Showing papers on "Connotation published in 2018"

Social Co-Governance for Food Safety Risks

Abstract: We review relevant literature to propose the connotation and operation logic of food safety co-governance, systematically constitute by roles, functions, as well as the boundaries of public government, enterprise, and social forces. The major thesis is that social co-governance is a kind of societal-wide innovation (i.e., social innovation) that integrates diverse resources and efforts from multiple stakeholders for better and sustainable development of an economy’s food institution and system. We then put forward a prospect of the future research on food safety risk co-governance. Theoretical, practical, and policy implications are discussed.

Laziness in Postqualitative Inquiry

Abstract: Laziness is commonly perceived as lethargy and carries a negative connotation. In this article, I argue to understand laziness as a political stance and suggest that lazy practices can become useful for postqualitative inquiry that seeks to disrupt normative explanations of the world. As political action, laziness, then provides postqualitative inquiry with an additional tool for contributing to social justice via social research. Laziness combats the neoliberal condition in which academic research is situated and might serve as a virtue of postqualitative inquiry.

Mundos en palabras: Learning Advanced Spanish through Translation

Abstract: Mundos en palabras offers advanced students of Spanish a challenging yet practical course in translation from English into Spanish The course provides students with a well-structured, step-by-step guide to Spanish translation which will enhance and refine their language skills while introducing them to some of the key concepts and debates in translation theory and practice Each chapter presents a rich variety of practical tasks, supported by concise, focused discussion of key points relating to a particular translation issue or text type Shorter targeted activities are combined with lengthier translation practice Throughout the book, learners will find a wealth of material from a range of genres and text types, including literary, expository, persuasive and audiovisual texts An answer key to activities, as well as supplementary material and Teachers’ Notes are provided in the companion website The book covers common areas of difficulty including: frequent grammatical errors calques and loan words denotation and connotation idioms linguistic varieties cultural references style and register Suitable both for classroom use and self-study, Mundos en palabras is ideal for advanced undergraduate students of Spanish, and for any advanced learners wishing to acquire translation competence while enhancing their linguistic skills

Conducting the Coded Message Songs of Slavery: Context, Connotation, and Performance Preparation

Abstract: The coded message songs of slavery are a mysterious and fascinating entity. Within the lyrics of these seemingly innocuous plantation songs are coded messages for escape, messages that provided secret information to enslaved workers on Antebellum plantations. Over the course of more than 250 years of slavery on American soil, countless enslaved Africans found freedom through the use of coded message songs and the Underground Railroad. What are these songs? Which lyrics provided this secret information? How can a study of this music provide a better musical experience for conductors, singers, and listeners? This disquisition offers answers to these important questions, as well as a presentation of this body of repertoire from the choral conductor’s perspective. First, I provide a brief historical context for the music of slavery. I analyze and interpret important historical collections of spirituals and examine them through the lens of their text. Period accounts (from newly freed slaves and by song collectors) as well as information from modern conductors and scholars provide insight into and support for my method. A discussion of textual interpretation and musical representation follows, including a valuable list of common themes used in coded message songs. In the main body of the document, I present nine spirituals that contain coded message. I focus on the lyrics of the coded songs, introducing the connotations of the messages within the music. I also offer insight to choral conductors considering this repertoire and some interpretive choices that may be made when performing this music. Finally, this study contributes appendices with concrete pedagogical resources to assist conductors in their teaching and presentation of coded message songs to their singers. Successful choral conductors are dynamic storytellers. As a conductor preparing, rehearsing, and performing this choral music, it is critical to both communicate the context and history of coded message songs during the learning process, and also make appropriate stylistic choices in the music. Revealing the historical context and rich textual interpretation of this body of repertoire allows conductors to tell this story more effectively through their informed pedagogy, ultimately enriching and inspiring both singers and listeners.

Growing a green economy in China

Abstract: With the rapid development of economy, resource depletion and environmental degradation have become serious challenges for Chinese sustainable development. Green development is a mode of well environmental and high-quality economic development. It is necessary for China to implement green development. In this review, it discusses the green development problems in China, the international experience and connotation of green development are summarized and identified further. Based on the connotation and experience of green economy development, it puts forward several countermeasures and suggestions for Chinese green development finally.

Connotation and Textual Analysis in Real Estate Listings

Abstract: Real estate listings typically include objective, factual information about property characteristics, along with subjective, descriptive language. How the agent constructs the content of t...

From Cultural Tolerance to Mutual Cultural Respect: An Asian Artist’s Perspective on Virtual World Cultural Appropriation

Abstract: Culture is to be lived and to be learned. The connotation of cultural symbols is negotiated and learned within a culture (Sturken & Cartwright, 2004). When we are part of the dominant culture using another’s cultural objects, we may not know the context of that object, which may lead to cultural appropriation. In this paper, I review appropriation through three different domains: appropriation in art, appropriation in media and technology, and appropriation in cultural studies. I specifically chose to use denotation and connotation as the means to analyze interview text and visual data because these two coding systems are able to draw the cultural meanings embedded in the texts beyond the surface level of understanding. Findings can be categorized into three threads: 1) cultural appropriation in virtual worlds, 2) caring about cultural appropriation, and 3) solutions to cultural appropriation in virtual worlds. This research suggests that cultural exchange and mutual respect are the solutions to cultural appropriation in virtual worlds. Visual literacy will help virtual world residents learn how to read, see, decode, and create virtual imagery.

Industry 4.0 Manpower and Its Teaching Connotation in Technical and Vocational Education: Adjust 107 Curriculum Reform.

Abstract: This research aims to understand industry participants’ opinions about vocational education under the development of Industry 40 manpower and its teaching connotation The study adopted the expert interview method and invited 10 industry experts to hold 2 meetings According to the research results, the original teaching contents in the departments of junior colleges have been changed and departments have been recombined, so that the schools can now offer courses related to big data analysis, cloud computing, Internet of Things, etc to meet the demands of Industry 40 Higher vocational education has set about establishing a practical classroom based on the concept of Industry 40, in order that schools and industry can establish a close cooperation relationship and share resources with each other Industry can help schools update their equipment and eliminate the gap between learning and practice by equipping students at technical and vocational universities with the right competitiveness under system integration and industry connection

The psychology of expressing and interpreting linguistic taboos

Abstract: This chapter describes from a psychological point of view two aspects of taboo word use in American English: the ways people use taboo words to express themselves and the ways people comprehend taboo word expressions. Expression topics selected here include: spoken frequency, verbal fluency, personality traits, emotion expression, anger and frustration, name calling, humor, and coping with pain. Interpretation topics selected include: connotation and denotation, word offensiveness, frequency judgments, fighting words, sexual harassment, and pragmatic contextual variables. The production of expressions with taboo words, as well as the interpretation of them, depends on contextual variables encompassing the expressions including: the speaker–listener relationship and their ages, the social and physical context, and the intended meaning and emotional valence of the expression. Universal statements cannot be made about the production or interpretation of taboo word expressions due to the influence of contextual variables.

Knowledge-rich image gist understanding beyond literal meaning

Abstract: We investigate the problem of understanding the message (gist) conveyed by images and their captions as found, for instance, on websites or news articles. To this end, we propose a methodology to capture the meaning of image-caption pairs on the basis of large amounts of machine-readable knowledge that have previously been shown to be highly effective for text understanding. Our method identifies the connotation of objects beyond their denotation: where most approaches to image understanding focus on the denotation of objects, i.e., their literal meaning, our work addresses the identification of connotations, i.e., iconic meanings of objects, to understand the message of images. We view image understanding as the task of representing an image-caption pair on the basis of a wide-coverage vocabulary of concepts such as the one provided by Wikipedia, and cast gist detection as a concept-ranking problem with image-caption pairs as queries. Our proposed algorithm brings together aspects of entity linking and clustering, subgraph selection, semantic relatedness, and learning-to-rank in a novel way. In addition to this novel task and a complete evaluation of our approach, we introduce a novel dataset to foster further research on this problem. To enable a throughout investigation of the problem of gist understanding, we produce a gold standard of over 300 image-caption pairs and over 8000 gist annotations covering a wide variety of topics at different levels of abstraction. We use this dataset to experimentally benchmark the contribution of different kinds of signals from heterogeneous sources, namely image and text. The best result with a Mean Average Precision (MAP) of 0.69 indicate that by combining both dimensions we are able to better understand the meaning of our image-caption pairs than when using language or vision information alone. Our supervised approach relies on the availability of human-annotated gold standard datasets. Annotating images with, possibly complex, topic labels is arguably a very time-consuming task that must rely on expert human annotators. We accordingly investigate whether parts of this process could be automatized using automatic image annotation and caption generation techniques. Our results indicate the general feasibility of an end-to-end approach to gist detection when replacing one of the two dimensions with automatically generated input, i.e., using automatically generated image tags or generated captions. However, we also show experimentally that state-of-the-art image and text understanding is better at understanding literal meanings of image-caption pairs, with non-literal pairs being instead generally more difficult to detect, thus paving the way for future work on understanding the message of images beyond their literal content.

Indianizing psychiatry – A critique

Abstract: The issue of culture in Indian psychiatry has endured increasing neglect with the burgeoning biological paradigm. This viewpoint debates and demystifies the connotation of "culture" in mainstream psychiatry. As a template to infer dominant thinking in mainstream psychiatry about culture, DLN Murty Rao Oration in 2011, "Indianizing Psychiatry - Is there a case enough?" by Avasthi (2011) (published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry) has been used. Engaging a broad interdisciplinary view helps unravel the inherent biases in psychiatry and opens up space for analysis of the Indian psyche from a different philosophic tradition and ways of researching it. Effort here is to open up dialog with cultural psychiatry, make efforts to involve traditional and folk therapies, and use available theoretical and empirical resources within cultural psychiatry for a refined practice of psychiatry in India.

Оригинальные метафорические употребления цветообозначений (корпусный анализ)

Abstract: This article is concerned with the issue of the use of Russian metaphorical phrases that denote colors. The author considered various theories, namely the color theory by Goethe, Basic color terms by Berlin and Kay, the theory by Belov . By combining different theories together there were selected 12 basic colors. The correlation between abstract nouns and adjectives that denote colors is being studied. There is an attempt to define the connotation of every basic color. All colors are divided into colors with positive, negative and neutral connotation. The author also extracts synesthetic metaphors from all found metaphors. The study is conducted in terms of corpus research. All the examples are provided due to National Russian Corpus. In the further work the study will be concerned with synesthetic metaphors of sound and visual perception, with the classification by Max Luscher . The further work will be accompanied by setting up a unique corpora with the help of Sketch Engine tools.

Analysis of Connotation Words in The Jakarta Post Online Headline News

Abstract: This research aims to analyse connotation words in the Jakarta Post online headline news and to find the positive and negative connotation of those online headline news. Qualitative method and descriptive analysis are applied in this research. There are 30 headline news of data sources. The result of the research shows that 46,66 % of the 30 headline news online use positive connotation words and 53,33 % of them use negative connotation words in the news. And it also shows that an online newspaper headline might evoke different feelings and emotions to the readers by using the connotation words. This finding implies that the most connotation words used in the headline news is negative connotation.

World Views and the Concept of “Traditional”

Abstract: Whether individuals hold static or dynamic worldviews underlies a number of contemporary controversies, including evolution/creationist debates, the reality of climate change, and application of treaty rights by Indigenous cultures. In this last case the debate is often framed in terms of whether or not Indigenous cultures are still using traditional methods when engaged in hunting, fishing, or harvesting. My purpose is to evaluate these issues by arguing that traditional means quite different things in different cultural traditions. In Western cultures, whose roots lie in static worldviews, e.g., those put forth by Aristotle and Descartes, traditional tends to mean unchanged or perhaps timeless. In Indigenous cultures, which typically have dynamic worldviews, traditional (a Western concept), implies that technologies employed, knowledge bases, and even ceremonial practices can change when conditions require. Western thinking assumes that use of the word traditional implies that such concepts or knowledge are of the past and thus unchangeable and irrelevant to the contemporary world. Non-Indigenous investigators have contended that traditional and change are contradictory concepts and that “[ traditional ] carries the unacknowledged connotation that the item in question is in decline, thus in need of being preserved .” In Indigenous thinking, the term traditional implies primarily that such knowledge and its related concepts have been in existence for a lengthy time, precisely because their ability to incorporate new observations and information has kept them fresh and relevant. I discuss these alternative concepts in the contexts of treaty and land rights and contemporary conservation concepts of biodiversity.

Проблемы англоязычного академического письма: лексические ошибки, причины их появления и стратегии коррекции

Abstract: Lexical errors in students’ English writing may be caused by lexical interference, mul­tiple meaning and synonymy of Russian and English words. Russian students studying English as a foreign language often have little notion of the English or Russian word connotation and cannot analyze the word meaning; consequently they make a lot of lexical errors in translating their ideas into English. Typical students’ errors and mistakes include usage of a direct word meaning instead of a figurative one, transfer of the given word collocation into all possible collocations of this word, errors in selecting the contextual meaning of a multiple meaning word. We use some methods in teaching students to analyze the contextual meaning of the word and to find the English word for adequate translation: explanation of some problematic situations, cross-lingual matching and trans­lation comparison. As a result students gain metacognitive skills to classify the obtained information and to organize it into linked structures, to analyze the contextual word meaning, to overcome vo­cabulary disparity and word sense disambiguation.

Mutual trust and co-operation under NEC 3&4: a fresh perspective.

Abstract: Using insights from planning and employment law, this piece looks beyond the conventional connotation of good faith and critically examines the meaning, scope and consequence of the duty to act in a spirit of mutual trust and co-operation under Clause 10 of NEC3 and NEC4.

A Study on the Connotation, Measuring Dimensions and Influence Factors of Sense of Circle in Mobile Social Networks

Abstract: The cultural psychology of Chinese differential pattern has produced the circle phenomenon, and the objective existence of the circle is also eroding all aspects of our life. Sense of circle is the subjective cognition of circle, guiding the expression and coordination of interpersonal relationships. With the rapid development of mobile social networks, the research of network circles has become a hot topic nowadays. This paper explores the structural connotation, measuring dimensions and influence factors of sense of circle by qualitative research and empirical test method. Results from this study shows that the connotation of sense of circle consists of four dimensions: shared beliefs, reciprocal exchange, role orientation, social structure and twelve component factors, Among them, shared beliefs consists of emotional attribution, common values, demand fulfillment. Reciprocal exchange consists of sense of resources, thinking orientation, interactive acquisition. Role orientation consists of responsible consciousness, learning consciousness, volunteering consciousness. Social structure consists of stratum categories, implicit norms, and tie strength. And these 4 dimensions has different significance level, especially the finding of role orientation improving and developing existing circle theory in social network. These conclusions make up the deficiency of the existing research, and have guiding influence on enterprises’ innovation and strategy.

The Form of Conflict Toward Power Authority on Superhero Graphic Novel: Semiotic Analysis on The Watchmen Graphic Novel

Abstract: This article elaborates upon the idea of the conflict with a power authority in a graphic novels, using the semiotic analysis method defined by Roland Barthes. It will highlight the denotation, connotation and myths of the visual signs and words. This is a piece of qualitative research and uses constructivism as the paradigm. Primary data is taken from every chapter of the Watchmen graphic novel published during the course of 1986. Until now, The Watchmen was the only graphic novel that received a Hugo Award, a worldwide acknowledgement of this genre/format as a new form of art literature. Many themes and myths can be found in the graphic novel, which help to mould the underlying ideologies which form the narrative foundations of each plotline, and this article demonstrates how the genre can be read as a form of mass communication that itself promotes conflict todawds power authority.

Western Culture Acquisition of Young Cadres Based on Cognitive Linguistics

Abstract: Language is not only the carrier and precipitation of culture, but also a part of culture. As the globalization progresses, the impact of western culture on our traditional culture of China, young cadres conform to the two definitions of youth and cadres and become the most vigorous, dreamful and creative group in the society, an important part of the cadres of the Party and the State, and the mainstay of the China's future and mission. Therefore, it is of strategic significance to study western culture acquisition of young cadres. This study explores the process of young cadres learning western culture based on cognitive linguistics, discusses the importance of language in cultural learning, expounds the three characteristics of cognitive linguistics: experience, motivation and metaphoricity, and puts forward some contributions of cognitive linguistics to cultural learning. This study analyzes the possible influence of western culture on young cadres and its ways, and puts forward the corresponding measures and preventive measures. Combined with the present situation of western culture acquisition, this study gives the methods and suggestions for young cadres to learn western culture based on cognitive language. Through language learning, they can deeply understand the western culture carried by language, and at the same time, they can more clearly recognize the traditional culture of China. This study also guides young cadres to establish correct values and world outlook in the process of western culture acquisition, to fully explore and learn about the profound cultural connotation and essence contained in language, and to enrich and nourish their own spiritual world.

College students' literature creation platform

Abstract: The invention provides a college students' literature creation platform. The platform comprises a personal module, a literature presentation module and a check g module; the platform operates based ona computer or a network; students or faculty members in camps use student numbers or worker numbers as accounts to log in the platform and freely publish articles or participate in essay soliciting activities in the platform; article categories include poetry, prose, essays, quotations, journals, novels and story-telling sessions; the publication of articles in the platform can obtain corresponding points; and the points can be used in a point exchange mall in the platform so as be exchanged with gifts freely. With the college students' literature creation platform adopted, the enthusiasm ofcollege students' literary creation can be effectively improved; the literary heritage of the college students can be cultivated; the cultural connotation of the college students can be increased; andthe courage of the college students to submit articles can be enhanced; and an online library with abundant resources can be provided for college students or faculties in collages.

Autonomous Learning and Principles for Deep Knowledge

Abstract: This study aims to understand whether students have the ability to interpret the connotation of deep knowledge based on afterschool autonomous learning activities, habitual domains and principles for deep knowledge, and to use deep knowledge principles to analyze the relationship between the common autonomous learning activities and knowledge as well as students' rating on various types of deep knowledge. There were 71 participants in this study, and data were collected from group discussions and written records. The results showed that the students have the ability to understand the connotation of deep knowledge and propose a variety of autonomous learning methods. This study explored how these autonomous learning methods are closely connected to the deep knowledge of habitual domains based on the methods proposed by the students. The author also gave teaching suggestions in accordance with the participants' rating on the deep knowledge.

Various of Theories of the Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility and Comments

Abstract: Corporate Social Responsibility can be summarized as follows: economic responsibility theory, charity responsibility theory, moral responsibility theory, legal responsibility theory, comprehensive responsibility theory, related interest theory. Although the theories all illustrate the features of corporate social responsibility to some extent, they can't reveal the connotation comprehensively and accurately. It refers to the enterprise's obligation to improve social interests except for legal liabilities to the stakeholders.

The Concept “Money” In The French Linguistic World Image

Abstract: The article analyzes such an important notion of cognitive linguistics as a concept. The article is aimed at identifying specific functioning of the concept “money” in the French linguistic world image as exemplified in phraseological locutions. The study made it possible to identify the core of the concept under consideration, as well as its additional conceptual properties and periphery. The core of the concept includes such connotations as a way to solve problems and trust. The revealed additional conceptual properties are represented by connotations with value (positive or negative), negative qualities of a person, power, an old-time small coin sou as an insignificant part of something. The periphery includes conceptual properties-connotations with the merits of a person and connotation of a small coin sou with a basis for the future capital. It can be concluded that modern French society, brought up in a market economy, perceives the concept “money” both positively and negatively, depending on the situation and on what the money serves for.

The Cultivation of Cultural Consciousness in English Writing Teaching in China from the Perspective of Linguistics

Abstract: English teaching mainly covers five interdependent and interrelated basic language skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. English writing is considered an important part in English output stage, which is often an ultimate goal of language learning. However, the current English writing teaching in China is not so satisfactory, and a disadvantage exists in Chinese traditional approach of writing-focused instruction: Students’ writings often fail to achieve the aim of effective information expression and communication. Cultural linguists, social linguists and cognitive linguists believe that there is an inseparable relationship between language and culture, so cultural connotation of language cannot be ignored in the English writing teaching in order to realize the precise use of language. The paper is attempted to discuss the cultivation of cultural consciousness in the English writing teaching in terms of vocabulary, syntax, and text under the structure of linguistics so as to improve teaching efficiency of Chinese English writing in some sense.

El espacio cinematográfico en la obra de Wong Kar Wai: Un análisis compositivo sobre la película In the mood for love

Abstract: The article aims to address the emotional and narrative burden of morality that director Wong Kar Wai represents in the fi rst 12 minutes of the movie In the mood for love, a story that takes place in Hong Kong in 1962 in a social context very particular for this society. The purpose is to show the morality that prevailed among the society of the British colony Hong Kong. The analysis will be carried out through the compositional methodology of the image proposed by Francesco Casseti and that basically consists of the connotation of the photographic message.

A semiotic analysis in music video of blank space by taylor swift

Abstract: Music video has a signs and different meaning. This research aims to know the signs used and to find out denotation and connotation meaning in the music video of Blank Space by Taylor Swift. The method used in analysis this music video is qualitative. The results obtained from this research are the semiotic signs found namely visual signs, verbal signs in song lyrics, denotation and connotation meaning.

Connotation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Construction of Ecological Civilization in the New Era

Abstract: Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization construction is an important part of the socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in a new era, which inherits and develops the ecological theory of Marxism and Sinicized Marxism based on the reality of the national conditions and the ecological wisdom rooted in traditional Chinese philosophy. In this paper, the basic connotation, significance, goals, requirements and realization ways of ecological civilization construction are expounded profoundly. This is of great significance to move toward a new era of socialist ecological civilization and promote the construction of beautiful China.

Anggaran pemerintah daerah dalam bingkai amin, aman, uman: sebuah studi semiotika barthesian

Abstract: This study aims to reveal the meaning of local government budget. The paradigm used in this research is interpretive by using Barthesian Semiotics research method. Semiotics Barthesian emphasizes the relationship between the sign with the individual experience and the culture of its users. Roland Barthes's ideas include the meaning of denotation, connotation and myth. The results reveal that the meaning of denotative local government budget is a plan embodied in monetary units. While the connotative meaning of local government budget is the result of agreement between the executive and legislative (amin). The preparation, execution, and reporting of the budget must comply with the prevailing laws and regulations (aman). Budgets are used to meet executive and legislative interests (uman). At the level of mythical budget is identified as an effort to welfare the community.