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Nicholas R. Baima and Tyler Paytas, "Plato’s Pragmatism: Rethinking the relationship between ethics and epistemology.": Rethinking the Relationship between Ethics and Epistemology
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Nicolas Nayfeld, "Moral Pluralism and the Complexity of Punishment: The Penal Philosophy of H.L.A. Hart"
No full textTHE MEDIATING ROLE OF PERCEIVED PARENTAL COMPETENCE IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTAL PSYCHOPATHIC TRAITS AND PARENTING BEHAVIORS
No full textThe importance of parenting in shaping child development has been widely supported, with many researchers considering parenting to be one of the factors most predictive of child outcomes. Despite the importance of parenting behaviors, not enough is known about their antecedents. In this study, we examine the extent to which psychopathic personality traits relate to parenting behaviors by determining which aspects of parental competence mediate these associations in a community sample. Our analyses support the mediating role of one aspect of parental competence — parental satisfaction — in the relationship between several domains of psychopathic personality traits and parenting behaviors. The results suggest that the relationship between parental personality traits and parenting behaviors is nuanced and involves underlying mechanisms related to parental competence
Pathways to Victory: The Creation of Canada’s Emissions Accountability Law (Bill C-12)
No full textAfter three decades of international climate action gridlock and domestic target failures, there is an emerging policy focus on the passage of national emissions accountability legislation. Emissions accountability legislation is an attempt to safeguard science-based emissions reductions plans from changing political winds. This article presents a peer-reviewed case study of Bill C-12, Canada\u27s first emissions accountability legislation, passed in June 2021. While Bill C-12 was strengthened through the amendment process, the final legislation remained significantly weaker than the "gold standard" UK Climate Change Act (2008). The author analyzes the interests, institutions, and political context that enabled Bill C-12\u27s passage, tracking the ways in which these forces interacted to both weaken and strengthen the legislation
Marxist-Leninism: An Exploration of Ideological Adoption and Influence
No full textQuestions of “Marxism in Action” are prominent in many aspects of political discourse. This study proposes that the main tenant of Marxist thought missing in Leninist political theory and the application thereof to the U.S.S.R. is the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. This argument draws on Marxist theory, Leninist theory, and the on-the-ground dictatorship of the proletariat in the U.S.S.R. between 1917 and 1924. This paper serves as a reminder of the common discrepancy between political theory and application, as every significant political doctrine is subject to an inevitable play of influences, modifications, and alterations in the geopolitical arena
Queering Whanganui River’s Legal Status
No full textThis study discusses the political implications and consequences of subverting colonial frameworks and legal definitions of personhood to include more than human entities. I argue that the Whanganui River\u27s legal recognition as a person recognizes the value of Māori worldviews; however, I am not convinced such recognition indicates an interruption of ongoing settler-colonialism. I authored this paper to facilitate conversations about decolonization and selfsovereignty that are mindful of the process without utilizing reformist politics
A corpus-based study of Mandarin Chinese referring expressions in oral narratives of preschool children
No full textThis study utilizes a corpus-based approach to investigate the use of referring expressions, such as definite and indefinite noun phrases and pronouns, in oral narratives produced by monolingual Mandarin Chinese-speaking preschool children. The data material used in this study was collected from the spoken narratives of five 4-year-old children selected from the Zhou Narratives corpus (Li & Zhou, 2011). Following the cognitive approach of Gundel et al. (1993), this study analyzes the interplay between the forms of referring expressions and their corresponding cognitive statuses and discourse functions. The results of this study indicate that the correlations between the referential forms produced by 4-year-old Chinese monolingual children and their cognitive statuses and discourse functions are in line with the predictions of the Givenness Hierarchy and the patterns observed in earlier research conducted by Gundel et al. (1993) with Chinese adults. However, this study also reveals notable distinctions in the preferred referential forms used by Chinese monolingual children and adults in relation to specific cognitive statuses and discourse functions, suggesting that the development of referential appropriateness in narrative production is a gradual process
Multilingualism in the Linguistic Landscape of Ibadan, Nigeria
No full textMultilingualism is one of the features of language contact that characterises language use in the public spaces of cosmopolitan areas like Ibadan. Little attention has been paid to multilingualism on signs in the public spaces of Ibadan. This study was, therefore, designed to investigate how multilingualism is reflected in the linguistic landscape of Ibadan with a view to determining the languages used on signs, their patterns and statuses in relation to the sociolinguistic context of Ibadan.
Seven communities in Ibadan (Challenge, Dugbe, Mokola, Iwo Road, Sango, Olodo and Ring Road) were purposively selected because of the strategic presence of different signs in them. The signs were subjected to sociolinguistic and descriptive statistical analyses.
Findings reveal that languages (English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Arabic, French and Nigerian Pidgin) were used in various ways to show ethnolinguistic vitality, language hierarchy, dominance, distinctiveness and for economic motivation. Although monolingual language use had a high status in all the communities, there were also the pervasive use of English, visibility of French, Arabic and Nigerian Pidgin and the marginalisation of indigenous languages on the signs. These were due to the sign writers’ skill condition, the presumed readers’ condition and the symbolic value condition.
Keywords: Linguistic landscape; Language hierarchy; Ethnolinguistic vitalit