Conceptual Vocabulary Research Articles

What is an advert? A sociological perspective on marketing media

This article draws on a conceptual vocabulary developed in science and technology studies to advance a sociological theory of objects in marketing. Analysing a single advertising medium, it shows that marketing objects can exist simultaneously in multiple forms as physical artefacts, political decisions, legal entities and economic values. Armed with this understanding, the article explores the ability of actors to manipulate these realities in their favour and investigates how it is possible to turn public space on a city street into an advertising object. Using John Law’s notion of fractional objects, the article proposes an analytic framework to open up new objects for critical intervention and reflection.

“Each Punishment Should Be a Fable”: Punitive Analytics, The Punitive-City Diagram, and Punishment as Technology of Power in Foucault’s Works of the 1970s and 1980s

Michel Foucault’s Punitive Society lectures make clear that, for him, punishment presents a critical problem. On the one hand, Foucault struggles to develop a conceptual vocabulary adequate to punishment, and particularly to the prison-form as a penal development. On the other hand, the Punitive Society lectures clearly indicate the stakes of punishment. How, Foucault asks, might punishment focalize relations of power? How might it serve as a field of struggle? What does a punitive technology of power look like, if it exists? Indeed, across numerous works from the 1970s and 1980s, Foucault traces the varying place of penalties within penal and punitive tactics, showing how punishment reciprocates historical relations of power and problems of power. Yet it remains necessary to develop Foucault’s account of punishment, which is never formalized. In this paper, I develop punishment as a polyvalent technology. Foucauldian punishment may be an analytic, a technology, and—in the allegorical “punitive city” from Discipline and Punish—a diagram of power. I argue that Foucauldian punitive power seizes the body in the name of an authority or a reified power to subordinate individuals to that authority, and with an objective to correct the individual’s relation to a multiplicity. It operates “above,” at the level of, and in “fragments” of embodied individuals. Further, with Foucault’s account of the “punitive city,” we find a theoretical model in whichpunishment becomes the ordering force of the social, and therein a diagram of punitive power exerted in extensive form across the social field.

The Role of Prekindergarten Spanish in Predicting First-Grade English Word Reading Among Dual-Language Learners.

Purpose The purpose of the current study was to examine the role that the 1st language, Spanish, at prekindergarten (pre-K) plays in predicting 2nd language (L2), English, word reading in 1st grade. In addition, it examines the role of conceptual vocabulary in predicting word reading in English. Method As part of a longitudinal study of predictors and models of reading comprehension from pre-K to 3rd grade, 248 children attending preschool programs completed Spanish and English measures in the spring of each academic year. In this article, we report the results of English and Spanish measures of oral language and literacy skills that were administered in pre-K and 4 measures of English word reading that were administered in 1st grade. Results Results from structural equation modeling indicated that Spanish oral language made significant direct and indirect contributions to English oral language and word reading. Further, results supported previous evidence indicating that L2 letter knowledge and L2 oral language proficiency are the strongest predictors of L2 word reading in 1st grade. Discussion Similar to findings with monolingual English-speaking children, results support findings that, in the early stages of reading development, oral language in both 1st language and L2 make a significant and independent contribution to word reading. This study has important implications for the support of oral language skills in Latino preschool children.

Bonding in Newcomer Education: An Empirical Exploration

Armed conflicts in the Middle East since 2015 have led to an increase of refugee children in Dutch society and Dutch schools. This article describes an exploratory qualitative study into how primary school teachers promote bonding in classrooms and schools with newcomer students. Following research in worldview and citizenship education, we identify three interrelated ways in which bonding can be promoted in (newcomer) education: by fostering a) exchange, b) a feeling of being listened to, and c) the co-creation of a shared cultural world. We then present the results of a multiple-case study which examined teacher practices and challenges in two schools in this regard. Thematic analysis of the data revealed how the teachers experience their work as highly meaningful, despite the challenges that stem from the super-diverse character of newcomer classes and a lack of suitable materials. The teachers offer various playful learning activities to advance exchange and a feeling of being listened to. Moreover, they employ creative, playful and imaginative learning strategies to stimulate the co-creation of a shared cultural world. Overall, our study introduces a conceptual vocabulary and provides insights into how to foster a shared space in newcomer classrooms and schools. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.18.5. 7

Love in the midst of precariousness: lamenting the trappings of labour in de-intellectualized worlds

Increasingly, the precariousness of labour has become an important concern, as employment relations structure numerous injustices for workers. We engage in an auto-ethnography of our lives as two academics immersed in the labour of teaching management courses in India to outline how the precarious informs our experiences. In the midst of our precariousness, we trace the journey of our love and marriage. We find that love itself is precarious and involves a willingness to negotiate vulnerabilities. We draw on Arundhati Roy’s novel, ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ to uncover a conceptual vocabulary for the precariousness of love and life, and the need for actors to poetically engage with inconsolable grief of the other. What disturbs us is the unwillingness of actors within academia to discuss their precariousness with respect to each other. Instead, academic actors strive to conceal and manage their precariousness, and end up structuring loveless, de-intellectualized worlds for themselves and others.

A View of the Lexical-Grammatical Link in Young Latinos With Specific Language Impairment Using Language-Specific and Conceptual Measures.

Purpose This study investigated the nature of the association of lexical-grammatical abilities within and across languages in Latino dual language learners (DLLs) with specific language impairment (SLI) using language-specific and bilingual measures. Method Seventy-four Spanish/English-speaking preschoolers with SLI from preschools serving low-income households participated in the study. Participants had stronger skills in Spanish (first language [L1]) and were in the initial stages of learning English (second language [L2]). The children's lexical, semantic, and grammar abilities were assessed using normative and researcher-developed tools in English and Spanish. Hierarchical linear regressions of cross-sectional data were conducted using measures of sentence repetition tasks, language-specific vocabulary, and conceptual bilingual lexical and semantic abilities in Spanish and English. Results Results indicate that language-specific vocabulary abilities support the development of grammar in L1 and L2 in this population. L1 vocabulary also contributes to L2 grammar above and beyond the contribution of L2 vocabulary skills. However, the cross-linguistic association between vocabulary in L2 and grammar skills in the stronger or more proficient language (L1) is not observed. In addition, conceptual vocabulary significantly supported grammar in L2, whereas bilingual semantic skills supported L1 grammar. Conclusions Our findings reveal that the same language-specific vocabulary abilities drive grammar development in L1 and L2 in DLLs with SLI. In the early stages of L2 acquisition, vocabulary skills in L1 also seem to contribute to grammar skills in L2 in this population. Thus, it is critical to support vocabulary development in both L1 and L2 in DLLs with SLI, particularly in the beginning stages of L2 acquisition. Clinical and educational implications are discussed.

Similarities and differences in the lexical-grammatical relation of young dual language learners with and without specific language impairment

ABSTRACT This study examines the lexical-grammatical relation within and across in preschool Latino dual language learners (DLLs) with and without specific language impairment (SLI) using language-specific vocabulary and conceptual lexical-semantic skills. The participants were sixty-one typically developing (TD) Spanish-English speaking DLLs and seventy-four DLLs with SLI from low-income households. Standardized and researcher developed assessment tools were used to measure vocabulary, semantics, and grammar in both Spanish and English. Cross-sectional data were analyzed using hierarchical linear regressions to determine the nature of the lexical-grammatical association within and across languages. The study found significant within-language relations between measures of vocabulary and grammar for both groups. Conceptual vocabulary was a significant predictor for English grammar in both groups. For the SLI group only, both English and Spanish vocabulary scores significantly predicted English grammar and bilingual semantics scores predicted Spanish grammar. These findings underscore the role of language-specific vocabulary on grammatical development and suggest the presence of bilingual bootstrapping in DLLs. However, the degree and nature of cross-linguistic associations vary by language ability and language proficiency. The role of age and nonverbal cognition and clinical implications are also discussed.

The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course

ABSTRACTThe analysis of ideology at the vernacular level requires access to peer-to-peer political discussions amongst non-specialists. It is in these discursive exchanges that political views are articulated, refined, and revised. Such exchanges are, however, difficult for the researcher to capture. Here we take c.25,000 learner comments (along with several hundred image uploads) from a Massive Open Online Course, co-produced by the University of Nottingham and the British Library, as a source of such peer-to-peer political discussions. From five topics we have selected ‘Freedom’, ‘Justice’, and ‘Community’ for close analysis. The idea of ‘freedom’ generated by far the most learner discourse, being both positively appraised and highly personalized. ‘Justice’ was generally seen as something to be delivered by political institutions, although accounts of injustice were frequently personalised. Accounts of ‘community’ often focused on the trappings of nationhood, but some comments, and many images in particular, highlighted moments of ephemeral and more personal, self-chosen communities. Overall, both comments and images show that, in their interpretation of the conceptual vocabulary of politics, people frequently frame their understanding through personal experience in a very direct manner. It is not only true that the ‘personal is political’, but also, for many, that the ‘political is personal’.

Gender and framing: Gender as a main determinant of frame variation in Turkey's anti-hydropower movement

Framing literature has so far failed to construct gender as an analytical category that shapes the ways in which we perceive, identify and act upon grievances. This article builds on the insights of feminist theory and employs the conceptual vocabulary of the social movement framing perspective in maintaining gender as a main parameter of framing processes. Drawing on ethnographic research on local community struggles against hydropower plants in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey, this article maintains the centrality of gender to framing processes. It analyzes the gendered difference between men’s macro-framings and women’s cultural and socio-ecological framings, which is rooted in their differing relationships with their immediate environment, as well as with the state and its institutions. The article maintains that the framings of women, which represent the immediacy of the environment, are more effective in gaining public support and shaping movement outcomes. In this sense, constructing gender as an important determinant of “frame variation” is essential not only to reveal women’s frames that are largely silenced through and within the mechanisms of social movement organization, but also to stress their centrality in shaping repertoires of contention, public reception and movement outcomes.

Ukrainian State-Building Redux: Triangular Role Performance Under Kuchma

The article systematically analyses the Ukrainian behaviour within the EU-Ukraine-Russia triangle during the presidency of Leonid Kuchma (1994-2004). As it is shown, this was a period to which the origins of many recent, and tumultuous, developments can be traced. We utilise an interdisciplinary Foreign Policy Analysis role theoretical framework, and through the means of triangulated content analysis apply it to the empirical material containing, inter alia, primary data in the Ukrainian language. As we demonstrate empirically, Ukraine followed a certain behavioural pattern of roles based on its national characteristics, collective cognition, discursive uses of historical developments, and specific internal political, economic and social considerations. An extensive analysis of presidential speeches reveals that the prominent role of ‘Internal Development’ had fluctuating levels of intensity and multiple manifestations. Taking advantages of conceptual vocabulary and theoretical subtleties associated with role theory, we conclude that the performed research of these sets of behavioural norms and their dynamics allows for better understanding of Ukrainian collective identity and behaviour within this strategic complex.

Turning Privacy Inside Out

Abstract The problem of theorizing privacy moves on two levels, the first consisting of an inadequate conceptual vocabulary and the second consisting of an inadequate institutional grammar. Privacy rights are supposed to protect individual subjects, and so conventional ways of understanding privacy are subject-centered, but subject-centered approaches to theorizing privacy also wrestle with deeply embedded contradictions. And privacy’s most enduring institutional failure modes flow from its insistence on placing the individual and individualized control at the center. Strategies for rescuing privacy from irrelevance involve inverting both established ways of talking about privacy rights and established conventions for designing institutions to protect them. In terms of theory, turning privacy inside out entails focusing on the conditions that are needed to produce sufficiently private and privacy-valuing subjects. Institutionally, turning privacy inside out entails focusing on the design, production, and operational practices most likely to instantiate and preserve those conditions.

Positioning and ‘doing’ geographies of dissociation

Inspired by five commentaries on our forum article, in this response article we elaborate on three points related to geographies of dissociation, namely positioning dissociation, dealing with plurality and moving from agenda-setting to empirical research. In order to assess the validity of critique elaborated in the commentaries, we specify the contribution we seek to make. Geographies of dissociation aim to contribute to a strand of cultural economic geography that has become increasingly interested in the social construction of symbolic value but that still lacks a conceptual vocabulary for addressing the loopholes and missing links in these relational webs and their related geographies. We explain how geographies of dissociation build on pluralism without ignoring epistemological frictions. Furthermore, we discuss how geographies of dissociation might inspire political economic approaches and future empirical research.

The Effects of Co-Treatment on Concept Development in Children With Down Syndrome

This preliminary study investigated the effects of co-treatment by an adapted physical educator and speech-language pathologist on basic concept vocabulary learning in preschool children with Down syndrome as compared with the effects of treatment by either professional alone. In a Repeated Acquisition Design/Adapted Alternating Treatment study, 10 preschool children with Down syndrome were taught five basic concept words each week in a co-treatment intervention, in adapted physical education alone, or in speech-language therapy alone across 9 weeks. Each week, participants participated in a pre- and posttest. Four children learned the most words in the co-treatment condition and the remaining six children did not learn different numbers of words across conditions. Individual characteristics of children in the study were evaluated to determine possible factors that differentiate learning patterns among children. This preliminary study provides evidence that co-treatment may be effective for vocabulary teaching for some children with Down syndrome, particularly those with relatively high nonverbal intelligence.

ROMOP: a light-weight R package for interfacing with OMOP-formatted electronic health record data.

ObjectivesElectronic health record (EHR) data are increasingly used for biomedical discoveries. The nature of the data, however, requires expertise in both data science and EHR structure. The Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) common data model (CDM) standardizes the language and structure of EHR data to promote interoperability of EHR data for research. While the OMOP CDM is valuable and more attuned to research purposes, it still requires extensive domain knowledge to utilize effectively, potentially limiting more widespread adoption of EHR data for research and quality improvement.Materials and methodsWe have created ROMOP: an R package for direct interfacing with EHR data in the OMOP CDM format.ResultsROMOP streamlines typical EHR-related data processes. Its functions include exploration of data types, extraction and summarization of patient clinical and demographic data, and patient searches using any CDM vocabulary concept.ConclusionROMOP is freely available under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) license and can be obtained from GitHub (http://github.com/BenGlicksberg/ROMOP). We detail instructions for setup and use in the Supplementary Materials. Additionally, we provide a public sandbox server containing synthesized clinical data for users to explore OMOP data and ROMOP (http://romop.ucsf.edu).

Secularism and Viable Life

Secularism and Viable Life Peter Coviello (bio) Or think of it like this. In 1883 a man named Henry M. Teller, acting in his role of secretary of the interior—a position that gave him jurisdiction over the Bureau of Indian Affairs—authorized the implementation of a "Religious Crimes Code." The document drawn up by his commissioner of Indian affairs, Hiram Price, is, in both its compression and its strange itemized multiplicity, altogether remarkable. Here, for instance, are just a few infractions mapped out in what would come to be known as a "Code of Indian Offenses": 4th. The "sun-dance," the "scalp-dance," the "war-dance," and all other so-called feasts assimilating thereto, shall be considered "Indian offenses," and any Indian found guilty of being a participant in any one or more of these "offenses" shall, for the first offense committed, be punished by withholding from the person or persons so found guilty by the court his or their rations for a period not exceeding ten days … 5th. Any plural marriage hereafter contracted or entered into by any member of an Indian tribe under the supervision of a United States Indian agent shall be considered an "Indian offense," cognizable by the Court of Indian Offenses … 6th. The usual practices of so-called "medicine-men" shall be considered "Indian offenses" cognizable by the Court of Indian Offenses, and whenever it shall be proven to the satisfaction of the court that the influence or practice of a so-called "medicine-man" operates as a hindrance to the civilization of a tribe, or that said "medicine-man" resorts to any artifice or device to keep the Indians under his influence, or shall adopt any means to prevent the attendance of children at the agency schools, or shall use any of the arts of a conjurer to prevent the Indians from abandoning their heathenish rites and customs, he shall be adjudged guilty of an Indian offense.1 Sun-dances, plural marriage, indigenous medicine, "heathenish rites": here, I want to suggest, in compressed miniature, is an arresting portrait of the mechanics of early American biopower. More precisely, the code delineates just what happens to a population whose structures and practices of belief fall hard askance those of an expanding empire that has, with magisterial completeness, folded a liberalized Christianity into the very core of its self-conception, [End Page 889] and has made out of that conjuncture an encompassing, and fully racialized, metaphysics. That entangled in-folding can be usefully designated, I think, by the term secularism. The Religious Crimes Code is a map of its biopolitics. If you've read this far, you likely do not need an exhaustive restatement of the principles of biopower. You will be familiar, I mean, with the conceptual vocabulary that aims to describe the rationalized distribution of capacities across populations in a slatted, hierarchized economy of life, ranging from the healthy to the expendable. The biopolitical names an order of power that operates through a disciplinary investment in the biological life of mass social phenomena, as these are disaggregated into racialized micro-populations, and rationalized in an optimizing calculus designed to foster some forms of life, inhibit or disallow others, and to regulate them collectively in a flexible economy of interaction. Kyla Schuller, in her indispensable The Biopolitics of Feeling, offers a deft and compact definition: "Biopower functions as an umbrella term combining two different yet overlapping instruments of postsovereign power deployed within the regime of civilization: the discipline of the individual body, which worked to 'integrate the body into a system of economic productivity'; and the 'regulatory controls' of biopolitics, which 'aim to adjust population to economic processes.'"2 Let's take this all as given. There are, then, two points I'd like to emphasize in respect to the "Code of Indian Offenses." First, we might observe that the 1883 document offers us a clarifying purchase on the workings of racialization—its cross-wired articulations—through which a subpopulation is made over into a species of misfiring life. For here, racial redemption, erotic propriety, and religious correction take shape as part of a single, fused strategy of disciplinary intervention—an intervention that maps out...

СУСПІЛЬНО-ПОЛІТИЧНА ЛЕКСИКА В УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ПАМ’ЯТКАХ XVIII СТ. (НА МАТЕРІАЛІ “ДОГОВОРІВ І ПОСТАНОВ ПРАВ І ВОЛЬНОСТЕЙ ВІЙСЬКОВИХ” П. ОРЛИКА)

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the socio-political vocabulary of “Treaty and Covenant of Laws and Liberties”. The concept of socio-political vocabulary is defined. The consequences of interlingual and intercultural contacts of Ukrainians in the XVII-XVIII centuries were traced within the lexical level of speech. “Treaty and Covenant of Laws and Liberties” reproduces the interaction of different language codes in the XVII-XVIII centuries. “Treaty and Covenant…” has a high variation on phonetic and grammatical levels, developed synonymy of nominative means and complicated syntax. In the socio-political lexics of “Treaty and Covenant of Laws and Liberties” five semantic groups were allocated: 1) military lexics; 2) names of juristical documents; 3) names of the selected titles; 4) names of inherited titles; 5) juristical lexics. The socio-political vocabulary of “Treaty and Covenant of Laws and Liberties” is defined by influences of Church Slavonic, Latin, Polish and, in part, Russian languages. Most units in the semantic groups are easily recognizable by the native speakers of the modern Ukrainian language. This fact outlines the prospects for further research in socio-political vocabulary.

Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth by Ariadne Konstantinou

Reviewed by: Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth by Ariadne Konstantinou Vanda Zajko Ariadne Konstantinou. Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. xiv + 189 pp. 1 black-and-white map. Cloth, $102. Since feminism began to make its presence felt in the 1970s, and certainly since the publication of Sarah Pomeroy's Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Greece in 1975, the question of the access of ancient Greek women to public space has been fiercely debated. What counts as reliable evidence for the experiences of women? How do the representations of women in literary texts relate to the material realities of their lives? And what is the relationship of myth, as broadly conceived, to other kinds of data? This book both summarises and evaluates these discussions by painstakingly working through a wide range of material relating to female characters in myth and mapping their trajectories through domestic, civic and natural spaces. The methodological issues familiar to classicists are foregrounded throughout the four main chapters, to the extent that at times the explication of approach distracts from the overall argument; the interesting theoretical perspectives from the emergent fields of space and mobility studies are, for the most part, restricted to the introduction and the final chapter. This is a shame because it means that insights derived, for example, from the conceptualisation of space as socially produced, or the contemporary focus on the moral effects of mobility are tantalisingly alluded to (e.g., 9, 11) but never allowed fully to irrigate the ancient texts. The desire to avoid the anachronistic use of conceptual vocabulary, explicitly articulated and presented as a virtue (11), positions the work within a tradition of scholarship that privileges a certain [End Page 367] kind of historicism over other approaches. While there is nothing wrong with this per se, when dealing with myth and the ancient Greek imagination, a more relaxed attitude towards creative hypothesis tends to produce more engaging results. The book is divided into two halves, the first devoted to female deities and the second to mortal heroines. Within these sections there is further division into chapters on virgin goddesses, Olympian wives and mothers, mobile heroines in Greek tragedy, and female mobility and gendered spaces between myth and ritual. Each chapter has its own introduction and conclusion and is comprehensively annotated with accurate references to up-to-date bibliography and relevant primary sources. From this perspective, the book will be invaluable to students and scholars wishing to familiarise themselves with the current state of play regarding discussions of gender and space in archaic and classical Greece. In the first chapter, the famous description of Athena, Artemis and Hestia from the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite is used as a springboard for discussion of the connection between the three goddesses' sexual status, their gender, and their mobility. There is much that is familiar here, from the association of Hestia with the domestic and public hearth, to the exploits of Athena in the Trojan war, and the characterization of Artemis as a mountain-dwelling huntress. The critique of Vernant's hugely influential article on Hestia and Hermes (Vernant, J.-P., 1963, "Hestia-Hermès. Sur l'expression religieuse de l'espace et du mouvement chez les Grecs," L'Homme 3:12–50) results in an adjustment of the view that Hestia's fixity is a result of her femininity and suggests instead that her lack of mobility results from the divine privileges which involve receiving honours in both private and public spheres and which identify her primarily with "the centre." Otherwise, the chapter reaffirms the idea that virginity for these female deities does not automatically entail any kind of restriction of movement and thus argues that they cannot be regarded as paradigmatic for human women. The second chapter continues the discussion by focusing on Aphrodite, Demeter, and Hera and concludes similarly that in epic contexts, divine wives and mothers are free to move where they want to, apart from in the case of Hera, whose limited mobility is either the result of her superior position in the divine hierarchy or a form of punishment by Zeus. These...

Thesauri and Semantic Web: Discussion of the Evolution of Thesauri Toward Their Integration With the Semantic Web

Thesauri are Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), that arise from the consensus of wide communities. They have been in use for many years and are regularly updated. Whereas in the past thesauri were designed for information professionals for indexing and searching, today there is a demand for conceptual vocabularies that enable inferencing by machines. The development of the Semantic Web has brought a new opportunity for thesauri, but thesauri also face the challenge of proving that they add value to it. The evolution of thesauri toward their integration with the Semantic Web is examined. Elements and structures in the thesaurus standard, ISO 25964, and SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), the Semantic Web standard for representing KOS, are reviewed and compared. Moreover, the integrity rules of thesauri are contrasted with the axioms of SKOS. How SKOS has been applied to represent some real thesauri is taken into account. Three thesauri are chosen for this aim: AGROVOC, EuroVoc and the UNESCO Thesaurus. Based on the results of this comparison and analysis, the benefits that Semantic Web technologies offer to thesauri, how thesauri can contribute to the Semantic Web, and the challenges that would help to improve their integration with the Semantic Web are discussed.

Modern Jewish Art

AbstractIn Modern Jewish Art: Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities, Ori Z. Soltes considers both the emerging and evolving discussion on and the expanding array of practitioners of ‘Jewish art’ in the past two hundred years. He notes the developing problem of how to define ‘Judaism’ in the 19th century—as a religion, a culture, a race, a nation, a people—and thus the complications for placing ‘Jewish art’ under the extended umbrella of ‘religion and the arts.’ The fluidity with which one must engage the subject is reflected in the broadening conceptual and visual vocabulary, the extended range of subject foci and media, and the increasingly rich analytical approaches to the subject that have surfaced particularly in the past fifty years. Well-known and little-known artists are included in a far-ranging discussion of painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation art, ceremonial objects, and works that blur the boundaries between categories.

Zero-shot event detection via event-adaptive concept relevance mining

Zero-shot complex event detection has been an emerging task in coping with the scarcity of labeled training videos in practice. Aiming to progress beyond the state-of-the-art zero-shot event detection, we propose a new zero-shot event detection approach, which exploits the semantic correlation between an event and concepts. Based on the concept detectors pre-trained from external sources, our method learns the semantic correlation from the concept vocabulary and emphasizes on the most related concepts for the zero-shot event detection. Particularly, a novel Event-Adaptive Concept Integration algorithm is introduced to estimate the effectiveness of semantically related concepts by assigning different weights to them. As opposed to assigning weights by an invariable strategy, we compute the weights of concepts using the area under score curve. The assigned weights are incorporated into the confidence score vector statistically to better characterize the event-concept correlation. Our algorithm is proved to be able to harness the related concepts discriminatively tailored for a target event. Extensive experiments are conducted on the challenging TRECVID event video datasets, which demonstrate the advantage of our approach over the state-of-the-art methods.