5,832 research outputs found
Structuring Early Christian Memory: Jesus in Tradition, Performance, and Text
No full textSocial memory research has complicated the relationship between past and present as
that relationship finds expression in memorial acts (storytelling, music- and image-making, textproduction,
and so on). This relationship has emerged as a dialectic in which the phenomena
'past' and 'present' are mutually constitutive and implicating. The resultant 'messiness' directly
affects the procedures and products of 'historicaI Jesus' research, which has especially depended
upon the assumption that we can neatly and cleanly separate 'authentic' (past) from
'inauthentic' (present) traditions. This thesis establishes some problems that attend to this
assumption and attempts to establish a 'historical Jesus' programme that is more sensitive to the
entanglement of past and present. Social memory research has especially identified 'reputation' .
as a vehicle of this entanglement in the memory of specific historical persons. Therefore, Jesus'
reputation' plays a key analytic role in this project.
Another consequence of social memory research has been the emphatic insistence that
all memorial acts are culturally and socially conditioned; the meaning of 'memories', the
products of memorial act? emerges from the relationship of memorial acts and their social
contexts. One aspect of the gospels' social context that has been underappreciated in most New
Testament research is the contextualisation ofour written gospels within the vibrant and fluid
oral traditional milieux ofJesus and Israelite communities. This project examines and applies
the poetics of oral traditional narrative, including the textualisation of oral tradition, to our
written gospels.
The resultant theoretical perspective dramatically affects gospels and 'historical Jesus'
research. Since both these fields are too vast to encompass here, this project focuses its attention
on We appearance of Jesus' healing and exorcistic praxis in the sayings tradition. Afterwards, we
will suggest a few areas in which critics might fruitfully pursue future research in the gospels and
on tile historical Jesus
Urn, Baby, Urn: A Simpler Approach to Studying Epidemic Mocels and the Efficacy of Disease-Prevention Policies
No full text60 pages, 1 article*Urn, Baby, Urn: A Simpler Approach to Studying Epidemic Mocels and the Efficacy of Disease-Prevention Policies* (Lanham, Michael S. M.; Mesa, Desiree; Rodriguez, Jesus F.; Torres, Dianna Soliz; Hernandez-Suarez, Carlos Moises) 60 page
Jesus and the Poor: Western Biblical Scholarship, Structural Violence, and Postcolonialism
No full textThis work offers a postcolonial critique of Western Jesus scholarship, focused specifically on discussions about Jesus and ‘the poor’ in British and North American scholarship. While remaining heavily engaged with Western biblical studies, this work challenges fundamental assumptions and projects of Western biblical studies, such as the ‘Quest for the Historical Jesus’, ultimately calling for postcolonial and liberationist readings to be acknowledged in the field as equally valid.
This work begins by using standard Western historical-critical methods to examine the extent to which Jesus and the gospel texts may have been shaped by social and economic factors. Focusing on Luke 4:16-30 and the ‘good news to the poor’ that Jesus announces at the Nazareth synagogue, it is argued that Western scholarship has tended to downplay the social and economic dimension of numerous gospel texts and sayings of Jesus. Further, it is argued that a large amount of scholarly work on Luke 4:16-30 downplays social and economic readings in favour of anti-Judaic and missionary focused readings, which ultimately serve to support Western religious imperialism and oppression of marginalised groups. The subjectivity of such readings is highlighted, and it is argued that such readings result from the positionality of the scholars in the US and the UK who, whilst purporting to illuminate history and the nature of the divine, end up producing writings that legitimise Western supremacy and ultimately perpetuate oppression.
Themes central to recent postcolonial biblical criticism, such as Jesus’ relationship to Empire, and methods of resistance to structural violence are also explored. It is concluded that, paradoxically, Jesus offered a fierce critique of the rich through ‘positive nonviolence’, utilising the threat of divine punishment in the afterlife to challenge the structural violence of economic inequality; a reading that has hitherto not been allowed to surface due to the firm grasp that Western capitalism has had upon biblical scholarship
How to Aggregate Lesson Observation Data into Learning Analytics Datasets?
No full textThe technological environment that supports the learning process tends to be the main data source for Learning Analytics. However, this trend leaves out those parts of the learning process that are not computer-mediated. To overcome this problem, involving additional data gathering techniques such as ambient sensors, audio and video recordings, or even observations could enrich datasets. This paper focuses on how the data extracted from the observations can be integrated with data coming from activity tracking, resulting in a multimodal dataset. The paper identifies the need for theoretical and pedagogical semantics in multimodal learning analytics, and examines the xAPI potential for the multimodal data gathering and aggregation. Finally, we propose an approach for pedagogy-driven observational data identification. As a proof of concept, we have applied the approach in two research works where observations had been used to enrich or triangulate the results obtained for traditional data sources. Through these examples, we illustrate some of the challenges that multimodal dataset may present when including observational dataSCI-STI-D
Mathematical Models for Photoreceptor Interactions
No full text49 pages, 1 article*Mathematical Models for Photoreceptor Interactions* (Velez, Miguel Angel Colon; Hernandez, Daniel Jesus; Bernier, Ubaldo Rodriguez; Van Laarhoven, Jon; Camacho, Erika) 49 page
Why bios? : on the relationship between gospel genre and implied audience
No full textThis thesis addresses the gap in the scholarly record pertaining to the explicit relationship between gospel genre and implied audience. This thesis challenges the consensus that the canonical gospels were written to/for individual communities/churches and that these documents (gospels) address the specific historical/social circumstances of each community. It is argued in the thesis that the Evangelists chose the genre of biography because it was the genre that was best suited to present the words and deeds of Jesus to the largest possible audience. The central thesis is supported by four lines of evidence: two external and two internal (Chapters 3-6). Furthermore, the thesis is bolstered by a new typology for Greco-Roman biography that arranges the biographical examples within a relational matrix.
Chapter 2 is integral to the main thesis of this dissertation in that it proposes nuanced language capable of being applied to specific kinds of biographies with the emphasis on the relationship to implied audience. Chapter 2 sets the boundaries of the discussion of genre as a vital factor in potentially determining audience as well as raising the important consideration that genres are representative of authorial choice and intent.
Chapters 3 and 4 take up the discussion of the two lines of external evidence pertinent to placing the Gospels within the relational typology proposed in chapter 2. Chapter 3 supports the main argument of the thesis in that it demonstrates that the earliest Christian interpreters of the Gospels did not understand them to be sectarian documents written specifically to and/or for specific sectarian Christian communities. The second line of external evidence, taken up in chapter 4, deals with the wider context of Jesus literature in the second/third century. We argue that these texts, if any of them are indeed biographies, were part of the wider Christian practice of writing and disseminating literary presentations of Jesus and Jesus traditions.
Chapters 5 and 6 address the lines of internal evidence and chapter 5 deals specifically with the difficulty in reconstructing the various gospel communities that might lie behind the gospel texts. It is argued that the genre of biography does not allow us to reconstruct these communities with any detail. Finally, chapter 6 is concerned with the ‘all nations’ motif present in all four of the canonical gospels. The ‘all nations’ and ‘sending’ motifs in the Gospels suggest an evangelistic tone for the Gospels and further suggest an ideal secondary audience beyond those who could be identified as Christian
El "don de la ubicuidad" en la interpretación bilateral. Esbozo didáctico para emprender los primeros pasos
No full textStudio y reflexión sobre algunas dificultades en la didáctica de la Interpretación Bilateral entre español e italiano y propuestas para su iniciación
Audioguías para ‘los sentidos’: un turismo de todos y para todos
No full textABSTRACT (English)
This study aims at presenting the first stage of a wider research project on some aspects of orality in audio guides. Although they are very widely used in the tourist sector, very little research exists on the topic.
This research project was an opportunity to combine the researcher’s field of action, that is oral communication in cultural and language mediation, with an extremely relevant textual field in the tourist sector: travel guides and, more specifically, what we might call ‘last-generation travel guides’.
The researcher’s interest towards studying orality in interlingual and intercultural mediation (interpreting and translation) began with her collaboration in prof. Alessandra Melloni’s didactic activity, that last more than 10 years. Over this period, and as a Collaboratore Esperto Linguistico (CEL), the researcher had the opportunity to carry out practical activities and laboratories in assistance to prof. Melloni’s subjects, in which the Spanish language and its didactics were always analyzed with a real, authentic, plural, intersemiotic and panhispanic view, and with a special focus placed not only on literature, but also cinema, television and other Hispanic media.
Thus, the practical work carried out during the classes was focused on a constant analysis of Spanish as a ‘form of tridimensional communication’, where linguistic and paralinguistic elements were considered as extremely important within the intra- and inter-cultural analysis carried out with the students.
With these foundations, this research aims at analyzing some aspects of orality in audio guides, especially ‘last-generation’ ones. The research work was divided into two stages: the first, presented in this paper, is an introduction to the subject: the concept, its names, definition, nature and different types, so as to offer a possible classification of it as a textual genre and to trace a flexible model for analysis, necessary to study such a changing object. The second part of the research, which will be published elsewhere, focuses on the theoretical framework of the model presented in the first part, as well as its validation through application to the materials collected, selected and presented in the first part. Through a specific analysis of some elements of orality in the different kinds of audio guides, the second part shall also present the final conclusions of the research activity.
ABSTRACT (Spanish)
El presente trabajo se propone presentar la primera parte de un análisis dedicado a algunos aspectos de la oralidad en las denominadas audioguías, muy presentes actualmente en el sector del turismo y, al mismo tiempo, poco estudiadas hasta el momento. Se trataba de una ocasión perfecta para realizar un estudio que uniera nuestra área de investigación, la comunicación oral en las ciencias de la mediación lingüístico-cultural, con un ámbito textual de gran relevancia en el mundo del turismo, las guías turísticas, en particular, aquéllas que podríamos definir ‘guías turísticas de última generación’.
El interés por el estudio de la oralidad dentro del marco de las disciplinas de la mediación interlingüística e intercultural (interpretación y traducción) parte de nuestra colaboración en la actividad didáctica de la profesora Alessandra Melloni y trabajar con ella codo con codo durante algo más de diez años. Durante todo este tiempo, y en calidad de colaboradora experta lingüística de lengua española (CEL) tuvimos la oportunidad de llevar adelante actividades de lectorado, ejercitación y prácticas en las asignaturas impartidas por la profesora Melloni, en las que la lengua española y su didáctica se concibió siempre desde un prisma real, auténtico, plural, intersemiótico y panhispánico, por su especial atención dedicada incesantemente no sólo a la literatura, sino sobre todo al cine, a la televisión y demás media del universo hispano. De esta forma, el trabajo práctico llevado a cabo en las aulas de lectorado posibilitó una constante actividad de análisis del español como ‘forma de comunicación tridimensional’ en la que aspectos lingüísticos y paralingüísticos cobraban suma importancia, dentro de una línea de trabajo reflexivo con los alumnos intra- e intercultural.
El trabajo que presentamos responde en gran parte a las premisas expuestas anteriormente, con el aliciente de indagar sobre determinados aspectos de la oralidad en las llamadas ‘audioguías’, orientando nuestro interés hacia aquéllas que podríamos definir ‘de última generación’. De esta forma, nuestro proyecto de estudio fue concebido en dos fases: una primera parte que es la que presentamos para esta ocasión, en la que nos aproximaremos al objeto, su denominación y su posible definición, para sucesivamente reflexionar sobre su naturaleza y las distintas tipologías existentes, con el fin de poder proponer una posible categorización como género textual y esbozar un posible modelo de análisis flexible, eficaz para afrontar esta realidad tan cambiante. La segunda parte, destinada a otra sede, está dedicada a la construcción del andamiaje teórico a partir de las premisas del modelo anteriormente mencionado, y examinar su validez aplicándolo a los materiales recogidos, seleccionados y presentados en la primera fase del proyecto. De esta forma, y a través del análisis específico de determinados elementos de la oralidad presentes en los distintos tipos de audioguías, se presentarán, en esta segunda parte, las conclusiones finales del proyecto
La interpretación bilateral como disciplina de especialización: formación y perspectivas en investigación
No full textLiaison interpreting as a discipline of specialization: training and research perspectives.
La interpretación bilateral como disciplina de especialización: formación y perspectivas en investigación.
English:
During the last decades liaison interpreting has been gaining increasing importance and visibility, and has nowadays become one of the main subjects (with translation and conference interpreting as protagonists) of study programs and training courses in the field of language and culture mediation. In this respect, on the Spanish-Italian language combination, I would like to present the liaison interpreting courses we hold at *Sslmit* of the University of Bologna, the result of almost 20 years of experience as professional liaison interpreter, researcher on the subject as well as trainer. Liaison interpreting is conceived in training planning as a complex set of tools aiming at facing and resolving the existing diversified specialization in the interpreting market and the multifaceted problems arising from our current society.
Spanish:
En las últimas décadas la interpretación bilateral ha ido cobrando relevancia y visibilidad, siendo hoy una de las disciplinas caracterizadoras de los planes de estudio y ciclos de formación en el ámbito de las ciencias de la mediación lingüístico-cultural (con la traducción y la interpretación como protagonistas). Para esta ocasión, y desde el binomio idiomático español–italiano, proponemos presentar la interpretación bilateral que impartimos en la Sslmit de la Universidad de Bolonia, fruto de los casi 20 años de experiencia en el ejercicio profesional de dicha disciplina, estudios dedicados a la misma y su docencia, una interpretación bilateral concebida como un complejo aparato instrumental capaz de afrontar la especialización diversificada existente en el mercado profesional y las variadas necesidades comunicativas de nuestra sociedad actual
Interpretazione Umanitaria
No full textAbstract
Gli interpreti e i mediatori attivi in scenari internazionali di crisi ed emergenze umanitarie sono tenuti a soddisfare necessità linguistiche che si manifestano sia in zone di guerra, sia in aree distanti da queste come conseguenza diretta di conflitti e migrazioni. Alla stregua di altri paesi del Mediterraneo, l’Italia è interessata da consistenti flussi migratori di persone che fuggono da calamità naturali, povertà e conflitti.
La necessità urgente di superare le barriere di comunicazione fra migranti, profughi e rifugiati da un lato, e le autorità e i servizi pubblici italiani dall’altro si riscontra non solo nell’ambito delle procedure di asilo e nell’assistenza linguistica offerta dalle competenti autorità, ma anche in situazioni in cui la mediazione e l’interpretazione sono funzionali all’assistenza a profughi e migranti, quali aree degli sbarchi, centri di accoglienza od ONG, e in generale contesti caratterizzati da sofferenze umane, vulnerabilità e forti squilibri di potere (Delgado, Kerbiche, 2018). In tutti questi ambiti vi è la necessità, per interpreti e mediatori, di adattarsi a una molteplicità di contesti e metodi di lavoro (Orlando, 2016) e di ricoprire ruoli di volta in volta diversi, spesso senza un’adeguata formazione e con scarsa consapevolezza e padronanza delle competenze traduttive, linguistiche e culturali necessarie allo svolgimento della loro attività. Il contributo trae spunto dall’esperienza del primo corso pilota di interpretazione umanitaria organizzato in Italia e rivolto alle/agli interpreti della Commissione Territoriale per il Riconoscimento della Protezione Internazionale di Forlì, che è stato condotto dal Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione dell’Università di Bologna in collaborazione con la Facoltà di Traduzione e Interpretazione dell’Università di Ginevra. Muovendo da tale esperienza didattica condotta in modalità blended learning, il contributo vuole stimolare la riflessione sulla necessità di proporre una formazione di taglio interdisciplinare, che ponga l’accento su una serie di temi, quali competenze linguistiche e traduttive, etica, cultura, aspetti emotivi e psicologici, nonché riflessioni sulle opportunità offerte dall’apprendimento misto per la formazione di interpreti umanitari che operano in contesti che risultano al contempo molteplici, complessi e delicati
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