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A Study on the Conflicts of Communication Between First Grade Students
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2019
Pages:
93-97
Received:
21 July 2019
Accepted:
23 August 2019
Published:
5 September 2019
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to analyze the Conflicts of Communication and to look for suggestions regarding speech communication education. In order to accomplish the purpose of this research, the following questions are constructed: 1. What is the reason behind communicational conflicts among first grade students? 2. How does the conflict between two students’ progress? 3. What do the students learn? The study found that the conflicts in the communication among the first grade elementary students were created due to difference in identities and the conflicts created interdependent parties which led to poor way of communication. Conflict between two students go through the process of competition, arbitration 1, arbitration 2, and recuperation. The first grade students learned that the expressing of feelings honestly is important, everyone thinks differently and in a conflict, the ability to sympathize is important. The results of this study will help students in listening and speaking skills.
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to analyze the Conflicts of Communication and to look for suggestions regarding speech communication education. In order to accomplish the purpose of this research, the following questions are constructed: 1. What is the reason behind communicational conflicts among first grade students? 2. How does the conflict between...
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The Fascination of André Breton for the Arithmosophic Calculation in Arcane 17 (The Number 1713 and Gérard de Nerval)
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2019
Pages:
98-104
Received:
2 August 2019
Accepted:
4 September 2019
Published:
19 September 2019
Abstract: In surrealist researches and writings, recourse to the occult and the hermetic tradition goes hand in hand with the valorization of a set of esoteric knowledge which gathers at the same time mysticism, alchemy, arithmosophy and fictions which make an important place for mystery and the supernatural. Breton devoted himself from his first works to esoteric orientation and hermetism, consubstantially united with his poetry. We evoke the Breton text –Arcane 17, which has as its theme the arithmosophic calculation on its date of birth and that of Gerard de Nerval and, since no methodology can exhaust the meaning of this text, extremely rich in intertextual references, in images symbolic, mythical, in metalogisms, we propose to approach a methodologically open approach that gives absolute priority to the text. The presence of occultism and arithmosophy in Arcane 17, as indeed in all the other surrealist texts dealing with these domains, refers in fact to their poetic aspects. A set of Breton texts (Arcane 17, Le Surréalisme et la peinture, Perspective cavalière, Les Entretiens) invite us to examine how this author treats esoteric thought as the possibility of a deployment of reverie and poetic inspiration. This corpus attests, certainly, Breton’s concern for the deep links between numbers, letters and events as signs to be deciphered in his spiritual approach and remains an inspiration to the most innovative sensibilities of modernity. Breton was fascinated by the number 1713 (his initials A. B. constitue, by a precise graphical game, an equivalent by transforming the figures; in the text "Du poème-objet", Breton reflects at length on the historical and scientific events related to this year) and refers explicitly several times to Pythagoreanism and Gérard de Nerval. The aim of this article is to show that the persistent vitality of an esoteric conception on the world and on the human understanding that surrealism has always proposed itself contemplates the possible actuality of some aspects of Breton’s thought, such as evidenced by a recent study by Patrick Lepetit The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secrets Societies (2014).
Abstract: In surrealist researches and writings, recourse to the occult and the hermetic tradition goes hand in hand with the valorization of a set of esoteric knowledge which gathers at the same time mysticism, alchemy, arithmosophy and fictions which make an important place for mystery and the supernatural. Breton devoted himself from his first works to es...
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Hard Science, Soft Emotions: Affection Value and Ethical Judgement in Ian McEwan’s “Solid Geometry”
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2019
Pages:
105-111
Received:
6 June 2019
Accepted:
5 September 2019
Published:
20 September 2019
Abstract: Ian McEwan’s early works brought him the “Ian Macabre” tag because they narrate many horror stories. In “Solid Geometry”, for instance, a husband intoxicated in mathematics mercilessly yet “scientifically killed” his wife through his exploration planes without a surface. This paper, first of all, admits that under the cover of a hard science, the story depicts violence in a soft way. Yet more importantly, enlightened by the affective narratology of Hungarian narratologist Patrick Colm Hogan and German narratologist Vera Nünning, we hold that McEwan’s purposes of narrating such a story lies far beyond depicting violence through hard science. As a matter of fact, McEwan’s sympathy toward women suffering from cold violence is conveyed through the story’s three-layered narrative structure, the emotional conflict revealed between each two of the layers, and the narrative tension achieved through the affective narration within this short story. Moreover, the whole narrative progression conforms to the gender ethics of the author’s writing period when an increasing awareness to the sexism in family relations captured the attention of intellectuals from various fields. In this story, the male protagonist’s fancy toward mathematics is an excuse for his escaping from family duties including the sexual one. On the other hand, he also avoids social responsibility for as an assumed mathematician, he contributes his research finding to no social program of development, but utilizes it as a tool of murdering. In condemning this wrong ethic selection, McEwan proves his excellence as a responsible intellectual instead of a simple “pornographer” or a “macabre”.
Abstract: Ian McEwan’s early works brought him the “Ian Macabre” tag because they narrate many horror stories. In “Solid Geometry”, for instance, a husband intoxicated in mathematics mercilessly yet “scientifically killed” his wife through his exploration planes without a surface. This paper, first of all, admits that under the cover of a hard science, the s...
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Public and Private in the Social Communications: Historical and Sociological Approach
Larisa Nikolaevna Fedotova
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2019
Pages:
112-117
Received:
24 June 2019
Accepted:
3 September 2019
Published:
20 September 2019
Abstract: The article traces the evolution of the relationship between public and private during the development of human communication, starting from the earliest stages, when communication of a public nature was nothing more than a purposeful translation of general norms of behavior, taboos, beliefs, worldviews, attitudes toward power, helped to coordinate the efforts of the members of a clan, a tribe, in order to survive, to preserve some stability, to exist in time and space. Practically, such a model with some variations prevailed over a long period of human development. The new time has generated a new communication actor - a person who claimed to own a share of the private zone. In this sense, the practice of using social networks is interesting, with all their features within the stated theme: accessibility for supervising bodies and advertising are the defense of personal data, the possibility for communication in forums.
Abstract: The article traces the evolution of the relationship between public and private during the development of human communication, starting from the earliest stages, when communication of a public nature was nothing more than a purposeful translation of general norms of behavior, taboos, beliefs, worldviews, attitudes toward power, helped to coordinate...
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On the Circular Structure in Bowen’s The Death of the Heart
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2019
Pages:
118-125
Received:
16 August 2019
Accepted:
19 September 2019
Published:
9 October 2019
Abstract: Elizabeth Bowen was one of the few truly accomplished Irish women novelists and one of the most distinguished writers of her time during which she was born and lived with the Anglo-Irish naïve dignity and tragedy with the class declining and becoming insignificant. Through the reading of her representative “coming-of age” novel The Death of the Heart produced in the interwar period, the readers can perceive the influence of Bowen’s childhood experiences on her creation and her major Anglo-Irish religious and philosophical views of life. The purpose of this article is to focus on its circular structure that parallels the structure of the myth of the Fall, in which the heroine Portia is portraited as a Christlike figure who develops from an innocent and ignorant girl belonging to nowhere to an integrated and conscious individual after experiencing betrayal and the death of the heart’s innocence. By means of an ingenious manipulation of its circular structure and the portrayal of the Christlike figure Portia, Elizabeth Bowen demonstrates her lifetime of continual “shuttling between England and Ireland”, witnessing alternative conflict and compromise between England and Ireland, and her Anglo-Irish religious outlook of predeterminism: let it be and accept it as it is.
Abstract: Elizabeth Bowen was one of the few truly accomplished Irish women novelists and one of the most distinguished writers of her time during which she was born and lived with the Anglo-Irish naïve dignity and tragedy with the class declining and becoming insignificant. Through the reading of her representative “coming-of age” novel The Death of the Hea...
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An Automatic Translator from the Florentine Vernacular Language to Modern Italian Language
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 5, September 2019
Pages:
126-131
Received:
12 September 2019
Accepted:
28 September 2019
Published:
11 October 2019
Abstract: Along several centuries hundreds of books were written in Florentine vernacular language. The latter, however, is not easy to understand even for native Italian speakers. In 2016-2018 the author created a PC software which provides the possibility to automatically translate entire texts from Florentine vernacular language, as it is found in the literature, into modern Italian language. In this article the author intends to describe the phases of the realization of this software as well as the results of its use. The software in its dictionary currently includes about 25 000 definitions of the vernacular language (where “definitions” mean the presence of terms or phrases in vernacular literature that are replaced in the respective terms and phrases of modern Italian). Numerous studies over the years have demonstrated the limitations of machine translation, often using the error rates of translation software. Even translators that use complex algorithms created with statistical methods frequently end up generating unreliable results, sometimes questioning the very usefulness of translation software. However, if used with the necessary precautions, automatic translators can simplify a job or can help in understanding of texts even for those who know little or no foreign languages. The translator described in this article, although not immune from the defects of machine translation, can be useful both to scholars of Italian literature of past centuries, as well as to those who, while knowing Italian, want to approach texts that cannot be fully understood without the support of footnotes.
Abstract: Along several centuries hundreds of books were written in Florentine vernacular language. The latter, however, is not easy to understand even for native Italian speakers. In 2016-2018 the author created a PC software which provides the possibility to automatically translate entire texts from Florentine vernacular language, as it is found in the lit...
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