scholarly journals Wizerunek uzdrowicielki syberyjskiej (Natalii Stiepanowej) w świetle krytycznej analizy dyskursu

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-384
Author(s):  
Joanna Rybarczyk-Dyjewska
Keyword(s):  
Ad Populum ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
The Way

The aim of the article is to present the way in which the Siberian Healer (Natal’ya Ivanova Stepanova), in her publications, creates her own image and, at the same time, encourages to use magic practices proposed by herself. Magic handbooks and compilations of charms written by Stepanova served as the empirical material. They were the basis to describe manipulative and persuasive linguistic activities used to affect the recipient. The most common of those activities is argumentation, which is usually described as ‘a set of actions taken to justify some view’. The healer – in order to sway recipients to her views – mainly uses the so-called fallacious arguments, such as e.g. argumentum ad populum or argumentum ad metum. She also uses specific lexical and stylistic means

“Down-to-Earth TV dramas”: The reception of authenticity, reality, and modality in Danish TV dramas

2021 ◽  
pp. 174960202110463
Author(s):  
Yeşim Kaptan
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Television Viewing ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Truth Value ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
The Way

This article investigates how Turkish audiences conceptualize authenticity in their engagement with foreign television (TV) productions in the case of Danish TV dramas. The theoretical notion of authenticity is juxtaposed with empirical material from fieldwork interactions, focus group interviews, and one-on-one interviews conducted with Turkish audiences between 2016 and 2018. By employing a semiotic analysis of fieldwork data, I argue that Turkish audiences attribute authenticity to the Danish TV drama series according to a socially created modality (truth value of a sign). This article draws on accounts about modality markers in TV drama series such as authentic portrayals of Danish TV characters and plausible-realistic depictions as a verisimilitudinous representation of everyday life. In the context of cross-cultural television viewing practices, the way Turkish audiences attribute meaning to Danish TV series in terms of authenticity, realism, and modality reveals a distinct differentiation between Danish TV dramas and other nationally and globally circulating media products.

scholarly journals Land for agriculture? Conflicts and synergies between land use in two parts of Scandinavia

2019 ◽  
Vol 197 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Elin Slätmo
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
The Way

When space is limited, there is often conflict over land use such as agriculture, nature conservation, housing, business and commercial enterprise. More knowledge is needed about the substance of such conflicts and the way the various uses are handled and spatially organised. Using empirical material collected in Hållnäs, Sweden, and Sandnes, Norway, between 2009 and 2012, this paper addresses the potential conflicts and synergies between the different uses of land, with agriculture as a reference point. In combining and comparing the results from Hållnäs and Sandnes, the way in which relations differ between them are also scrutinised. Through planning documents, interviews with officials in public authorities, active farmers, non-governmental organisations (NGO) and field visits, case-specific land uses are identified in the two areas. The conflicting and synergetic relations between agriculture and other ways the land is used are identified and illustrated by schematic models. The results indicate that agriculture is both in synergy and in conflict with other land uses. In the cases investigated in this study, the primary areas of conflict are between agriculture and biodiversity, between agriculture and cultural heritage, and between agriculture and climate-smart initiatives in terms of dense building structures.

scholarly journals When Personalization Is Not an Option: An In-The-Wild Study on Persuasive News Recommendation

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Gena ◽  
Pierluigi Grillo ◽  
Antonio Lieto ◽  
Claudio Mattutino ◽  
Fabiana Vernero
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Neutral Condition ◽  
Online Information ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Ad Populum ◽  
Logical Fallacies ◽  
News Recommendation ◽  
Information Providers ◽  
Wide Access ◽  
The Way

Aiming at granting wide access to their contents, online information providers often choose not to have registered users, and therefore must give up personalization. In this paper, we focus on the case of non-personalized news recommender systems, and explore persuasive techniques that can, nonetheless, be used to enhance recommendation presentation, with the aim of capturing the user’s interest on suggested items leveraging the way news is perceived. We present the results of two evaluations “in the wild”, carried out in the context of a real online magazine and based on data from 16,134 and 20,933 user sessions, respectively, where we empirically assessed the effectiveness of persuasion strategies which exploit logical fallacies and other techniques. Logical fallacies are inferential schemes known since antiquity that, even if formally invalid, appear as plausible and are therefore psychologically persuasive. In particular, our evaluations allowed us to compare three persuasive scenarios based on the Argumentum Ad Populum fallacy, on a modified version of the Argumentum ad Populum fallacy (Group-Ad Populum), and on no fallacy (neutral condition), respectively. Moreover, we studied the effects of the Accent Fallacy (in its visual variant), and of positive vs. negative Framing.

SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS OF FORENSIC ACTIVITIES OF CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES AND THEIR SOLUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-117
Author(s):  
MINGIYAN ARISTEEV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Comprehensive Level ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Forensic Scientists ◽  
Systemic Problems ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
The Way

The article presents the results of a study of the problems of forensic activities of the customs authorities of the Russian Federation, conducted in the period from 2016 to 2019. The analysis made it possible to identify and classify the so-called “factors negatively affecting the forensic activities of customs authorities”. The above classification allows us to reflect at a comprehensive level the system of forensic activities of customs authorities in terms of its weaknesses. The text gradually reveals and describes the positions of some domestic scientists on the way to solving the problems of forensic activities of customs authorities. Based on the analysis of empirical material, the work of expert scientists and forensic scientists, recommendations are made on solving specific problems of forensic activities of the customs authorities of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Methods in examining Sense-perception : John Philoponus and Ps.-Simplicius

2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-661
Author(s):  
Peter Lautner
Keyword(s):  
Sense Perception ◽  
General Thesis ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
The Way

Abstract The paper discusses the methods applied by Philoponus and Pseudo-Simplicius in commenting on Aristotle’s theory of sense-perception, and indicates their differences. Philoponus frequently employs medical theories and empirical material, mostly taken from Aristotle, to highlight not only the activities of the particular senses, but also a certain kind of awareness and the way we experience our inner states. By contrast, his Athenian contemporary Pseudo-Simplicius disregards such aspects altogether. His method is deductive : He relies on some general thesis, partly taken from Iamblichus, from which to derive theses on sense-perception. The emphasis falls on Philoponus’ doctrine since his reliance on medical views leads to an interesting blend of Platonic and medical/empirical theories.

scholarly journals Internal dialogue in letters and essays

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 563-571
Author(s):  
David V. Petrosyan
Keyword(s):  
Internet Resources ◽  
Internal Dialogue ◽  
The Common ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
The Way

The article discusses the features of internal dialogue in such genres as letter and essay. As an empirical material, the author took examples of media files published by Armenian Internet resources (magaghat.am, azg.am/AM/culture). As a result of the analysis, were discovered the characteristic forms of the author’s relationship with the internal “I” (internal recipients). These communicative forms give the text persuasiveness and integrity, which paves the way for the audience. A number of peculiarities of the internal dialogue were examined separately in a letter (Charlie Chaplin's letter to his daughter Geraldine) and in an essay (“No, oh Tolstoy, no!”). As a conclusion the common and distinctive aspects emerging in these two genres were summed up.

scholarly journals Source Related Argumentation Found in Science Websites

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-473
Author(s):  
Ralph Barnes ◽  
Zoë Neumann ◽  
Samuel Draznin-Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Argumentation Schemes ◽  
Web Documents ◽  
Ad Hominem ◽  
Ad Populum ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

In this paper, we consider the way that web documents seeking to persuade readers of certain science claims provide information about the sources of the arguments. Our quantitative analysis reveals that web documents in our sample include hundreds of examples in which the reader is provided information regarding the trustworthiness (or lack thereof) of sources. The web documents also contain a large number of examples in which the reader is provided with information about how many individuals hold a particular belief. We discuss ad hominem, ad verecundiam, and ad populum arguments, and the way that the examples found in our sample of documents are related to these argumentation schemes.

scholarly journals Encryption as a Security Technology. Notes on the German Debate on encryption, Uncertainty and Risk

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Linda Monsees
Keyword(s):  
Security Measures ◽  
Security Technology ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Security Discourse ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
The Way

<p>This article contributes to the emerging literature on digital encryption as a political issue by focusing on the way in which debates about encryption are embedded in a broader security discourse. Drawing on empirical material from Germany, this article shows how debates on encryption bring its ambiguous nature to the fore. Encryption is seen as both a threat and a source of protection, it thus becomes clear that technology only acquires its political meaning in discourse. Furthermore, I show that security is discussed in terms of uncertainty, risks and complexity. The article concludes by arguing that this prevailing idea of security as risk leads to security measures that attempt to deal with complexity by involving a variety of actors, making multi-stakeholder approaches as a solution more plausible.</p>

scholarly journals DRABETS SEMIOTIK: Eksempler fra krigen i Algeriet 1954-1962

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmus Alenius Boserup
Keyword(s):  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Physical Treatment ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
French Military ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
The Way

This article analyses the ways in which the paramilitary group FLN-ALN used to kill its enemies in the French and the Muslim populations during the Algerian “War of Independence” from 1954-1962. Through empirical material from classified French military archives the article demonstrates that the FLN-ALN’s methods of killing their French enemies differed from the way they killed their Muslim enemies. Based on this observation, it is argued that FLN-ALN’s war, in fact, consisted of two separate wars: An external war with the objective of establishing an independent Algerian state and an internal war with the objective of creating a “liberated” Algerian society. These two wars were not only fought against different enemies but also were conceptualized differently. FLN-ALN transformed the two wars into radically different forms and methods of physical violence and killing. Hence, the central argument of the article is that forms of violence are signs, as understood in semiotic analysis, and that FLN-ALN used the physical treatment of the two enemies’ bodies to communicate with friendly and opposed political communities both inand outside of Algeria  

scholarly journals Deontological Feeling: The Tranquil, the Familiar and the Body

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Nörenberg
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Existential Feelings ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Theoretical Claim ◽  
The One ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
The Way

This paper contributes to filling a lacuna in recent research on common normative backgrounds. On the one hand, discussions of common normative backgrounds tend to underexpose the role the feeling body plays in relation to the agent’s recognition of deontic powers (obligations, compelling reasons or rights). On the other hand, discussions of bodily background orientations and their role in the agent’s sensitivity to practical significance tend to underexpose the recognition of deontic power. In this paper, I argue that bodily background orientations can contribute to an agent’s sensitivity to deontic power. Developing further on Ratcliffe’s conceptualization of existential feelings, I propose that a person’s bodily background orientation implies responsiveness to an ethically significant kind of affordance. In order to flesh out this theoretical claim, I draw on empirical material concerning a specific existential orientation labelled as “quietism.” Reconstructing its central patterns, I explicate the bodily dimension involved in the quietist orientation as well as the way in which it shapes the responsiveness to felt demands in terms of preserving tranquillity and protecting the familiar. Finally, I discuss the broader theoretical implications of my claim and suggest to categorize ethically relevant bodily background orientations such as the one implicated in the quietist orientation as deontological feelings.

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