Double Meaning Research Articles

Home as an Uncanny Site of Violence in Polish-Jewish Autobiographical Texts on the Holocaust

Autobiographies frequently feature the author’s understanding of home as an anchoring ground for the creation of the self. While home in such texts often invokes childhood and family, in the context of Jewish life in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, home became a complex site with a double function. Because the German authorities targeted Jewish material culture early in World War II, the destruction of communal buildings and family dwellings was unavoidable; for many, it was the first encounter with what would become the Nazi project to murder the Jews of Europe. We argue that home in Jewish wartime autobiographical texts is made to signify both a nostalgic longing for the place and objects that represent intimacy, shelter, and belonging, and at the same time, a marker of profound losses. We trace this double meaning of home by analyzing a range of Polish-Jewish ego-documents from the 1940s. Through this analysis, we show that home’s double function allowed the authors to inhabit (textually) a place of memory, asserting a claim to a prewar life with its own specific material culture, while also depicting a haunted emptiness that stands in for other losses that the writer cannot represent through language. To develop this elaboration of home’s function in the texts, we draw on and expand the concept of domicide, which identifies the loss of home as a specific type of violence. We conclude that the impact of anti-Jewish violence on the self is expressed through memory and uncanny hauntings of material culture.

La fantasia come motore del pensiero: ricordo di Antonio Rostagno

In this short article I recall some significant episodes of my intellectual relationship to Antonio Rostagno. The double meaning of the word "phantasy" allows me to refer both to a discontinuous and paratactic musical form, deeply connected with the Romantic experience, and to Rostagno's capacity of opening unexpected perspectives on known facts. I comment upon passages of his writings, talks and letters. I conclude with a reflection on the convergent elements of Hölderlin and Schumann, a topic which belongs to our common research fields

Nicole Legnani. The Business of Conquest. Empire, Love and Law in the Atlantic World

Nicole Legnani. <i>The Business of Conquest. Empire, Love and Law in the Atlantic World</i>

Les caractéristiques fonctionnelles et stylistiques du discours publicitaire français dans les médias économiques et politiques modernes

The article examines the functional and stylistic features of French advertising discourse in modern economic and political media. The relevance of this issue stems from the fact that advertising texts are closest to the impact pole on the conditional message-impact scale. The advertising discourse is analyzed using the material of advertisements, articles, notes, interviews, and extended announcements in the French media of economic and political focus, and drawing on the example of contextual and media advertising retrieved from French economic and political websites. The paper attempts to comprehensively study advertising discourse with due consideration of the determining role of the functional and stylistic factors, analyze the main functions of advertising discourse, and highlight the main directions of research on advertising. Special attention is paid to the pragmatic orientation of advertising, which manifests itself in specific linguistic categories. The analysis of the linguistic material shows that modern advertising discourse in the French media of economic and political focus makes ample use of expressive means designed to exert an efficient impact on the recipient. Among the most commonly used means, metaphor, metonymy, anaphora, hyperbole and antithesis are at the top of the list. Figures of higher expressiveness and emotional coloring are shown to demonstrate a high frequency of use in advertising. These include rhetorical questions, rhetorical addresses and rhetorical exclamations. Figures of double meaning, such as language games based on linguistic ambiguity, are also successfully used in French advertising discourse.

Double or half reading, double or full meaning: Amphibological and anacoluthic syntax through the lens of Qur’an translators

The Qur’an abounds in multifaceted ambiguous and elliptical structures which sometimes attest its idiosyncratic rhetorical style and challenging formal correspondence and dynamic/functional equivalence between Arabic and English. Although previous translation studies on Qur’anic ambiguity and ellipsis are manifold, there is a paucity of past literature on amphibol(og)y and a dearth of previous research on anacoluthon in the Qur’an in particular. Therefore, the need for this study arises from the necessity to examine these two understudied syntactic phenomena, technically al-labs an-nahwi: (‘amphibology’) and fuqda:n at-tata:buc (‘anacoluthon’), through the lens of Qur’an translators and to assess the translational quality of transposing meaning duplicity and interpretive multiplicity from Qur’anic Arabic (in)to English. The specific objectives are to investigate how Qur’an translators resolved amphibolies while rendering verses superscripted by the interchangeable pause sign (∴ ∴) and to explore how they sequentialised anacolutha when translating anacoluthic verses marked by the elliptical sign (…). The study employs the qualitative contrastive method for a contrastive translational analysis of a typologically limited number of amphibolous and anacoluthic verses retrieved from the Qur’anic Arabic Corpus (QAC). Findings show that amphibology and anacoluthon are so challenging to Qur’an translators that there are remarkable variations in ambiguity resolution and anacoluthon sequentialisation. Qur’an translators act occasionally as explicitators, implicitators and neutralisers of its message and epitomise heterosubjectivity and asymmetricity in interpretative choices. The implications of these findings for Qur’an Translation Studies (QTS) highlight the importance of paratexts and epitexts for amphibological and anacoluthic syntax in translation. According to Genette (1997), paratexts and epitexts are thresholds of interpretation that add haunting subtexts to texts in translation. Subtexts are necessary to provide essential information or commentary on the translation of the original text.

“Once Again on Understanding Some Fragments of the Ancient Egyptian Satrap Stela”: Grade D, Again

The article continues the author’s study of the controversial fragments of the Satrap Stela [1]. 1. Additional arguments are proposed favoring the reading of graphemes as xft sbj. Lines 8–9 should apparently be read as “Its (i.e., the land’s) name is “the Marshland Wadjet”. It formerly belonged to the gods of Buto, before &lt;it&gt; changed under Xerxes who did not make offerings for the “souls of Buto” there”; 2. New reasons are adduced to demonstrate the double meaning of Horus’ epithet HA.t nir.w xpr Hr-sA (lines 10–11), viz., “the beginning of gods, which occurs afterwards” and “the foremost of gods, one who appeared afterwards”; 3. The meaning of the verb wdj as ‘to hit’ suggested by A. Erman is contested. Line 11 should be translated as “(Horus)... has overthrown those rebels, &lt;namely&gt; Xerxes in his palace and his elder son”.

Management of Dispute Factors in Engineering Contracts and the Proposed Remedies

Generally, most projects are not completed within time, cost, scope for various reasons, and this is accompanied by the emergence of disputes among the contracting parties. Disputes occurred as a result of failure to define the scope of work accurately by the employer which will be followed by the inaccuracy of the time and the estimated cost of the project, the imbalance of prices submitted by the contractors and the unrealistic data of the project activities schedule and the material supply schedule, the selection of contractors without suitable criteria, non-availability of the required financial allocations within the specified times, lack of integration between technical and legal departments in preparing the draft contract to reach a common opinion, lack of experience of executive or supervisory employees in dealing with disputes that occur during the course of work, which leads to their escalation. Four case studies related to dispute in construction contracts which have been resolved by the court were investigated. Triggers for these disputes were discrepancies in change order evaluation as a result of undefined or an accurate project scope, unsuitable site conditions, double meaning of specifications, design mistakes and excessive contract quantities fluctuation, unavailable financial allocations and the subcontractor's lack of experience on similar projects, as well as the main contractor's lack of expertise and capability are the reasons with importance weighting in these case studies. Therefore, taking proactive steps for the purpose of minimizing these disputes and their negative effects through preparing realistic feasibility studies for projects and allocating sufficient time for these studies, in addition to activate the role of surveying engineers and qualifying them to play their effective role in determining quantities and prices accurately and using specialized engineering programs in addition to modern methods of calculating Project completion rates using Earned Value.

The application of Puns in English Advertisements and translation strategy analysis

Advertisement, a single word is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Therefore, advertising language should not only greatly reflect the characteristics of products, short and to the point and humorous, eye-catching, advertised. Puns are a common rhetorical device in English advertisements. Puns will apply the previously familiar phrases, idioms, proverbs, etc. It not only increases the readability and cultural interest of advertising language but also brings economic benefits to cultural utility, killing two birds with one stone. However, pun translation itself is very complex, and pun translation in advertising is even more difficult. this paper start with the types of puns, expounds on the application skills of puns, and on the basis of considering the double meaning of puns and the style of advertising style, makes a preliminary discussion on the translation of English advertising puns from the aspects of set translation and compensation translation.

The application of Puns in English Advertisements and translation strategy analysis

Advertisement, a single word is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Therefore, advertising language should not only greatly reflect the characteristics of products, short and to the point and humorous, eye-catching, advertised. Puns are a common rhetorical device in English advertisements. Puns will apply the previously familiar phrases, idioms, proverbs, etc. It not only increases the readability and cultural interest of advertising language but also brings economic benefits to cultural utility, killing two birds with one stone. However, pun translation itself is very complex, and pun translation in advertising is even more difficult. this paper start with the types of puns, expounds on the application skills of puns, and on the basis of considering the double meaning of puns and the style of advertising style, makes a preliminary discussion on the translation of English advertising puns from the aspects of set translation and compensation translation.

Development of Mathematics Assessment Instruments for High School Students Based on Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

This study aims to develop a mathematical assessment instrument for senior high school students based on higher order thinking skills (HOTS). This research is development research that aims to develop a valid, practical and effective HOTS assessment instrument. The development model used is the Tessmer’s model. There are five steps applied in this study, namely preliminary, self-evaluation, expert review, one-to-one and small group and field testing. The research findings explained that each item met the validity of content (content), construct, and language. Content validity is the compatibility between the questions and the indicators that have been set for each material. Fulfilling construct validity refers to the instrument measured by the HOTS concept. It met the validity of the language because the sentence structure in the question followed the correct Indonesian language rules and did not contain double meanings or ambiguity. Therefore, this item is appropriate to be used as an alternative teaching material for students to develop their higher-order thinking skills, especially in the material about flat-plane analytical geometry.

Paul Ricoeur'de Sembol Hermeneutiği

Language means something other than what it says, it is blurred, not explicit. In the field of language, another meaning conceals itself within the obvious meaning of discourse. Naming this double meaning region as a symbol, Ricoeur sees metaphor as a transitional stage to symbol in terms of creating double meaning. He determines interpretation as a thought activity that grasps this double meaning in the symbol and decodes these plural meanings. He defines hermeneutics as a method for grasping the ambiguity of meaning, diversity of meaning, and abundance of meaning in the symbol. In this context, the aim of this study is to reveal how the symbol hermeneutics emerges by explaining the relationship between symbol and interpretation, symbol and meaning and symbol and metaphor.

Why Is There a Trefoil Motif From Karja Church in Pikk Street in Tallinn? Based on the Example of the Restoration of the In-Situ Gothic Portal in Pikk Street 7, How Medieval Is the Medieval Architecture of Tallinn Old Town?

Although Tallinn is known for its authentic medieval architecture,the closer to details we delve, to view the medieval buildings fromthe perspective of particulars, or the history of things, following themethod of its apologist Ivan Gaskell, and take one concrete artefact asa starting point and basis, the more variegated the picture becomes.The portal of the medieval building in Pikk Street 7 contains someof the more interesting restoration questions. This article here looks atthe story of the restoration of a Gothic portal of a medieval residencein Tallinn. When we stand on Pikk Street today and take a cursorylook at the portal of the house number 7, with the masonry windowson either side of it, it may seem that this medieval portal ensemble&#x0D; has survived as well as the one in Vene 17 in Tallinn. However, theportal of Pikk 7 has been chosen as the subject of this article because itcontains one of the most interesting and well-documented restorationstories of a medieval Gothic portal in Tallinn Old Town. How did ithappen that these two leave a similar impression?The article submits that the residence at Pikk 7 is indeed partiallypart of the medieval stonemasonry tradition of Tallinn, but certainlyto a lesser extent than the portal of Vene 17, which has survived in itsoriginal shape and place and has not been demolished and restored.The perspective portal of Pikk 7 is medieval to the same extent asit is from the 20th century and adds to the restoration history ofTallinn as much as to the studies of the medieval architecture ofTallinn. The Middle Ages have been the main target era and Gothicthe main target style of the restoration of the building at Pikk 7 – theend results have been aimed at the dominance of those. However, itwas decided not to restore the high gable with the blind niches thatcharacterise the medieval residences of Tallinn.To conclude, a fitting thought from Juhan Maiste, ‘Every singlething has a double meaning which tells us of the people to whomthose things once used to belong, but also of those who have cleanedand restored them, brought them, whether in their natural form oras a verbal text, back into the light.’ (Juhan Maiste, “Arvustus: Tagasi asjade juurde. Raimo Pullat. Tallinlase asjademaailmvalgustussajandil”, Akadeemia, 9 (2017), 1694.)The article is based on official restoration documentation,restoration critique in the press, and personal work memoirs ofrestorer Aarne Joonsaar.

LEO THE HEBREW AND A KABBALISTIC READING OF PLATO’S TIMAEUS

This paper aims to consider the specific excerpts in which Plato’s Timaeus was interpreted by the philosopher and Kabbalist Judah Abravanel, also known as Leo the Hebrew in his major work, the Dialogues of Love. From his experience of solitude lived while in exile in Italy, the Portuguese Jew composes a work written in a structure of double meanings, esoteric and exoteric, through which he interacts with the Neoplatonic Renaissance community of his time while communicating with the Kabbalistic tradition from which he descended as a Sephardic. Interpreting Timaeus in the light of his ancestral cosmogony, Leo the Hebrew wants to prove that Plato was initiated into the teachings of Moses and, therefore, must be included as a Kabbalist.

Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism

Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism

The Emergence of Weak Interaction

The view of the Standard Model on the β decay of neutrons through weak interaction is that neutrons break down ‎to form ‎protons P and weak bosons W^- and finally into protons‎, electron and anti-electron neutrinos. The three ‎quarks (U,d,d) that ‎compose neutrons are joined by strong interaction, so bonds formed by strong interaction ‎supposedly cannot be broken ‎by weak interaction, which is far weaker than strong interaction. Nevertheless, ‎neutrons do decay. Further, the three ‎quarks (U,d,d) that form neutrons are fundamental particles, and it should ‎not be possible for other fundamental particles to ‎emerge from these three fundamental particles. Nevertheless, not ‎only does (U,d,d) change into (U,U,d), but electrons ‎and anti-electron-neutrinos, which are fundamental particles, ‎also emerge. This must not have a double meaning. As shown ‎here, there are multiple contradictions in weak ‎interaction of the Standard Model.‎ In this paper, weak interaction is mediated by the π‎-ons group that results from ‎the working of strong interaction step 1 ‎that was described in a previous paper and acts on the nucleons group ‎‎(‎‎P‎ ‎,P ̅ ‎‎,n,n ̅ ‎ ‎) that resulted from step 2. In other ‎words, at the point immediately prior to the emergence of weak ‎interaction, all the particles that existed in the universe were ‎used in order to make weak interaction emerge. The ‎weak interaction in this paper refers to the strong interaction bonds ‎composed of neutrons and ‎π^±‎-ons first being ‎dissolved by strong interaction. As such, the reason why neutrons change to ‎protons is just because the ‎‎d-quark of ‎the neutron is replaced with the ‎U‎-quark of the‎ π^±‎-on.‎

A comparative analysis of stereotypes between Romania and the Republic of Moldova

One of the current research themes, in the society we are part of, is the theme of stereotypes. Regardless of nationality, gender, faith, age, etc., people tend to judge or categorize those around them. In labeling, we don't think about what long-term effects can occur, in fact we don't think rationally when it comes to "gossip" on someone. Later, some have remorse, others feel nothing, but everything has a double meaning. Today you subject someone to prejudice, tomorrow you can be the main topic of a discussion. We are the generation of the 21st century, the century of movement and agitation. It is well known that we are rapidly modernizing technologically, we have a wider openness to learn things easily, we have the capacity and the necessary resources to create something special, something special. Even if all these things are available to us, we can, however, notice that man adapts more difficult to new changes, even more, he cannot forget old habits. Since we know the more modernized and cultured man, we notice that he is guided in society by certain criteria and false-moderate knowledge from the past. Thus, in this truly amazing era, we humans are subjected to discriminations and stereotypes long forgotten in the history of our formation.

Democracy, community and the supplemental plus un: Derrida’s reading of Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community

This article argues that Jacques Derrida’s Politics of Friendship presents an implicit but significant critique of Maurice Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community. In Blanchot’s text, the Other disrupts any sense of fusional or essentialist community. But Derrida criticises Blanchot for neglecting the need to negotiate my responsibility to infinite others. Derrida proposes a logic of the plus un, playing on this double meaning in French, where a need to count singularities (‘plus one’) disrupts the unity of community (‘no longer one’). For Derrida, this offers a greater emphasis on those outside the boundaries of constituted communities, something he finds lacking in Blanchot. I demonstrate that Derrida’s position is a challenge to an emerging xenophobic discourse in 1980s French politics. I propose, therefore, that Derrida’s difference with Blanchot is motivated as much by a political difference as a philosophical one, with Derrida judging Blanchot’s account inadequate for contemporary political concerns.

Enhancing Coral Settlement Through a Novel Larval Feeding Protocol

Intensifying anthropogenic stressors have contributed to declines in reef-building corals in many regions. These disturbances result in reduced live coral cover, impacting key population-level processes such as coral larval settlement and recruitment that are essential for reef recovery. Reef restoration efforts that rely on enhanced larval supply provide a pathway for the recovery of degraded reefs. However, corals at very early life stages experience high post-settlement mortality bottlenecks, which impede stock-recruitment processes. Overcoming these bottlenecks is a high priority goal in coral restoration. Some coral larvae are known to be capable of gaining exogenous nutrients. Therefore, we hypothesised that the capacity to access exogenous nutrients may confer advantages to larval survival, settlement and post-settlement success. The present study aimed to quantify the effect of larval feeding on coral larvae settlement and early post-settlement survival. We completed an ex-situ experiment using aposymbiotic larvae of two broadcast spawning reef-building coral species - Acropora tenuis and Acropora millepora. Larvae were randomly assigned to either fed or unfed treatment groups for each species. Fed larvae received homogenised Artemia once a day, for three days. Results show that for both species, feeding significantly increased larval settlement. Feeding A. millepora larvae more than doubled mean settlement (13.0 ± 1.17 SE vs 31.4 ± 2.88 SE; p &amp;lt;0.001). Similarly, feeding A. tenuis larvae increased mean settlement from 18.2 ( ± 1.85 SE) to 29.9 ( ± 2.22 SE; p &amp;lt;0.001). Larval feeding had an immediate positive effect on spat survival, such that A. millepora and A. tenuis spat from fed treatments had increased survival three days post-settlement (89.5% ± 3.75 SE vs 70.6% ± 2.59 SE, p &amp;lt;0.001; 88.8% ± 2.21 SE vs 71.4% ± 3.80 SE, p &amp;lt;0.001, respectively). Therefore, enhancing settlement and early post-settlement survival by feeding larvae homogenised Artemia has the potential to improve the effectiveness of larval rearing protocols and coral restoration efforts.

Cultural Hybridity, Discordant Relationships, and Critical Perspectives

Cultural Hybridity, Discordant Relationships, and Critical Perspectives

Postdramatic and Multimedia Dépaysement : Myth and Migration on Stage and Screen in Christiane Jatahy’s Ithaque: Notre Odyssée 1

Christiane Jatahy’s 2018 multimedia theatrical production Ithaque: Notre Odyssée 1 captures contemporary narratives of migration through a retelling of Homer’s Odyssey. To create this multilayered production, Jatahy interviewed refugees and worked closely with French and Brazilian actors to represent a variety of voices involved in the international migration crisis. Jatahy also captures the complexity of displacement through cameras that the actors use to film live video on stage. Drawing on Hans-Thies Lehmann’s concept of postdramatic theatre and Pasi Väliaho’s analysis of biopolitical screens, this article argues that the interplay between these filmed images and Jatahy’s unique staging choices reveals the contradictory nature of migration and displacement. By examining the double meaning of the term dépaysement, this article explores the opposing yet surprisingly harmonious relationship between multimedia technologies and classical drama that allows Jatahy to represent the various connections and disconnections migrants across the globe experience every day.