Language Boundaries Research Articles

Big data technology to analyze the application value of color healing in visual communication design

Abstract Color is a powerful tool for communication across language and cultural boundaries. Through understanding color emotion and color psychology, designers can establish a deeper emotional connection with the audience and achieve more effective visual communication. The purpose of this paper is to introduce healing colors and their specific applications in visual communication design. In order to explore the specific application value of color healing in visual communication design, this paper mines product color information extracts colors and screen clusters according to the K-Means clustering method, and finally constructs product color data sets. Mining consumer emotional information, combined with the product color data set, calculates the consumer emotional weight and the sense of product safety experience through experimental technical means so as to judge the application value of healing color. According to the final results of the calculation of consumer safety experience, orange (0.6084) and green (0.5718) have higher weights, which also lead to higher product sales. This shows that healing colors affect consumers’ psychological and physiological feelings while also influencing product sales.

Profissionalismo e controle disciplinar de terapeutas à margem

Abstract Occupational therapy’s goal of professional status comes with costs. Sociologists argue that ‘professionalism’ exhorts workers to conform with normative expectations for behaviour and performance, becoming a mechanism of social control. Those performative expectations are established by socially dominant groups, constructing occupational therapists from marginalized groups as not-professional, unless they can contort themselves to conform. Here we explore the specific behaviours and forms of embodiedness that become encoded as ‘professional’ in occupational therapy, leaving particular groups of occupational therapists subject to discipline through the concept of ‘unprofessional’. We conducted a critical interpretive synthesis of literature indexed in CINAHL and EBSCOhost defining professional behaviour in occupational therapy (n=26). We also draw from in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 Canadian occupational therapists who self-identified as racialized, ethnic minority, disabled, 2SLGBTQ+, and/or from working-class/impoverished family origins, exploring how ‘professionalism’ serves to discipline and control them. For both approaches, we employed reflexive thematic analysis. Texts encode professionalism as specific behaviours and forms of embodiedness grounded in white, western politics of respectability. Some also exhort occupational therapists to never make the profession ‘look bad’. In our interview data, occupational therapists from marginalized groups risked being construed as ‘unprofessional’ by having the ‘wrong’ bodies, appearances, presentation of self, speech language use, emotions, behaviours, and boundaries. When ‘professionalism’ demands assimilation to normative standards that exclude particular kinds of people, we narrow the potential of occupational therapy to encompass diverse valuable ways of doing, being, becoming and belonging. There is an important role for ‘professional resistance.’

NARASI KONTRA TERORISME PADA LITERATUR INDONESIA DAN ANIMASI FIKSI POPULER

The author explores the potential of fictional media in counter-terrorism efforts, especially as an antidote to the spread of pro-terrorism narratives. Fiction media has the potential to bridge differences by spreading universal values that can transcend language, geography, and cultural boundaries. Multicultural culture helps teach tolerance and respect for one another. The method used is a literature study of previous research results. The selected studies used fiction and memoirs from Indonesia, as well as popular fiction from abroad, namely Avatar: The Legend of Aang and Fullmetal Alchemist. The conclusion of this research is that providing a sense of group or brotherhood arising from the similarity of favorite fictional media can transfer values that counteract the spread of terrorism. Lastly, there are suggestions for parents, teachers, and other stakeholders on how to select entertainment media that has counter-terrorism values to become learning media for children and adolescents based on the interests of the target audience, reviews from other adults, and ratings determined by government regulations.

On the Translation of Documentaries Themed on the Chinese Nation from the Perspective of Translinguality: A Case Study of Chinese Children

With the development of media technology, documentaries of the Chinese nation are used more and more as a vehicle to present natural scenery, local customs as well as the traditional culture of ethnic groups. Little research has been conducted on the translation of documentaries themed on the Chinese nation despite of the study of such documentaries in terms of video creation and intercultural communication. The translation of documentaries is mainly constrained by the co-existence of the sound and the visual channels. This study applies translinguality in the analysis of Chinese Children, a multilingual and multimodal documentary space loaded with symbolic resources of Chinese ethnic groups, examines its transcending, converging and performative features and reveals how those features facilitate the translation. This study concludes when viewing the documentary as a translingual space, translation can better overcome the constraints. In languages, language boundaries can be transcended to find an equivalent translation creatively; In modalities, translation can draw on multiple modalities to bridge linguistic and cultural differences, as well as reach a balance between the sound and visual channels; In symbolic resources, translation should pay special attention to the expression process of semiotic resources in both acoustic and visual channels and how the symbols become performative.

“A Wider and Stranger Space”: World Literature and World-building in Xue Yiwei’s Fiction

Through references to Xue Yiwei’s (1964–) emigration to Canada, the translation of his works into English, and his repeated discussion of Western authors, the majority of critics have emphasized Xue’s global outlook. However, to date, there has been relatively little discussion of the ways in which his engagement with the world has shaped his writing. This article considers how Xue Yiwei attempts to “transcend the boundaries of language” and create what he calls a “wider and stranger space for literature” against the background of a historically fraught relationship between Chinese and World literature. What does this space look like? Where can we locate it in relation to China and in relation to the world? How does Xue attempt to shape this space through his writing? This article considers these questions from three angles: Xue’s repeated use of explicit intertextuality, the multilingual and polyphonic nature of his writing, and the way in which his books have circulated beyond China. Despite continuing unevenness in the global literary field, this article argues for points of creative agency in Xue Yiwei’s attempt to “dialogue with the world.”

Reimagining language

Abstract What is language and who or what can be said to have it? In this essay we consider this question in the context of interactions with non-humans, specifically: animals and computers. While perhaps an odd pairing at first glance, here we argue that these domains can offer contrasting perspectives through which we can explore and reimagine language. The interactions between humans and animals, as well as between humans and computers, reveal both the essence and the boundaries of language: from examining the role of sequence and contingency in human-animal interaction, to unravelling the challenges of natural interactions with “smart” speakers and language models. By bringing together disparate fields around foundational questions, we push the boundaries of linguistic inquiry and uncover new insights into what language is and how it functions in diverse non-human-exclusive contexts.

Unmasking Hate: A Multimodal Approach to Hateful Meme Detection

Hateful memes are an escalating issue in the digital landscape, demanding innovative solutions for their effective detection and classification. These memes often employ subtlety, sarcasm, and symbolism, presenting formidable challenges for automated detection systems. Moreover, the linguistic and cultural diversity of the internet, transcending geographical and language boundaries, further complicates the task. This research paper presents a comprehensive approach to hateful meme detection, utilizing a Dual Stream Transformer Model, real-world knowledge integration, characteristic detection, and cultural reference understanding. We emphasize the importance of ethics and responsible usage in deploying such technology, underscoring its potential for positive societal impact

English language proficiencies – recasting disciplinary and pedagogic sensibilities

ABSTRACT The notion of language proficiency in English Language Teaching (ELT), as an internationalized educational enterprise, has tended to be operationalized in terms of stable lexicogrammar and enduring normative patterns of social use. It will be argued that this ‘established’ stability has been challenged by the scholarship in several fields of applied language studies that has demonstrated the ‘leaky’ and mutable language boundaries and emergent communicative enactments in situated use. The main theme of this article is on the coalescing professional and curricular recognition of the fact that use of English is contextually and functionally variegated, and can include resources from other languages. I will draw on relevant works from research fields such as academic literacies, English as a Lingua Franca, flexible multilingualism, and translanguaging to illustrate this growing understanding. Some aspects of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) will be discussed as a curricular example of the movement towards a more linguistically fluid and interactionally accomplished notion of language proficiency. In the final part of the discussion I will look at the key challenges brought about by this more contingent and situated view of language proficiency/ies in terms of pedagogy and assessment, and some of the potentially productive directions of investigation for further development.

Фактор клишированности в описании словосодержащего семиозиса: норма и границы языка

The article presents a number of observations on the methods of not quite convincing definition of the " language norm" and "language boundaries" within the framework of the traditional language model, the main methodological constant of which is a priori confidence that the content ("meaning", "meaning", "semantics", " content plan, etc.) exists in direct connection with the verbal substrate. As a result, contradictory statements arise: “The norm exists objectively”, at the same time “The norm exists subjectively”; "Norm is single", at the same time "Norm is multiple"; “The norm is manifested in synchrony”, at the same time “The norm is manifested in diachrony”; “Language coincides with the norm”, at the same time “Language does not coincide with the norm”; “Language belongs to the researcher”, at the same time “Language belongs to the user”; “Language has unity”, at the same time “Language consists of varieties of a language”. To solve the same problems, the concept of cliché and semiotic action is proposed as tools, which more correctly reflect the essence of natural speaking-writing and at the output give a more harmonious picture (model) of what is happening. According to the communicative model, in natural communication, the source of content produced and received is personal semiotic influence (polymodal, multifactorial, multichannel, not necessarily word-containing). In order to achieve changes in external cognitive states (which have not yet occurred at the time of the action, but are only planned), the semiotic actor makes attempts to influence, manifesting actional modes of his consciousness under given conditions in complex ways. In view of this, in a natural act, the novelty sought by the actor is generated and understood, which constitutes the meaning formation of a given semiotic act. The concept of cliché in relation to words and other "signs", assuming the procedural (actional) principle of formation of any semiotic content, allows us to separate the clichwd (mechanical, meaningless, behavioral) "language", including verbal, from the meaning-forming semiotic influence, to emphasize the deep conventionality of construction "systemic" and "universal" "language".

Reconstructing the population history of the Sinhalese, the major ethnic group in Śrī Laṅkā

The Sinhalese are the major ethnic group in Śrī Laṅkā, inhabiting nearly the whole length and breadth of the island. They speak an Indo-European language of the Indo-Iranian branch, which is held to originate in northwestern India, going back to at least the fifth century BC. Previous genetic studies on low-resolution markers failed to infer the genomic history of the Sinhalese population. Therefore, we have performed a high-resolution fine-grained genetic study of the Sinhalese population and, in the broader context, we attempted to reconstruct the genetic history of Śrī Laṅkā. Our allele-frequency-based analysis showed a tight cluster of Sinhalese and Tamil populations, suggesting strong gene flow beyond the boundary of ethnicity and language. Interestingly, the haplotype-based analysis preserved a trace of the North Indian affiliation to the Sinhalese population. Overall, in the South Asian context, Śrī Laṅkān ethnic groups are genetically more homogeneous than others.

“That’s not Arabic, ya ḥabībi, it’s Libyan!”: Negotiating language boundaries, hierarchies, and policies in Arabic supplementary schools

This paper examines language use and policies in Arabic supplementary schools in the UK to explore how language teachers and learners negotiate and renegotiate sociolinguistic hierarchies and boundaries between language varieties. It draws on long-term ethnographic research in three Arabic supplementary schools in Manchester, with a particular focus on one case study school. Classroom participation and observation, informal interviews, and linguistic landscapes (offline and online) offer insights into language practices and reported practices, revealing discrepancies between language policy and actual language use. The article demonstrates how language beliefs and ideologies held at wider global scales play out locally, shaping imagined hierarchies of language resources in the diverse urban diaspora setting. It shows how in the supplementary school, staff and pupils redefine the status and relevance of “Arabic” versus English. Furthermore, the paper discusses the tensions between fuṣḥā and non-standardized varieties that are at the center of decision-making processes relating to target language and language of instruction in the classroom. This article argues that language policies are to be understood as emerging and operating within wider “interactional regimes,” encompassing declared and practiced policies, actors’ dynamic understandings of their language resources, and local and translocal language ideologies.

Gender of language contact

This article considers how language contact is gendered through an analysis of how inter-Indigenous Quechua–Aymara boundary maintenance practices and ideologies are feminised in the Peruvian altiplano. The analysis focuses on the semiotic regimentation of Indigenous ethnolinguistic boundaries, concentrating on the role of four Indigenous female figures: the Indigenous wife; the Indigenous female market vendor; the reimagined mythic Indigenous founding mother; and the Indigenous beauty pageant contestant. An ethnographically grounded, scalar analysis of Quechua–Aymara contact in the region shows how each of the female figures is ideologically linked to a specific aspect of inter-Indigenous language contact and boundary maintenance. Furthermore, the discussion shows the interconnectedness of these female figures and their associated ideologised practices and discourses, which lead to the feminisation of inter-Indigenous language contact in the region.

The Origin of Friulanisms of the Type medih ‘doctor’ and lampadarih ‘chandelier’ in Dialectal Slovenian in the Slavic-Romance Contact Area in Friuli

The article discusses the origin of the nominal forms ending in -ih [iχ] of the type medih ‘doctor’ and lampadarih ‘chandelier’ in dialectal Slovenian on the Slovenian-Friulian language boundary. Regarding their origin, these forms represent loanwords from Friulian, where they typically end in -i (cf. Friul. mièdi ‘doctor’, lampadàri ‘chandelier’), reflecting their original Romance pre-forms MEDICU(M) and LAMPADĀRIU(M). The contribution tries to account for the presence of the voiceless velar fricative h [χ] in both groups of borrowings, taking into consideration the linguistic history of both Friulian and Slovenian. While the voiceless velar fricative χ in the medih-type can most probably be explained by assuming a more archaic phonetic reflex of the original MEDICU(M) in Old Friulian, the origin of χ in the lampadarih-type seems to be the result of analogical processes in the linguistic history of Slovenian.

The Toy Brick as a Communicative Device for Amplifying Children’s Voices in Research

The Toy Brick as a Communicative Device for Amplifying Children’s Voices in Research

Context in Discourse Analysis of Indonesian Colonial Texts

Discourses are defined as ideas conveyed by humans through language using a series of sentences in a co-text and context. Co-text is the cohesive and coherent relationship between a series of written words, phrases, sentences, in a paragraph. Generally, the contexts are understood more broadly even beyond the boundaries of language, therefore, it is considered non- linguistic. It is also the circumstances behind an idea used as a reference for understanding language expression. In colonial discourse, ideas are conveyed through narrative texts which express the real situation and time of the existing reality. Similarly, the use of discourse markers in the form of words, phrases, or sentences also represents the condition of the real context that is socio- historical and socio-cultural. This article, therefore, discusses the concept of context in texts with the application of colonial discourse projected from Indies Literary.

Translanguaging in elementary science

ABSTRACT In a phenomenon known as translanguaging, multilingual learners draw freely from their repertoires without regard for language boundaries. Although multilingual learners live their lives between languages in their communities, science education is just beginning to acknowledge the important role of their hybrid language practices for learning. This study investigated one translingual science event in a fourth grade multilingual classroom focused on electrical phenomena. Expanding our prior study of a soil sample lab (Lemmi et al., 2021) this paper documented eight talk types that took place during the translingual exchanges during a snap circuit activity: (1) making comparisons, (2) asking and answering questions, (3) explaining, (4) giving directions, (5) making observations, (6) agreeing, (7) exclaiming, and (8) affirming. Our findings suggest that students’ translingual participation serves valuable academic and social roles in the classroom and should be considered an important contribution to science learning. This work has implications for the ways in which teachers can support meaningful translingual learning spaces in science through the use of manipulatives and explicit invitation of hybrid languages practices. It also calls for expanding the field understanding of the purpose of translanguaging in science education to disrupt monolingual norms.

Collecting Cyclic Garbage across Foreign Function Interfaces: Who Takes the Last Piece of Cake?

A growing number of libraries written in managed languages, such as Python and JavaScript, are bringing about new demand for a foreign language interface (FFI) between two managed languages. Such an FFI allows a host-language program to seamlessly call a library function written in a foreign language and exchange objects. It is often implemented by a user-level library but such implementation cannot reclaim cyclic garbage, or a group of objects with circular references, across the language boundary. This paper proposes Refgraph GC , which enables FFI implementation that can reclaim cyclic garbage. Refgraph GC coordinates the garbage collectors of two languages and it needs to modify the managed runtime of one language only. It does not modify that of the other language. This paper discusses the soundness and completeness of the proposed algorithm and also shows the results of the experiments with our implementation of FFI with Refgraph GC. This FFI allows a Ruby program to access a JavaScript library.

Countering English-prioritised monolingual ideologies in content assessment through translanguaging practices in higher education

This paper presents the use of translanguaging in the assessment of content subjects in the context of Nepal’s higher education. Since its proposition in the 1990s, translanguaging has been receiving much scholarly attention in multilingual educational contexts. In such contexts, individuals’ language practices show a shift from the understanding of languages as separate autonomous systems to the recognition of integrated and heteroglossic practices. Drawing on the analysis of relevant policy documents and examinees’ answer sheets of formative assessment, and interviews with eight purposively selected teacher educators teaching at the master’s level at a university in Nepal, this paper reports that examinees’ translanguaging practices in responding to assessment questions exhibit their translanguaging instinct resisting unplanned English-prioritised monolingual policies. It also reveals fluidity and simultaneity in examinees’ use of diverse linguistic resources defying demarcated language boundaries as aspired by the institution’s English-prioritised policies. The study further reports layered translanguaging exercised by examinees which educators acknowledged as an attempt to enhance efficacy in content communication. Examinees’ translanguaging practices and educators’ acknowledgment of translanguaged writing indicate collective resistance from the bottom-up countering monoglossic ideologies in assessment systems. This implies consideration of examinees’ and educators’ roles in promoting translanguaging for future language policy changes to facilitate effective assessment.

Labyrinths of “Turns” in Contemporary Art: Linguistic, Iconic, Visual

The author of the article focuses on the problem of correlation between the paradigms of “linguistic”, “iconic” and “visual” turns associated with contemporary art. The text discusses the history of the terms, analyzes the specifics of each of these turns, reveals their role and significance in art, history and culture, and provides specific examples of works of the 20th and 21th centuries. Attempts to overcome the methodological crisis in art studies have made the impact of these approaches felt throughout the world. The article pays special attention to a number of issues, which include changes in the concept of art and the boundaries of language; the expressive opportunities of the image and narrative; artistic vision; depiction of the “unimaginable”; the statuses of works of art, authorship, perception, symbols, as well as dialectical transitions of works of art from visuality to pictoriality. The article shows how, by studying the history of art as a phenomenon of culture, art studies have learned to find not only artistic characteristics, but also social and cultural features in the specifics of forms, structures and compositions. Carrying out a comparative analysis of the linguistic, iconic and visual “turns”, the author notes the dialectic of “reformatting” the view from the linguistic to the iconic and visual, and also comes to the conclusion that, the subtle modifications of the language of art demonstrate the constant evolution of artistic forms, art criticism, cultural and social meanings. Art contemplates the world directly, embodying it in images (semantic, visual, iconic, etc.). It is thanks to the peculiar integrity (interdisciplinarity) achieved in the artistic rethinking of historical reality that art reveals an amazing depth of meaning.

Translated Political Opinion Articles: A Narrative Approach

The spread of political narratives across language boundaries lies on the shoulders of translators. They play a major role in legitimizing or delegitimizing certain narratives over others. This study utilizes narrative theory and the notion of framing as backgrounds to analyze translated articles and explore the translation strategies translators use as they translate into Arabic articles written originally in English by Thomas Friedman. This study’s significance comes from its exploration of narratives in translated political opinion articles. It seeks to answer the question, how has Alittihad newspaper carried out its translation of Friedman’s articles with respect to narrative theory? The study reveals Alittihad’s tendency to reframe Friedman’s articles to avoid framing public figures or countries negatively and elevate the formality of the articles’ language. It also shows that the newspaper uses mostly deletion as a translation strategy to reframe the articles.