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Narrative discourse : an essay in method

23 Jan 1980-Comparative Literature (Cornell University Press)-Vol. 32, Iss: 4, pp 413
TL;DR: Cutler as mentioned in this paper presents a Translator's Preface Preface and Preface for English-to-Arabic Translating Translators (TSPT) with a preface by Jonathan Cutler.
Abstract: Foreword by Jonathan Cutler Translator's Preface PrefaceIntroduction 1. Order 2. Duration 3. Frequency 4. Mood 5. VoiceAfterword Bibliography Index
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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "missing links" in the literature: http://www.thesuniversity.edu.cn.xi
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors tried to obtain an understanding about the issue of the vulnerability of fishermen communities with climate change context by measuring the exposure that is an exposure acceptance of a danger or stress conditions in groups or individual level.
Abstract: Studies on the impact of climate change on the vulnerability of fishermen communities are still rare. The vulnerability studies highlight the physical dimensions whereas the social dimensions with climatic change are rarely performed. This paper attempts to obtain an understanding about the issue of the vulnerability of fishermen communities with climate change context. Vulnerability caused as a result of climate change is an important component of any effort to determine the magnitude of the threat posed by its natural phenomenon. Measuring the social vulnerability indicators starts from the understanding about social vulnerability refers to the exposure that is an exposure acceptance of a danger or stress conditions in groups or individual level. The level of social vulnerability is strongly influenced by access factor to natural resources and diversity of income sources. Vulnerability changes all the time, both in short or long term, depending on how much adaptation changes, as in the character threats, exposure to the threats, sensitivity, and capacity to response or recovery efforts that produce results quicker. Vulnerability analysis is useful for determining the effective instrument to propose the corrective actions with defensive strategies and facilitate the adaptation. One of the important things is vulnerability happens when the fishermen do not have the anticipation capacity to make any adjustments or efforts to overcome the impact of natural disasters due to weather anomalies or extreme weather. Reduced income plus the growing debt-ridden life sustaining household is vulnerability characteristic. Meanwhile, there is no mechanism solutions to overcome the marginalization of fishermen, there is no diversification of the fishing gear, and no other activities outside the fishery. The social relations pattern on a patron-client fishing community does not help fishermen (workers) from the slump caused by climate change. Collectivity do not provide an insurance for lower groups, while institutional foundations are underprivileged to provide social durability to fishermen communities as a whole. Keywords : fishing vulnerability, exposure, adaptive capacity, climate change ABSTRAK Studi tentang dampak perubahan iklim terhadap kerentanan masyarakat nelayan masih jarang dilakukan. Studi tentang kerentanan lebih menyoroti dimensi kerentanan fisik, sedangkan dimensi sosial terkait dengan perubahan iklim kurang sekali dilakukan. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh pemahaman mengenai isu kerentanan masyarakat nelayan yang kontekstual dengan perubahan iklim. Kerentanan yang ditimbulkan sebagai dampak perubahan iklim merupakan komponen penting dari setiap upaya untuk menentukan besarnya ancaman yang ditimbulkan oleh fenomena alam dari perubahan iklim. Upaya mengukur indikator kerentanan sosial (social vulnerability) berangkat dari pemahaman bahwa kerentanan sosial merujuk pada keterpaparan, yaitu penerimaan terhadap terpaan suatu bahaya atau terdapatnya kondisi stress di tingkat kelompok atau perorangan akibat terpaan suatu bencana. Tingkat kerentanan masyarakat tersebut sangat dipengaruhi oleh faktor akses terhadap sumber daya alam dan diversitas sumber pendapatan. Kerentanan dapat berubah setiap saat, baik dalam jangka pendek maupun jangka panjang, tergantung seberapa besar perubahan adaptasi, seperti karakter ancaman, exposure to the threats, sensitivitas, dan capacity to response atau usaha pemulihan yang menghasilkan hasil lebih cepat. Analisis kerentanan sangat bermanfaat untuk menentukan instrumen apa yang efektif untuk mempromosikan tindakan perbaikan dengan strategi bertahan dan memfasilitasi adaptasi yang dilakukan. Salah satu temuan penting adalah kerentanan terjadi jika nelayan tidak memiliki kapasitas mengantisipasi dengan melakukan penyesuaian atau upaya mengatasi dampak dari bencana alam akibat anomali cuaca atau cuaca ekstrem. Penghasilan yang berkurang ditambah dililit utang yang semakin membesar untuk menopang kehidupan rumah tangga adalah karakteristik kerentanan. Sementara itu, tidak ada mekanisme solusi untuk mengatasi terjadinya marginalisasi nelayan, tidak ada diversivikasi alat tangkap, dan tidak ada kegiatan mata pencaharian di luar perikanan. Pola relasi sosial patron-client pada komunitas nelayan tidak menolong nelayan (buruh) dari keterpurukan akibat perubahan iklim. Kolektivitas yang ada tidak memberikan asuransi bagi kelompok lapisan bawah, sementara pranata kelembagaan kurang mampu memberikan daya tahan sosial masyarakat nelayan secara keseluruhan. Kata kunci : kerentanan nelayan, keterpaparan, kapasitas adaptasi, perubahan iklim

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of video montage on the appeal and persuasiveness of television advertisements were explored using structuralist and phenomenological theories, and it was found that camera cuts, boredom, and confusion were all factors that affect viewers' attitude toward the ad.
Abstract: Building upon structuralist and phenomenological theories, this article explores the effects of video montage—camera cuts in particular—on the appeal and persuasiveness of television advertisements. The article proposes a structuralist method for objectively describing ad form and tests well-known theories propounding that responses to a stimulus are a function of boredom and confusion. Camera cuts, boredom, and confusion were all found to affect subjects' attitude toward the ad. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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TL;DR: The authors examine the representation of real spaces in cyberpunk fiction and reveal the reliance on events in ''real'' space but also show how their assumptions about organizing space and distributing power are more colonialist than futurist.
Abstract: Cyberfiction offers a tantalizing view of what a completely networked world might be like; yet even with distance transcended by computers and phone links, the real world persists as an important component of these narratives. Examin- ing the representation of real spaces in cyberpunk fiction not only reveals the narra- tives' reliance on events in ''real'' space but also shows how their assumptions about organizing space and distributing power are more colonialist than futurist. In con- junction with this geography, these narratives also employ the genre most closely associated with colonialism—namely, adventure. The reliance on first-world/third- world divisions leads us to question why these seemingly innovative narratives would rely on ''old'' geographies and ''old'' genres in their re-vision of a new, postdistance world. The innovations of Pat Cadigan's Mindplayers offer sharp contrast to the stan- dard texts of cyberfiction, particularly classics by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. The difference shows that only by questioning narrative structure, interrogating the conventions of genre, and mapping a geography of real space that is closer to home can cyberpunk narratives stop reinscribing technological change in terms of the exotic and begin to explore the repercussions of technology on the scale of the famil- iar. This change in narrative and geographical imagination must happen in order to achieve the aim that all these fictions seek: that is, to challenge our understanding of what this new technological power will enable.

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