scholarly journals The role of the nameless in isiXhosa ntsomi

Literator ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.B. Mkonto
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Creation

This article looks into the custom of not giving names to pivotal characters in some selected Xhosa tales. Given that the word “tales” means different things to different people, it is used in this article to refer to both fables (stories which deal with animals only) and folktales (stories dealing with both animals and humans). The unnaming practice is not uncommon in all types of tales and is applied to both males and females, young and old, as well as to strange mysterious beings. The motive for unnaming is analysed and its functions are alluded to. References to popular generic names of animals found in Xhosa tales are made for the sake of clarifying the need for naming, though these are not the subject of discussion here. It is therefore most fitting to use onomastics as the theoretical framework of this article in order to capture convincing patterns of the unnaming system and the creation of faceless characters in indigenous Xhosa tales.

Development of a Tourism Destination: Exploring the Role of Destination Capabilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruggero Sainaghi ◽  
Manuela De Carlo ◽  
Francesca d’Angella
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Limited Role ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
The Creation

This article aims to identify the key elements underlying a destination capability (DC) and to examine what the genesis of these factors is and how they interact to foster the destination development. The article explores a specific development process—the creation of a new product in an alpine destination (Livigno, Italy)—making use of a theoretical framework structured around four major dimensions: DCs, coordination at the destination level, inter-destination bridge ties, and destination development. The results help clarify the genesis of a DC in the context of new product development. First, the dynamics underlying the creation of a DC show that coordination at the destination level constitutes the heart of the process, whereas the integration of scattered resources in the new product plays a more limited role. Second, from a dynamic perspective, the analysis has identified three patterns (scouting, implementation, and involvement).

Language and the Subject

Joseph Conrad ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Yael Levin
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Experimental Narrative

The chapter focuses on Conrad’s scenes of suspension as sites for an investigation of language and its role in the creation of the modernist subject. Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Victory are read as the serial restaging of an unsolicited encounter with the language of the other. These unwarranted interruptions contribute to an exploration of a particularly passive and fragmented subjectivity that relinquishes the agency and cohesion afforded the Cartesian cogito. The insistence on the oral tradition is thus read not as an attempt to resurrect speech within an essentially silent medium but as a dramatization of the role of language in the evolution of the modernist subject and the narrative that houses him. Those same experimental narrative techniques that are often associated with Conrad’s commitment to an inherently epistemological philosophical inquiry are attributed here to the author’s effort to chart the ontological coordinates of character and narration.

“A Trespass against the Whole Species”: Universal Crime and Sovereign Founding in John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-585
Author(s):  
Sinja Graf
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Of Nature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation

This essay theorizes how the enforcement of universal norms contributes to the solidification of sovereign rule. It does so by analyzing John Locke’s argument for the founding of the commonwealth as it emerges from his notion of universal crime in the Second Treatise of Government. Previous studies of punishment in the state of nature have not accounted for Locke’s notion of universal crime which pivots on the role of mankind as the subject of natural law. I argue that the dilemmas specific to enforcing the natural law against “trespasses against the whole species” drive the founding of sovereign government. Reconstructing Locke’s argument on private property in light of universal criminality, the essay shows how the introduction of money in the state of nature destabilizes the normative relationship between the self and humanity. Accordingly, the failures of enforcing the natural law require the partitioning of mankind into separate peoples under distinct sovereign governments. This analysis theorizes the creation of sovereign rule as part of the political productivity of Locke’s notion of universal crime and reflects on an explicitly political, rather than normative, theory of “humanity.”

1. Inventing the Presidency

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles O. Jones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Law Making

The creative work involved in writing the Constitution of the United States in Philadelphia in 1787 has been interpreted and analysed in political and policy debate ever since. ‘Inventing the Presidency’ considers how the Founders of the United States tried to create unity in a separated system. Why was the title of president selected? What was the role of president going to look like? How long should the single executive serve? Should the person be term-limited? Providing a legislative or law-making role for the president was the subject of considerable debate at the beginning. Inventors solve problems: they tinker until they have a workable device. The creation of the presidency was a process of trial and error.

The study of Latin grammar in eighth-century Southumbria

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 43-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivien Law
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Grammatical Tradition ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Insular Latinity – its origins, characteristics, affiliations and dissemination – has attracted much attention in the last decade. One area which has benefited from this increased interest is the investigation of the Latin grammars written by Insular scholars: consider, for example, the editions of Insular grammatical writings recently published in the Corpus Christianorum Series Latina. But it is noteworthy that the Anglo-Latin grammarians have profited far less from this upsurge in interest than their Irish counterparts. Although Anglo-Latin as well as Hiberno-Latin texts have been among those recently edited, and have been the subject of several specialized studies, they have failed to excite scholarly attention to the same extent as the Irish works. Their origin, history, relationship and cultural context have not yet been satisfactorily established. Studies such as the series of articles by Louis Holtz, tracing the evolution of the study of grammar in Ireland and the relationship of the surviving texts to one another, are lacking for the Anglo-Latin grammarians. Yet the unknown factors in early England are scarcely fewer. To take one example, the fundamental problem of the rôle of the Irish in the creation of an Anglo-Latin grammatical tradition has hardly been touched upon. Indeed, that the Anglo-Saxons can even be credited with a grammatical tradition of their own has been questioned. Too often, the few surviving Anglo-Latin grammars are held up as an isolated phenomenon and contrasted with the prolific outpourings of a diligent host of Irishanonymi. It is the purpose of this article to investigate the evidence for the study of Latin grammar in England south of the Humber up to the time of its best-known manifestations, the grammars of Tatwine and Boniface, in the early eighth century.

scholarly journals Marka artystyczna. Jak rozumiane jest pojęcie marki w świecie sztuki?

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-251
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Szymańska-Palaczyk
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Art World ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation

This article shows how members of the contemporary art world in Poland understand the concept of the brand: how they define and validate it; what associations it evokes; and what kind of language is used to speak about it. The article summarizes part of the research conducted in 2015 with members of the art world within the framework of the project ‘The Artistic Brand as a Social Phenomenon: The Creation, Differentiation, and Role of Artistic Brands in Contemporary Poland.’ Thoughts on the subject of art brands lead to a description of the state of contemporary art in Poland. The definitions formulated by the respondents are compared to marketing theories, thus making it possible to determine the respondents’ level of knowledge of such theories. In conclusion, definitions of artistic brands are reviewed and supplemented on the basis of the material obtained from the research.

scholarly journals The Role of Warhol’s Brillo soap boxes on the Contemporary Aesthetics, based on the “Applied Ontology” Theory of Roger Pouivet

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (30) ◽  
pp. 330-342
Author(s):  
Hoda Zabolinezhad ◽  
Parisa Shad Qazvini
Keyword(s):  
Art World ◽  
Applied Ontology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics ◽  
Art Experts

This paper, based on Roger Pouivet’s “applied ontology” theory, studies the effect of Warhol’s Brillo soap boxes, a work that could not convince the art world, when it was first shown, to accept it as an art piece. We strive to answer two questions: In the contemporary age, what aesthetic criteria turn a human-made work into an artwork? And deriving from Pouivete’s “applied ontology” theory, how is a contemporary artwork considered as the personal symbols of the artist and how are the aesthetic characteristics of the work received? An artwork in any style, form and content, includes contextual and formal symbols. In the contemporary age, this becomes a mix of personal symbols and already known collective symbols of a culture that together play a defining role in the creation of the artwork. In other words, a work will be recognized as an artwork when it is the subject of arguments among art experts, even without needing to reach any consensus.

scholarly journals The Performance Variable of the Actor's Techniques in Postmodern Theater Shows

Al-academy ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 41-56
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
Economic Variables ◽  
Performance Technology ◽  
Performance Variable ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Performance

The postmodern ideas and concepts have produced social, political and economic variables that have been affected by wars, crises, the role of globalization and the information revolution. They have created many variables in concepts and great variables in technological, artistic and cultural innovations. All these changes have contributed to changing the form of the theatrical show aesthetically and intellectually, which cast a shadow over the nature of the actor's performance who has become more demanding to change his performance and to find the mechanisms and new nature of work governing him corresponding to those variables and this prompted the researcher to adopt the subject (the performance variable of the actor's techniques in postmodern theatre show (. Research importance:It provides benefit to actors, directors and workers in the field of theater. The researcher in the theoretical framework tackled two sections:The first section: Postmodern conceptThe second section: the actor's performance in postmodernismThe researcher chose a sample for the analysis represented by the play (Azaiza), which was presented in 2014, and after the analysis, a set of results have been found and the most important of which are:- The theory of playing in the performance and performance technology clearly contributed to the blending of all the styles and artistic trends within one center that depends through their way on fragmentation, anarchy, contradiction, and the ambiguity and multiplicity of the meaning. Then the conclusions reached at and the most important of which are:-The performance variable of the actor's techniques is highlighted in postmodern presentations via subjugating the actor to the hegemony of the techniques that made him a sign subject to its authority within the show system.

1. Inventing the presidency

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles O. Jones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation

The creative work involved in writing the Constitution of the United States in Philadelphia in 1787 has been interpreted and invoked in political and policy debate ever since. “Inventing the presidency” considers how the Founders of the United States tried to create unity in a separated system. Why was the title of president selected? What was the role of president going to look like? How long should the single executive serve? Providing a legislative or lawmaking role for the president was the subject of considerable debate at the beginning. Inventors solve problems: they tinker until they have a workable device. The creation of the presidency was a process of trial and error.

scholarly journals Genesis of ideas in the course of intersubjective interactions between intellectuals

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (Extra-E) ◽  
pp. 397-404
Author(s):  
Nikita Nikolaevich Ravochkin ◽  
Sergey Dmitriyevich Krasnousov ◽  
Liudmila Gennadyevna Korol ◽  
Svetlana Petrovna Shtumpf ◽  
Dmitry Vladimirovich Rakhinsky
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
General Dynamics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Intellectual Networks ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Mental Constructs ◽  
Modern Technologies

The authors of this article examine the issue of the genesis of ideas generated in the course of intersubjective interactions between intellectuals. It is pointed out that ideas, as mental constructs, ideas have gone beyond the subject area of metaphilosophy, in particular, falling into the praxeological dimension, thus turning into independent factors explaining the transformations of social reality. Randall Collins’s theory of intellectual networks was used by the authors of the article as methodology. The role of professional contacts in the process of generating ideas is shown. The article also highlights the importance of modern technologies, which serve as tools that encourage the creation of intellectual constructs and provide transboundariness, one of their basic characteristics. Another focus of the article is the contribution postpositivists have made to the general dynamics of ideas. Apart from that, intersubjectivity of intellectuals’ discourse is considered and conflict-generating factors of producing ideas are analyzed. In the conclusion, the results of the work and its main findings are summarized.

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