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Not just a hijack: Imaginary worlds can enhance individual and group-level fitness.

Why has fiction been so successful over time? We make the case that fiction may have properties that enhance both individual and group-level fitness by (a) allowing risk-free simulation of important scenarios, (b) effectively transmitting solutions to common problems, and (c) enhancing group cohesion through shared consumption of fictive worlds.

The development of the imagination and imaginary worlds.

Evidence from developmental psychology on children's imagination is currently too limited to support Dubourg and Baumard's proposal and, in several respects, it is inconsistent with their proposal. Although children have impressive imaginative powers, we highlight the complexity of the developmental trajectory as well as the close connections between children's imagination and reality.

ROLE OF INTERDISCOURSE RELATIONS IN CREATING EMOTIVENESS IN TERRY PRATCHETT’S FANTASY NOVELS

This article analyzes the role of interdiscourse relations in the formation of emotive component of the novels of fantasy series “Discworld” by Terry Pratchett. Interdiscoursivity is regarded as the interaction of one-level and multilevel components of a discourse within the imaginative discourse of fantasy novels. Interdiscource relations presuppose the interaction of the elements that are integral parts of the discourse, namely, the subjects of discourse, communicative situations, facts relating to a certain type of discourse, nonverbal components. It has been revealed that such relations are implemented as the incorporation of different language verbal and non-verbal means that are of great cultural significance, and that include precedent texts (55.5 %), precedent names (4,2 %), precedent situations (12,1 %), and precedent phenomena (28,2 %). The article also deals with the references of interdiscourse means, as well as their meaning in triggering emotions of a recipient: the contribution to the realization of the fantasy world reality is supported by the introduction of the references to natural and scientific phenomena, the borrowing of folklore realia, appealing to every-day situations, as well as by using allusions to famous pieces of arts. Precedent situations that are characteristic features of earthly world, are incorporated into the fantasy Discworld with the help of reminiscence and architextual relations, whereas precedent names are used to intensify the identity of the imaginative world and the reality. Our work emphasizes that apart from the enhancement of emotional connection between real and fantasy world and the formation of the sense component of the text, interdiscourse relations assist in creating emotional strength, which is required by the author, thus, implementing pragmatic function of the author’s self-expression and the emotional influence on a recipient. The mechanism of the transition of emotions is interdiscoursivity as dialogic relations that have gnoseological, communicative and linguistic aspects of expression. Interdiscourse relations contributing to emotional readiness of a recipient to create a fantasy world in his/ her own mind basing on the author’s ideas, identify the imaginative world with the reality with the help of precedent phenomena, precedent situations, and precedent names.

THE PERСEPTION OF THE SPANISH NATURE IN THE NOVEL “FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS” BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY

This article analyzes the role of interdiscourse relations in the formation of emotive component of the novels of fantasy series “Discworld” by Terry Pratchett. Interdiscoursivity is regarded as the interaction of one-level and multilevel components of a discourse within the imaginative discourse of fantasy novels. Interdiscource relations presuppose the interaction of the elements that are integral parts of the discourse, namely, the subjects of discourse, communicative situations, facts relating to a certain type of discourse, nonverbal components. It has been revealed that such relations are implemented as the incorporation of different language verbal and non-verbal means that are of great cultural significance, and that include precedent texts (55.5 %), precedent names (4,2 %), precedent situations (12,1 %), and precedent phenomena (28,2 %). The article also deals with the references of interdiscourse means, as well as their meaning in triggering emotions of a recipient: the contribution to the realization of the fantasy world reality is supported by the introduction of the references to natural and scientific phenomena, the borrowing of folklore realia, appealing to every-day situations, as well as by using allusions to famous pieces of arts. Precedent situations that are characteristic features of earthly world, are incorporated into the fantasy Discworld with the help of reminiscence and architextual relations, whereas precedent names are used to intensify the identity of the imaginative world and the reality. Our work emphasizes that apart from the enhancement of emotional connection between real and fantasy world and the formation of the sense component of the text, interdiscourse relations assist in creating emotional strength, which is required by the author, thus, implementing pragmatic function of the author’s self-expression and the emotional influence on a recipient. The mechanism of the transition of emotions is interdiscoursivity as dialogic relations that have gnoseological, communicative and linguistic aspects of expression. Interdiscourse relations contributing to emotional readiness of a recipient to create a fantasy world in his/ her own mind basing on the author’s ideas, identify the imaginative world with the reality with the help of precedent phenomena, precedent situations, and precedent names.

Perspectivas brasileiras sobre transferência de políticas e cooperação Sul-Sul

Abstract This paper introduces the dossier entitled ‘Policy Transfer and South-South Cooperation’. Very often development cooperation programmes, particularly those labelled as part of South-South cooperation (SSC), use policy transfer as one of their key implementation tools. However, irrespective of cross-cutting dimensions and shared commonalities, both fields of practices have generated research traditions that have followed specific disciplinary (and sometimes interdisciplinary) trajectories which have seldom met. Policy transfer promoted by national and international, state and non-state agents of the Global South via development cooperation raises several questions that remain unexplored and overlooked by the scholarly literature. This dossier intends to promote a dialogue between these two fields, thus analysing how policy transfer through SSC may create new power relations, identities, world visions and practices. This introductory article presents a theoretical cartography and offers in the first section a brief literature review of both fields of research; in the second section it presents the historical background of SSC and Brazil’s changing roles in it; the third section outlines possible conversations between policy transfer and SSC; finally, in the concluding remarks we bring a few reflections about future research agendas.

Symmetry in Literature, the Perspective of a Mathematician

Mathematics and poetry are emanations of the human intellect to be valued in it and for itself. As the mathematician Hardy says, a mathematician, like a poet, is a maker of patterns. Their patterns should be beautiful, and symmetry is a source of beauty. The subjects here focused aim to emphasise interesting relationships between pattern makers from different areas of creativity, like poetry and mathematics. We live in a universe of patterns, where symmetry plays a central role. Symmetry is not only beauty to be admired, but it is also a useful instrument to discover the clues and rules of natural phenomena. In human creations, like science, arts and literature, symmetry may be easily recognized or not, so it deserves our special attention. This paper has two main goals: first, the public understanding of the wonderful world of fertile imagination of mathemati- cians and poets, second, the importance of symmetry in a deeper vision of life and of the universe.

Ideas about real and digital worlds as part of the current worldview of adolescents and parents in a digital society: Possibilities for adaptation

The introduction of digital devices into all spheres of life has led to a significant restructuring of our everyday life and the world of the modern person. The real world is increasingly and actively extended by the digital environment, forming a historically unique life in a mixed online and offline reality. Psychology still lacks analyses of the worldview of adolescents most actively socialized in real and virtual spaces and comparisons with perceptions of elder generations that would contribute to understanding the choice of behavioral strategies of different generations and their adaptation to digital transformations. This study compares representations of real and virtual spaces as components of the world picture in adolescents and parents with different levels of user activity, digital competence, and value orientations. The sample was comprised of 282 adolescents aged 14–17 and 337 parents of adolescents of the same age. Adolescents’ pictures of the real and virtual worlds converge, while parents keep these worlds apart in their general system of perceptions. Adolescents and parents have different visions of the virtual world, while they are in common perceptions of the real world. The more time both adolescents and parents spend online, the more positive they perceive the virtual world, which is also characteristic of parents with a high level of digital competence. Adolescents with various value orientations differ in their perceptions of the real world only, while parents differ in their perceptions of both the real world and the virtual world. Thus, compared to the parents’ generation, adolescents, in addition to a generally positive picture of the world and high importance of the real world, also had more positive views of the virtual space and actively adapted to a mixed reality, which could act as a good psychological resource for adapting to major changes and shocks in the pandemic and the transition to distance learning.

ŽIVOT I MOĆ: LIK ARNOLDA KRAUSHARA U ROMANU TUCANjE KAMENA KLEMENSA MAJERA

The research conducted in this paper presents a possible understanding of Clemens Mey- er’s novel Bricks and Mortar. The analysis of existential, psychological, symbolic, and narrative aspects in which one of the main characters of the novel manifests himself, indicates the exist- ence of two opposing meaningful planes of the novelistic world and human nature in general: man’s alienation in modern society and his constant search for emotional closeness. The mul- titude of characters from the world of prostitution, those tragic heroes and heroines of our world, whose life stories are connected in the misfortune they bear and who are at the same time independent of each other, have a common need for individualism, authenticity, and hap- piness. Determined and imprisoned by the social and sociocultural frameworks in which they find themselves in a never-ending struggle for welfare, the characters in the novel Bricks and Mortar get an (almost hidden) chance to try to find themselves again in human values, such as faith in life, love, and human beings. The aim of the paper is to show the fateful search for the values of essential self-realization through the figure of Arnold Kraushaar, who opens himself to the unusual power of love but also to the power of destroying love. It seems, therefore, that Meyer’s novel represents an apocalyptic vision of the modern world, which examines both what a person wants and what a person does in relation to what the person can do.

Semiotics and Poetics of the Road in Ferdinand Oyono's <i>Old Negro and the Medal</i>

In the novel, even if it is not turned primarily towards the road as in the road novels, the road is a real space-binding whose evocation triggers the immediate perception of the other literary categories such as time, character and narration. The road is also said to be a chronotope, that is to say a literary category of form and content whose study requires the mastery of the interactional functioning of "time-space" and of the other literary categories that contribute to its semantization. But, before any poetic consideration, the road is a linguistic sign whose sociological significance as a system of communication is revealed by semiology and semiotics. As for the novelistic fiction, it reveals this linguistic sign as a complex of presuppositions which is never neutral because, like any space, the road can be connoted positively or negatively and thus determine the movement or the actions of the actants and the circulation of the objects in a given fictional universe. In Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Negro and the Medal, an anti-colonial African novel, the semiotic and poetic analysis of the chronotope "road" begins with an interrogation of its structure and functioning. The road is above all that which, vertically, connects the indigenous neighborhoods and the European neighborhood, but it also designates all those tracks, paths and alleys which, horizontally, connect the indigenous spaces to each other. From the point of view of the functioning of the road, it symbolizes the antagonistic relationships between the African and Western worlds, between the colonized and the colonists. It is euphoric when it leads the old Negro to the commander's house in a friendly manner and very dysphoric when it powerlessly witnesses the drama of the former. As a connecting space, the road counts in the relationship of domination of the natives by the settlers. From an aesthetic point of view, the road is a category of the narrative treated with manner and style in The Old Negro and the Medal. It is evoked not only in a tight and digestible way, that is, in a brachylogical way, but also treated stylistically by the writer in order to increase the level of affectivity in the readers. The writing of the road, thus, creates a literary form in Ferdinand Oyono's novel that can be interpreted as the expression of the social dialectic or even the Manichean vision of the colonial world.

Ciało post / nie / ludzkie w Opowiadaniach bizarnych Olgi Tokarczuk

The article analyzes the descriptive categories of the post/non/human body in selected short stories by Olga Tokarczuk from the volume Opowiadania bizarne [Bizarre Stories]. The most important basis for this reading was the understanding of the body and its ontological perspectives proposed by Ewa Domańska and Monika Bakke. Particular attention was paid to the themes of genetic experiments and cyborgization (Wizyta [The Visit]), ethical and religious aspects (Góra Wszystkich Świętych [All Saints’ Mountain]), and Tokarczuk’s post-secular vision of a post-apocalyptic world (Kalendarz ludzkich świąt [The Calendar of Human Holidays]).

Různé tváře podvojnosti: O hledání a definování rozdílností a plurality od tradičního čínského myšlení až po současnost

This essay discusses Petr Drulák’s book titled Podvojný svět [The Dual World]. The book’s main ambition lies in countering what it perceives as homogenising and unifying tendencies rooted in Western monotheism and its religious and secular forms. Hence, one of the primary topics of the book is the question of difference and plurality. One of the sources used by Petr Drulák for thinking about the duality-based (non-monotheist) world is the Book of Changes, one of the key Chinese philosophical classics. In this paper, I consider which politico-philosophical implications the Book of Changes may have and how to read those in relation to Drulák’s work. There can be a wide range of duality-based worlds, which is implied even by the existence of diverse interpretations of ancient Chinese philosophy. I argue that in his vision of the duality-based world, Drulák’s acknowledgement of differences and plurality is limited and entails the stabilisation of differences into predefined or expectable categories and boundaries.

IMAGE FUNCTIONS OF REPRESENTATIONS OF TIME AND SPACE IN THE MUSIC-CREATIVE PROCESS

The purpose of the research is to develop the concept of image temporal representation in music as concrete-compositional and conditionally alienated, to reveal the prerequisites for the actualization and symbolic expression of the temporal nature of music, and to define the main figurative connections - temporal vectors of musical time. The methodology of the work is determined by a combination of philosophical-aesthetic and textological musicological approaches, with an emphasis on the typological aspect of semantic characteristics. A certain psychological perspective of musicological concepts that relate to the process of musical influence and perception is revealed. The scientific novelty of this article is due to the discovery of temporal vectors of the musical text in a specific composition and in music as a whole as an intertextual sphere; it is proved that it is expedient to single out three main types of figurative connections (modalities) that objectify musical movement in time or time that becomes artistic in musical movement. The meaning of the sound image or «auditory intent» in music is revealed as a formative factor that has immanent, psychological, and compositional features, that is, from two sides - human and musical. The conclusions reveal that there is something in musical understanding that is equally essential for all times, that is, it is above the historical specifics and belongs to the imaginary autonomous world of music, its own artistic reality, which exists outside the laws of physical time. At the same time, it is the directly performed musical movement in time, the sonorous form of music with its spatial indicators, that objectifies the main time vectors - figurative connections that acquire symbolic positions. The value of semantic representation through verbal evaluation as the final stage of understanding in music consists in a more representative conceptual and logical integration of figurative content, which contributes to the development of language and speech resources of musical communication. It is especially convincingly revealed in the era of romanticism, but it is supported even after it – precisely as a discussion of the content and meaning of the temporal and spatial organization of music in its various dimensions, as an attempt to understand the mission of musical language.

Influences on the development of imaginary worlds.

Dubourg and Baumard's paper takes a different, and fruitful, approach to the study of imaginary worlds than what is usually found in Media Studies, but omits certain circumstances and influences that shaped their history; this article argues that psychological or behavioral factors are not enough to explain the growth of imaginary worlds, even as they may be important influences.

The deep history of imaginary worlds.

If recent exploratory traditions tap into evolved psychological dispositions to explore, wouldn't humans be expected to have drawn on such dispositions long before the written word? Trickster oral traditions fill this role in all levels of society, affluence, and on all continents, inverting the boundaries of social worlds and those between humans and animals, fostering cultural innovation.

ABOUT AN IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBILITY: THE INTERSECTION POINTS OF S. P. DIAGHILEV AND E. WARHOL AS AN UNFULFILLED DREAM OF RECOGNIZING ONESELF

The object of the article is an impossible possibility in the form of an imaginary meeting between Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev and Andy Warhol. The methods of research are biographical, intellectual game of imagination and the method of analogies. They helped to combine facts from the biographies of the impresario and the artist, creating an intermediate imaginary world of their possible meeting. Among the traits that can attract the attention of men to each other, loneliness, sexual orientation, the position of an outcast in society, attachment to the mother, passion for PR campaigns and practices of insignificance are noted. The meeting could change the optics of self-perception, harmonize them and promote cooperation.

Socioecology and fiction.

We argue that the generation and enjoyment of imaginary worlds do not necessarily rely on an evolved preference for exploration. Rather, we suggest that culture is shaped by socioecological facts on the ground, and we hypothesize about the role of residential mobility, specifically, as an important factor in the popularity of imagined spaces.

Imagining our moral values in the present and future.

Imaginary worlds allow us to safely develop, crystallize, and criticize our moral values - at times even serving as catalysts for change in the real world. Fans of imaginary worlds sometimes form groups to advocate for social change in the real world, and it is part of Leftist ideology to imagine radically different, possible futures aligned around shared moral values.

The call of the final frontier?

The target article is focused on locating the popularity of imaginary worlds in our adaptations for exploration. This commentary touches on developmental influences, vicarious enjoyment, the challenging of societal mores, plot, and whether men and women are drawn to the same features in the same ways.

N-jettiness in electroweak high-energy processes

We study N-jettiness in electroweak processes at extreme high energies, in which the mass of the weak gauge bosons can be regarded as small. The description of the scattering process such as e−e+ → μ−μ+ + X is similar to QCD. The incoming leptons emit initial-state radiation and the resultant particles, highly off-shell, participate in the hard scattering, which are expressed by the beam functions. After the hard scattering, the final- state leptons or leptonic jets are observed, described by the fragmenting jet functions or the jet functions respectively. At present, electroweak processes are prevailed by the processes induced by the strong interaction, but they will be relevant at future e−e+ colliders at high energy. The main difference between QCD and electroweak processes is that the initial- and final-state particles should appear in the form of hadrons, that is, color singlets in QCD, while there can be weak nonsinglets as well in electroweak interactions. We analyze the factorization theorems for the N-jettiness in e−e+ → μ−μ+ + X, and compute the factorized parts to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. To simplify the comparison with QCD, we only consider the SU(2)W gauge interaction, and the extension to the Standard Model is straightforward. Put it in a different way, it corresponds to an imaginary world in which colored particles can be observed in QCD, and the richer structure of effective theories is probed. Various nonzero nonsinglet matrix elements are interwoven to produce the factorized results, in contrast to QCD in which there are only contributions from the singlets. Another distinct feature is that the rapidity divergence is prevalent in the contributions from weak nonsinglets due to the different group theory factors between the real and virtual corrections. We verify that the rapidity divergence cancels in all the contributions with a different number of nonsinglet channels. We also consider the renormalization group evolution of each factorized part to resum large logarithms, which are distinct from QCD.

Ntonation structure of early opera

Research objective is to consider the ways of development of the intonation structure of the opera of the late XVI – early XVIІ centuries as a set of intonation features sufficient to reflect abstract-contemplative and intense-sensitive, dramatic imagery, static and active stages of the dramatic development of a new theatrical genre. The research methodology is based on a historical and stylistic approach, in addition, the methods of system and intonation analysis are used, the comparative method is useful. Scientific novelty is determined by the inclusion of an understudied period of the development of Italian opera in the national scientific circulation, which, on the one hand, will supplement and correct the existing ideas about this phenomenon in musicological works, and, on the other hand, allow to see and emphasize new aspects of the intonation evolution of the early form of this genre. In addition, we can work on the butts of the singing operas of the XVI century – the beginning of the XVIІ century, to bring out the splendid moments that make the typological drawings of the opera like a genre. Conclusions. Тhe early opera, which in a fairly short period of time from the moment of its birth to the middle of the 17th century, evolved significantly, moved away from general theatrical patterns towards the formation of the logic of immanent-musical development; from the weight of the declamation, which obeyed the smallest shades of the word, to the generalized transfer of the meaning and feelings of the poetic text; from the emotionally colored intonation, which is characteristic of Florentine operas, to the principles of intonation generalization of emotions, which are formed in the work of K. Monteverdi. All of the listed modulation processes, as important for the approval of the key features of the opera genre, were accompanied by a movement towards the expansion of the imaginary world by musical drama. Recitative, as the main attribute that characterized the specifics of early opera, in its further development was pushed to the periphery of the musical side of the performance by more viable operatic forms, but at the same time it remained a significant component of the expression of the stage action. In this process, the logic of the musical and dramaturgical composition was connected with overcoming the fluidity of the recitative style, highlighting aria episodes with a rather high degree of certainty in it, as well as using elements of through development. In addition, it was usually built as a movement from the statics of the original situation (choral episodes) through its violation (recitative) to the consolidation of a new quality (arios and choral episodes).