339 research outputs found
Memo from John E. Mack to Wilbert E. Locklin (February 19, 1969)
No full textA memo from John E. Mack to Wilbert E. Locklin, President of Springfield College, dated February 19, 1969. The subject of the memo is the demand by Black students to admit more minority students. On the back are hand-written notes. The author of the notes is not known
Montalbano e la voce dell’interprete
No full textUno degli ultimi romanzi del ciclo di Montalbano (L'altro capo del filo 2016) vede tra i protagonisti un medico e una giovane donna tunisini che, nel contesto degli sbarchi di migranti in Sicilia, fungono da interpreti per il commissario. Il contributo svolge un'analisi di queste due figure all'interno della struttura narrativa del romanzo e della sua collocazione nella realtà dell'Italia contemporanea. I tratti salienti dei due personaggi di Camilleri vengono analizzati da diversi punti di vista, ricorrendo anche all’analisi della conversazione, e messi a confronto con caratteristiche della figura dell'interprete percepite da gruppi di utenti reali di servizi di interpretazione. In particolare si farà riferimento ad alcuni studi recenti seguiti dall’autrice, tra cui uno sull'interpretazione per il contingente italiano stanziato in Libano e uno sull'interpretazione per bambini e adolescenti condotto all'interno di una serie di progetto di ricerca europea sull'interpretazione in ambito penale. Il confronto rivela sorprendenti analogie nella rappresentazione dell'interprete nella finzione letteraria e la sua percezione in contesti reali.One of the last novels by Andrea Camilleri starring inspector Montalbano (L'altro capo del filo 2016), set in the context of the landings of migrants in Sicily, features two Tunisians, a physician and a young woman who act as lay interpreters. This paper sheds light on these two figures within the narrative structure of the novel and its place in the reality of contemporary Italy. Salient traits of the two characters are analysed from different points of view, using also conversation analysis, and compared with characteristics of the interpreter role perceived by groups of real-life users. In particular, reference is made to some recent studies by the author, including one on interpretation for Italian soldiers deployed in Lebanon and one on interpretation for children and adolescents in criminal justice settings carried out as part of a European research project. The comparison reveals surprising similarities in the representation of the interpreters in literary fiction and their perception in real contexts
New perspectives and challenges for interpretation
No full textTechnological progress and globalization processes are radically changing traditional working models – including those for professional intercultural mediation. This also affects all forms of written and oral translation, e.g.for terrestrial or satellite-broadcast television programmes. This aspect ist often neglected by international and intercultural communication studies. As translation is at the same time an agent and a symptom of linguistic and cultural exchange (and change), it is important to state the social and ethical responsibility involved in its use, and the consequent need to improve our understanding of its working mechanisms.
The author is conducting a study on the modalities of oral interlingual mediation used in Italian television since the sixties. The project aims at the collection of a corpus of examples of tv-interpreting and its analysis for descriptive and didactic purposes. The theoretical background is a pragmatic approach to interpreting as a complex and ‚artificial‘ comunication phenomenon and a social phenomenon with multiple economic and sociological implications. In previous research television interpreting has often been considered simply as a variety of conference interpreting performed under severer circumstances, in spite of the profoundly different performances expected from television interpreters. The theses of the author are that: television interpreting is substantially different from interpreting in traditional conference settings (and, on the other hand, from ordinary face-to-face communication); most of the specific differences between traditional interpreting and television interpreting have not yet been sufficiently investigated; the norms of behaviour internalised by professional conference interpreters are not always adequate to television communication, and this can even lead to conflicts about the perception of interpretation quality.
The characteristics of interpreter-mediated discourse in tv are analyzed according to eight categories recognized by Hymes as variables pertaining to every form of comunication event and identified by the acronym SPEAKING (situation, participants, ends, act sequeces, key, instrumentralities, norms of interaction e genres). The main differences of television interpreting versus more traditional form of interpreting are related to the loss of interpersonal character of communication; the reproducibility of oral discourse in the age of electronic media; staging (where the selection of viewpoints and the restructuring of discourse implicitly include a pre-selection of meaning); the secondary character of orality on television, conflicting with the interpreter’s genuine fresh talk; and the loss of a clear-cut profile of the type of mediation and mediators required
Macy, Lydia E. (Death, 1893-01-15)
No full textAddress: Hotel GlencoeAge at death: 80 yrs.243/Pg 5/1893/F W W/Dr. C. D. Crank/C.M. Epply/Spring GroveOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'MACK, R-MAIN'
Writing and translation experiences. Un revólver para Mack by Pablo Urbanyi
No full textEste artículo se propone explorar los diversos procesos de (re) escritura y (auto) traducción interlingüística e intralingüística que atraviesan y constituyen las distintas versiones de Un revólver para Mack del escritor húngaro-argentino-canadiense Pablo Urbanyi (n. 1939). Esta novela acredita dos ediciones en español, publicadas en Argentina en 1974 y 2010, y una en francés, publicada en Canadá en 1992. De manera específica, el artículo aborda el estudio de los procesos mencionados en relación con las modificaciones que afectan la estructura de la obra y su argumento, la construcción de los personajes y la configuración de las figuras de Autor y Lector. En un plano más general, el artículo indaga acerca de la formación de las identidades lingüístico-cultural, literaria y política que se gestan en el discurso literario a través de la negociación que implican esos procesos de (re) escritura y (auto) traducción.This paper aims at exploring the diverse processes of interlinguistic and intralinguistic (re)writing and (self)translation which contribute to shape the different versions of Un revólver para Mack by Hungarian-Argentine-Canadian writer Pablo Urbanyi (b. 1939). To date, the novel has been published twice in Argentina in two different editions (1974, 2010) and once in French translation in Canada (1992). More specifically, this paper studies the writing processes mentioned above in relation with the changes affecting the structure and plot of the novel, the construction of characters and the modelling of the figures of Author and Reader. At a more general level, the paper investigates the linguistic-cultural, literary and political identities which result from the negotiation implied in the processes of (re)writing and (self)translation.Fil: Spoturno, Maria Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales; Argentin
SURVEY OF ISOTOPE SHIFT FOR ELEMENTS NEAR THE MIDDLE OF THE ATOMIC TABLE
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Physics, University of Wisconsi
International economic order and the political economy of foreign investment: a study in imperialism and unequal development, 1979
No full textThe major premise of this study is that a relationship exists between international economic order, imperialism and unequal development. The nature of this relationship is that the international economic order is the legal political superstructure as well as the economic arrangement that governs international political economy relations. This economic arrangement was formed and structured at the end of the second world war under the hegemony of the United States. The development of this postwar international economic order was accompanied by economic arrangements that were based on trade, aid, investment policies and monetary system. These four functional areas were structured within the framework of imperialist institutions like the IMF, IBRD and GATT. By operating within the structure of these institutions the economic order has become the major promoting and accelerating factor of imperialism and subsequently of underdevelopment. The study also suggests that of the four functional areas of the economic order private foreign investment is the most powerful link between imperialism and underdevelopment. This important role of foreign invest�ment is derived from the fact that it functions within the framework of MNCs. And since the activities of MNCs touch every aspect of the national and international, social and politico-economic system, foreign invest-ment has become the international mechanism of control that organically connects the two processes of development and underdevelopment. The analysis of the demand for a NIEO reveals that the demand by third world leaders was precipitated by two factors: the failure of political independence to bring economic prosperity and their frustra�tion, in about two decades of largely fruitless efforts to obtain inter�national consideration and implementation of their proposals for equitable distribution of international resources. The finding reveals that despite the conflict on a NIEO there is no prospect that the NIEO will be implemented. And if it does, it would not enhance the developmentof third world peoples. Instead it will result in a new and more advanced form of imperialist exploitation of the people through a new unequal international divisio of labor and form of dependency that will emerge. The reason is that an internal development geared to the NIEO will strengthen the position of the priviledged dominant classes who are in alliance with the monopolies of the center and subjugate the masses furthe to capitalist exploitation and oppression. The study concludes that underdevelopment can not be eliminated through the diffusion of technology and institutional values from the advanced capitalist countries. The process that will lead to genuine development that is capable of creating the production base sufficient to serve the entire population must take an introversion character, be socialist and self-reliant
Black political ascendancy in urban centers and black control of the local police function: an exploratory analysis, 1976
No full textThe late 1960's began a new phase of Black participation in American politics. For the first time, Blacks began to emerge throughout the country in elected positions of local political leadership. For many, the assumption of key electoral positions in the major cities represented the actualization of Black Power. Political control of the cities in which they were increasingly congregated would ostensibly provide Black people with the leverage required to redress some long standing grievances of the Black community. This study is designed to begin the process of assessing the efficaciousness of local office holding in resolving the plethora of social dilemmas besetting the Black communities in this nation's major cities. It focuses specifically upon the hostile and often brutal manner in which big city police forces have traditionally operated in the Black community and seeks to explore the relationship between the assumption of political power at the local level by Black elected officials and the ability of the Black communities of those cities to control police behavior in their communities. This work employs three case studies. Atlanta, Georgia, Newark, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C . are examined with an eye to determining the nature and scope of obstacles confronting the respective Black communities in their attempts to control the local police function through the authority of recently elected Black mayors. This study suggests that Black elected officials generally are of limited usefulness in controlling the local police on behalf of the Black community. That usefulness appears to be enhanced, however, when the mayor perceives of his role as that of an advocate for the Black community in a political context characterized by intergroup conflict. This study has also yielded the following hypotheses which serve as guides to further study: 1. As Blacks supplant whites in positions of local political leadership, pressure from the commercial sector to eliminate political involvement in the police function will increase. 2. As Blacks attain policy-making positions in city governments, white police quasi-unions will abandon their traditional stance of neutrality toward city political matters and actively seek to subvert the authority of the Black policy-makers in the area of local enforcement. 3. The emergence of Black policy-makers in urban centers tends to stifle the development of independent efforts by Black community residents to control police behavior. 4. Federal discretionary anti-crime grants to urban centers controlled politically by Blacks will tend to be administered in a fashion which imposes the law enforcement priorities of the federal and state authorities upon the urban center. 5. As Black policy-makers attempt to exercise their authority over the local police on behalf of the Black community, efforts to remove municipal police operations from the jurisdiction of the city government will increase
Factors that promote or inhibit the implementation of e-health systems: an explanatory systematic review
No full textOBJECTIVE: To systematically review the literature on the implementation of e-health to identify: (i) barriers and facilitators to e-health implementation, and (ii) outstanding gaps in research on the subject.METHODS: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PSYCINFO and the Cochrane Library were searched for reviews published between 1 January 1995 and 17 March 2009. Studies had to be systematic reviews, narrative reviews, qualitative metasyntheses or meta-ethnographies of e-health implementation. Abstracts and papers were double screened and data were extracted on country of origin; e-health domain; publication date; aims and methods; databases searched; inclusion and exclusion criteria and number of papers included. Data were analysed qualitatively using normalization process theory as an explanatory coding framework.FINDINGS: Inclusion criteria were met by 37 papers; 20 had been published between 1995 and 2007 and 17 between 2008 and 2009. Methodological quality was poor: 19 papers did not specify the inclusion and exclusion criteria and 13 did not indicate the precise number of articles screened. The use of normalization process theory as a conceptual framework revealed that relatively little attention was paid to: (i) work directed at making sense of e-health systems, specifying their purposes and benefits, establishing their value to users and planning their implementation; (ii) factors promoting or inhibiting engagement and participation; (iii) effects on roles and responsibilities; (iv) risk management, and (v) ways in which implementation processes might be reconfigured by user-produced knowledge.CONCLUSION: The published literature focused on organizational issues, neglecting the wider social framework that must be considered when introducing new technologies.<br/
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