the responsibility of research is a shared function of both graduate students and the academic staff. The research output, on the part of the students is mostly composed of either Master Dissertations or PhD Theses. The academic members of the Faculty, however, are involved either in direct research, individually or jointly, supervision, and publications of their findings. By investigating and analyzing factors influencing research activities at AIKOL in the past twenty years, the researchers will be able to identify the general trends and development of research as it unfolded over years. The researchers hope that the policymakers, at both Faculty and University levels, will use the findings to improve research quality by boldly addressing the problems hampering research progress at AIKOL.

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