AN EVALUATION ON CONCEPTUAL SIGNIFICANCE IN ART

The concept of art, which has a spiritual meaning in its essence, is the transformation of the created concrete world into qualified objects in the artist's production with the method of imitation and repetition. This transformation makes it necessary to make sense of the concepts related to the object of art. In the historical process of art, getting rid of purely aesthetic concerns and starting to form the predominant side of thought causes the conceptual dimension of the object to be questioned. Some cornerstone works such as Marcel Duchamp's urinal, Robert Rauschenberg's white panels or Malevich's Black Square stand out by gaining value with the new conceptual meanings they add to art with their approaches in the background. In this study, some concepts in art will be examined and evaluations will be made through meaning and concept terminology. Keywords: Meaning in art, conceptual art, phenomenon in art

Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks

The study of the language-emotion interface has so far mainly concentrated on the conceptual dimension of emotions as expressed via language. This volume is the first to exclusively focus on the exploration of the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different linguistic complexity levels—and it does so by integrating work from different linguistic frameworks: generative syntax, functional and usage-based linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, and experimental phonology. This collection is both a timely and an original contribution to the growing field of research on the interaction between linguistic expressions and the so-called ‘expressive dimension’ of language. The contributions to this volume are thus of interest to researchers and graduate students who would like to learn more about state-of-the-art approaches to the language-emotion interface.

Analysis of Advertisements from Different Sectors in Turkey within the Context of Gender Equality

The concept of gender equality, which is among the most frequently discussed topics in our country, especially in recent years, appears as an area that has been examined intensively in the national agenda. As a result, different discussions may arise about the conceptual dimension. Even today, gender equality can often be confused with different disciplines. The best example of this is the misconception of the concept of feminism as gender equality. However, contrary to popular belief, feminism does not have the same meaning as gender equality. Although feminism is related to gender equality, they are not really substitute terms. Nevertheless, in many articles or researches, it can be seen that they are described as if they were the same. And yet, when the recent studies on gender equality are examined, these misunderstandings are observed to have begun to be overcome. At the same time, awareness is raised about gender equality thanks to these contents, and it is gradually increasing with the support of non-governmental organizations, big brands and platforms. The biggest indicator of this increase is the increased number of advertisements based on gender equality and the granting of awards related on the topic. For this reason, within the scope of this study, literature review is conducted on the advertisements that ranked in the category of Gender Equality at the 2019 Crystal Apple Award Ceremony and semiotic analysis methods, and interpretations are made on the advertisement pillar of the gender equality movement and the perception of gender in our country.

An Innovative Approach in Social Work Organizations

The aim of this chapter is to discuss social innovation and the importance of social innovation in the dimension of innovative approach in social work organizations. When a rapid change is experienced in social, economic, cultural, technological, and many other areas, while it is very important to be in conformity with these changes, renewals, or developments, it is also very important to create rapid and effective solutions to requirements that differ and change. Creating new and different solutions in line with innovative approaches in the face of complex social problems is summarized as “social innovation.” In this study, the concepts of social work and social innovation, the importance of social innovation in social work organizations, and social innovation practices in the dimension of innovative approach in social work organizations are examined and discussed with a conceptual dimension.

De-disciplining humanity: the humanities’ case for Critical Management Literacy

From the point of view of the humanities, it is a very promising development that management studies have recently turned to the humanities in the quest for competences which are perceived by both managers and the public to be sadly lacking in management education. From the point of view of management studies, however, humanities’ scholars usually fall equally sadly short of teaching those competences to management students in a manner designed to convey what, exactly, those competences are and why they should need them. Our article seeks to negotiate the gap between the two disciplinary domains by introducing a concept of Critical Management Literacy which is designed to communicate the humanities’ specific contribution to management studies. Applying this concept to the humanities, we argue that the humanities are uniquely suited to help overcome the disciplinary segregation of knowledge by teaching that humanity is not an ontologically pre-stabilised entity that can be owned by any discipline; rather, it is an epistemological construct which varies according to the contexts it is developed and used in. The type of knowledge the humanities offer makes this conceptual dimension visible, which we claim is intrinsically important to management education. To offer access to this knowledge to management studies, however, the humanities will definitively have to revise their understanding of their disciplinary identity to some extent.

Opposition and Debate in Piers Plowman

The chapter investigates the various work that insult and verbal violence can do in medieval dialogue and debate texts, arguing that aggressive language is not a carrier of fixed meanings, but a technique that can do many kinds of work—excitatory, catalytic, repudiatory, or apophatic. The chapter opens by looking at medieval rhetorical theories about the psychological and affective impact of sharp language. It then explores three traditions of agonistic dialogue and debate; in all three there is a conceptual dimension to the debate, and the speakers tend to be personifications or generic prosopopoiae. The first tradition is elementary pedagogical texts in grammar and rhetoric, and the second is a wider range of allegorical debate writings written under the influence of medieval schoolroom practice. Here it is clear that verbal rudeness is a mechanism with which writers stimulate response, highlight oppositionality, and sharpen the contours of difference. The third tradition is a series of spiritual texts that describe contemplative progress by using highly rebarbative language to cast aside ‘lower’ stages of experience and devotion. Here insult and verbal violence are used for the more extreme purposes of iconoclasm and apophasis. If the authors of some medieval debates use violent words to stimulate exchange, others use them to throw all such exchanges into question.

Present-Day Mass Tourism: its Imaginaries and Nightmare Scenarios

Present-day mass tourism uncannily resembles an auto-immune disease. Yet, self-destructive as it may be, it is also self-regenerating, changing its appearance and purpose. They are two modes that stand in contrast to each other. We can see them as opposites that delimit a conceptual dimension ordering varieties of present-day mass tourism. The first pole calls forth tourism as a force leaving ruin and destruction in its wake or at best a sense of nostalgia for what has been lost, the other sees tourism as a force endlessly resuscitating and re-inventing itself. This paper article highlights both sides of the story. These times of the Covid-19 pandemic, with large swathes of public life emptied by social lock-down, remind us of a second, cross-cutting conceptual dimension, ranging from public space brimming with human life to its post-apocalyptic opposite eerily empty and silent. The final part of my argument will touch on imagined evocations of precisely such dystopian landscapes.