Analytical Construction Research Articles

АНАЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ КОНСТРУКЦИИ С ГЛАГОЛОМ METTRE В ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЙ ТАМОЖЕННОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ НА ФРАНЦУЗСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ

Для достижения цели обучения французскому языку, а именно лингвистической компетенции обучаемого и его готовности к коммуникации, в процессе преподавания стоит уделять большее внимание особенностям употребления языковых единиц в различных сочетаниях и их коллокационной комбинаторике. Одной из основных характеристик французского языка является его аналитизм, поэтому именно аналитические конструкции стали объектом исследования.Цель. В статье выявлены и рассмотрены вербальные аналитические конструкции на основе глагола mettre, одного из самых фразеоактивных глаголов широкой семантики.Материалы. Материалом для исследования послужили 14 выпусков журнала “Douane. Magazine”, печатного органа Генерального управления таможен и косвенных сборов Франции.Методы. При анализе материала были использованы лексико-семантический метод, а также метод контент-анализа.Результаты. Результаты исследования показали, что большинство конструкций образуется по схеме «глагол + предлог + существительное», а в качестве предлога чаще всего используется «en». В исследованных текстах выявлены несколько аналитических единиц на основе mettre, объединённых одной из доминирующих сем «выделение, значимость». Кроме этого, целый ряд конструкций употребляются в текстах для обозначения активного действия, поведения человека, причём как в положительной, так и в отрицательной коннотации. Во многих конструкциях данный глагол употребляется как фазисный с преобладанием семы «приведение в действие», две из которых (mettre en place и mettre en oeuvre) в результате контент-анализа были определены как самые частотные. В изученном текстовом массиве были обнаружены не только неразрывные аналитические единицы, но и разрывные. Большим комбинаторным потенциалом обладает глагол permettre, являющийся базой для образования наиболее частотных каузативных конструкций, причём пермиссивная каузация в этих конструкциях отражает значение «давать возможность», а не «разрешать».Область применения результатов. Результаты исследования могут быть использованы при составлении корпуса диспонибельной лексики при обучении студентов французскому языку по специальности «Таможенное дело».

Становление нефинитной субпарадигмы в среднеанглийский период (на материале памятников английской поэзии)

The article analyses development of non-finite verb forms in Middle English by the material of the English poetry. Scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that synchronous development of non-finite verb forms in the Middle English period is traced within a certain paradigm - verbal field. The research objective is to identify the place of non-finite verb forms in the Middle English verb paradigm. The findings indicate that the Middle English period is characterized by appearance of Gerund developed from the verbal noun. Moreover, Infinitive and Participles I and II acquire verbal features, gradually losing their nominal feature - declension. Development of analytical constructions and Gerund allows broadening the syntactic potential of non-finite verb forms.

Iphigenia's sacrifice: generational historicity as a structure of feeling in times of austerity

AbstractIphi, an unemployed actor in austerity‐ridden Greece, imagines a theatre adaptation of a classic tragedy, Iphigenia at Aulis, in which the heroine is sacrificed on the altar of austerity by politicians. While writing her playscript, Iphi has a dream: she is taken to the sacrificial altar, not by politicians, but by her own parents, the generation who lived through the affluent years before austerity. Iphi's generational‐analogical thinking introduces a politically inspiring historicity, which offers insights into the accountability of austerity. It also allows us to reassess the notion of generations as a local category and an anthropological analytical construct. The article indicates the emergence of an as yet not fully articulated generational awareness – a new structure of feeling – about austerity, which is outlined here as it develops in an incipient form. I argue that the emerging generational historicity communicates a critical message, but also hides from view less visible inequalities.

Psychosocial support for families of children with neurodisability who have or are considering a gastrostomy: the G-PATH mixed-methods study

Background Evidence reviews recommend consistent and structured support for children with neurodisability and their caregivers in care pathways in which professionals recommend a gastrostomy feeding tube. To date, and to our knowledge, no research has shown how these recommendations have been implemented. Objectives The objectives were to describe different exemplar models of psychosocial support and provide an estimate of their resources and costs. Design This was a mixed-methods study involving (1) a web-based survey, (2) a qualitative, collective case study of psychosocial support provision in four services and (3) an estimate of costs and preference through a willingness-to-pay study. Setting Four service configurations in different locations in England and Scotland. Participants Participants were staff who responded to a survey (n = 67) and interviewees (staff, n = 58; parents/children, n = 29). Findings Psychosocial support was rarely formalised or documented; it was delivered by different members of the multidisciplinary team, rather than by designated staff, and it was often integrated into appointments dominated by clinical care. Parents expressed different needs for support but reported little opportunity to discuss emotional aspects. Psychologists were not routinely involved and, in general, families were underserved by psychosocial services. Professionals constructed families’ need for psychosocial support in terms of their own roles and the management of risk. Mechanisms for integrating and delivering support were identified, including models of care that linked community and tertiary health services and integrated health and education through pooled budgets. Although generally valued by both staff and parents, peer-to-peer parent support was not consistently offered. Barriers included concerns about confidentiality and appropriately matching parents. Parents participated as members of a feeding committee at one site. Three analytical constructs described the provision of psychosocial support: ‘hidden work’, expressing emotional vulnerability and negotiations around risks and values. The cost-of-support study found that there was a mean of 2.25 appointments (n = 8 parents or carers) over the previous 12 months. The cost of health-care professionals’ time spent on providing psychosocial support ranged from £0.00 to £317.37 per child per year, with an average cost of £76.42, at 2017 prices. In the willingness-to-pay study the median rank of enhanced support, involving the opportunity to see a psychologist and parental peers, was significantly higher than that of usual care (n = 96 respondents, both carers and professionals, who completed rating of the service; p < 0.001). Limitations It proved difficult to disseminate a national survey, which resulted in a small number of returns, and to cost the provision of psychosocial support, which we designated as ‘hidden work’, owing to the lack of recording in clinical systems. Moreover, estimates were based on small numbers. Conclusions Parent interviews and the willingness-to-pay study demonstrated a preference for enhanced psychosocial support. The study suggests that there is a need for services to formally assess families’ needs for psychosocial support to ensure that provision is planned, costed and made explicit in care pathways. Personalised interventions may assist with the targeting of resources and ensuring that there is an appropriate balance in focus on both clinical care and psychosocial support needs in relation to and following treatment. Future work More work is needed to develop tools to assess families’ needs for psychosocial support and the effectiveness of training packages to strengthen team competency in providing support. Funding This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Services and Delivery Research programme and will be published in full in Health Services and Delivery Research; Vol. 8, No. 38. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.

Creating a 3D semantic profile of causative shi and rang: A constructional approach

ABSTRACT This article models the semantic structure and lectal variation of shi ‘cause’ and rang ‘let’ in the context of an analytic causative construction in Mandarin Chinese. The investigation is framed within a 3D model (the formal, conceptual and social dimensions) and integrates semasiological and onomasiological perspectives of semantic variation. Adopting a corpus-based method and regarding constructional exemplars of the verbs as a prototypical category, it explores semantic salience and variability of the verbs on the one hand and their semantic division of labour on the other. Important dimensions that are relevant for the semantic structure of shi and rang are illuminated, along with their lectal variation. Reasons for the semantic differences are explained from a diachronic perspective, as shi and rang are shown to be at different points along the same grammaticalization pathway.

Age-based variation and patterns of recent language change: A case-study of morphological and lexical intensifiers in Spanish

This study aims to gain further insight into processes of recent language change, both at the level of the speech community and the individual one (i.e. in terms of age grading), by combining the Real-Time Construct and the Apparent-Time Construct. It focuses on intensifiers, which are of a particular interest due to their versatility and rapid change. The data are collected in a corpus of Madrilenian present-day Spanish (CORMA), and provide an overview of synthetic intensifying constructions, including suffixation (e.g. golazo ‘nice goal’) and prefixation (e.g. superguay ‘very cool’) of the base, and several analytic constructions, that is lexical intensifiers that modify a base word (e.g. mazo de humilde ‘really humble’). In concrete, the productive paradigm of intensifying strategies is empirically monitored across different generations. This analysis leads to a deeper understanding of the distribution and motives behind age-based preference, and unveils whether the Apparent-Time Construct is able to equally detect recent language change for different linguistic features.

MEDIATISING RESISTANCE TO CONTEMPORARY FASCISM ON YOUTUBE: VOICING DISSENT IN BRAZILIAN RAP

ABSTRACT In recent years, an on-going shift from more progressive political, social and cultural relations towards a more conservative turn around the world has been under way. A fascist political stance (STANLEY, 2018) has been noted in different parts of the globe and politicians have been able to gather followers dissatisfied with crumbling economies by usually making recourse to an “us versus them” discourse. Such dissatisfaction and bias have found fertile ground in social media platforms, e.g. Facebook and WhatsApp, and elevated the tensions around such issues to a level never before seen. In the 2018 presidential election in Brazil, similar tensions were fuelled by a candidate with an authoritarian, xenophobic and misogynistic discourse. More importantly, that authoritarian discourse did not go unchallenged and the same social media platforms were home for constant resistance to it such as, for instance, the movement #nothim, created by the Facebook group “Women United against Bolsonaro”, and the rap/hip hop movement in Brazil, which released protest songs and a manifesto called “Rap for Democracy” on YouTube. In this paper, we focus on one music video in particular, ‘Primavera Fascista’ (“Fascist Spring”) to present a multimodal analysis of how resistance to that candidate’s discourse was constructed. We look into visual, sound, musical and linguistic resources (KRESS, 2010; MACHIN, 2010). Drawing upon a view of language as performative (PENNYCOOK, 2004; 2007), we use the analytical constructs of entextualization (BAUMAN & BRIGGS, 1990) and indexicality (BLOMMAERT, 2005; 2010) to show that the rap song is an exhaustive discursive exercise of metapragmatic reflexivity on the performative effects of a number of fascist statements produced by the candidate.

Unraveling non-Hermitian pumping: Emergent spectral singularities and anomalous responses

Within the expanding field of non-Hermitian physics, non-Hermitian pumping has emerged as a key phenomenon, epitomized through the skin effect via extensive boundary mode accumulation modifying the conventional Bloch picture. Beyond redefining bulk-boundary correspondences, we show that non-Hermitian pumping induces an unprecedented type of spectral topology: it admits a classification in terms of graph topology, which is distinct from conventional topological classifications of the eigenstate or energy Riemann surface. Each topological class is characterized by a conformally invariant configuration of spectral branching singularities, with gap-preserving transitions giving rise to emergent band geometry and Berry curvature discontinuities physically manifested as anomalous response kinks. By placing all Hermitian and non-Hermitian lattice Hamiltonians on equal footing, our comprehensive framework also enables the first analytic construction of topological phase diagrams in the presence of multiple non-reciprocal coupling scales, as prototypically demonstrated for the extended non-Hermitian Chern and Kitaev models. Based on general algebraic geometry properties of the energy dispersion, our framework can be directly generalized to multiple bands, dimensions, and even interacting systems. Overall, it reveals the conspiracy of band representations, spectral topology, and complex geometry as it unfolds in directly measurable quantities.

Drift – A change of perspective

AbstractUsing the example of the German language, this contribution discusses different models of a drift between synthetic and analytical construction. As an alternative to existing models, a design that combines different perspectives is presented. Linguistic developments are not viewed as monodirectional or even monocausal, but as polydirectional and polycausal so that the question of the direction and causality of typological changes is answered with the assumption of a complex structure of dependencies. This model of typological change integrates both extra-linguistic and intra-linguistic factors. On the one hand, developments in the cultural environment are made responsible for changes in the linguistic system, since these developments require a different communicative behavior of the members of the language community. On the other hand, the model also takes into account the principle of self-regulation of a linguistic system based on an optimal relationship between communicative effort and communicative result.

Analytical Construction Robust Optimal Control Systems by the Criterion of Quick Action with Infinitely High Gain

The problem of the synthesis of robust control systems with a high gain and, in particular, optimal by the criterion of quick action, which allow optimal control by the accuracy of regulation of multidimensional non-linear dynamic objects with functional uncertainties, is discussed. A method is proposed for the analytical construction of optimal control systems by the criterion of quick action for a wide class of multidimensional nonlinear dynamic objects with functional uncertainties, unstable objects; no minimal-phase objects, neutral object and objects with differentiation properties. Simplicity and universality, mathematical rigor and physical validity of this method consists in usingR.R Be llman’s method and decomposing the optimal by the criterion of quick action problem into a series of simple first-order simple problems of the same type. A theoretically comprehensive solution to the robust control problem is given by the idea of constructing systems that are stable with an unlimited increase in gain. In this case, optimal systems have stability properties. Such systems are synthesized using quadratic quality functionals that are not explicitly dependent on the control signal and the restriction on the control signal. It is significant that, in contrast to continuous systems with unmeasurable perturbations and a little-known object, in which the conditions of invariance require the use of infinitely large gains, in relay (discontinuous) systems, the equivalent effect is achieved using finite control actions. Since the performance problem is a particular problem of the accuracy of reproducing the input action on the control object, the established control error (including all error coefficients: by position, speed, acceleration, jerk, etc.) is theoretically strictly equal to zero if external and internal interference, acting only on the control object, but not on the control system, including sensors of state variables of the control object or the input signal of the task. However, due to the inertia of the object, there can be no talk of accuracy in the transient process of working out the input signal of the task, even if it is optimal in terms of the criterion of fast action.

THE EXPRESSION OF ADVERBIAL QUALIFICATON IN THE SPEECH OF PRESCHOOL AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN FROM VRANJE

This paper analyses the case constructions that preschool and elementary school children from Vranje use to express adverbial qualification. The aim of this paper is to determine which case forms preschool and elementary school children from Vranje use to express the category of adverbial qualification and in which case structures standard language case form enters most easely. The speech of 40 examinees of different age, sex, place of residence, parents’ education was analyzed. The material was collected by the method of spontaneous conversation. Аll recorded case forms are analyzed and described by the descriptive method.The most stable analytical form are determined by the percentage analysis. The conducted analysis showed that preschool and elementary school children from Vranje express the meaning of adverbial qualification by the analytical constructions in fuction of genitives, accusatives, instrumentasl and locatives. They are used to express the meaning of instrumentation, mediativity, comitivity, criteria, distributivity and comparativity. However, under the influence of standard language, the infiltration of flective form was recorded. The standard case form influences most intensively on the analytic construction in the fuction of the genitive. On the other hand, the construction in the fuction of locative is more resistant to the influence of lingustic standard. Considering that the study of the dialect syntax of cases and the speech of children is rarity in dialectological researches, the conducted research is justified and important for further researches in this field and for the teaching of Sebian grammar in Prizren-Timok speaking area.

Linguistic Cues of CEO Personality and its Effect on Performance

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) personality belongs to the most important constructs to understand strategic change and performance of companies but its measurement remains a major obstacle. Therefore, I study whether freely available, large-scale corporate documents reveal linguistic hints about CEOs' personality dimensions (Big-5) by applying a validated, closed based approach developed by Yarkoni (Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 2010) to a sample of FORTUNE 500 companies. I compare the results with validated, machine-learning trained open-based results from a specifically developed tool of 3000 CEOs of S&P 1500 firms obtained from conference calls (Harrison, Thurgood, Boivie, & Pfarrer, Strategic Management Journal, 2019). In order to provide a basis of comparison, I supplement these linguistic personality profiles with a sample of convicted criminal CEOs that provide an archetype of linguistic extreme cases. In addition, these linguistic profiles are complemented with a subsample of actual personality orientation, using the “positive” leadership attribute of CEO humility identified via a video metrics approach. Finally, after controlling for commonly used content analytical constructs (e.g., entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation) to capture CEOs' cognitive state, I link these cross-sectional linguistic profiles to longitudinal firm- level performance data. The analysis indicates that linguistic manifestations of CEO personality explains in conjunction with observable individual, industry and firm-level data a great share of firm performance. While there appear complementarities between open- based and closed based language approaches, the analysis also indicates that the open-based linguistic trait of neuroticism is negatively related to various measures of firm performance. In particular, these measures appear to be more robust against genre effects and language that is unique among CEOs (self-selection effects). The video 2 metric approach confirms the importance of certain linguistic personality markers, in particular neuroticism. Hence, the approach sheds light on the important role of validation procedures in the realm of computer-aided-content-analysis (CATA) as well as the conducive and detrimental effects of CEO personality cues on firm performance. The paper discusses practical implications for share and shareholders wishing to infer personality cues of key decision makers from large-scale corporate documents as well theoretical implications for the advancement of the upper- echelon research.

On 𝑝-adic harmonic Maass functions

Modular and mock modular forms possess many striking p p -adic properties, as studied by Bringmann, Guerzhoy, Kane, Kent, Ono, and others. Candelori developed a geometric theory of harmonic Maass forms arising from the de Rham cohomology of modular curves. In the setting of over-convergent p p -adic modular forms, Candelori and Castella showed this leads to p p -adic analogs of harmonic Maass forms. In this paper we take an analytic approach to construct p p -adic analogs of harmonic Maass forms of weight 0 0 with square free level. Although our approaches differ, where the two theories intersect the forms constructed are the same. However our analytic construction defines these functions on the full super-singular locus as well as on the ordinary locus. As with classical harmonic Maass forms, these p p -adic analogs are connected to weight 2 2 cusp forms and their modular derivatives are weight 2 2 weakly holomorphic modular forms. Traces of their CM values also interpolate the coefficients of half-integer weight modular and mock modular forms. We demonstrate this through the construction of p p -adic analogs of two families of theta lifts for these forms.

The Right Men: How Masculinity Explains the Radical Right Gender Gap

The radical right is disproportionately supported by men, yet there is little research on masculinity’s role in creating this discrepancy. This article breaks new ground in using masculinity as an analytical construct to explain the gender gap in one of the UK’s most significant radical right organisations: the English Defence League. Drawing on original qualitative data and interviews with past and present English Defence League activists, this article argues that English Defence League beliefs and practices were distinctly masculine. In promoting an ideology that subordinated Muslim men and women, and in providing a forum for displaying and enacting manhood, the English Defence League facilitated the supply of masculinity and therefore attracted far more men than women. The approach used in this article shows how theoretical analyses of masculinity can be incorporated within political science and offers a powerful new lens through which to understand radical right parties and movements.

An analytic construction of singular solutions related to a critical Yamabe problem

We answer affirmatively a question posed by Aviles in 1983, concerning the construction of singular solutions of semilinear equations without using phase-plane analysis. Fully exploiting the semilinearity and the stability of the linearized operator in any dimension, our techniques involve a careful gluing in weighted spaces that handles multiple occurrences of criticality, without the need of derivative estimates. The above solution constitutes an Ansatz for the Yamabe problem with a prescribed singular set of maximal dimension for which, using the same machinery, we provide an alternative construction to the one given by Pacard. His linear theory uses Lp-theory on manifolds, while our strategy relies solely on asymptotic analysis and is suitable for generalization to non-local problems. Indeed, in a forthcoming paper, we will prove analogous results in the fractional setting.

Стратегия vs. бизнес-модель: эволюция и дифференциация

The paper offers an overview of the trends and patterns behind researchers’ focus shifting from strategies to business models in the sphere of management. Methodologically, the study rests on the set of traditional theories included in the strategic management paradigm, as well as the concepts of business models and platform economy. The authors examine various standpoints on the correlation between the terms “strategy” and “business model” in management and trace the genesis and prerequisites for the emergence of theoretical foundations that underlied business management in the 20th-21st centuries. We identify a number of factors behind the transition to a short-term model of company management. The paper demonstrates that a shift in the basic analytical management construct is due to heterogeneous elements of organization management, transformation of management logic “from the present to the future”, the inclusion of microenvironment in the business ecosystem, etc. The research results can be of use in further empirical studies and in devising the methodological approaches to the development of relevant management tools based on the concept of business models.

MORPHOLOGICAL AND ANALYTIC CAUSATIVE CONSTRUCTION IN DELI JAVANESE DIALECT

This article discusses causative construction of Deli Javanese dialect which focuses on morphological and analytic causative construction. This study aims to reveal how morphological and analytic causative constructions in Deli Javanese dialect are formed. The theory of causative construction concept is based on Comrie (1989). The research data were obtained from text books, journals and interview. The causative construction in this analysis was elaborated by using tree diagram. The result showed that the morphological causative construction of Deli Javanese dialect utilized the verbs, which were shown by prefixes and suffixes. The causative construction in the verb nggodoke ‘boil something for somebody’ is derived from nggodok ‘boil’; thus, it is indicated by the suffix –e. Meanwhile, the analytic causative construction utilized nggawe ‘make’ in which it indicates an action with desire. Furthermore, Analytic causative construction in Deli Javanese dialect is a clause construction, which has two predicates. This research finally provides some contributions and references for any further research related to the causative construction within any languages.

Exploring agency in marginalised occupations: School administrative clerks’ deployment of “participatory capital” in establishing practice-based agency

Popular conceptions of school administrative clerks and school secretaries imply that they have little agency because they are deemed as subordinate support staff. However, the literature across a range of fields suggests that these subordinates exercise agency. We set out in this article to explore the workings of subordinate agency. The article suggests that it is through their involvement and interaction in the socio-cultural context of the school that school administrative clerks, are able to expand the range of their agency and thereby reposition themselves at school. We employ the analytical construct ‘participatory capital’ to analyse how these clerks establish their agency and renegotiate their roles and places in the school. Based on a qualitative research study, we interviewed and observed three purposively selected administrative clerks in three primary schools in Cape Town. This article argues that, while the occupational identity of administrative clerks remains one of subordination within the bureaucratic discourse and their places of work, the selected school administrative clerks were able to extend the scope of their agency through their participatory capital.

Quantization of Some Generalized Jaynes-Cummings Models in a Kerr-Like Medium

Based on fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, we present a method for a rigorous analytic construction of the spectra of the one- and two-photon Jaynes-Cummings models in a Kerr medium. To obtain an idea of the method, we consider a first generalized Jaynes-Cummings model with a real, linear superpotential using techniques of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The Hamiltonian of this model is written as a combination of operators generating the underlying superalgebra whose elements are defined as differential matrix operators. Based on the formalism of supersymmetric quantum mechanics and the properties of sets of common observables, we derive solutions of the one- and two-photon models expressed in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions. Finally, using numerical analysis, we study the influence of the Kerr effect on the energy spectra of the physical system.

Comparative Analysis of the Use of Lexical Analytical Constructions and their Translation into Lithuanian in Italian and French Literary Texts

Summary The intensification of research on Lithuanian translations of Italian literature and Italian translations of Lithuanian literature over the past twenty years is paralleled by the growth of interest in Italian literature in Lithuania. However, the existing research on diverse linguistic and cultural characteristics of texts translated from Italian into Lithuanian and vice versa has been sporadic, thus leaving much to be done to uncover links between the two languages and identify translation-related issues. The present article looks into one of the issues, namely, the lexical analytical construction of the Italian language and its translation into Lithuanian. Fictional texts by two representative Italian contemporary writers, Alesandro Baricco and Umberto Eco are chosen as a source of data including over three thousand pages of the source language (SL) and the target language (TL) texts. The results are compared with similar studies on translation of French literary texts into Lithuanian. The study on the translation of lexical analytical constructions in Italian literary texts translated into Lithuanian uses the theoretical framework and methodology provided by the Italian School of Semiotic Translation represented by Umberto Eco and Bruno Osimo among others. The study adopts a holistic approach to the analysis of lexical analytical constructions in Lithuanian translations of Italian literature. Comparative quantitative study has revealed three translation strategies: reformulation, translation without changes and remodelling. Reformulation has been identified to be the most frequent translation strategy. Its frequency was five times higher than that of translation without changes. The latter strategy was twice more frequent than the strategy of remodelling, which, accounts for less than ten per cent of all translation cases. Uses of calque or omission as translation strategies were not found. Comparison of quantitative results regarding the distribution of translation strategies adopted in the Lithuanian translations of Italian and French literary texts and a qualitative analysis of examples revealed similar tendencies in translation choices. It is important to note that changes of lexical analytical constructions into noun constructions were one and a half times less frequent in the translations of Italian literature than in the translations of French literature. Italian and French lexical analytical constructions were replaced by noun constructions in cases when in the SL text these constructions designated object and result but not action. Thus, it can be assumed that lexical analytical constructions in French literary texts were relatively more frequent than those in Italian literary texts.