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The Use of Landscape Indicators in Environmental Assessment
2016
A fundamental characteristic of the Strategic Environmental Assessment procedure is the use of indicator-like tools for measuring effects generated by plans and programmes that affect the environment and landscape. There are many kinds of indicator categories, but this chapter focuses attention on those related specifically to the landscape. Measuring many aspects of reality, by indicators, is easy today—but for landscape and its cultural aspects, the same fails to apply because, differently from water, air, soil and all the biotic and abiotic elements, technicians must consider variables in which the degree of subjectivity is very high. In spite of this reflection, Strategic Environmental …
La Llegenda del cor menjat al Decameró de Boccaccio: Estratègies de traducció al català
2013
Resum: El grau d’intervencio del traductor determina l’acostament del text al lector. Amb la comparacio de les quatre traduccions catalanes de La llegenda del cor menjat , el conte nove de la quarta jornada del Decamero de Giovanni Boccaccio, es pot comprovar que cada traductor utilitza estrategies diferents per mirar de resoldre un mateix problema de traduccio. A mes del bagatge cultural i la subjectivitat de cada un d’ells, cal tenir en compte un seguit de factors (temporals, historics, referencials, lingu?istics, socials, etc.) que determinen el resultat final. Paraules clau: llegenda; cor; menjat; Decamero ; Boccaccio; estrategia de traduccio Abstract: The extent to which translators in…
Intersubjective Parameters of the Life Processes
2002
The problem of the formation of community, communication, mutual understanding is one of the principal themes in contemporary philosophy. The urgency of the problem has probably sharpened due to the openly onesided tendencies of liberalism, individualism, the philosophy of subjectivity and the egology reigning in the last centuries. These philosophies focus on the self-sufficient individual, individual consciousness, Ego, the structures of mind, body, and consider that the basis of human community lies in the inner structures of a self-sufficient individual. The philosophy of subjectivity turns to man himself in the first place and then attempts to show the capacities (understanding, histor…
Visualization in comparative music research
2007
Computational analysis of large musical corpora provides an approach that overcomes some of the limitations of manual analysis related to small sample sizes and subjectivity. The present paper aims to provide an overview of the computational approach to music research. It discusses the issues of music representation, musical feature extraction, digital music collections, and data mining techniques. Moreover, it provides examples of visualization of large musical collections.
The Feast of Life or the Feast of Reason – Kierkegaard Versus Plato
2011
The article consists of three sections. The first section “Dialogue at the intersection of literature and philosophy” analyzes the fundamental differences between the two modes of human intellectual activity – philosophy and literature on the basis of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s philosophy. Nevertheless, the intersection is possible in the form of dialogue. The second chapter “Negative existential maeutics” is dedicated to Kierkegaard’s conception of existential maeutics in comparison with the Socratic maeutics. The stress is put upon its negative characteristics – the distance, the interruption, the situation of existential shock. These restrictions are necessary to allow the participants’ s…
Discursive construction of subjectivity in English: when travellers complain through their reviews in TripAdvisor
2017
En este artículo analizamos las quejas de los viajeros en un corpus integrado por 80 opiniones o reseñas sobre cuatro hoteles, alojadas en la plataforma TripAdvisor en las categorías de puntuación “malo/pésimo” y “bueno/excelente”. El estudio se enmarca en el análisis del discurso interpersonal aplicado a géneros turísticos digitales (Mapelli 2008, 2016, Suau Jiménez 2011, 2012a, 2012b, 2014), con el propósito de caracterizar no solo el aspecto relacional entre autor y lector, sino también el proposicional o de contenido. Nos centramos en las quejas, ya que constituyen una parte fundamental de las opiniones. Abordamos la construcción de la subjetividad en la voz de los viajeros –del autor- …
Translators vs translatresses’ strategies: ethical and ideological challenges
2011
In the last few years there has been an increasing interest in the issue of gender in translation practice especially thanks to the work of feminist critics and translators who see the act of translating as an activity which involves making use not of speciously neutral, so-called objective strategies, but rather dynamic procedures and tactics which negotiate and are negotiable, open and contingent, and which never assume feminine subjectivity to be an absolute and stable category. Drawing on such premises, this work will focus on the interrelation between identity, textuality and translation in an attempt to explore the idea that gender representation in translation practice may be shaped …
From the many voices to the subject positions in anti-globalization discourse: Enunciative pragmatics and the polyphonic organization of subjectivity
2011
This contribution presents enunciative pragmatics as a methodological orientation to account for how written texts are contextualized in the act of reading. As an offspring of the pragmatic turn among French-speaking linguists, the enunciative approach is mobilized to analyze the cover page of a cartoon on the anti-globalization legend Jose Bove. Focusing on the complex interpretive problems of political discourse, the enunciative-pragmatic approach shows how readers construct subject positions following the text's complex indexicality. It reveals the polyphonic play of voices orchestrated by the enunciative markers. Therefore, enunciative pragmatics promises to bridge the gulf that separat…
Voice and authorial body in Juana Manso
2021
El estilo de Juana Manso fue calificado por Sarmiento como «escandaloso». Esa manera inequívoca de presentarse públicamente delimitó desde entonces un modo de existencia, de circulación y de funcionamiento de su figura autorial en el campo cultural argentino de mediados de siglo XIX. Este artículo se propone rastrear esta singular «puesta en escena» de la escritora como un dispositivo de enunciación que no se limita a sus textos, en la doble dimensión que ocupa, como autora y como actora de ese campo. ¿Cómo se construye, en esta puesta escena, su voz y su imagen?, ¿Cómo se difunde ese cuerpo de autora? En la conjunción de género y profesión, la función-Manso se concreta en un tono de escrit…
Bringing the Past to Heel: History, Identity and Violence in Ian McEwan's Black Dogs
2007
Ian McEwan's 1992 novel Black Dogs employs postmodern understandings of history while also critiquing these same perspectives. In particular, by depicting the efforts of its protagonist, Jeremy, to write a memoir of his parents-in-law, it draws attention to the subjectivity of historical writing. While this quality has led some critics to condemn the novel for its escapism and amorality, the authors of the essay argue that Black Dogs is a statement about the necessity of history rather than its futility. Indeed, they read the text as a dramatization of humanity-s ability to bear rather than escape the often troubling burden of the past and an endorsement of the writing of history despite th…