Actual Dialogue Research Articles

THE CURRENT TREND OF MODERN THEATRICAL CULTURE: AN INDEPENDENT THEATRICAL FORMAT

The presented study reflects an attempt to make an excursion into the essential world of modern theatrical art, appealing to the notion of the present time as a «realm of visualization» and the complication of forms to the opposition of conflicting aspirations, which, from the author's point of view, appears to be the main impulse of the theatrical experiment. The essential and content features of independent theatrical format are analyzed. It is emphasized that since its inception, the theater has been an artistic way of explaining life, understanding the world and man's place in it, a detailed projection of the socio-historical context of the era. As a procedural phenomenon, but practically not amenable to fixation – fixation and preservation in physical evidence – this is a phenomenon that arises here and now in empathy, coexistence, which is why it is so relevantly effective and focused on continuous searches and experiments. Speaking about the pressing global trends in the field of culture, it is important to note that the reassessment of values on a global scale is invariably updated: the world passionately clings to the past, but cannot stand still, entering a new era, which is characterized by new general cultural values. Their conductor is the modern theater – the viewer receives something that causes him ambiguous emotions and reactions, which predetermines the motivation of internal intellectual activity. It is summarized that the experimental theater under consideration is a multifaceted construction, basically correlated with the realities of everyday life, but asserting its own artistic laws that dominate life, focused on finding an adequate language for the actual dialogue between theater and modern society. This is a form of: artistic and figurative comprehension of today's reality, ascending to an intuitive understanding of what lies on the other side of the visible and tangible; experiencing creative power as a way to improve the «world of man»; coding of aesthetic experience and comprehended truth; modeling the knowable and meaningful as the avant-garde of artistic resistance.

중의성 문제 해결을 위한 데이터 및 모델 개발 기반 인공지능 방법론 연구

In this paper, I briefly review the examples of ambiguity problem in Korean and Bulgarian, and examine methods for solving the ambiguity problem, focusing on previous studies. Resolving the ambiguity of the word stage has progressed to some extent through the dictionary work (off-line work) so far, and it is also true that the importance of understanding the meaning of the ambiguity of a word alone in the actual dialogue act process is relatively low. Therefore, solving the problem of ambiguity in the units of phrases, sentences, and texts is the central part of this thesis. Since there are quantitative and temporal limitations in the database that researchers collect and create, the method of computerizing this and the method of solving(processing) when a phrase or sentence to be identified appears in the main study from the point of view of artificial intelligence processing. The first step in the research for resolving ambiguity in Bulgarian is to continuously discover ambiguous expressions that appear in words, vocabulary, sentences, and texts, and create a data base. Theoretical research on such matters should proceed. Collection of examples (DB) at individual stages can be continuously performed off-line and on-line. Off-line, it will be individual dictionaries such as homonyms and Bulgarian dictionary, and on-line, it will be a web crawling collection of data from Bulgarian Wikipedia, Wordnet, and online portals. WordNet, an English-centered thesaurus, is not just a digitized dictionary, but is organized into a Synset in which nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are a set of analogous words. WordNet also provides antonyms, metonymy, pertainymy, homonymy, and entailment. It can also be an efficient and good way to secure additional data in Bulgarian by using an artificial intelligence automatic translation technique for WordNet, which is mainly provided in English. In particular, considering that the linguistic characteristics of Bulgarian are syntactically similar to English and the role of function words including prepositions is strong due to the analytic language structure, this method is very meaningful. To add one more thing, this method is very meaningful because English is the language resource that currently holds the most ambiguity data in the world. This paper is a theoretical focus on how to solve the ambiguity problem through data and model development. Accuracy analysis and parameter adjustment through actual data processing remain as future tasks to be attempted by introducing an engineering methodology.

Human-Machine Multi-Turn Language Dialogue Interaction Based on Deep Learning.

During multi-turn dialogue, with the increase in dialogue turns, the difficulty of intention recognition and the generation of the following sentence reply become more and more difficult. This paper mainly optimizes the context information extraction ability of the Seq2Seq Encoder in multi-turn dialogue modeling. We fuse the historical dialogue information and the current input statement information in the encoder to capture the context dialogue information better. Therefore, we propose a BERT-based fusion encoder ProBERT-To-GUR (PBTG) and an enhanced ELMO model 3-ELMO-Attention-GRU (3EAG). The two models mainly enhance the contextual information extraction capability of multi-turn dialogue. To verify the effectiveness of the two proposed models, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our model by combining data based on the LCCC-large multi-turn dialogue dataset and the Naturalconv multi-turn dataset. The experimental comparison results show that, in the multi-turn dialogue experiments of the open domain and fixed topic, the two Seq2Seq coding models proposed are significantly improved compared with the current state-of-the-art models. For specified topic multi-turn dialogue, the 3EAG model has the average BLEU value reaches the optimal 32.4, which achieves the best language generation effect, and the BLEU value in the actual dialogue verification experiment also surpasses 31.8. for open-domain multi-turn dialogue. The average BLEU value of the PBTG model reaches 31.8, the optimal 31.8 achieves the best language generation effect, and the BLEU value in the actual dialogue verification experiment surpasses 31.2. So, the 3EAG model is more suitable for fixed-topic multi-turn dialogues for the two tasks. The PBTG model is more muscular in open-domain multi-turn dialogue tasks; therefore, our model is significant for promoting multi-turn dialogue research.

Modern popular science radio discourse: The principle of dialogicity

The article is devoted to identifying specifics of modern popular science media discourse. The authors conduct a comparative communicative-pragmatic and stylistic analysis of composition, speech means and discursive techniques of educational radio programs which have such feature as explicated dialogicality — representing conversation between a journalist and an expert. The leading principle of popular science radio program is dialogization: actual dialogue between a journalist and an expert is supplemented by conditional dialogue between a journalist and a scientist who does not participate in the program, as well as between a journalist and a generalized addressee — a representative of mass audience. The article notes such journalist speech moves that contribute to dialogization of discourse, as evaluation and criticism of expert’s statements by the program host and also use of “naive listener” speech mask. The tactics of illustrative explanation, appeal to personal experience, and stylistic transformation used by radio journalists are considered. The authors note the redistribution of lexical means between participants of the dialogue, characteristic of the era of Internet communication: scientific terminology is actively used by the presenter, and stylistically low lexemes — by the expert, which entails a relative stylistic uniformity with the predominance of conversational tonality. This set of techniques determines the priority communicative position of journalist, which is not typical for classical popular science discourse. The authors conclude that the popular science sub-style belongs to the journalistic style of modern Russian language. The principle of dialogicality of popular science discourse creates in the listener the idea that the authors of radio program conduct a conversation with him on an equal footing. The willingness of a journalist to model in his mind the image of a possible recipient and act in his interests ensures the effectiveness of popularization of scientific knowledge in modern mass media.

Research on the Active Response Functions of ‘en(嗯)’ in Chinese Dialogues with a Focus on the Current Situation and Layouts of Chinese-teaching Textbooks in South Korea

When people learn a second foreign language, they always try to explore rules. If there was a universal golden key, it would save a lot of time and energy on learning methods. The author finds one word among some often used words to respond when watching TV and communicating with others. It is such an inclusive word that people can use to answer in a short time without thinking too hard about the word choice. Through the investigation of the first season of “Ode to Joy”, there seems to be no “en(嗯)” in the subtitle at the bottom of the screen, yet there is quite a high appearance rate in the actual dialogues between the protagonists. Through prior study, it has been discovered that there seems to be very little research on “en” perhaps because the word is too colloquial. Although the probability of discussion in essays is not very high, “en” is indeed necessary for discussion and research from the perspective of the actual usage rate. Based on the research of previous scholars, this research has summarized four types of active response functions of “en”. When replaced with the well-known “shi(是)”, “hao(好)”, “dui(对)”, and “xing(行)”, “en” has been confirmed to be able to replace the above four within the frame of the four active response functions and sometimes bear the brunt. Moreover, the author has sorted and analyzed the three Chinese-teaching textbooks currently used in South Korea, finding that the word “en” rarely appears. Even if it does, it still acts as one of the four functions and there is no explanation about it. It can be considered a pity that such an inclusive response word has not emerged in Chinese-teaching textbooks. It may be more helpful to learners if “en” could be mentioned more.

Was Democritus a Pythagorean? The Case of psychē

Abstract According to Glaucus of Rhegium Democritus was “a disciple of a Pythagorean” (dk 68 A1, 38). The tetralogical catalog of his works prepared by Thrasylus begins its section on ethics with the three following works: Pythagoras; On the Disposition of the Wise Man; On the Things in Hades (dk 68 B0a–c). The very order of the first three ethical works of Democritus could point to some sort of dependence on Pythagoreanism. This was suggested earlier by Frank (1923: 67), who believes that this is due to the fact that Democritus saw Pythagoras as basically the founder of an ethic-religious sect. Without being forced to agree with Frank, it is undeniable that there are many similarities between Pythagorean and Democritean ethics. The Democritean sentences that speak about the sense of shame before oneself as a way of preventing evil deeds (dk 68 B84, 244, and 264) recalls the practice of anamnesis, the examination of conscience in the Pythagorean tradition. Even more important are the parallel uses of measure as a basis for ethical reasoning. This paper aims to review this connection between Pythagorean traditions and Democritus, examining what emerges as the most probable core issue to determine how close this relation between atomists and Pythagoreans could have been: the Aristotelian testimony (de An. 1.2 404a16-20 [dk 58 B40]) on the material conception of the Pythagorean soul. In fact, a corpuscular conception of the soul (“dust in the air”), foreshadowing the psychology of Democritus, is attributed to the Pythagoreans. Is the argument of de An. 1.2 404a16-20 a misunderstanding by Aristotle? Or does this testimony represent an actual dialogue that Pythagoreans were having with atomists in the fifth century bce?

Discording Enlightenment on China

It is usually acknowledged that the core contribution of the Enlightenment is primarily twofold: the first being the introduction of reason and science as judgmental principles, and the second being the belief in the future progress of humankind as a shared destiny for humanity. This ‘modern’ reason—an exclusively human prerogative among creatures—could be applied to create a better society from the political, civil, educational, scientific, and religious points of view. What is usually less known is that for most of the Enlightenment thinkers, this philosophical and cultural step was the prerogative of European or Western-educated thinkers, which implied a gradual exclusion of extra-European civilizations from human progress as a natural phenomenon. Thus, with the exception of a few French libertines, the creation of a better society was due to reason and critical thinking absent in other civilizations, who could, at most, inherit this ‘rational power’ from Western education. This exclusion, which is usually attributed to the violence of the colonialist period, is already implied in the arguments of several Enlightenment thinkers. Our investigation will follow three steps: an exposition of the three Western historical paradigms in which Eastern civilizations were inserted between the 17th and 18th century; a comparison between the attitude toward China and Buddhism of two very distant philosophers of the Enlightenment—i.e. Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) and Johann Jacob Brucker (1696–1770)—and a brief reflection on the Enlightenment from an ‘external/exotic’ point of view that will suggest the necessity of a ‘new skeptical Enlightenment’ for inducing actual intercultural dialogue.

Ecumenical issues in Józef Herbut’s philosophy of religion

The philosophy of religion constituted one of the main fields of research by Prof. Józef Herbut. He created an original version of the analytical philosophy of religion. With the use of logical means, he analysed various dimensions of religion, primarily religious language. During the last period of his work, Herbut included ecumenical issues in his philosophical research. His research on these issues consisted of two stages. During the first stage, Herbut tried to create a specific logic of ecumenism. He hypothesised that the reason for the crisis of ecumenical dialogue consists in the lack of a clearly defined goal. Using the logical set theory, Herbut constructed possible models of doctrinal unity of different denominations. These models were constructed a priori, without reference to actual dialogues. During the second stage of his project, Herbut focused on the content of Catholic and Evangelical doctrines presented in catechisms. Here, he also put forward a research hypothesis that the languages of Catholic and Evangelical theology are different because they include different philosophical assumptions. These assumptions reach back to the medieval problem of universals. The language of Catholic theology is heavily influenced by moderate realism, and the language of Evangelical theology is influenced by moderate nominalism (these are two of the four standpoints in the problem of universals). Herbut's research project is original and innovative in terms of Polish philosophical and theological literature. However, in foreign language literature it is possible to find ones analogous to Herbut's project (József Fuisz, Charles Morerod).

Research and Implementation of Seq2Seq Model Chat Robot Based on Attention Mechanism

With the continuous development of deep learning technology, computers can not only understand the natural language input by users, but also reply to the sentences used for input. This paper designs an intelligent chat robot based on Attention mechanism and Seq2Seq model. It uses jieba word segmentation tool and Word2vec to convert sentences in corpus into semantic vectors, and then trains and tests the model through TensorFlow platform. The experiment compares whether the Attention mechanism is added or not, and proves that the model added with Attention mechanism has better effect than the traditional Seq2Seq model, and performs better in actual dialogue.

Cultural transfer – thesaurus of thematization (problematization of transdisciplinarity)

The article analyzes the peculiarities of problematization of transdisciplinary experience in solving interdisciplinary and existential issues of everyday life with the involvement of scientific and value-moral priorities of scientific research. Problematization is considered comprehensively, at the level of thematization of presuppositions of transdisciplinary experience, the formation of explanatory hypotheses (by the type of abduction), taking into account not only direct but indirect evidence, using the heuristics of the thesaurus corresponding to the topic. The formation of the thesaurus is based on a cultural transfer between interdisciplinary discourses with an appeal for mutual understanding to the language of everyday communication in the mode of actual dialogue. Cultural transfer is focused on the translation and understanding of the problems discussed, the removal of speech inconsistencies, contradictions.Problematization, as a mode of conducting transdisciplinary experience, due to its complexly organized nature, does not imply unambiguous solutions once and for all. The latter circumstance plays a positive role, taking into account the chosen methodology for the real presentation of the subject of research. This experience has the ability to challenge the proposed solutions, requiring completeness, evidence, expressiveness and openness, promotes updating depending on the place and time (chronotope) of the research being conducted. Transdisciplinary experience, accumulating skills, always rechecks its methodological approaches: thematization of prerequisites and the creation of an appropriate dictionary, the formation of ways to translate interdisciplinary languages to search for explanatory hypotheses, taking into account not only direct but also indirect evidence.

Blending Constructivism and Instructivism: A Study of Classroom Dialogue in Singapore Kindergartens

ABSTRACT The Singapore government has launched kindergarten curriculum reform since 2003 to promote constructivism in teaching and learning, which seems to contradict the traditional pedagogy. Using video analysis, we examined the actual classroom dialogue in six Chinese language classrooms to understand to what extent the constructivist pedagogy has been implemented in Singapore kindergartens. Evidence indicated the classroom dialogs in the Singapore kindergartens were knowledge-driven and teacher-directed, which is per se instructivism-based. The findings call for a further reflection on the progressive early childhood education reforms and the enhancement of professional support for early childhood teachers in Singapore and other similar contexts.

The use of nondialogic trolling to disrupt online communication

Trolling, a uniquely common antisocial behavior in online communities, has traditionally been conceptualized as a phenomenon based in group dialogue. Yet it is possible for trolling to occur without any actual dialogue between the troll and the intended targets. In this paper, several methods of trolling are presented, each of which is performed through engagement with user-generated media artifacts rather than through back-and-forth conversation among users. These are broadly grouped into four categories based on the type of media engagement that is exploited: content creation, content curation, content evaluation, and content refinement. This manuscript therefore fills a significant gap in the literature on this topic and helps to resolve a limitation in existing explications of the construct by showing its applicability to a wider range of behaviors than previously acknowledged.

Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin

Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin

Introducing the Strata Approach to Dialogue Analysis (SADA): the case of political NGOs in Israel

ABSTRACTWhile research on dialogue has been flourishing over the past few decades, critics contend that this scholarship often misses the core philosophical idea of dialogue, focusing instead on the absence or presence of dialogic principles in various organizational settings. This study has both empirical and methodological objectives: a) to solve a built-in lacuna in on-going dialogue research that frequently addresses important aspects of PR and dialogue in a blended manner, thereby undercutting the ability to develop in-depth critical research and examine the issues of dialogue more comprehensively; b) to provide an empirical contribution to understanding dialogue within the context of political NGOs’ public relations in Israel’s divided society. We suggest a layered approach as a methodological solution to this void by introducing a Strata Approach to Dialogue Analysis (SADA). Israel’s divided society, comprising various opposing groups, serves as a case study to demonstrate the advantages of SADA over current analyzes of dialogue. By revealing the differences between dialogic potential (features), actual dialogue (process), and the perception of dialogue (orientation), SADA enables the development of in-depth, critical research, i.e. examining the issue of dialogue more accurately and comprehensively.

Концептуальные основы вузовского курса «Традиционная музыкальная культура народов мира»

In Russia the teaching of traditional music of peoples of the world is realized in higher education institutions with specialization in musicology, performing art and in solitary cases in music pedagogics. The actual dialogue between sound and musical traditions and acquisition of musical polylingualism of the world by nonprofessional musicians shows a clear need for including into the variable component of higher humanitarian education a subject focused on complex, interdisciplinary study of world music with orientation on development of intercultural competence of future specialists. The author generalizes her 12 years’ experience in teaching the course “Traditional music in culture of peoples of the world” at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies of Lomonosov Moscow State University for students of the following educational programs: “Linguistics and Intercultural Communication”, “Area Studies and International Relations”, “Culture Studies”. Also the experience of teaching this course as interfaculty subject (2019) is recognized. The theoretical foundations of the course, culture study approach to the world music, pedagogical technics, music and cultural content, results of the work are regarded.

On the need for real dialogue: What's wrong with monological contractualism?

AbstractAccording to T.M. Scanlon, the core idea of contractualism consists in the claim that what we are morally required to do is conceptually grounded in the value of living in “relations of mutual recognition” with others. Specifically, Scanlon's contractualist idea of “living in relations of mutual recognition with others” requires that one act only in ways that cannot be reasonably rejected by all of those affected, according to the results of a hypothetical reflection conducted within one's own mind. I claim, however, that Scanlon is mistaken to rely on a single individual's hypothetical reflection (monological reflection) to determine what no one affected could reasonably reject. Instead, following Jürgen Habermas, I claim that we must engage in actual dialogue with all who stand to be affected, in order to live in relations of mutual recognition with others.

The First Language’s Impact on L2: Investigating Intralingual and Interlingual Errors

This study focused on the grammatical accuracy of Japanese students who were learning English. The database for the errors came from the Japanese University Student Corpus (JUSC) comprising 61 transcripts containing 51,061 words. An inventory, containing 400 errors in context, was taken from this corpus. The first research question related to the most common errors Japanese L2 learners made in spontaneous speech whereas the second question focused on the interpretability and recognition of errors as being intralingual or interlingual. Results showed that the primary errors were articles, verb tense, prepositions, omission, modifier errors, and subject-verb agreement. These results indicate that L1 is a factor in grammatical accuracy. We concluded that this data highlights the need for language teachers to focus on getting students to use the grammatical forms in actual dialogues.

“Teen Views of Sex:” Inter-animation of dialogues in a radio feature story produced by Mexican immigrant youth

This paper proposes an analysis of dialogical processes in the creation of a radio feature story titled “Teen Views of Sex,” co-produced by Mexican immigrant high school students in the context of a Youth Radio and Radio Arts program. After describing the socio-cultural and curricular context of the program, I apply Zittoun and Grossen’s (2013) semiotic approach to dialogicality to describe the kinds of dialogue that took place during the interviews and subsequent reflections upon the feature story and production process. The types of dialogue examined include: actual dialogue, distant dialogue, auto-dialogue, dialogue between situations, and dialogue with material objects, or non-human actants. I explore how the inter-animation of these forms of dialogue gave rise to dialogic tensions, which may have created openings for shifts in identity positioning and an enhanced sense of agency for the youth in their personal and public lives.

Superior Donuts : Digestive Resistance To Gentrification

In this article I analyze how the 2017 comedy series Superior Donuts handles a rather serious topic of gentrification. The show is based on real-life processes taking place in Uptown Chicago. An elderly Polish immigrant Arthur Przybyszewski and a young African-American Franco Wicks try to keep Arthur’s donut store from closing, while also resisting gentrification. Despite its obvious flaws – after all it is a feel-good sitcom, in which problems need to be created, taken on and solved during the span of one 20-minute long episode – the series successfully presents the economical, social and cultural impact of this process, which is shaping modern cities around the world. Through this analysis I present how the show’s creators and writers are able to successfully suggest ways of resistance, while simultaneously keeping Superior Donuts entertaining for the casual viewer. The most obvious conclusion that one might draw from watching the thirteen episodes that constitute the first season of Superior Donuts is that gentrification is inevitable, so the only way to resist it is to change. Still, the change has to be made on one’s own terms, otherwise one risks being absorbed by the neoliberal economy. The most effective way to do so is to remain loyal to one’s local community. No matter how diverse, the community allows for its members to form bonds that are beneficial to everyone. It is this sense of community that in a way enforces dialogue between the rich and the poor. Otherwise scared of each other, once they learn that an actual dialogue is possible, they will at least try to understand one another, rather than immediately classify those poorer/richer as their opponents.

Panacea, placebo or prudence: Perspectives and constraints for corporate dialogue

Public relations has long been preoccupied with the notion of dialogue, and the advent of social media ushered in new enthusiasm. Still, despite the technology on offer and the fact that dialogue has become a value that ‘everyone’ embraces, most research concludes that little actual dialogue takes place between corporations and their stakeholders. Scholars have pointed to a host of different factors to explain this, ranging from practitioners’ lack of time to their lack of understanding of what dialogue is. This article discusses perspectives on corporate dialogue with a focus on the constraints identified in the literature, before presenting the main argument that not enough attention has been paid to the macro limits at the systemic level. The article issues a call to locate dialogue attempts within a system where a limited economic rationality reigns, which, in turn, constrains what individual practitioners can achieve.