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PAZINA, Svitlana V. "FEATURES OF CREATING A GERMAN ANECDOTE IN THE LINGUISTIC ASPECT." Мова, no. 36 (April 1, 2022): 63–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4558.2021.36.249724.
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The purpose of the article is to investigate the characteristic lexical means (linguistic features) of German jokes based on literary material and to determine the principles that apply to the creation of German jokes in the texts considered. The object of research in this work is an anecdote as an element of German culture, folklore, language, literature. In view of the small volume of the article, we have considered only the anecdotes of the German origin (without anecdotes of other countries about the Germans). The subject of the study is the lexical composition, the linguistic features of the German joke. We have thrown light upon the provisions that formed the basis of practical research. The author considers the lexical tools used to create a German anecdote and reinforces the results with tables with data from frequency lists. The result of the study: 1) the structure and distribution of lexical units in the text of German anecdotes were investigated; 2) the lexical composition of the selected anecdotes was perused; 3) the originality of lexical units used to create anecdotes was considered; 4) the functional features of the lexical units used to create studied German anecdotes are determined. Conclusions: Most German anecdotes are based on the principle of participation of contrasting persons (man — woman, adults (parents) — children, spouses — lovers, etc.); the most commonly used words in German anecdotes mean actions reflecting the dynamics (movement), activity, emotionality; German jokes are mostly dialogue. The practical application of the research results is the use of an anecdote as an element in the different studies of German culture, folklore, language, literature, linguistic education, psycholinguistics, linguoculturology.
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Pakhnenko, Irina, and Svitlana Tielietova. "Language game as a means of linguistic anecdote organization." Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu. Serìâ: Fìlologìâ 12, no. 21 (2019): 148–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-3055-2019-12-21-148-157.
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The article discusses specific features of the anecdote as a speech genre, analyzes communicative-pragmatic principles of creating a comic effect in anecdotes based on the wordplay. It is noted that the concept of «anecdote», despite the fact that it is widely used in modern literary criticism and linguistics, does not have a single interpretation and a precise theoretical definition, which is explained by its genre uniqueness and complexity of a cognitive-pragmatic nature. It is emphasized that the most important part of the work of this genre is its finale, originally known to the narrator. It is the last climax phrase that contains the unexpected and unpredictable final semantic resolution that constitutes the anecdote as such. Among the features inherent in the actual anecdotal texts are: small volume, lack of authorship, reproducibility, indefinite chronotope, stereotypicality of plot schemes, relatively constant set of characters, ambivalence of the meaning of language units, intertextuality, situational functioning, etc. The dominant category of the anecdote text is minimalism, manifested in the choice of details, the number of heroes, laconic form, the volume of compositional components. It is stated that formation of the types of anecdotes took place along two lines: folk and literary. A modern anecdote, in contrast to the literary jokes of previous years, as a rule, is a speech genre, not a literary one, which determines its specificity. It is noted that anecdotes are divided into situational (subject, referential), in which the comic nature of the described situation is not related to the linguistic design, and language (linguistic), which are based on the playing out of certain linguistic phenomena. The comic effect in the latter is based on purely linguistic mechanisms and depends on the choice of the used speech means. An integral part of creating a comic effect in linguistic anecdotes is violation of certain norms, or incongruence, in the implementation of which the leading role is played by the language game. The game potential of phonetic, lexical, word-building, morphological and syntactic means, as well as precedent phenomena involved in speech works of this type are described. Particular attention is paid to punning outplaying of polysemy and various types of homonymy as one of the most popular means of creating a language joke. It is concluded that peculiarity of the game means, used for creating a humorous effect, lies in their function: they have an additional evaluative connotation, express different degrees of negative loading and take part in creating comic ambiguity in the statement.
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Krotov, P. A. "“Genuine anecdotes about Peter the Great” by J. Shtelin, Translated by A. A. Nartov — an Unknown Monument of Russian Literature of 18th Century." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 9 (September 30, 2020): 235–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2020-9-235-249.
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The problem of the development of a small literary genre of historical anecdote in Russia in the second half of the 18th century is researched. The question is raised on the manuscript of the translation of “Genuine anecdotes about Peter the Great” by Academician J. Shtelin (1709—1785) into Russian, which was made by the famous person of the Age of Enlightenment A. A. Nartov (1736/1737—1813) in 1785. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the article is the first study of the manuscript, which remained unpublished and was not the subject of research. It is proved that Nartov’s translation of Shtelin’s work became an impetus for him to create his own historical and literary work, now known as Nartov’s Tales of Peter the Great (1786). It is concluded that Nartov’s collection of historical anecdotes is a literary work, which was created with extensive use of Shtelin’s “Genuine anecdotes about Peter the Great”. The study of Nartov’s manuscript also made it possible to establish that the author of the first translation of Shtelin’s work published in Russia (1785) was the famous translator and publisher P. I. Bogdanovich.
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Cornell, Paul, Robert Luchetii, Lisbeth A. Mack, and Gary M. Olson. "CSCW Anecdotes and Directions." Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting 33, no. 13 (October 1989): 867–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193128903301322.
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This paper reviews the impact that computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) has had on groups meeting in the same time and place. As is typical with new fields of study, there are few rigorous studies evaluating the merits of CSCW. Nonetheless, researchers have repeatedly observed events that, while not statistically verified, are worth sharing. These observations can aid development and help establish a research agenda. Among the major findings are that groups appear to reach consensus more quickly, are able to handle larger amounts of information more accurately, and are generally satisfied with the results. There is need for caution, however, about the effect on group dynamics and the need to tradeoff individual ergonomics and group needs. The results to date are very encouraging. New developments and research currently underway will add significant value, enhancing group performance and viability. If these developments come to fruition, CSCW could radically change existing notions of work collaboration.
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Mohammadiyeh, Zahra Ebrahimi, Seyyed Mohammad Ali Ayazi, and Ja’far Nekoonam. "Examining the Anecdotes of Tha’labī's Book "Qatla al-Qur'an" from Propp's Morphological Perspective." International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 8, no. 3 (March 3, 2021): 310. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v8i3.2493.
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One way of examining fiction texts in literature is to analyze the structure of anecdotes from Vladimir Propp's morphological point of view. For fairy tales, Propp has defined functions that are applicable to a variety of other tales and stories. The book "Qatla al-Qur'an" by Abu Isḥāq al-Tha’labī is a collection of anecdotes, all of which have a common point and they are all about the stories of those who lost their lives after hearing a verse or verses from the divine book. Examining the narrative structure of these short stories reveals the hidden relationships between the anecdotes in their infrastructure and reveals the structure and form of the stories better. In this article, this attractive Tha’labī’s work has been analyzed from a morphological point of view by descriptive-analytical method. As a result, the introductory works and the climax of the story, which usually marks the end of it, are the most important design of Tha’labī for creating a single and uniform structure in the anecdotes of this book.
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Woodward, Kathleen. "Work-Work Balance, Metrics, and Resetting the Balance." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 127, no. 4 (October 2012): 994–1000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2012.127.4.994.
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In 1982, a year after i was appointed director of the center for twentieth century studies at the university of wisconsin, milwaukee (I had just received tenure), I met with a program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, DC. “Aren't you a little young to be the director of a humanities center?” he asked. Notwithstanding the inappropriateness of the question, my point is that thirty years later I'm still in the same position, albeit at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle. In a sense I haven't moved. I have consistently chosen to remain at this level in university administration, refusing the hierarchical ladder (chair, associate dean, dean, provost, president) in order to stay close to faculty and graduate student research, including my own, and relying on building networks across the campus and the country in order to have influence at my university and beyond. Two anecdotes—I think of them as short stories—illustrate why.
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Cronrath, Corey. "The Power of Hard Work, Opportunity, and Time: A Physician’s Personal Leadership Journey." Physician Leadership Journal 11, no. 1 (January 2024): 19–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.55834/plj.6002711894.
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The author shares his personal leadership journey as a physician, highlighting the importance of hard work, embracing opportunities, and the role of randomness in shaping our lives. Through personal anecdotes, he hopes to inspire others to believe in their potential and embrace the unpredictable nature of life’s path.
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Arrington, Michael Irvin. "When They Saw Me." Journal of Autoethnography 4, no. 2 (2023): 157–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.157.
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The current project is an autoethnographic narrative account of memorable moments that affected (and, one might argue, effected) elements of the author’s identity as an African American man. The project includes several autobiographical anecdotes that span over four decades and include interactions with educators, relatives, and strangers. The author reconsiders the ways in which others’ perceptions of him, often linked to race, have affected his lived experiences in school, at work, on a summer afternoon walk, and online. Taken together, the anecdotes illustrate ways in which the social construction of race affects the author’s perception of self and others.
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Благодарская, Елена. "“Three Anecdotes for Radio”: The Fate of PauL Hindemith’s Forgotten Opus." Музыкальная академия, no. 1(774) (June 24, 2021): 114–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.34690/152.
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В данной статье рассматривается малоизвестное произведение Пауля Хиндемита, изначально названное «Три анекдота для радио» («3 Anekdoten Fur Radio»). Автор подробно описывает обстоятельства создания опуса, дополняет их сведениями из биографии композитора, соотносит с историческими событиями. На основе рукописных и документальных материалов из архива Хиндемита, и особенно его переписки с издательством Шотт, освещаются факты, связанные с исполнениями и публикацией сочинения. Дополнительно приводятся сведения о запланированных и состоявшихся премьерах, об откликах в прессе и рецензиях влиятельных музыкальных критиков того времени. The subject oF this article is the little-known work oF Paul Hindemith, which is first called “Three Anecdotes For the Radio” (“3 Anekdoten Fur Radio”). The author describes in detail the circumstances oF his appearance, supplements them with inFormation From the biography oF the composer, correlates with historical events. On the basis oF handwritten and documentary materials From the Hindemith archives and especially his correspondence with the Schott Publishing House, unknown Facts are revealed related to the perFormance and publication oF the work. Additionally, inFormation is provided on the planned and held premieres, on press responses and reviews oF influential music critics oF that time.
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Earl Rinehart, Kerry. "The Complexity of Judgment in the Everyday Work of Educators." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 20, no. 4 (February 13, 2019): 307–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708619829776.
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We experience judgment in everyday life: the process and the outcome, making and receiving. In this piece, I turn to John Dewey’s notions on how judgments are situational, interpretive, (con)temporary, active, and relational. Contrary to everyday connotations of the word judgment, Dewey reminds us that judgment is more contingent than propositional. The aim of this piece is to re-consider our understanding of judgment in everyday educational work. Crafted from a range of sources, anecdotes are alternated with statements about judgment in the work of school principals and teachers, one to illustrate the other. The form chosen for this project echoes that of Ron Pelias’s 1994 piece on performance in everyday discourse.
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Wooffitt, Robin. "Poetic Confluence and the Public Formulation of Others’ Private Matters." Sociological Research Online 23, no. 3 (May 31, 2018): 687–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780418778860.
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This article is an exploratory empirical study of a form of interpersonal relationality that takes the form of a speech event in which one participant produces a spoken turn that exhibits a poetic relationship to a co-participant’s unspoken thoughts or unarticulated mental imagery. The data consist of anecdotal reports, which are analysed in relation to empirical findings from conversation analytic studies of formulations in institutional and naturally occurring talk. The first part of the article establishes its robustness and describes some recurrent properties. The analysis shows how poetic turns formulate modulated versions of others’ sensitive or delicate thoughts or imagery, thereby performing a form of Goffmanesque remedial work. In the discussion, methodological and substantive implications of this phenomenon are discussed, specifically: the use of anecdotes in sociological research, the porousness of personal boundaries, and theoretical accounts of relationality.
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Khalek, Nancy. "Some Notes on the Representation of Non-Muslim Officials in al-Ǧahšiyārī’s (d. 331/942) Kitāb al-Wuzarāʾ wa-l-kuttāb." Arabica 62, no. 4 (August 11, 2015): 503–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341359.
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Rather than a handbook or chronological history of secretaries and viziers, or a straightforward guide to administrative terminology, the Kitāb al-Wuzarāʾ wa-l-kuttāb by Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbdūs al-Ǧahšiyārī (d. 331/942) is a collection of ʿAbbāsid-era narratives on the history of early Islamic administration. Related to other works in the genre adab al-kātib, the Kitāb al-Wuzarāʾ wa-l-kuttāb provides insight into one compiler’s literary techniques as well as his social/cultural agenda. The portion of al-Ǧahšiyārī’s work analyzed here focuses on key events in the Umayyad period and illustrates his apologetic stance on the non-Muslim foundations of ʿAbbāsid administrative structures especially well. Using short anecdotes that contain pithy, repetitive tropes of non-Muslim administrative officials’ arrogance or incompetence, al-Ǧahšiyārī polemically mythologized a foundations narrative for early Islamic administrative history. Several studies of another portion of this text, on the ʿAbbāsid caliphs and the Barmakids, have determined the literary/historical value of al-Ǧahšiyārī’s work. In these brief comments, four short anecdotes from a relatively understudied portion of the Kitāb al-Wuzarāʾ wa-l-kuttāb are assessed in order to demonstrate al-Ǧahšiyārī’s mode of representation for the earliest stages of Islamic administration.
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Brantley, Meredith, and Cheryl Niekamp. "Workshops that Work: Physician Involvement in Service Training." Journal of Patient Experience 1, no. 2 (November 2014): 28–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/237437431400100206.
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Physician involvement in service training initiatives can have a significant impact on the patient experience. This paper highlights some of the key components of what makes physician involvement in training engagements successful and includes anecdotes and data to support the findings. Our service training program emerged from a desire to help clinic sections improve the patient experience. Our workshops contained customized materials that addressed service priority areas, as identified by patient satisfaction survey results, for individual clinic sections and included opportunities to practice the concepts introduced in each session. However, we were missing one key ingredient in the recipe for a successful training program — physician involvement. This paper focuses on a best practice in which two physicians took an active role in creating, customizing and delivering service training for their clinic section and made a tremendous impact on their overall patient satisfaction scores and section morale.
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Weiner, Bernard. "Reflections on the History of Attribution Theory and Research." Social Psychology 39, no. 3 (January 2008): 151–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335.39.3.151.
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Fifty years after the publication of The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations ( Heider, 1958 ), attribution inquiry remains strong, but no longer dominant. This article examines some of the people (particularly, Fritz Heider, Edward Jones, and Harold Kelley), publications, and conceptual issues that contributed to the duration of this line of work. Personal anecdotes are included.
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Ermakova, Liya L. "“The blow from the plough” (Philostr. Gymn. 20; Paus. VI.10.1–2)." Shagi / Steps 10, no. 2 (2024): 163–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2024-10-2-163-171.
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In the Gymnasticus, ascribed to Flavius Philostratus, there are five anecdotes about trainers who helped their athletes by various means to win at Olympia (Gymn. 20–24). None of these stories, except the one about the renowned boxer Glaucus of Carystus, is attested elsewhere. Glaucus’ trainer Tisias encouraged him by shouting τὰν ἀπ’ ἀρότρου πλῆξαι which meant ‘right-handed punch’ because his right hand was so strong that he once straightened a ploughshare with it. Pausanias, however, attributes the exhortation (ὦ παῖ τὴν ἀπ’ ἀρότρου) to Glaucus’ father Demylus and renders the story differently: Demylus takes his young son to Olympia after having watched him attach a ploughshare to a plough with his bare hands. The author of the present article proposes how to interpret this exhortation. The problem of interpretation has been solved differently as we may see in the translations of Pausanias’ work into Latin and modern languages; it has also resulted in a variant reading ἐπ(ί) instead of ἀπ(ό) in the Suda lexicon, where the Pausanias text is cited with minor changes. Since Philostratus’ aim was to praise the wisdom of trainers, it is not improbable that he slightly changed the story and that the Pausanias version is the original one. In this case, the two parts of the anecdote are logically connected and the ellipsis might be filled with the word “ploughshare” (ὕνιν) which is present in both variants of the anecdote
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Green, M. L. H., and W. P. Griffith. "Geoffrey Wilkinson and Platinum Metals Chemistry." Platinum Metals Review 42, no. 4 (October 1, 1998): 168–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1595/003214098x424168173.
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At this time, the second anniversary of Geoffrey Wilkinson’s death on 26th September 1996, his work and influence on the development of inorganic chemistry and the chemistry of the platinum group metals are recalled by two of his former students and colleagues. Geoffrey Wilkinson’s early life and career, important areas of his platinum metals research and work leading to the award in 1973 of the Nobel Prize are surveyed. He is remembered by his relationship with Johnson Matthey, his work at Imperial College and by affectionate anecdotes from the laboratory.
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Parker, Pamela Corpron. "Fictional Philanthropy in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and North and South." Victorian Literature and Culture 25, no. 2 (1997): 321–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150300004812.
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Among the many anecdotes explaining Elizabeth Gaskell's entrance into the literary marketplace is one circulated by Travers Madge, a leading Manchester philanthropist. Gaskell allegedly told him that “the one strong impulse” to write Mary Barton came after visiting one particularly destitute laborer's cottage:She was trying hard to speak comfort, and to allay those bitter feelings against the rich which were so common with the poor, when the head of the family took hold of her arm, and grasping it tightly said, with tears in his eyes, “Ay, ma'am, but have ye ever seen a child clemmed to death?” (Hompes 131)While this anecdote ostensibly explains Gaskell's literary calling as a sacred duty and illustrates her expansive feminine sympathy, it also positions her work within the larger project of nineteenth-century philanthropy. As a lady visitor, she attempts to “speak comfort” and assuage working-class hostility toward the rich, but she finds herself in a discursive struggle with the workman, whose rough vernacular and even rougher hand threaten violence both to the lady and the narrative. Like the Ancient Mariner of Coleridge's poem, the nameless workman compels her to listen and accord him the authority that great suffering demands. He wrests the reader's attention away from the main figure of the anecdote, the benevolent “Mrs. Gaskell,” and renders her speechless — at least for a while. For it is his domestic tragedy which authorizes her literary vocation and enables her to present her work as a form of fictional philanthropy.
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Nicoll-Johnson, Evan. "Guo Pu Crosses the River: Migration Anecdotes in Jinshu Biographical Narratives." Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 1 (January 12, 2021): 99–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911820003629.
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In the early fourth century CE, after the escalation of a series of succession disputes among the imperial Sima clan, the Jin dynasty collapsed and its capital city of Luoyang 洛陽 was destroyed. However, the end of the dynasty did not cause the Sima clan to fall from power entirely. Instead, the Jin dynasty was reestablished in the new capital of Jiankang 建康, the city known today as Nanjing. The earlier incarnation of the Jin would come to be known as the Western Jin dynasty, while the restored Jin dynasty is referred to as the Eastern Jin. The impact of this cataclysm on the inhabitants of Luoyang and the surrounding regions is difficult to quantify, and even harder to understand in more personal terms. We know that many of those who did not perish fled to the southeast, crossing the Yangzi River to resettle in the new capital. Later texts refer to this period as “The disorder of the Yongjia Reign” (Yongjia zhi luan 永嘉之亂). This epithet uses the imperial reign name given to the period between 307 and 313, even though the disasters did not neatly begin and end with those years. Although the Yongjia troubles are addressed throughout surviving historiographic material, there is no work of history dedicated to documenting the ensuing exodus from Luoyang to Jiankang.
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Shaw, Thomas. "BIALL Annual Conference 2005 – Report to Council." Legal Information Management 5, no. 4 (December 2005): 228–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1472669605000940.
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I arrived on Thursday, the day before the start of the conference, which gave me plenty of time to settle in and then meet up with my designated mentor, Jon Beaumont. He had attended the conference for the first time last year, and gave it a glowing report. It was good to start things off by sharing experiences and anecdotes of legal information work over a couple of pints.
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Keskinen, Mikko. "Blocks to, and building blocks of, narrativity: Fragments, anecdotes, and narrative lines in David Markson’s Reader’s block." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 3, no. 2 (November 23, 2017): 224–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fns-2017-0015.
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AbstractDavid Markson’s Reader’s block (1996) consists of 193 pages of quotations, anecdotes, names, and fragments. The book bears the paratext “A novel,” and the work has indeed been read as a narrative whole, in which “an aging author [...] contemplates the writing of a novel.” By being out of ordinary and therefore worth of telling, the anecdotes or curiosities seemingly fulfill the requirements of a “natural” narrative as defined by Monika Fludernik (1996). However, a mass of such mini-narratives, mixed with even more fragmentary texts, seems to defy narrativity (and tellability). In my reading, the ostensive block to narrativity also functions as its very building block. Thanks to polysemy, block can relate to a block of a city, of stone at a gravesite, of text on a printed page, and of index cards. The seemingly dispersed fragments begin to gravitate around these semantic blocks and yield discrete but intertwining narrative lines. The very text claiming to deal with blockages performatively, as a finished book, testifies to the opposite: the mass of texts and plans proves that the ability to work on writing is not lost. Blocks that obstruct also construct, and the demediated novelistic medium still mediates as a form and repurposed content.
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Thompson, Lynda, and Robert Turner. "SPECIAL ISSUE: Maurice Barry Sterman: What Makes Him Great." Biofeedback 50, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 92–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5298/1081-5937-50.04.03.
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This article shares personal reflections on the influence that Maurice Barry Sterman has had on the field of neurofeedback and on the personal lives and careers of two recruits to the field, a psychologist and a neurologist, both of whom pivoted from traditional careers to learn about applied psychophysiology. They comment on the scientific rigor of his work and, additionally, share personal anecdotes that give a glimpse of the man behind the science.
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Nanni, Laura. "Anecdotes Off the Map: Sites Archived, Revisited and Replayed in Toronto and Montreal." Canadian Theatre Review 126 (March 2006): 71–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.126.015.
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Today. I’ve just listen ed to ]aclyn reminisce about an old man on a bicycle. She remembers passing him near this spot, 483 Bloor St., every day on her way to work. Jaclyn shared this anecdote with me although we’ve never met, and probably never will. I heard her voice over my cell phone. Jaclyn’s story is one of many captured by [murmur], an archival audio project that collects and curates stories about specific locations in cities across Canada by the people who live there.! These personal accounts range from a woman named Marion Green recalling the sandwich shop her family frequented in 1937 to a man identified as “M” recounting in detail the dispute he witnessed outside his home at two in the morning.1
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Luz, Menahem. "The Rejected Versions in Plato's Symposium." PLATO JOURNAL 14 (July 22, 2015): 9–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_14_1.
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Apollodorus' prelude to Pl. Symp. is a complex rejection of earlier accounts of Socrates' participation in a symposium. This can be examined contextually as a literary mannerism, or sub-textually as a rejection of previous literary versions of this topos. Neither approach contradicts the other, but scholars have found difficulties in finding any earlier author who could have been rejected. Recently, it has been argued that Xen. Symp. preceded Pl. Symp. acting as a catalyst for Plato's work. However, if neither was the first on a sympotic theme in a Socratic dialogue, we need not presume that Apollodorus referred to Xenophon, but rather that both responded to an earlier author. Scholars suggest various candidates although none has been proven. However, one source has not attracted attention: two anecdotes recorded in PFlor 113 where Antisthenes depicts both Socrates and himself as critical of symposia in general. The conclusions of my paper are that the contents of these anecdotes can be seen as the raw kernel out of which both Xenophon and Plato could have responded.
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Rippin, A. "The function of asbāb al-nuzūl in Qur'ānic exegesis." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 51, no. 1 (February 1988): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00020188.
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In John Wansbrough's work, Quranic studies: sources and methods of scriptural interpretation, several theses are put forth regarding the material known as asbāb al-nuzūl, occasions of revelation; the overall view of Wansbrough is one which is derived (critically) from al-Suyūṭī, which is that the asbāb material has its primary reference point in works devoted to deriving law from the text of the Qur'ān, that is, halakhic works. He suggests that the presence of asbāb material as found in a haggadic or narrative tafsīr such as that of Muqātil is ‘accidental’ because, while the narrative asbāb reports serve as anecdotes, they do not fulfil what Wansbrough sees as the ‘essential function’, that of establishing ‘a chronology of revelation
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Klein, Hildegard. "Lilies on the Land – The Forgotten Women’s Land Army of World War II – A Documentary Play." Gender Studies 11, no. 1 (December 1, 2012): 193–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10320-012-0039-0.
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Abstract This paper centres on a play directed by Sonia Ritter and produced by the Lions part that portrays an extraordinary event in Britain’s recent history - the Women’s Land Army of World War II. It is based on real evidence given in hundreds of letters and interviews with former Land Girls. The anecdotes of their shared experience and strenuous work are presented by a female quartet - Margie, Peggy, Poppy and Vera - in a sparkling, captivating and emotional way.
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Artamonov, Denis S. "Humor in Historical Memory: from an Anecdote and Caricature to an Internet Meme." Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies 3, no. 3 (October 29, 2021): 213–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.181.
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The article is devoted to the study of the role of anecdotes, caricatures and Internet memes in the construction of historical memory. The memory of the past implies emotional content, the expression of which is often humor. The author views an anecdote as a component of oral history and a communication phenomenon of the pre-digital era, in which the representation of ideas about the past was humorous. A historical anecdote, being originally a kind of didactic historiography, has been transformed into a tool for transmitting an informal interpretation of history, and once in the digital media environment, it has lost its former meaning. Mass media, with the help of a caricature representing history in a humorous way, have visualized the images of the past, setting certain evaluative frameworks of historical and political events. Being an element of traditional media as well as a work of art, caricature encouraged the formation of historical memory along with other artistic genres. In the digital age, it, like a historical anecdote, has given way to Internet memes in the media sphere. The author considers Internet memes to be the phenomena of digital culture, defining them as a kind of a polymodal, metaphorical, often ironic, humorous utterance that is spread in the media environment. A historical Internet meme, combining the images of popular culture and collective memory in a visual text format, has a decisive influence on the perception of historical events and personalities by social media audiences. With the help of Internet memes a great number of Internet users create their own versions of the interpretation of history in a humorous form, thus reproducing the collectively shared mythologized ideas about the past.
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Karabulatova, Irina S. "COVID-19 in modern Russian laughter discourse: psycholinguistic method of devaluation of danger as an effective method of psychological protection." Personality & Society 1, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 4–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.46502/issn.2712-8024/2020.2.1.
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The mysterious Russian soul is always looking for non-trivial aspects of a problem. The modern coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has become the subject of ridicule in the everyday laughing practices of Russian people. In this case, the laughing discourse acts as a form of psychological defense and struggle against the inevitable evil. The importance of the research is due to the lack of knowledge of the communicative and cognitive aspects of laughter discourse and the need to study the modern anecdote on the topic "coronavirus pandemic" in the aspect of forming the stability of the human psyche in the conditions of pandemics and isolation. The relevance of this work is also determined by the fact that it expands the empirical base of discourse linguistics, LSP theory and practice, motivology and emotive linguistics, whose interests include consideration of the problem of the influence of emotions on language. The relevance of the work also lies in the fact that special attention is paid to the little-studied phenomenon of "black humor", which is vividly represented in the laughing discourse about coronavirus. Unfortunately, today Russia occupies the leading positions in terms of the number of people infected with virus COVID-19. Archetypal fear of unknown Evil, of invisible death evoke chthonic experiences of the unconscious from the depths of the subconscious, actualizing the laughable techniques of devaluing danger as one of the effective methods of psychological protection. The world stereotype defines Russian people as frowning and unsmiling, extremely hostile to the world around them. The article reveals the specifics of modern Russian anecdotes about COVID-19. This allows the reader to understand what the stress resistance and resilience of the Russian person in a situation of degenerate press of negative information in various media is. This situation is complicated by fake news stories about the pandemic. What are Russian people laughing at during the pandemic? What helps them survive and stay mentally healthy in this situation? What is the specifics of Russian jokes about the pandemic? How do these anecdotes structure a person's inner space in a new way? What Parallels can we find in a laughing culture that plays up the stigmatized situations of tragedies, wars, and epidemics? This article is intended as an attempt to answer these and other questions.
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Bandini, Elisa. "A Short Report on the Extent of Stone Handling Behavior Across Otter Species." Animal Behavior and Cognition 8, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.26451/abc.08.01.02.2021.
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Animal stone-handling behavior (SH) has been recorded in detail only in primates, mainly across macaque species. The purpose(s) of SH are still unknown, yet various hypotheses have been suggested, including that it is a misdirected behavior when hungry and/or a play behavior that aids individuals' motor and stone tool-use development. SH has also been observed across both wild and captive otter species, but no overview report of the extent of this behavior across otter species has been published yet. To fill this gap in the literature, we contacted wild and captive otter researchers and keepers to enquire directly on SH in the species they work with. We accepted anecdotal reports in this first review of the behavior. Using the reports and anecdotes thus obtained, we compiled the first list of otter species that show SH. We found that most (10 out of 13) of currently known otter species practice SH. Therefore, similarly to macaques, SH is also common in otters and occurs in the majority of species. Future studies should focus on replicating these findings and further investigating the potential functions and selection pressures of SH in otters and other animal species.
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Oldenburg, Philip. "Middlemen in Third-World Corruption: Implications of an Indian Case." World Politics 39, no. 4 (July 1987): 508–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2010290.
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Corruption—like the weather—is a phenomenon people in the third world talk about a great deal, and, it would seem, do little about. Scholars of political change in the third world share this interest, but—although they are usually not expected to deal with corruption itself —they should move beyond the recounting of vivid anecdotes to a more systematic analysis of the problem. Steps in this direction were made in the 1960s and 1970s, but surprisingly little more work has been done since.
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Fishback, Price V. "Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization. By Joshua L. Rosenbloom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 208. $20.00, paper." Journal of Economic History 63, no. 1 (March 2003): 286–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050703481801.
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Joshua Rosenbloom provides a superb study of the operations of the U.S. labor market between the Civil War and World War I. The book weaves fascinating descriptions of the various ways in which employers and workers established connections together with clear summaries of an extensive amount of background quantitative work. Although the analysis is firmly grounded on a series of more technical statistical studies, most of the book does not emphasize econometrics. Instead, the findings are effectively summarized using graphs, simple means and telling anecdotes that illustrate the experiences of many workers. The book is beautifully written and can be used by economists, historians, and both graduate and undergraduate students to obtain a clearer understanding of how markets work.
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Banister, Mustafa. "Squeezing Juice from the 'Fruits of the Caliphs:' Tastes, Contexts, and Textual Transplantation at a Late Medieval Egyptian Court." Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, no. 9 (December 7, 2022): 124–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/interfaces-09-07.
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This article concerns themes of translation, movement, and context in its examination of the intentions behind the composition of Ahmad ibn ʿArabshah's (1389–1450) mid-fifteenth-century opus of animal fables and anecdotal advice literature, the Fakihat al-khulafaʾ wa mufakahat al-zurafaʾ (Fruits of the Caliphs and Witty Banter of the Stylish Folk). With some alterations, including the introduction of a substantial amount of historical material in its ultimate and penultimate chapters, Ibn ʿArabshah's Fruits of the Caliphs is primarily an expanded reworking of an earlier work, the thirteenth-century Marzban-nama (Book of Marzban) attributed to Saʿd al-Din al-Warawini. Like the Book of Marzban, the Fruits of the Caliphs is largely a collection of moralistic animal fables and anecdotes of wisdom, bound together within several smaller stories which comprise a larger framework story. The ten chapters of the Fruits of the Caliphs share much in common with the Book of Marzban although Ibn ʿArabshah completed significant re-writing of the original tales with historical asides, changed names, and observations unique to his own mid-fifteenth-century interpretation of the book. Because the work is primarily an Arabic translation of an earlier Persianate mirror, it proves challenging to analyze as an "original" work. Nevertheless, Ibn ʿArabshah attempted to modernize the book and in its Arabic form, update it for what we may assume must be a late medieval Cairene courtly audience. In addition to engaging with the curious title of the work and its latent meanings, this article contextualizes and explains the author's creation of the work in relation to his later career trajectory and rising reputation in the fifteenth-century Syro-Egyptian cultural milieu.
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Dell'Antonio, Andrew, and Matthew Ovalle. "Mentoring, Institutional Barriers, Structures of Justice: A Dialogue Across Positions of Privilege and Power." Current Musicology 107 (January 27, 2021): 148–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.52214/cm.v107i.7842.
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This colloquy, by graduate-student-led collective Project Spectrum, attempts to map out existing discussions around inclusion and equity in music academia, with a specific focus on identifying and analyzing the structures in academia that work against minoritized and historically excluded scholars. Matthew Ovalle and Andrew Dell’Antonio contribute a joint-paper outlining the alternative pathways that give people the chance to make their own way through the music academia pipeline. Using personal anecdotes from their positions as teachers, mentors, and the mentored, they offer a representation of academia as one of care, empathy, and optimism.
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Deaville, James, Claude Kenneson, William Bruneau, Elaine Keillor, Alexandra Munn, Neil R. Hughes, Glenn Colton, and John Beckwith. "Violet Archer, Jean Coulthard, and Barbara Pentland Remembered." Canadian University Music Review 20, no. 2 (March 4, 2013): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1014454ar.
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In a bizarre coincidence, three important Canadian women composers from the same generation recently died within five weeks of each other: Barbara Pentland on 6 February 2000, Violet Archer on 22 February 2000, and Jean Coulthard on 9 March 2000. As a tribute to their lives and work, this colloquy gathers remembrances of them by friends and colleagues, ranging from brief anecdotes to extended memoirs. It is thus a collection of primary documents, which yield many new insights into the lives of our composers, ranging from personal habits to the way they taught composition.
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Zmarzlinski, Adam. "Łukasz Kamieński, Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War." Open Cultural Studies 3, no. 1 (February 1, 2019): 182–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2019-0016.
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Abstract From alcohol to LSD, Łukasz Kamieński takes readers on a unique 300-page journey through the history of warfare as seen through the prism of drug use. Beginning with the Greek city-states and ending with the contemporary consumption in the American Armed Forces, the text overflows with witty anecdotes, eloquent prose, and heart-wrenching realities found on drug-fueled battlefields. Drawing on literature, unclassified military and pharmaceutical studies, and private accounts of soldiers, Shooting Up is brilliant work that needs to find itself on every political science and history undergraduate reading list.
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Švantner, Martin. "Inferring Ears." American Journal of Semiotics 35, no. 1 (2019): 93–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ajs201982256.
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This paper draws attention to two important and fruitful anecdotes from history useful for the development of a cognitive semiotic approach to music. The first is from Peirce’s writings, describing a complete structural change of understanding, perception and listening to music. Peirce describes the invention of a specific cognitive pidgin and the emergence of new social, embodied and cerebral habits. This emergence is shown in the example of Peirce’s friend who allegedly lost his sense of hearing but still enjoys music—no thanks to his ears. The second case study considers the “inferring ear” of Jimi Hendrix and his cooperation with Miles Davis, who taught Hendrix how to codify what he heard. Hence these anecdotes open pathways into the problem of the nature of musical perception, useful for exploring the codification and learning of music in particular. The nature of these abilities may be seen as intersubjective mimetics that are mediated through suprasubjective, triadic, embodied relations (signs). The article analyzes these topics from a point of view of a Peircean framework (with detours into the work of T. Deacon, V. Colapietro and G. Deleuze), aming to show the interconnections between such perspectives and some examples of contemporary neuroscientific research in this field.
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Gupta, Nisha. "Teaching phenomenological research as a method of therapeutic art-making: A Covid-19 case study." QMiP Bulletin 1, no. 30 (2020): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsqmip.2020.1.30.73.
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This article is a case study about teaching undergraduate students to use hermeneutic phenomenological research methodology as a vehicle to make art which evokes the essence of lived experience. This study focuses on the phenomenon of living in a time of Coronavirus as human beings; 30 students were taught research steps to transform their experiences of living amidst a pandemic into phenomenological Covid-19 art. First, I taught students the craft of writing rich, descriptive, autobiographical anecdotes about lived experience, guided by Van Manen (1990) and Finlay’s (2012) approach to writing first-person phenomenological accounts. Second, I taught students to interpret and code their anecdotes to extract themes. Third, I guided students to transform the themes into phenomenological art, supported by Heidegger (1950), Merleau-Ponty (1945), and Van Manen’s (1990) affirmations of phenomenology as an aesthetic endeavour whereby art is the ideal language of phenomenology. A digital phenomenological art gallery was created to celebrate students’ work as a website which showcased Coronavirus paintings, songs, dance, video/film, photography, poetry and collages. This paper is methodological and pedagogical in nature, detailing step-by-step procedures in effort to inspire educators who teach qualitative methods to assign this arts-based phenomenological research project to students to foster healing through phenomenological art-making.
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Ami, Naama Ben. "Memories in Translation." American Journal of Islam and Society 24, no. 4 (October 1, 2007): 123–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v24i4.1524.
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The book’s title and subtitle are both concise and apt characterizations. Aftermore than sixty years of work as a translator and a writer, Johnson-Daviestakes the reader on a journey through memories told as if relived throughwriting. The language is clear, fluent, and businesslike. Interspersed in theaccount are humorous anecdotes about some of his more embarrassing experiencesas a translator.The book has a foreword by Naguib Mahfouz (d. 2006), the Nobel Prizewinning(1988) Egyptian writer with whom the author had an acquaintanceshipgoing back sixty years and several of whose books he translated.Twenty-two photographs show the author at various times in his life (1922-2000) at work, with friends, writers, poets, and various personalities. Everyphotograph is fully documented as regards location, names, date, and other ...
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Maschio, Paola. "Memory and Representation of Edo through Parody. Edo sunago and Muda sunago." STORIA URBANA, no. 169 (March 2022): 93–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/su2021-169004.
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This paper urges consideration of eighteenth-century popular literature known as gesaku in the analysis of Edo's urban culture, through a preliminary study of Muda sunago (1786). Muda sunago is a comic book (sharebon) written as a parody of Edo topographies (chishi), mocking in its title the famous Edo sunago (1732). The paper starts by introducing the two works and the genres to which they pertain, then focuses on the structure of Muda sunago and the process through which the comical "famous places" are created. The work is interpreted as a "map" representing Edo through its entertainments, which had an important role in the formation of an urban culture, since they offered an opportunity for drawing together the diverse groups of citizens. The parody of the topography format allows a description of each location, expanding the humor already displayed in the name's location. While descriptions in topographies always included historical anecdotes, or memories, as an important part of the place, in Muda sunago jokes are disguised as historical anecdotes. An example is shown in the analysis of the "Bay of the Skipjack Tuna", which satirizes the irrational mania of Edo citizens of paying high prices to eat the season's first skipjack tuna (hatsugatsuo). If in topographies, the memory of Edo was used to evoke and create a shared past, in parodies it fulfils a similar role enforcing in the reader the sensation of sharing a common ground with the author, which is necessary for the humor to be recognized as such.
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Pálfalvi, Lajos, and Sandra Trela. "Z węgierskiej perspektywy. Olga Tokarczuk. Z Lajosem Pálfalvim rozmawia Sandra Trela." Postscriptum Polonistyczne 25, no. 1 (July 21, 2020): 209–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/ps_p.2020.25.15.
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In the interview, Professor Lajos Pálfalvi, an outstanding translator of Polish literature into Hungarian and the head of the Department of Polish Studies at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, presents the story of his contacts with Olga Tokarczuk, starting from the 1990s when he met her personally as a promising novice. He gladly shares his vivid recollections and anecdotes related not only to the Polish Nobel Prize winner, but also to Hungarian and Polish literary life in the recent decades. He also talks about translation methodology and shares observations on the interpretation of Tokarczuk’s work.
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Luo, Qi. "Weak State, Strong Networks: The Institutional Dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment in China. By Hongying Wang. [Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiii+211 pp. HK$150.00. ISBN 019-590631-4.]." China Quarterly 172 (December 2002): 1065–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009443902260623.
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This is a competent work that challenges the claim of new institutional economics and international regime theory that effective state institutions in the host country are vital to the inflow, and indeed growth, of foreign direct investment (FDI). It argues that the large amount of FDI China has attracted so far has been facilitated more by the informal societal institutions represented by strong personal networks operating in the country than by the formal state institutions manifested by the weak legal system. The author validates her arguments with a large number of anecdotes based on over 100 interviews she conducted in China.
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Deutscher, Max. "Stories, Pictures, Arguments." Philosophy 62, no. 240 (April 1987): 159–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100064007.
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There is a tradition of philosophy—a conception we can easily under-stand as a limit of a tendency of our own thinking—that philosophy consists only of argument. The rest of the (admittedly) vast prepon-derance of words in philosophical texts is simply embroidery. ‘Naturally’, it will be conceded, actual philosophy books contain more or less of verbal pictures, words and phrases whose purpose is to evoke images, and many stories—examples, hard cases for definitions, and 4 anecdotes. These, it will be said, ‘are only the embellishments, the relief from work, the appetizers or the post-prandial delicacies.’
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Sedykh, Olga Gennadevna, Veronika Anatol'evna Avilova, and Yuliya Gavriilovna Alsaeva. "Laughter in times of crisis: content analysis of jokes about COVID-19." Социодинамика, no. 11 (November 2023): 163–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-7144.2023.11.68985.
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This article presents the results of a content analysis of jokes about the COVID-19 pandemic published on various social platforms. The purpose of the study is to identify common sentiments and main themes among the masses in the context of this crisis. The research method was a content analysis of 400 jokes published on various social platforms and Internet sites. The analysis was carried out in two stages. Thus, at the first, anecdotes were studied that reflected a direct relationship to politics, government, and certain political figures, while at the second, anecdotes related to the inconveniences that appeared in everyday life, in connection with the introduction of restrictive measures, were examined. According to the results of the content analysis, jokes about coronavirus infection can be considered as an important tool for studying public opinion and identifying the main difficulties faced by people during the pandemic. Since such humorous statements often reflect the general mood of society and, in general, people’s attitude towards the current situation, they help cope with stress and anxiety in a difficult situation. Thus, during the pandemic, jokes were more often used in the context of criticism of government authorities and specific political figures, expressing an “against” position on the issue of vaccination. And also in order to ridicule restrictive measures, namely, jokes about wearing a mask, using a QR code, lockdown, remote mode during work or study, and penalties are highlighted. Note that the article also raises other topics, which include: fear and anxiety about possible infection with COVID-19, humor on the topic of self-isolation and remote work or study.
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Vandersmissen, Marc. "Littérature labyrinthique entre texte et sexe dans Journal sexuel d’un garçon d’aujourd’hui d’Arthur Dreyfus." Cahiers ERTA, no. 37 (March 22, 2024): 47–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/23538953ce.24.003.19417.
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Labyrinthine Literature between Text and Sex in Journal sexuel d'un garçon d'aujourd’hui by Arthur Dreyfus In Journal sexuel d’un garçon d’aujourd'hui, Arthur Dreyfus records his sexual experiences over several years. But he doesn’t limit himself to recounting his sexual intimacy; he also writes down some of his thoughts on other areas, such as relationships, writing and psychoanalysis. He generally proceeds in short narratives that can take different forms (anecdotes, poems, letters...) and are brought together to form a work of over 2000 pages. The reader is thus led into the author’s systems of thought. The aim of this article is to highlight the labyrinthine construction of this work: first, we’ll see how the Journal is the result of a search for identity. Next, we’ll look at how this work proposes a new form of intertextuality. Finally, we look at the form of the Journal and its impact on the reader. In this way, we offer the first keys to reading a complex but powerful work.
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Kozlov, Alexey. "“Bulgarin's Manor” by F.V.B.: on the Question of the Properties of Network Paraliterature." Philology & Human, no. 1 (March 5, 2023): 138–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.14258/filichel(2023)1-10.
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The article analyzes the anonymous poetic text “Bulgarin's Manor”, which is a small anonymous poem published on the Internet systems Ridero and Amazon on February 2, 2022 under the laconic cryptonym F.V.B., referring to the initials of one of the main anti-heroes of Russian literature - Faddey Venediktovich Bulgarin. This context, connected with Russian-Estonian relations, on the one hand, and the history of Russian literature, on the other, seems to us the most significant for commentary. Based on historical and literary observations and reconstructing the historical and cultural contexts reflected in the textual structures of the work, we show how the anecdotes that accompany the personality of Thaddeus Bulgarin (1789-1859) and the myths that describe the history of Karlovo are transformed in a naive, amateur mind. Special attention is paid to the explicit intertext, represented primarily by the works of Nicolay Gogol and Prosper Merimee and implicit intertextual connections leading to the work of Alexander Pushkin. The study of the work allows us to be convinced of the total mastery of the idea of a palimpsest by modern actors of network literature.
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Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, and Hannah Fournier. "«Les interests du sexe»: dédicataires féminins et réseaux de sociabilité chez Marie de Gournay." Renaissance and Reformation 40, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 47–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v40i1.8940.
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Even though Marie de Gournay's (1565-1645) numerous texts contain only a few direct references to the activities of the "salons" in the first half of the seventeenth century, they show ample evidence of the author's presence in public and social life. Through anecdotes, allusive references and dedications to prominent people she knew (or wished to know), Gournay reveals the complex web of relationships of which she was part. Not only do her collected works (Advis, 1641) suggest her association with public figures known to attend notorious "salons," they invite us to broaden our view of sociability, defined mostly, according to Gournay, in terms of intellectual endeavours and affinities. Describing herself as an active member of an intellectual community (formed mostly by well-known women), Gournay validates her life, work and ambitions through feminine solidarity-real or virtual.
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Anchimiuk, Olga, and Maryna Michaluk. "Использование языковой игры для развития межкультурной компетенции у студентов-поляков." Linguodidactica 24 (2020): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/lingdid.2020.24.01.
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Mutual contacts between representatives of different cultures often lead to communication difficulties. The article attempts to verify language games which in the process of intercultural communication reflect the uniqueness of the national language and culture. The authors, on the basis of the cultural linguistic approach, offer various forms and ways of didactic work using jokes, puzzles, anecdotes and aphorisms. Teaching to understand the meaning of language games, which occupy an important place in everyday language contacts, using them in learning and teaching a foreign language, helps learners develop intercultural competence. Mastering them allows the avoidance of difficulties in relations with representatives of other languages and cultures.
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McLeod, Heather, and Gisela Ruebsaat. "“The Receiver No Longer Holds the Sound”: Parents, Poetry, and the Voices We Create in the World." in education 20, no. 2 (November 14, 2014): 29–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.37119/ojs2014.v20i2.182.
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In this article, we explore how poetic inquiry informed by duoethnography enables us to know our parents better and to reflect on our relationships with them after their deaths. We are interested in how this process of inquiry deepens our thinking about the nature of research and writing as well as about teaching and community work. Through the lens of poetry, we have been able to see beyond the received family histories of whom our parents were and to fashion a more layered and nuanced picture not only of them, but also of the social forces that shaped them, and in turn shaped us as researchers and social activists. Sources for our work include Heather’s father’s poetry and Gisela’s poems, which draw from interviews with her mother and anecdotes her mother told her as she was growing up.Keywords: poetic inquiry; duoethnography; parents
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Machielsen, Jan. "The Devil is in the Tales: Evaluating Eyewitness Testimony in Martin Delrio’s Disquisitiones Magicae (1599–1600)." Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 11, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 258–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/preternature.11.2.0258.
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ABSTRACT Martin Delrio’s Disquisitiones magicae (1599–1600) likely was the most successful work of demonology printed during the early modern period. It was also a work of textual scholarship. This article studies in detail the few instances in which the Spanish-Flemish Jesuit chose to discuss anecdotes based on things he either saw or heard and how he attempted to establish their credibility. Embedding these stories in a diverse web of other (textual) examples allowed Delrio to sidestep the vexed issue of discernment, establishing whether demonic agency had ever been involved. Careful study of the origins of these examples shows how many of these stories must have circulated widely and likely would have been changed in the retelling, enhancing their plausibility or relevance. Studying demonology through its shared stories, this article suggests, could open up new and exciting avenues for research.
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Vinitsky, Ilya. "HOW THE IMPROVISOR’S PANTS WERE MADE: The cultural genealogy of the epigraph to the fi rst chapter of Pushkin’s “Egyptian Nights”." Vremennik Pushkinskoi Komissii 34 (2020): 111–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.31860/0236-2481-2020-34-111-130.
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In the present essay I want to broaden the sphere of potential textual and ideological sources of the epigraph to the first chapter of Pushkin’s “Egyptian Nights,” to make precise the genealogy of the French witticism that reached the Russian poet and served as the basis for his epigraph, and to offer a social and cultural interpretation of it in the context of Pushkin’s work. I argue that the witticism does not have a direct relationship to the genre of the verse epigram but rests on a humorous prose tradition of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which included jokes about the pants of hapless musicians, which in turn derived from Renaissance anecdotes and Italian commedia dell’arte
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Sumner, Jennifer. "Review of Ultra-processed people: Why we can’t stop eating food that isn’t food." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation 11, no. 1 (March 29, 2024): 240–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.684.
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Given the ubiquity of UPF, this book fills a vital gap in our knowledge. Thankfully, it is easy to read, combining research and interviews with personal anecdotes and amusing glimpses of van Tulleken family life. For those of us involved in food studies, the book adds an extra layer of urgency: van Tulleken proposes that UPF destroys the meaning of food—it becomes a technical substance without cultural or historical meaning. To avoid this outcome, let alone the millions of early deaths caused by poor diets that are increasingly made up of UPF, we need to better understand ultra-processed food and work to change the food system that allows these substances to flourish.