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Author, Philosopher Alexandra Stoddard to Speak March 2 at Williams Library
No full textOXFORD, Miss. – Contemporary philosopher, author, interior designer and speaker Alexandra Stoddard gives an inspirational lecture and reading March 2 at the University of Mississippi
Stages for the More Sustainable Farm
No full textCurrently, agricultural farm units are faced with a double and most times contradictory challenge, in order to be successful: on the one hand the invested capital has to be profitable and the economic performance has to be maximised. On the other hand, given the socio-environmental situation, it is necessary to preserve and to protect the environment and natural resources. Given the potential conflict of the two aims, since the satisfaction of one implies the underperformance of the other (and vice versa), the question then is: which is the solution to choose? We intend, in this work, to formulate a farm plan with the purpose of reconciling the criteria of environmental sustainability with that of economic competitiveness. For this achievement we proceed to the comparative study of sustainability of different groups of farms identified in the study area (first evaluation cycle) through MESMIS (“Marco para la Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo de Recursos Naturales Mediante Indicadores de Sustentabilidad” - Framework for Evaluation of Natural-Resource Systems Handling through Sustainability Indicators) methodology, that allowed to select the more sustainable group of farms. Based on the found potentialities and weakness on these production systems, we stepped to the planning of a production unit of bovine meat, which obeys simultaneously to economic and environmental objectives, using Multicriteria Decision. We finished the work with the sustainability evaluation between groups of farms identified previously and the planned farms (second evaluation cycle), based, again, in the MESMIS methodology, to confirm (or not) the greatest sustainability of the last ones. Analyses of the results allow us to confirm the greatest relative sustainability of the planned farm, for the diverse traced scenarios.Decision taking, planning, sustainability, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management,
Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Dr. Alexandra Palmer “Fashion Exhibitions: The Good, the Bad, and the Pointless”
No full textThe Museum at FIT presented Exhibiting Fashion, its twenty-first academic symposium on Friday, March 8, 2019. This symposium explored the history of fashion curating, the different ways fashion is displayed in museum settings, and how national and regional identities influence fashion exhibitions. The symposium was organized in conjunction with Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT, which commemorated the rich history of the museum, the site of more than 200 exhibitions since the 1970s.Dr. Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Christian Dior, and she is the author of the book Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947–1957
Reescrita de si pelo outro: identidade portuguesa e paródia em Deus-dará, de Alexandra Lucas Coelho / Rewriting oneself through the other: Portuguese identity and parody in Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho
No full textResumo: O artigo aponta o modo como o romance Deus-dará de Alexandra Lucas Coelho, escritora portuguesa contemporânea, pode ser compreendido como um exercício de renegociação da identidade portuguesa em relação a questões referentes à colonização no Brasil. Mais do que isso, problematiza-se como, por meio da estratégia da paródia no texto ficcional, a autora consegue expressar uma necessidade e possibilidade de se redefinir pelo outro em um movimento contrário ao do discurso colonial – o que também ocorre em suas entrevistas e em suas narrativas de viagens, tais como em Vai, Brasil e Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso. Palavras-chave: identidade portuguesa; paródia; pós-modernismo; escrita portuguesa contemporânea; Alexandra Lucas Coelho. Abstract: The article observes how the novel Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho, a Portuguese contemporary writer consists in an exercise of renegotiation for the Portuguese identity in relation to issues that refer to the colonization process in Brazil. Moreover, this text seeks to show how parody as a fictional literary strategy helps the author in expressing a necessity and a possibility of redefining oneself through the other, in a direction that goes in the opposite way of the colonial speech. This necessity and this possibility also appear in the author’s interviews and travel books, such as Vai, Brasil and Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso, which will also be mentioned in this article.Keywords: Portuguese identity; parody; post-modernism; Portuguese contemporary writing; Alexandra Lucas Coelho
Author Rights Workshop
No full textLearning material associated with Alexandra Kohn's presentation as a part of the ABC Copyright 2020 Fall Speaker Series, hosted by the University of Alberta Copyright Office
Athaliah and Alexandra: Gender and Queenship in Josephus [Author Accepted Manuscript]
No full textAthaliah and Alexandra were the only two women to rule as queens of Judah/Judaea in their own right and both women’s reigns are reported in Josephus’ writings. Despite their uniqueness, however, Athaliah and Alexandra are rarely compared in scholarship; the former is usually dismissed, and focus centred on the latter. This article contends that there are historical similarities between the two, but literary differences. Josephus could have referred to Athaliah or used elements of her portrayal in his presentation of Alexandra but does not, creating the impression that Alexandra was completely different to her predecessor. It may be instructive, therefore, to consider why Josephus literarily isolates the queens and what this means for his interpretation of Alexandra
Aleksandr Vampilov’s Drama “Duck Hunting” and The (In)different Character in the Different Theatre: Phenomenological Analysis of Viktor Zilov’s Revolution
No full text Aleksandr Vampilov’s “Duck Hunting” (1967) is a revolutionary drama which initiated the new Soviet theatre and the new post-Soviet theatre later on. Vreneli Farber underlines the wealth of the author’s dramaturgic techniques: “Vampilov < in “Duck Hunting”> conveys his ideas in a variety of ways: a play-within-a-play, symbolism …, character contrasts …, farce and tragedy, and an inconclusive ending. This play reflects… his moving away from mainstream Socialist Realism[1]”. The real discovery of the play is its main character ― Viktor Zilov, who evokes many contradictory responses in the world critique. Over the course of few days the thirty year old engineer lives a small life, full of hypocrisy, disillusions and searching for his real “self”, and a small death in “a series of “recollections”1”. The question of the play’s finale is still debatable. Few critics assert that the central protagonist manages to find his way back to himself. The overwhelming majority suggests that the character’s “self-evaluation” ultimately becomes his “self-destruction”. I consider the problem of the protagonist of Aleksandr Vampilov’s play from the phenomenological point of view for the first time, as uncommon literary works require uncommon approaches from their researchers. Phenomenological analysis will make it possible to prove that Viktor Zilov accomplishes not the re-evaluation, but the revolution; that he revolts against former himself and emerges victorious. My focus is on Zilov’s cues, which favor the display of his main traits to a considerable extent, as well as on communicative strategies of some other characters and stage directions from the drama.[1] Farber V., The playwright Aleksandr Vampilov. An Ironic Observer, New York, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2001, p. 83
Ferromagnetism and magnetic anisotropy in exfoliated flakes of CrTe2
No full textAuthor Alexandra Wagner, BScMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
Communication en tant que prédestination et authenticité d'une personne dans l'oeuvre de Valentin Raspoutine et Alexandre Vampilov
No full textValentin Rasputin (born 17 March 1937) and Aleksandr Vampilov (19 August1937-17 August 1972) are the two authors whose creative work is of particular interest to the contemporary literary criticism. The emotional and philosophical penetration into «the Other’s nature» as well as the aspiration for its aesthetic recreation are quite typical of the both artists. The role of artistic anthropology in the two creators’ aesthetics still needs its interpretation and is open to research.The given thesis proves that it’s the communicative space of Rasputin and Vampilov’s works that contains the vectors of the artistic personality’s predestination and feature. The study reveals an aim of the unique personality’s artistic existence, the existence of the narratator, the personage and the narrator, in the pieces of art created by the writer and the playwright.Valentin Raspoutine (né le 15 mars 1937) et Alexandre Vampilov (19 août 1937-17 août 1972) sont deux auteurs dont l’œuvre présente un intérêt particulier pour la critique littéraire contemporaine. La pénétration émotionnelle et philosophique dans la nature de « l’Autre » et l’aspiration à sa reconstitution esthétique sont caractéristiques de Valentin Raspoutine comme d’Alexandre Vampilov. Le rôle de l’anthropologie artistique dans l’esthétique des deux créateurs reste toujours un champ vaste de réflexion et d’interprétation. La thèse prouve que ce sont les espaces communicatifs des œuvres de Raspoutine et de Vampilov qui contiennent des repères de l’authenticité et de la prédestination de la personnalité de fiction. L’étude met en évidence le but de l’existence artistique de la personnalité unique du narrataire, du héros et du narrateur dans l’œuvre de l’écrivain et celle du dramaturge
The Influence of the Linguistic and Discursive Properties of English Loanwords on their Integration into the Francophone Press of Quebec
No full textAbstract: For more than 250 years, the Canadian province of Quebec could be considered a territory of intensive "language contact" situations (Hoffer, 2002; Winford, 2003) between French and English. One of the outcomes of this situation is the flow of lexical units that pass especially from English to French (that is, loanwords).
Against this sociolinguistic background, we observe a paradox that inspired the present study.
On the one hand, English loanwords are widely reported to represent an "invasive species" (Peritz, 2018) in Quebec French. On the other hand, these lexical units are uncommon, as the relevant literature has shown through examples drawn from French oral speech (Poplack, 2017) or the francophone press (Planchon, 2019). In fact, these studies have demonstrated that English loanwords account for less than 1% of francophone communication of up to a few hundreds of millions of words.
To identify a possible explanation for the abovementioned contradiction, we verify our hypothesis about the dependence of loanword frequency on both the context of loanword usage and the type of loanword that these items belong to in the Quebec francophone press.
To this end, we pose the following research questions:
1. Are there any differences in the integration of English loanwords selected from the authoritative online reference source, the Banque de Dépannage Linguistique (2021), into various Quebec francophone print media context types as they are observed in a francophone newspaper, "Le Devoir"?
2. Does the type of borrowing to which an English loanword belongs (as it is indicated in the studied reference source) influence the integration of this unit into the contexts of "Le Devoir"?
We choose a Quebec francophone newspaper, "Le Devoir," as our study material; it represents a corpus of 66,402,141 words drawn from 1,556 issues published between 2017 and 2020. Our reference pool is a list of examples of five types of English loanwords (i.e., "integral," "syntactic," and "idiomatic") described in the Banque de Dépannage Linguistique (2021) of the Office québécois de la langue française.
To the best of our knowledge, this doctoral study is the first to produce a deep qualitative assessment of the contextual usage of five types of English loanwords (24 lexical units) in the Quebec press over the past quarter of a century and the first ever to analyze idiomatic English loanwords in this respect.
Quantitative, contextual, and discourse analysis methods allow us to confirm our hypothesis. Indeed, contexts related to the context types "Culture," "Miscellaneous Topics," and "Opinions and Letters" are the most likely to feature English loanwords.
Our multidimensional approach reveals important and recurrent usage patterns that are characteristic of the studied loanword types (for example, the idiomatic loanword "appliquer mur à mur" in the recurrent contexts of discussions on educational policies or the hybrid item "énergisante" in "boisson énergisante" as a negatively perceived term in the recurrent contexts of healthy habit recommendations). --
Résumé: Depuis plus de deux cent cinquante ans, la province canadienne du Québec peut être considérée comme un territoire de situations de "contact linguistique" intensif (Hoffer, 2002 ; Winford, 2003) entre le français et l'anglais. L'une des conséquences de ces situations est le flux inévitable d'unités lexicales passant notamment de l'anglais au français (les emprunts).
Dans ce contexte sociolinguistique, nous observons un paradoxe qui a inspiré la présente étude. D'une part, les emprunts à l'anglais sont largement signalés comme ceux représentant une "espèce invasive" (Peritz, 2018) dans le français québécois, et pourtant, d'autre part, ces unités lexicales ne sont pas abondantes, comme la littérature pertinente le prouve de manière irréfutable par les exemples du discours oral français (Poplack, 2017), ou de la presse francophone (Planchon, 2019). En fait, comme l'ont démontré les études mentionnées, la part des emprunts à l'anglais représente moins de 1 % de la communication francophone, qui compte jusqu'à quelques centaines de millions de mots.
À la recherche d'une explication possible de la contradiction mentionnée, nous cherchons, dans le cadre de notre étude et en nous référant à l'exemple de la presse francophone québécoise, à vérifier l'hypothèse de la dépendance de la fréquence des emprunts à la fois au contexte d'utilisation de ces items et au type d'emprunt auquel ces items appartiennent.
Les questions de recherche que nous posons sont donc les suivantes :
1) Existe-t-il des différences dans l'intégration des emprunts à l'anglais, sélectionnés dans la source de référence en ligne faisant autorité, la Banque de Dépannage Linguistique (2021), dans divers types de contextes de la presse écrite francophone québécoise, tels qu'ils sont observés dans un journal francophone, "Le Devoir" ?
2) Le type d'emprunt auquel appartient une unité lexicale (tel qu'il est indiqué dans la source de référence étudiée) a-t-il une influence sur l'intégration de cette unité dans les contextes du "Devoir" ?
Nous choisissons un journal francophone québécois, "Le Devoir," comme matériel d'étude (corpus de 66 402 141 mots provenant de 1 556 numéros du journal publiés entre 2017 et 2020). Notre liste de référence est la liste pertinente des représentants des cinq types des emprunts à l'anglais (à savoir, "intégral," "hybride," "morphologique," "syntaxique," "idiomatique") telle que décrite dans la Banque de Dépannage Linguistique (2021) de l'Office québécois de la langue française.
À notre connaissance, cette étude doctorale est la première du genre au cours du dernier quart de siècle à aborder l'évaluation qualitative approfondie de l'usage contextuel de cinq types des emprunts à l'anglais (24 unités lexicales) dans la presse québécoise, les emprunts idiomatiques étant analysés à cet égard pour la toute première fois.
Les méthodes d'analyse quantitative, contextuelle et discursive nous aident à confirmer notre hypothèse. En effet, les contextes liés à la "Culture," aux "Sujets divers" et aux "Opinions et lettres" s'avèrent être ceux qui accueillent le plus les emprunts à l'anglais.
Notre approche multidimensionnelle des emprunts révèle des modèles d'utilisation influents et récurrents qui sont caractéristiques des types d'emprunts étudiés, par exemple : l'emprunt idiomatique "appliquer mur à mur" dans les contextes récurrents de discussions sur les politiques éducatives ou celui hybride "énergisante" dans "boisson énergisante" en tant que terme perçu négativement dans les contextes récurrents de recommandations d'habitudes saines.
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