scholarly journals Analysis of Docudrama Techniques and Negotiating One’s Identity in David Edgar’s Pentecost

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Samer Ziyad Al Sharadgeh
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
National Group ◽  
Group Language ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Subordinate Function ◽  
Objective Indicators

Edgar manages to invert the subordinate function of generally accepted objective indicators of membership of a particular national group—language, religion, common history, and territory—into the essential mode of imperative distinction shaping the unique national identity. In other words, it is the fresco and the value assigned to it that defines and consigns meaning to Catholic or Orthodox denomination, the refugees, and their hostages in Pentecost, not vice versa. The fact that it is only after they learn about the hypothetically enormous estimated value of the painting that Fr Petr Karolyi and FrSergei Bojovic fervently announce the fresco (as well as the abandoned church where it was discovered) as belonging to their particular denomination, which enunciates that each of the national constituents in their lack of distinctive features suffers from processes similar to the major redesigning and reconstruction of the sense of identity in the nation.

Семантические особенности фитонима «полынь» в современной калмыцкой лирике: английский перевод в аспекте имагологии

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-195
Author(s):  
Еkaterina A. Shkurskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
National Language ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Native Land ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The People ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Poetic Translation

The article focuses on verbal olfacty representation on the example of phytonym “sage” in the poetic text of Rimma Khaninova “Sage Scent” (2008) and the literary translation by Nikolay and Gala Burlakovs. The comparative analysis of the original and the English translation enables us not only to set the intercultural dialogue but also see the distinctive features of one culture through the prism of another language. The phytonym “sage” in the author’s text has a strong and associative dominance reflecting the underlying peculiarities of the culture of the Kalmyk people. Such floral features of phytonym “sage” as a long-lasting fragrance and color create a lot of additional metaphorical associations. On the figurative level, the scent of sage represents the scent of motherland, freedom, on the emotional level – it is the memory of the native land, a landmark. The national identity is expressed implicitly through positive evaluative characteristics of sage scent. In the poetic translation by N. and G. Burlakovs the main idea and the plot line of the poem remained the same, however, the verbal olfacty representation – the sage scent ― is rendered from the point of view of the people of the Western culture. The emotional and image associations in English stay the same, but they do not reflect the unique feature of the phytonym “sage” for national identity of the Kalmyk people, they lack the dominant ethnic-specific feature of this plant which is the equality to the native land and national language.

The Style of the Neo-Greek (Neo-Grec) in the Historical and Cultural Context of the Southern Region of Russia by the Example of the Cities of Rostov-on-Don and Yessentuki

2018 ◽  
Vol 931 ◽  
pp. 705-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia M. Kishkinova
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Main Task ◽  
The South ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Insufficient Knowledge ◽  
European Architecture

In European architecture the Neo-Grec style, based on a revival of Greek principles and motifs, is an independent stage in rediscovering of classical antique heritage. It is one of the “new styles” of a historicist phase in architecture that claimed to find national identity in the architecture of independent Greece. In Russian architecture of the mid-19th – early 20th centuries this style is represented in a wide range of monuments that are mostly located in the South of Russia. However insufficient knowledge and research on the monuments of this style create difficulties for their maintenance and restoration. The purpose of the paper is to identify distinctive features of neo-grec in the region. The main task is to determine the reasons for a turn to neo-grec in the South of Russia, to identify and analyze neo-grec buildings in the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Yessentuki, to examine their composition and décor, to identify their ancient prototypes, to differentiate constant and variable elements in the architecture of the Neo-Grec.

scholarly journals Niby-„tutejsza” polszczyzna mówiona na Łotwie okresu międzywojennego w oczach jej użytkowników (na materiale prasowym z lat 1922–1940)

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 433-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iveta Rucka
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Press

The so-called "indigenous" Polish speech in Latvia in the pre-war period from the perspective of its native users (basing on the 1922–1940 local press)The article stems from the author’s interest in the pre-war Polish press in Latvia. It is based on press materials, whose authors – for different different reasons – used language in their opinion typical for the spoken Polish dialect used by the lower classes. The collected data show the features that are treated by the Polish minority in Latvia as the most typical or most noticeable in their speech. The texts where the use of regional variation of Polish was conscious and purposeful exhibit a range of distinctive features at all levels of language. These features hardly ever occur in the press articles that have been written in standard Polish. The analysis of the texts provided a starting point for the present study. The purpose of the research was to determine the attitudes of writers and editors towards the local Polish dialect, its role in shaping the national identity and its significance in the lives of its users. «Здешняя» польская речь в Латвии в довоенный период в глазах носителей языка (на материале прессы, издаваемой в 1922–1940 годах)Проблематика данной статьи обусловлена нашим интересом к польской прессе, издаваемой в Латвии в период 1922–1940 годов. Базой для исследования послужил языковой материал, извлеченный из газетных статей (фельетонов), авторы которых по разным причинам употребляют язык, наиболее, по их мнению, соответствующий разговорной речи общественных низов. Анализ исследуемого материала показал, какие языковые явления поляки в Латвии считали самыми характерными и отличительными чертами своего языка, поскольку фельетоны, в которых нагромождение диалектных речевых особенностей было преднамеренным, содержат большое количество примеров таких явлений на всех уровнях языка, чего не замечено в остальном, гораздо более обширным, газетном материале. В статье преследовалась и другая цель – определить отношение создателей и редакторов польской прессы в Латвии к «здешнему» польскому говору, роль последнего в качестве исключительно важного компонента национального самосознания и место его в системе духовных ценностей носителей польской речи в Латвии.

Who is “German” and who is a “migrant?” Constructing Otherness in education and psychology research

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 656-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Moffitt ◽  
Linda P Juang
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
National Group ◽  
The Impact

Despite growing European and global interconnectedness, questions of national identity have only gained in importance in recent years. Yet the role researchers play in perpetuating norms of national belonging has gone largely unexamined. Who is included in unmarked national group labels such as German, Dutch, or Danish, who is understood as Other, and how terminology relates to exclusionary notions of national identity warrants greater investigation. Thus, using an exploratory review of recent research in the German context, the current study aimed to (a) identify relevant terminology in empirical education and psychology studies; (b) employ constructionist analysis to examine its situated meaning; (c) discuss societal and methodological implications; and (d) propose guidelines for more accurate and inclusive research. Based on a constructionist thematic analysis, a reiteration of a white ingroup and perceived immigrant Other was found. This dichotomy reinforces an exclusionary notion of who is German while omitting relevant information, such as participant generation or citizenship, from analyses. In doing so, researchers are perpetuating essentialized notions of national belonging while reporting incomplete and potentially inaccurate findings. Though selecting demographic information can be complex, recognizing the impact of labels and acknowledging heterogeneity are essential elements of inclusive and representative research.

O City of Kranaos! Athenian Identity in Aristophanes’ Acharnians

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Whitehorne
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Common Language ◽  
National Group ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
City States ◽  
New Zealanders

Defining national identity is an ongoing and open-ended process, which is pursued constantly and competitively through every available medium. Identity can be defined by what we have to say about ourselves as a group, or about individuals who seem to embody characteristics considered either desirable or undesirable for the group as a whole. It is defined too by what we have to say about others, because at the same time we are thereby defining ourselves. It is also defined by what others have to say - or choose to leave unsaid - about us. Further definitions are also created when, as is often the case, a national group also finds itself a subgroup of a wider linguistic entity. English and Scots, Americans and Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders, metropolitan and colonial French, Chileans and Argentinians - the modern list is almost endless, just as it was in ancient Greece with its plethora of rival city states, all speaking a common language yet all with their own distinct political traditions, systems of coinage, dialects, and social structures.

scholarly journals Discrimination Among Youth of Immigrant Descent in Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 88-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kunyu ◽  
Linda P. Juang ◽  
Maja K. Schachner ◽  
Miriam Schwarzenthal
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Academic Adjustment ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
School Behavior ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
National Group

Abstract. Ethnic discrimination has a negative impact on the socioemotional, behavioral, relational, and academic adjustment of adolescents, while belonging with classmates, teachers, heritage, and national group may promote positive socioemotional and academic adjustment. We investigate (1) whether greater discrimination by peers and a lower sense of belonging with classmates, teachers, heritage group, and national group are associated with lower socioemotional and academic adjustment of adolescents of immigrant descent in Germany; and (2) whether a sense of belonging with these different sources acts as a protective factor lowering the negative effects of discrimination on adjustment. Our sample included 439 7th-grade adolescents (51 % female, Mage = 12.4 years) of immigrant descent from 15 Berlin secondary schools. Results showed that higher discrimination was related to greater physiological stress, depressive symptoms, and disruptive school behavior. Higher heritage (but not national) identity, a higher sense of belonging with classmates and with teachers were associated with better socioemotional and academic adjustment. An examination of interaction effects between discrimination and forms of belonging on adjustment revealed that, while the association between discrimination and poorer adjustment weakened for those with higher heritage identity, the association between discrimination and physiological stress increased for those with higher teacher relatedness. We conclude that heritage identity (but not national identity or sense of belonging with classmates) can indeed be a protective factor against the negative effects of discrimination for adolescents of immigrant descent in Germany. Even though belonging with teachers may exacerbate discrimination effects, further investigation with longitudinal data is needed. The findings underline the important role of heritage ties among adolescents of immigrant descent as a source of adjustment, especially in light of discrimination experiences.

scholarly journals BAHASA DAN IDENTITAS BUDAYA

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Budi Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Social Group ◽  
National Language ◽  
Arbitrary System ◽  
Group Language ◽  
The Social

Language is an arbitrary system of sound used by members of a social group to cooperate, communicate, and identify one self. The paper discusses the use of language to identify personal identity, social class, ethnicity, and nationality. Language can determine the identity of an individual and a group. Language is also used to identify or to show the personal identity of a person. Furthermore, language shows the social class of a person. A person who comes from the low level class has a different language style from those of the higher level class. As ethnic identity, language can be used to denote ethnicity or the membership of a person or group in a certain ethnic group. Language can also become the national identity as well. Thus, every country has its own national language

scholarly journals The formation of national identity in process of aesthetic education of youth

2021 ◽  
pp. 600-609
Author(s):  
Gulnara Ildarovna Safina ◽  
Taisiya Olegovna Pushkar ◽  
Lubov Markelovna Yao ◽  
Juliana Gennadievna Emanova
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Research University ◽  
Aesthetic Education ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Identity System

The paper discusses the issues of national identity, and patriotism formation by means of national art and folk culture, which are able to arouse love for the family, their home, their national and territorial community. To study the process of formation of national identity, a constructionist approach was taken, within which a constructed phenomenon was considered. The identity system of modern youth was studied by compiling a test by T. Kuhn and T. MacPartland "Who Am I?" The test was offered to students of Kazan National Research University (1997; 2012), and students of Kazan Federal University (2019). A tendency to increase the proportion of students who determined their national identity (Tatar man / Tatar woman, Russian man / Russian woman) was identified. The paper reveals specific examples of the methods of forming a national identity in the process of aesthetic education: the revival of folk art, since it is inextricably linked with national and religious traditions; familiarization with the arts and crafts, reflecting the distinctive features of each nation. All the peoples of the Middle Volga live in Tatarstan: except for Tatars and Russians, the Chuvash, Mari, Mordovians, Ukrainians, Belarusians live in the republic. All nationalities of the republic have formed their institutional formations, or cultural-national communities, spend their holidays, which go beyond the framework of the republican and become all-Russian and international.

On the Borders of the Nation: Jews and the German–Polish National Conflict in Poznania, 1886–1914

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Drummond
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
German History ◽  
German Culture ◽  
German Empire ◽  
National Group ◽  
And Gender

National identity is everywhere constructed through a process of negotiation with other categories of identity—local, regional, class, confessional, and gender. In borderlands, however, there is another element in this negotiation process—the sharing of public space with another national group, an element that further complicates identity formation. Here categories can change and/or function differently than in the interior of a country. In many respects, the construction of Germanness in the province of Poznania [German: Posen; Polish: Poznań] proceeded along similar lines as in the rest of the German Empire. German nationalists, both in the eastern provinces and in the rest of the Reich, produced publications and organized lectures about and celebrations of German history and German culture in an effort to mobilize national loyalties in support of policies that would consolidate Germandom both within and without. However, the presence of a Polish challenge in Poznania—the defining problem of the province—complicated constructions of German national identity.

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