University of Groningen Press
Not a member yet
29910 research outputs found
Sort by
Caravaggio en Milaan: (Historische Beleving)
No full textIn deze Historische Beleving neemt oud-redacteur Edgar Pelupessy je mee op reis door Italië, waar hij vele van de belangrijkste werken van de Italiaanse barokschilder Caravaggio bezocht.In deze Historische Beleving neemt oud-redacteur Edgar Pelupessy je mee op reis door Italië, waar hij vele van de belangrijkste werken van de Italiaanse barokschilder Caravaggio bezocht
Een wandeling door Wall Street: De Nederlandse \u27tawl\u27 in New York City: (Vrije Rubriek)
No full textIn september 2024 won Philip Dröge de Taalboekenprijs voor zijn boek De Tawl. Hierin ging hij (op de fiets) op zoek naar de overblijfselen van de Nederlandse taal in de Verenigde Staten, waar de laatste spreker van een Nederlands-Amerikaans dialect pas in 1962 stierf. In dit voorproefje leest u over Dröge\u27s ervaringen, op zoek naar de \u27tawl\u27 in Wall Street, New York City.In september 2024 won Philip Dröge de Taalboekenprijs voor zijn boek De Tawl. Hierin ging hij (op de fiets) op zoek naar de overblijfselen van de Nederlandse taal in de Verenigde Staten, waar de laatste spreker van een Nederlands-Amerikaans dialect pas in 1962 stierf. In dit voorproefje leest u over Dröge\u27s ervaringen, op zoek naar de \u27tawl\u27 in Wall Street, New York City
Sharing knowledge without borders: Collaboration between U.S. business and law students and Spanish translation students
No full textCollaboration between technical and professional (TP) writers in English as a second language is important for successful communication. This is evident in legal documents in both English and Spanish, where accuracy and clarity are paramount. However, achieving this is challenging because law students often lack effective writing tools, and translation students may lack the required encyclopedic knowledge. The present paper describes a co-designed exchange project between U.S. students in business and law and students of legal translation at a university in Spain. This paper aims to determine potential improvements in students’ encyclopedic and conceptual knowledge of this specialized language and their translation performance after the collaboration intervention. To evaluate these aspects, three textual items were targeted: terminological, nominal and, what we call, substitutional density. Our results indicate that peer collaboration helped Spanish students acquire encyclopedic knowledge in the field and avoid repetitive terms in their translations, leading to greater textual cohesion through the use of general language, synonyms and hypernyms. Other aspects of this peer collaboration as well as follow-up approaches to consolidate the observed effects are needed
Climate Movements virtual exchange as an internationalisation at home initiative in France
No full textVirtual exchange has widened internationalisation to more inclusive internationalisation at home initiatives. This study is set in a higher education context where 122 students from a public university in southwestern France took part in Sharing Perspectives Foundation’s flagship Climate Movements virtual exchange. In this context, L1 French learners of English, who majored in the hard sciences, interacted on a weekly basis with other students worldwide on the sensitive topic of climate change, marking the critical turn of virtual exchange projects (Helm, 2016; O’Dowd, 2016, 2018; Zečević & Milekić, 2022). The data (questionnaire responses, reflective journal entries and interview transcripts) were collected into textual corpora and read for repeated emergent themes through conventional content analysis (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005). The perceptions of the participants strongly suggest that Climate Movements virtual exchange is pivotal to internationalisation at home initiatives carried out in English as a second language
Translation of literary texts and online collaboration: Breaking barriers through virtual exchange
No full textLiterary translation usually brings linguistic, textual, cultural, and pragmatic problems into perspective. As a knowledge-transfer process, it also demands a set of skills as the translator intends to convey, to some extent, the literary subtleties of the original. Graduate students attending a MA seminar of Translation of Literary Texts are frequently asked to undertake the process of translating a selection of excerpts of a variety of literary texts, to acknowledge difficulties and set up strategies for achieving their work. One of the most rewarding tools available to literary translators is working with the author, which is not always feasible in real-life activity and even more unlikely in Literary Translation classes. This report presents the practice of virtual exchange by describing the experience of matching Creative Writing students with students attending a Translation of Literary Texts seminar. Online collaboration gave Literary Translation students a sense of real-life experience by having the opportunity to communicate and work with the author, translating unpublished and untranslated texts. It was not only an opportunity of participating in a collaborative international project by means of virtual exchange, but also an opportunity of translating with the author
Too Late Fascism: A Review of Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism
No full textReview of Alberto Toscano. 2023. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. London: Verso.Review of Alberto Toscano. 2023. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. London: Verso
Editorial. The Caribbean Dossier: Shifting the Geographies of Reason
No full textEditorial. The Caribbean Dossier: Shifting the Geographies of Reaso
Specters of Spinoza in Iran: The Crisis of Theocracy and the Reception of Spinoza
No full textAlthough Spinoza and, for that matter, modern European philosophers were known among some Iranians for centuries, it was not until the final decades of the twentieth century that they were eventually received into the Iranian intellectual scene. Throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, whenever there came about a perception of a need, Iranians, the state as well as the civil society, actively and extensively borrowed from the European intellectual achievements. But not in philosophy. Except among radical fringe circles, a need for modern philosophy did not arise until the crisis of the theocratic state exposed the inadequacy of our native philosophical traditions for underwriting a modern state. The turn to modern philosophy reflects the dawning of this awareness, at least in civil society. In this turn Spinoza occupies a privileged place due to the exceptional potencies of his vision, and its pertinence to a theocratic situation that is in crisis both in its ethics and its metaphysics of power
Preaching as the Convergence of the Vanishing Point between Reality and Imagination: Exploring the Reciprocity between Remembrance and Imagination
No full textThe inquiry posed in this research seeks to answer the question: “How can a homiletical praxeology focused on imagination enhance one\u27s understanding of their remembrances to see and reason about invisible aspects communicated to them?” Employing a qualitative-hermeneutical approach that integrates descriptive and theological perspectives, this question is addressed retrospectively. The focus is on the convergence between reality and imagination and the distinctive contribution of preaching in this context. The investigation delves into the nuanced examination of two powerful legs of a homiletical praxeology – remembrance (anamnesis) and imagination. The dynamic act of remembrance involves the intricate assembly of fragmented memories from the gospel and daily life, underscoring its paramount significance. The exploration extends to the essential dynamic of meaning-making (Sinndeutung), asserting that preaching, dealing with remembrance and imagination, provides a vital aperture for listeners to participate in this endeavour actively. While liturgy furnishes a distinctive framework enabling preachers and listeners to operate on the same eye level when contemplating the vanishing point, the dynamic interplay of remembrance and imagination, influenced by what listeners have remembered, might deviate from the preacher\u27s initial expectations. Despite potential disparities, it is contended that a preacher deeply connected to remembrances of the gospel and adept at reimagining counteractive alternatives in the passage can effectively enable listeners to remember vividly with an eye on imagination
The Uncontrollability of Preaching: Some Elements of Mystery in the Christmas Sermons of Thabo Makgoba
No full textWhen you preach, you know from experience that what happens in the preaching event is uncontrollable and, therefore, full of mystery. The liturgy and the sermon are part of it and are related to something that happens, but we know this ‘something’ is uncontrollable. Investigation and reflection on resonance in preaching are on the trail of the mystery of the sermon as an event. We know that something mysterious happens when we preach that cannot be controlled by the preachers or listeners. In this article, I discuss the concept of uncontrollability in Hartmut Rosa’s scholarly contributions and mystery in the work of John de Gruchy. I then discuss four Christmas sermons of the Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, in search of the mystery of uncontrollability. In trying to understand preaching that resonates, I ask: How does the preaching event reflect the aspects of uncontrollability and transcendence in Archbishop Makgoba’s sermons? Archbishop Makgoba is known for his thought-provoking sermons that often delve into complex issues. The mystery in his sermons lies in his ability to explore profound spiritual concepts and connect them to everyday life. He uses metaphorical language to convey deeper meanings, leaving room for interpretation and contemplation. The mystery in his sermons also stems from his engagement with the unknown aspects of faith and the divine, encouraging his audience to grapple with the mysteries of existence