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Short films : dispersive effects of clip thinking
2013
The New Media have a vast influence on human mind and its cognitive functions. Clip thinking is a state of perception, knowledge and, therefore, consciousness that is formed by the perceptual patterns based on deconstruction of narratives. Practically, the main symptoms of clip thinking are the following: the lack of concentration while dealing with narratives, the incline to multitask work and random access to the information as well as an urge for immediate answers and the frustration if such an answer is impossible to get. Clip thinking is based on the database logic as an opposite to narrative. The present thesis discusses the clip thinking in terms of New Media theory of Lev Manovich a…
Parlers populaires et paysans dans la fiction en prose (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)
2018
In fictional narrative and comedy of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, staging lower-class or country people is a pretext to make up a comic stereotype. One of the main attributes of this stereotype is the use of a low language level, a faulty French, soiled by regionalisms. To this « popular » French language are often associated dull-wittedness, naivety, foolishness, as well as conversations limited on common place subjects. This linguistic standard is often presented on the occasion of a dialogue with a learned, well-read and refined interlocutor. Contrasting standards make laugh and disqualify as rough some uses and turns of phrase of French, at the time when grammatical and stylisti…
Language students and emerging identities
2012
The aim of our article is to study written narratives as a way of expressing emerging identities as second language (L2) users. We compare narratives written by Finnish students of Swedish during their first semester (24 essays) with data collected after the third year of study (9 essays), thereby trying to figure out how the university context has affected the development of the students as L2 users. L2 learning is regarded as a complex project entailing constant identity formation as a plurilingual subject. We see identity as a process, as something flexible, hybrid and multifaceted. Identity evolves in participation and it always includes a temporal dimension. The language learning proce…
Children’s Right to Play and Its Implementation: A Comparative, International Perspective
2021
The child's right to play is specifically addressed in the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The international recognition of this right is the central theme of this study. Through a documentary analysis of the reports of the States Parties to the Convention and the Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the study assesses the recognition of this right. The entry into force of General Comment 17 on the right of the child to rest, recreation, play, recreational activities, cultural life and the arts (art. 31) in 2013 should have marked a turning point in policies on children in the States Parties, but this did not occur. Policies cannot be …
La labor silenciosa de lo positivo
2015
Resumen El trabajo se ocupa de reflexionar sobre el concepto de muerte. Se podria simplificar aun mas: se ocupa de reflexionar sobre la muerte. La reflexion no lleva a una respuesta, sino a la apertura de un panorama utilizando herramientas de la poesia, la filosofia y la medicina. Con este fin se recurre a Cesar Vallejo como triple detonante de partida para construir una estructura de tres partes acudiendo a Diego Gracia, Julian Marias y Pedro Lain Entralgo. De cada uno se toman conceptos determinantes que encaucen la reflexion en un sentido espiral que permita al lector ampliar la panoramica sobre las preguntas: ?que pasa hoy con la muerte? ?Quien es ese sujeto al que le acontece la muert…
Organizational Culture Beyond Consensus and Clarity: Narratives From Elite Sport
2020
In sport psychology, organizational culture is usually depicted as shared, consistent, and clear—the glue that holds people together so they can achieve success. There is, however, growing discontent in sport psychology with this idea of culture and extensive critiques in other academic domains that suggest this perspective is limited. Accordingly, the authors draw on narrative interviews with participants (n = 7) from different areas of sport and use Martin and Meyerson’s three perspective (integration, differentiation, and fragmentation) approach to culture alongside thematic analysis to reconstruct three “ideal cases” that exemplify each perspective. The findings emphasize a different pa…
A Uniform Conspiracy Mindset or Differentiated Reactions to Specific Conspiracy Beliefs? Evidence From Latent Profile Analyses
2021
Conspiracy theories arise for virtually any public event (e.g., pandemics, assassinations, disasters). In light of positively correlated endorsements of such beliefs, many have pointed to a more general mindset behind this. Others have argued against this notion of a consistent mindset. Applying Latent Profile Analyses, we examine the evidence for either uniform or differentiated response patterns to various items in five studies (reanalyzed datasets, total N = 7877). Overall, the results speak strongly to uniform reactions that could be summarized as a general mindset, but also revealed important qualifications. First, small parts of the samples show more differentiated patterns in relatio…
"The woman that we all need" : Kate Bush in the eyes of American fans
2015
Populaarimusiikin fanittaminen on yksi jokapäiväisistä ilmiöistä länsimaisessa kulttuurissa ja yhteiskunnassa. Kate Bush, brittiläinen muusikko, jonka ura on kestänyt yli kolme vuosikymmentä, on saavuttanut vankan fanipohjan ympäri maailmaa. Yhdysvaltalaisten Kate Bush -fanien ajatellaan kuitenkin olevan harvinaisia, sillä Bush ei ole saavuttanut Yhdysvalloissa musiikillisesti samanlaista asemaa kuten vaikkapa Euroopassa. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on tuoda esiin Kate Bushin amerikkalaisia faneja, ja tutkia, kuinka he näkevät Kate Bushin artistina. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan Kate Bushin statusta osallistujien elämässä ja heidän emotionaalista suhtautumistaan Bushiin ja hänen musiikkii…
Infertility as a lonely struggle? : Coping stories of previously infertile women
2023
In this narrative study, we explored the meaning infertile women attribute to social support in coping with their infertility-related challenges. Written accounts and episodic interviews with 26 previously infertile Finnish women were used as data. Two different coping story types emerged: coping alone and coping with support. In the coping alone type women neither sought nor received support. Their coping appeared as a lonely struggle. In the coping with stories, women turned to their spouses, peers, or professionals, but still emphasized that they would have needed more support. Based on our findings, we underline the need for individually tailored support. peerReviewed
The mediation of subtitling in the narrative construction of migrant and/or marginalized stories
2020
Media products, cultures and the arts have recently been transformed by migration, and these cultural and aesthetic transformations have contributed to re-shaping identities, ethnicities, distant societies, and minority groups. The growing interest in migratory aesthetics has brought into representation marginalized subjectivities in ways that depart from migrant depictions in the conventional media (e.g., the news bulletins) and the oversimplified and manipulated stories of marginalization in networked mainstream platforms. Against the backdrop of narrative theory and accessibility as a new terrain of human rights practice, this study examines the subtitling activity of what I identify as …