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Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics

Abstract: This book explains, in simple terms, with a minimum of mathematics, why things can appear to be in two places at the same time, why correlations between simultaneous events occurring far apart cannot be explained by local mechanisms, and why, nevertheless, the quantum theory can be understood in terms of matter in motion. No need to worry, as some people do, whether a cat can be both dead and alive, whether the moon is there when nobody looks at it, or whether quantum systems need an observer to acquire definite properties. The author’s inimitable and even humorous style makes the book a pleasure to read while bringing a new clarity to many of the longstanding puzzles of quantum physics.

Money Creation in the Modern Economy

Abstract: An age-old debate has recently resurfaced in the columns of a daily newspaper Money creation in practice. Misconceptions and reality. Is the issue still topical; indeed, is it one of journalism? Especially since the crisis, the public is still highly preoccupied with how banks have come to have so much money. Experts in professional circles believe they know how money is created. The textbooks used in economics education to this date teach the theory of traditional money multiplication. But nobody seems to be interested in what the essence of money is – which in fact is not independent of its creation. As the saying goes, it is not important what money is, only the effect it has.

The Human Face of Big Data

Abstract: I n 1965, the year the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, only 5% of the population held a postsecondary degree. Despite the steady rise in educational attainment (nearly one-third of Americans currently have a college degree) and voting enfranchisement over the past 50 years, American democracy continues forward with the seemingly paradoxical circumstance of relatively high levels of education and low levels of political knowledge. In an engaging new book, eminent political scientist Arthur Lupia sets out to provide answers to the question of “why people know so little about politics and what we can do about it.” Lupia begins by critiquing the conventional wisdom that we are, in fact, lacking when it comes to political knowledge. He argues that studies that draw such conclusions are often based on unrealistic expectations, poor quality of measurement, and faulty reasoning from the data. There is far too much detailed and policyspecific political information at any given moment for any person to be considered knowledgeable about all things political, Lupia maintains. “A democracy would be a farce if nobody knew anything at all about politics or policy,” he writes. “[H]owever, it requires a grand leap of logic (usually accompanied by a substantial dose of illogic) to go from POLITICAL SCIENCE

Towards a Practical Communication Intervention

Abstract: The study starts from evidence that several communication acts fail, but nobody is called to intervene and nobody thinks of intervening. Examining different branches (specialties) of the communication discipline and focusing on four possible practices, by comparison, differentiation, collating and corroboration, the current study brings arguments for a branch of the communication discipline that has as unique practical aim the communicational intervention, the practical, direct and strict application of communication research.

Russia’s Pivot to Asia: Myth or Reality?

Abstract: The article discusses the changes in Russia’s policy towards Asia, arguing that Russia’s pivot to Asia is a reality, one that is motivated by both political and economic interests. And although that shift is not progressing as quickly as some might want and occasionally encounters difficulties, the process has definitely begun and is in all likelihood irreversible. Only a small, marginal segment of Russian society continues to dream of unity with Europe—which itself has entered a period of severe crisis. Most of the Russian elite as well as the majority of Russian citizens understand that nobody is waiting for them with open arms. Therefore, not wanting a confrontation and in an effort to maintain working relations, Russia—under any leader—is unlikely to seek a relationship based on a common outlook. That will move Russia ever closer to the non-Western world, primarily the Asian giants.

The Solution Printer: Magic Realist Design Fiction

Abstract: This paper is presented as a "design fiction" because nobody would accept these findings in any other form though they are as true as anything else published at CHI. It begins with empirical investigations into the infamous dream simultaneously experienced by thousands of people. We describe the development of a device designed to capture images from that extraordinary dream. This was a prop, or diegetic prototype that unexpectedly began to work. We then report a range of other fictional devices developed at the Solutionist Studio which began to function as described. We argue that the line between fiction and reality has become entirely porous.

Nobody, Somebody, and Everybody

Abstract: “Nobody, Somebody, and Everybody” argues that the convergence of the Crimean War, liberal political ideology, and statistical thought created a crisis of accountability in the public sphere in mid-Victorian England, a crisis to which Dickens responded in his journalism by elaborating a rhetoric of indefiniteness through the use of the pronoun “somebody.” Statistics produced an abstract order of behavior that described humans en masse, whereas moral traditions framed questions of accountability according to observed behaviors of individual men. This accountability crisis is explored through a reading of Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1854), while Dickens’s writing in Household Words is understood as an aspirational solution to this crisis.

"we never expel a foreigner" - globalism, interconnectivity and the experiment of the open society

Abstract: IntroductionKarl Popper (1945) appeals to "Pericles of Athens" in the opening pages of The Spell of Plato, Volume I of The Open Society and Its Enemies with the following excerpt:For the Open Society (about 430 B.C.):Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.Immediately as a contrast Popper quotes from "Plato of Athens:"Against the Open Society (about 80 years later):The greatest principle of all is that nobody, whether male or female, should be without a leader. Nor should the mind of anybody be habituated to letting him do anything at all on his own initiative; neither out of zeal, nor even playfully. But in war as well as in the midst of peace to his leader he shall direct his eye and follow him faithfully. And even in the smallest matter he should stand under leadership. For example, he should get up, or move, or wash, or take his meals . . . only if he has been told to do so . . . In a word, he should teach his soul, by long habit, never to dream of acting independently, and in fact, to become utterly incapable of it (p. 3).Popper uses these two r eferences to frame a critical discussion of Plato's historicism. As a critical introduction to political philosophy his aim is to that "this civilization has not yet fully recovered from the shock of its birth, the transition from the tribal or 'closed society,' with its submission to magical forces, to the 'open society' which sets free the critical powers of man." In the final chapter he continues in this vein: "There is no return to a har - monious state of nature" ... "if we wish to remain human, then there is only one way, the way into the open society. We must go on into the unknown, courageously, using what reason we have, to plan for security and freedom."His initial reference is to Pericles' Funeral Oration (after 490 BCE) from Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War. It is a speech by Pericles that provides a eulogy for the pr inciples of Athenia n democracy. The statement of its underlying principles in fact provides a better warrant for the political concept of openness:It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privil ege, but as the reward of m erit. Neither is poverty an obstacle, but a man may benefit his country whatever the obscurity of his condition. There is no exclusiveness in our public life, and in our private business we are not suspicious of one another, nor angry with our neighbor if he does what he likes; we do not put on sour looks at him which, though harmless, are not pleasant.Our city is thrown open to the world, though and we never expel a foreigner and prevent him from seeing or learning anything of which the secret if revealed to an enemy might profit him. We rely not upon management or trickery, but upon our own hearts and hands. And in the matter of education, whereas they from early youth are always undergoing laborious exercises which are to make them brave, we live at ease, and yet are equally ready to face the perils which they face.1In these brief passages Pericles points to the advantages of democracy that thrives on openness and transparency, despite the fact that the words themselves are reported by an anti-democratic Thucydides who while admiring Pericles' leadership criticized the mob rule of democracy (Perry, 2012).George Soros, Popper's student, describes Popper's concept of the open society as an epistemological concept rather than a political one even though in Popper's hands it resembles liberal democracy and becomes a political instrument for societal improvement.Living in the twenty-first century it is necessary to revisit the notion of openness as it has become one of the most used concepts to analyze a welter of problems and situations, often with conflicting meanings. …

RELEGATION AND REBELLION: THE QUEER, THE GROTESQUE, AND THE SILENT IN THE FICTION OF CARSON McCULLERS

Abstract: The grotesque demands attention. A contorted doll, a nail-pierced hand, a nipple-shorn bosom, a gouged-out eye: these are aggressive images that insert themselves into the mind's eye and linger. Such startling word-pictures punctuate the fiction of Carson McCullers so that when we think of her writing, we think of that which makes us shudder: we think of the grotesque. Equally characteristic of McCullers's work are lonely, alienated, queer characters whose feelings, fears, and desires are conveyed through silence and exemplified by the figure of the mute, the central character of and the author's intended title for her first novel, published at its editors' suggestion as The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940). Though silent, the mute "speaks" to those characters in Heart who believe that he recognizes and affirms their own differences, which they feel but cannot name as queer: "His eyes made a person think that he heard things nobody else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before" {Heart 24). The visual and the aural are often linked in McCullers, and just as the mute seems to hear with his eyes, careful readers can discern the silent in her fiction speaking in image as the grotesque. This synesthesia is a result of the relationship between the queer and the grotesque, an association that generates a picture of the destructive effects of queer silencing. The grotesque as McCullers uses it appears not so much as the fully embodied,1 but in a wide range of imagery and vividly illustrated behaviors. Spectacularly, politically m?tonymie rather than metaphoric, the grotesque registers not the queer but the distortion produced by its relegation to silence, and in so doing, resists this practice.

“Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around”

Abstract: For nearly four centuries, people of African descent in the Diaspora expressed their presence, pain, desires, and hopes through the repertoire of the spirituals.1 Spirituals materialize the histori...

Es posible una definición de integridad en el ámbito de la ética empresarial

Abstract: Integrity is one of the more commented values on Business Ethics. Literature of the last years shows that everybody considers integrity as fundamental. Nonetheless we chance upon a paradox: there are lots of references to integrity, but nobody explains what integrity it is. A thorough review of the literature allows us to identify four common characteristics in the different ways of understanding integrity. These are justice, consistence, upright principles and upright motivation. On the basis of Aristotelic Ethics we can find the comprehensive meaning of integrity.

‘Don't show the play at the football ground, nobody will come’: the micro-sociality of co-produced research in an English provincial city

Abstract: This article examines the idea that community is best understood through the concept of micro-sociality, as a verb, as ongoing social relations in action, rather than a thing to be possessed, lacked or lost. Such an emphasis on already-existing relations has consequences for the conduct of publicly-funded interventions including socially engaged research projects. This article tells a part of the story of one such project in Peterborough, England in the 2010s. If the project was counter-cultural in working with what was already happening in the city, rather than seeking to proselytize a culturally specific view of citizenship and the arts, it also faced its own political choices regarding whose work to accompany and how. Initiated by a group of outsider academics and artists, it involved transformations at varying scales, both fleeting and longer-lasting, often unplanned. The article takes a look at the project’s own microsociality in the choices city residents made to accompany its intentions and practices. Like other people, university researchers and artists are seen to depend on social relations, including the commitment and care of people they work with.

Film and Media Production as a Screen Idea System

Abstract: Producing new works of fiction for film and television is notoriously categorized as risky business. As discussed by David Hesmondhalgh, all business is risky, but the cultural industries are particularly risky because they are centred on texts to be bought and sold to audiences that use these texts in highly volatile and unpredictable ways (Hesmondhalgh 2013, p. 27). Developing a new film or television product is a process marked by high sunk costs without any certainty as to whether there will be audience demand for this specific new variation. In the film industry, the term ‘nobody knows’ is thus accepted as a common truth. Professor of economics Richard Caves (2000) has even formulated the ‘nobody knows principle’ as a defining property of the film and media industries, since it is impossible to predict how the market will react to a certain product beforehand.

Addressing the Elephant in the Room. (Or, I Dare you to Ignore this any Longer)

Abstract: "It ain't easy being green," according to Kermit the Frog. It is never easy being "the other." Perhaps the biggest problem with being "the other" is convincing those in the mainstream to recognize that difference isn't wrong or inferior, and that the outlier, the oddball, the proverbial square-peg is just as important as those who conform.Convincing people like you. Yes, you.Because those who need to hear don't really listen. The minute somebody uses the F-word or the D-word these days, more than half the audience checks out. "Feminism" packs more heat today than that other F-word, the four-letter one. Start talking about "gender disparity" or "female representation," and at least half your audience (and roughly 97% of those under 25) runs for the hills. (That presumes they were even within earshot at the outset.)It's not much better when you say the Dword (sshhhh, "diversity"), unless the listener is some "other." Some people think we don't need to discuss this anymore - that we now live in a color-blind world. That because of affirmative action and legislation banning discrimination, the "D" issue is old news and the problem is solved. I'm guessing that's why only the usual suspects turned out for a 2015 panel about the state of diversity in advertising at the AAA (American Academy of Advertising) conference, and why the number in the audience exceeded the sum of esteemed panelists by exactly one (Grow & Mallia, 2015).Where were you?"Who Cares? I Don't Care. The Public Doesn't Care. Noooo-bod-y Cares."One summer decades ago, I heard that exhortation at BSSJ (Blair Summer School for Journalism) countless times from renowned Independence, Missouri journalism teacher Ron Clemons. He repeated it again and again, to drive home the importance of having a great lead in your news story to compel your audience to take heed and read. His refrain is every bit as relevant in persuasive communication, reminding us "nobody cares" unless we make them care about a topic.Nobody would actually admit to not caring about diversity. After all, few groups beat the academy in talking a good game about diversity and pledging allegiance to it. But unfortunately, we're human. So it takes an awful lot to make us stretch beyond our narrow scope of personal interest and truly embrace someone unlike ourselves, let alone her cause. As we advertising educators know from both theory and practice, it takes a powerful persuasive force to change strongly held opinions and attitudes, and to compel behavior change. Thus, despite the fact that we should know better, we selectively hear what reaffirms our existing notions and ignore the rest. We keep doing what we've always done. Years pass. And little ever changes. (Or if change does occur, its incremental pace makes a glacier's movement look like the Iditarod.)Of course, there are a few exceptions: 1) a handful of people who have a strong moral compass or ethical training; 2) those who are evaluated on improving diversity or compensated for it or 3) those who have been bypassed when less talented, white, younger, your-adjective-here men start zooming past them on the career ladder.Perhaps you think you're in the clear, because you've nurtured so many female students, perhaps even nominated some for BBDO's Allen Rosenshine Scholarship. Or because you have a decent track record in placing promising minority students with the AAF's MPMS program or in MAIP internships. Isn't that enough?Why should you devote any more time or thought to the advertising industry's persistent diversity problem? Who cares if young women exit in mid-career as fast as young graduates take their place, and female representation in creative is stalled - at best (Grow & Deng, 2014)? Who cares if too many of our best minority students walk away from advertising to do just about anything else? ("Survey contrasts perceptions ...," 2012) If our students aren't worried about work-life balance in advertising (Fullerton & Kendrick, 2015), and even young professionals are blase about diversity, why should we worry about it? …

Nietzsche's Orientation toward the Future

Abstract: Nietzsche assumed that the time to understand him was yet to come, perhaps after one or two centuries. We cannot say whether this time has come yet because nobody can say that he or she understands Nietzsche as he wanted to be understood. But we can track what he wrote about his future and then draw our own conclusions. Although he often spoke about it, Nietzsche’s future has rarely become a topic in Nietzsche research. It might however be especially important for younger generations. After a short review of Nietzsche’s future in the twentieth century, which is already behind us, I thus unfold his semantics of the future and orientation toward the future. Then, I outline the future of thinking as announced by him in the fifth book of the Gay Science . Here, he speaks of the “music of life,” which philosophers and especially those philosophers committed to or fully lost in idealism are no longer able to hear. In a subsequent note, he expands the horizon of this music of life to a “music of the future” in “labyrinths of the future,” in which we have to learn to orient ourselves. The future of Nietzsche’s thinking in the twenty-first century might be decided depending on Nietzsche’s utmost enhancement of value orientation, with which he eventually breaks in his amor fati sign that no longer needs or wants a future.

"my exercise in life is to produce a report that nobody reads:" perceptions of clery act use, compliance, and effectiveness

Abstract: This qualitative policy study used key informant interviews to determine the perceptions of systems administrators and Title IX coordinators who work at 12 different Colorado state institutions of higher education (IHE) regarding the compliance, use, and effectiveness of the 1990 Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) and its subsequent guidance and amendments on campus safety. Document analysis was used to determine compliance of 2015 Annual Security Reports (ASRs) with changes required by the 2013 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (effective October 1, 2015). Additionally, discourse analysis was used as a qualitative methodology to examine discourses that are used in Colorado IHE ASRs and how these discourses shape Colorado IHE expectations and understandings regarding student behavior in relation to Clery Act issues. Finally, general systems theory was applied in understanding results of the document and discourse analyses, as well as the responses of participants.

“On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog”: The Online Risk Assessment of Violent Extremists

Abstract: Online behaviour can provide a unique window from which we can glean intent. From an intelligence standpoint it provides an important source of open-source information. However, making inference of intent from online activity is inherently difficult. Yet elsewhere progress is being made in incorporating information online into decisions regarding risk and offender prioritisation. This chapter synthesises lessons learnt from studies of risk assessment of violent extremists, risk assessment online, and the form and function of extremist materials online in order to begin to approach the issue of online risk assessment of violent extremism. In doing so it highlights issues associated with the diversity of online extremist behaviour, the diversity of offline extremist behaviour and the general lack of understanding related to the interaction of online and offline experiences, and how this contributes to the wider psychological process of ‘radicalisation’. Implications for practitioners are discussed.

Somebody and Nobody: the Authorial Identity of the Player-Playwright-Poet in the Early Modern Theatre

Abstract: This paper focusses on a particular moment at the beginning of the seventeenth century which has been considered to be transitional in terms of how the profession of playwright was perceived. It explores the complex authorial identities of playwrights who were also simultaneously poets and stage actors, roles which both in different ways created tensions with the role of playwright. Via an examination of the stage figure of Nobody which became popular at this time on the London stage, the paper suggests that filling the multiple roles of poet, playwright and player often led to a conflicted relationship with the idea of authorship. Metadramatic readings of the anonymous 1606 playbook Nobody and Somebody appear to support this suggestion, and to indicate that the figure of Nobody could be emblematic of the tensions and conflicts experienced by the player-playwright-poet at this time.

The Quest for the Quality of Things: Can the Internet of Things deliver a promise of the quality of things?

Abstract: No one yet knows what the expected proliferation of the many new product categories in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) will look like in the coming years, but one thing is certain; their success or failure will be driven by unwavering consumer demands for increased quality. Simply put, nobody wants an expensive piece of technological wonder that leaves one questioning why it was bought in the first place. It is therefore imperative that any discussion about the "IoT" be linked directly to the concept of the "quality of things." In this new age of devices with embedded sensors that interconnect and converse with one another, quality is not a nice-tohave extra?it is mission critical. The IoT inevitably will ramp up consumer quality expectations, and producing less than stellar results will be unacceptable.

I just wondered if I can do things on my own and don't have nobody tell me what I can and cannot do. I know better: Letters to the world from inside of a segregated sheltered workshop

Abstract: The segregation and exploitation of people labeled as intellectually disabled is so thorough that it is rarely academically investigated through the lens of structural violence. This article interrogates the cultural practices and dynamics that are used to oppress based on categories related to intellectual capacity. With the aim of resisting reinforcing the epistemological violence that has silenced the voices and experiences of those grappling under these circumstances of structural violence, the author of the article explores an interrelational method. The words of a woman from within a sheltered workshop (factory like spaces of exclusion claiming to support people with disabilities) are intertwined with the scholar activist stance of the author to explore moral exclusion and structural violence. Along with the excavation of these abusive practices, this article inspired by the insights contained in the letters from the author within the sheltered workshop, envisions desire as a form of resistence and subjects as agents. Rather than seeking conclusions from the themes of resistence elevated from the analysis of the letters, uncomfortable questions are generated about power and academic exploitation in the name of activism.

The Lights are on but Nobody's Home: the Future of Academic Libraries?

Abstract: This viewpoint article looks at the challenges facing academic libraries and argues that collaboration and engagement are vital to their survival. Cet article d’opinion examine des defis auxquels des bibliotheques academiques font face, et soutient que la collaboration et l’engagement sont indispensables pour leur survie.

Why We Need a Theory of Art

Abstract: In this article, I argue against Dominic McIver Lopes’s claim that nobody needs a theory of art. On the one hand, I will demonstrate that Lopes’s alternative to theories of art – namely, the buck-passing theory of art – is neither more viable nor more fruitful: it is likewise incapable of resolving disagreement over the status of certain artefacts and of being fruitful for the broader field of the arts. On the other hand, I will defend the view that we are in need of a viable theory of art. The concept of art has a profound impact on our cultural practices. Concepts of art in use now showcase biased and arbitrary features. Correspondingly, certain artefacts and practices are excluded from the domain of art without adequate justification. Therefore, I will argue, it is unwarranted to abandon the search for a viable theory of art.

When the society does not see the future - what does «Disability» mean?

Abstract: The article aims to define the changes and evolution of our global economical system and the role played by education in this moment and in particular the education of disabled people. Methods. Methodological basis for analyzing this problem lies in a systematic approach to studying social processes, and analyze the social systems and the social view and expectation on education and in particular on the inclusive educational systems. Results. Politicians don’t know what to do concerning disabled people in the future. They don’t need disabled people anymore, (cause the industrial society has ended) but they have to support them. Consider that social policies have, in the last years, enhanced the working age and this will mean increasing the level of disabilities and disabled people. Scientific novelty of the article concludes in well-founded proof that the solutions are on the mouth of every politician in the world of education, but from the words to the reality we cannot measure the real involvement in maintaining their promises. The only real possibility is to change the teachers and school’s system: a paradigm where the students will have no more to adapt themselves to the teacher’ lessons, but the teachers will adjust their work to the different students, transforming the slogan «nobody’s left behind» into a reality. Practical significance lies in the conclusion that a new possibility for the society is the paradigm that I have called a school of the future as «Learning Possibilities» environment.

Becoming Somebody: Refashioning the Body Politic in Mary Robinson’s Nobody

Abstract: In 1794, Mary Robinson—author, celebrity figure, and former actress and mistress of the Prince of Wales—debuted her new comedy Nobody at London’s Drury Lane Theatre. It caused a near-riot. This chapter maintains that allusions in Robinson’s drama to “Nobody,” a graphic image often figured as a woman wearing an empire-waist gown with “no bodice,” stage a crisis of embodiment in which the ills of the state are imaged through fashionable folly. The drama provides fresh insight into the politics of fashion, and how authors engaged print media and performance networks to generate suggestion and critique. Moreover, it reveals how Robinson intended, through Nobody, to write herself into being—to rescript her social role from a stylish trendsetter into a respected author.

A beautiful game, but nobody cares? : an analysis of the low attendances at Brazilian football league games

Abstract: Despite Brazilians’ huge passion for football, attendance levels at local league games are often remarkably low. As more spectators at the games positively affect all of a clubs’ sources of income, clubs should have a clear interest in increasing attendances at their home games. This thesis identifies the underlying reasons for the low attendance levels and deduces recommendations for clubs to improve attendances at their home games. Using the widely popular consumer decision making process as a basis, a fan decision making process is developed by enriching and adapting the original model with findings from relevant football management literature. Thereby relevant factors affecting fans in their match attendance decision are identified. Case examples from European football leagues and relevant literature furthermore allow the deduction of best practices on these factors. A quantitative analysis using data from the 2015 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (CBSA) confirms most of the previously identified factors for the case of Brazilian football. Comparing CBSA clubs’ current performance to the best practices deduced regarding the relevant factors affecting fans’ decision making process then allows the detection of the deficits and shortcomings of the clubs’ current approaches, which can serve as an explanation for the low attendance levels at CBSA games. The complete lack of information on ticket sales, the severely reduced opportunity to purchase tickets as well as high ticket prices that exclude substantial parts of the clubs’ target groups from attending the games are identified as the main reasons for the low attendances. Other less severe factors are related to clubs’ pricing strategies, the infrastructure of stadiums or the communication measures used to address fans. Based on these finding, concrete recommendations are deduced on how Brazilian clubs can effectively increase attendances at their home games in the future.

Slang terminology – old problems and new solutions

Abstract: " Slang is one of those things that everybody can recognize and nobody can define. " Paul Roberts (Andersson –Trudgil 1990: 69) Over the years, in my work I have constantly highlighted the terminological heterogeneity in the field of European social dialects. Many of the terms that belong to national traditions and cultures are used in conjunction with international scientific ones (Armianov: 2004). And yet, the linguistic features that make terms out of ordinary words are rather clear and we can put forward the following characteristics: 1. the single meaning (the monosemy) of the term; 2. its semantic precision; 3. its stylistic neutrality. It is surprising that as soon as one starts discussing slang, argot or jargon the linguistic and cultural polysemy of these terms immediately brings a very complex and diverse picture to mind. This complexity and this diversity exist in all the countries of Europe and in the United States and they are quite difficult to overcome because of numerous extralinguistic factors. Because of this sociocultural opposition and the heterogeneity of the sociolectal terminological apparatus it is important to bring some order to this chaos. In the current context, I will attempt to paint a picture in which the European social dialects will be defined and analysed according to their pure linguistic and social characteristics. The final goal is to elaborate a clear structure, and a common terminological scale for European sociolects where each slang, jargon or argot can find its place.

I belong to everybody and i belong to nobody’: a socio-pragmatic analysis of president buhari’s inaugural address

Abstract: This paper examines President Buhari’s inaugural address of May 29, 2015. It aims to elucidate the meanings encoded in the inaugural speech and the functions they perform in an actual context of use. It uses the quote, ‘I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody’ as the anchor for a socio-pragmatic analysis of the speech. The paper attempts to elicit how President Buhari uses language to project his determination and commitment to transform the Nigerian polity. Using the speech act theory, context, politeness principle of face and relevant sociolinguistic factors, this paper also provides an insight into the main intention in the inaugural speech. The speaker uses contrasting situations and collective strategy to project the sociolinguistic variables in the speech. Thus, the socio-pragmatic analysis of the speech helps to reveal that the main intention of President Buhari is to seek for cooperation, teamwork, understanding and support from everyone in order to achieve true federalism and for national development and unity. The socio-pragmatic analysis also depicts the anchor utterance, ‘I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody’ as a true proposition of the speaker’s intent.