scholarly journals Гидронимы как источник изучения хоролого-хронологических аспектов овладения этнокультурным ландшафтом: на примере могилевской области Беларуси

2021 ◽  
pp. 281-304
Author(s):  
Игорь Шарухо
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Stable Element ◽  
Temporal Aspects

Toponyms are an essential element of national identity. Each country has its own toponymic field. The most stable element of any toponymic field is hydronyms. The article analyzes 700 main hydronyms of the Mogilev region of Belarus by 8 language groups. The analysis of Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic and other hydronyms is given. Hydronyms are considered as a source of study of the spatial and temporal aspects of mastering the ethnocultural landscape.

Primary Language of Communication as a Secondary Indicator of National Identity: The Ukrainian Parliamentary and Presidential Elections of 1994 and the “Manifesto of the Ukrainian Intelligentsia” of 1995∗

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Bilinsky
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Minor Element ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Primary Language ◽  
Irish Identity ◽  
National Survival ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Russian Identity

In a famous article during the Soviet period, Walker Connor once asked, rhetorically:The Ukrainians, as a method of asserting their non-Russian identity, wage their campaign for national survival largely in terms of their right to employ the Ukrainian, rather than the Russian, tongue in all oral and written matters. But would not the Ukrainian nation (that is, a popular consciousness of being Ukrainian) be likely to persist even if the language were totally replaced by Russian, just as the Irish nation has persisted after the virtual disappearance of Gaelic, despite pre-1920 slogans that described Gaelic and Irish identity as inseparable? Is the language the essential element of the Ukrainian nation, or is it merely a minor element which … has been elevated to the symbol of the nation in its struggle for continued viability? [Emphasis in the original]

From Civil Conflict to Crusade: Mobilisation and National Identity in the Spanish Civil War

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
International Context ◽  
Post War ◽  
At Home

Abstract For decades after its conclusion, the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) was officially described by the newly imposed dictatorship as a Crusade. However, the appropriation of a mythologised medieval past was not just the product of post-war legitimisation. This article explores how, using “crusade” as a placeholder for Reconquista, the rebel army and its supporters responded to three distinct developments: a reaction to Republican anticlericalism; the imposition of a national identity in which Catholicism was understood as an essential element of Spanishness and the basis for its greatness; and a very practical need for popular mobilisation both at home and abroad. However, as this study demonstrates, the adoption of a crusading rhetoric and medieval mythology was a transnational development, in which distinct anti-Bolshevik campaigns, with origins in Rome and Spain, fed off each other and intersected, sometimes in intricate and hidden ways, within the increasingly polarised international context of the 1930s.

“Consuming” national identity in Western Ukraine

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksandra Seliverstova
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
Consumer Citizenship ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Western Ukraine

This paper represents an attempt to study national identity in the post-Soviet context through the lens of everyday life practices. Building on ideas of banal nationalism and consumer citizenship, and with support of empirical evidence collected in l'viv, Ukraine, this paper demonstrates how national identity becomes materialized in everyday life through consumption practices and objects of consumption. While exploring objects and practices that are not originally national in scope but infused with national meanings by ordinary people, it will be shown how consumption becomes an arena for the expression and renegotiation of national self-portraits. Differences in national meanings among residents of l'viv belonging to two different language groups will highlight the diversity of ways and means by which people express their national sensibilities. By exploring national meanings in everyday consumption practices of Ukrainian citizens, this study aims to provide an alternative perspective on post-Soviet nation-building and contribute to the current debate on the position and identity of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine.

Language and identity in a post-Soviet world: language of education and linguistic identity among Azerbaijani students

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 1015-1033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Donohoe Luscombe ◽  
Vafa Kazdal
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
World Language ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Language Of Instruction ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Educational Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Integration

Azerbaijan's complex history has weaved a tapestry of linguistic, cultural, and national identities among Azerbaijanis through centuries of political, social, and linguistic integration. In the current post-Soviet era, this identity is undergoing another period of change, with influences from intra-state ethnic, religious, and sociopolitical institutions as well as from regional and international powers. This article centers on linguistic identity among Azerbaijani youth at three types of schools: Azerbaijani-medium, Russian-medium, and English-medium. The authors seek to discover whether and to what extent the language of instruction in each type of school affects linguistic identity, which in turn has implications for national identity. The article first discusses the existing literature on language and identity in second language acquisition and socio-educational linguistics. It then examines Azerbaijan's linguistic and political history through the lens of the latter framework, as a context for an analysis of the data from surveys and focus groups. The article analyzes the relationship between medium of instruction in school and students' perceptions of language and identification with various language groups, and discusses the findings of a significant correlation between language of instruction and linguistic identity, with its implications for national identity.

Music and Italian National Identity: Mme de Staël’s Corinne ou l’Italie

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 231-240
Author(s):  
Franco Piperno
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Italian Society ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Italian Music ◽  
Opera Productions ◽  
Philosophical Origin

Mme De Staël’s Corinne ou l’Italie (1807) offered the most influential statement on Italy and the Italians by a foreign writer in 19th-century Europe. It gives a fruitful opportunity to investigate what a 19th-century foreign writer thought both of Italian music and of music as a symbol of the Italian national identity. The overview of the Italian operatic repertoire and opera productions leads to the conclusion that Italy as a nation was substantially absent from the operatic scene while, on the contrary, the Italian society made of opera the most typical entertainment and of the ‘palchetto’ an unavoidable status symbol. A similar picture of Italian society and opera is already outlined in De Staël’s novel, which created a ‘Romantic’ myth of Italy and a portrait of Italian ‘musicality’ as a typical and essential element of Italy’s cultural identity and as a substitute of a still lacking political identity of that nation. The paper investigates the cultural and philosophical origin of this view of Italian musical culture and its impact on the European perception of Italy as a nation during the 19th century.

scholarly journals HAWKERPRENEURS: HAWKERS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND REINVENTING STREET FOOD IN SINGAPORE

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICOLE TARULEVICZ
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
Successful Entrepreneurs ◽  
New Phase

ABSTRACT The hawker center is an icon of contemporary Singapore and an essential element of national identity, but one that has undergone multiple reinventions. Most recently hawking has repeatedly been presented as approaching crisis, prompted by an aging hawker population. The response of the Singapore government has been to begin another historic transformation of the hawker, focusing on the hawker entrepreneur - the hawkerpreneur. Ahead of reinvention, codification of knowledge about hawking was required and provided by museum exhibitions and cultural celebrations in media. The hawker became romanticized, a figure of history, distanced from an emergent next generation. These new hawkers are imagined by public and private interests as being successful entrepreneurs and glamorous, suit-wearing people. A change in status for hawking, achieved by a new image and structural changes, such as rankings by Michelin, are being used to signal this new phase of Singaporean street food.

Narrative Language Markers of Arabic Language Development and Impairment

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 3472-3487
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Rakhlin ◽  
Nan Li ◽  
Abdullah Aljughaiman ◽  
Elena L. Grigorenko
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Developmental Language Disorder ◽  
Standardized Measures ◽  
Verb Agreement ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Specificity And Sensitivity ◽  
Omission Errors

Purpose We examined indices of narrative microstructure as metrics of language development and impairment in Arabic-speaking children. We examined their age sensitivity, correlations with standardized measures, and ability to differentiate children with average language and language impairment. Method We collected story narratives from 177 children (54.2% boys) between 3.08 and 10.92 years old ( M = 6.25, SD = 1.67) divided into six age bands. Each child also received standardized measures of spoken language (Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary, Sentence Imitation, and Pseudoword Repetition). Several narrative indices of microstructure were examined in each age band. Children were divided into (suspected) developmental language disorder and typical language groups using the standardized test scores and compared on the narrative indicators. Sensitivity and specificity of the narrative indicators that showed group differences were calculated. Results The measures that showed age sensitivity included subject omission error rate, number of object clitics, correct use of subject–verb agreement, and mean length of utterance in words. The developmental language disorder group scored higher on subject omission errors (Cohen's d = 0.55) and lower on correct use of subject–verb agreement (Cohen's d = 0.48) than the typical language group. The threshold for impaired performance with the highest combination of specificity and sensitivity was 35th percentile. Conclusions Several indices of narrative microstructure appear to be valid metrics for documenting language development in children acquiring Gulf Arabic. Subject omission errors and correct use of subject–verb agreement differentiate children with typical and atypical levels of language development.

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