Kinds Of Mediators Research Articles

Theoretical Dimension of Modern Designers’ Conceptual Forms of Creativity

The aim of the article is to identify key characteristics of artistic and design practices interaction; to define directions of conceptual design development based on the results of analysing scientific and theoretical foundations of conceptualism as a special form of the artists’ creativity in the 20th century. Results. It is demonstrated that the focus of modern designers on conceptual forms of creativity is explained by the fact that they contribute to forming unique authors’ projects of aesthetic and value content, innovative searches in the context of cultural and civilisational shifts. A conceptual costume of the beginning of the 21st century is a kind of mediator between art practices of conceptual art and design practices in the sphere of project culture, synthesising social and psychological aspects of fashion, social and symbolic functions of clothing. A conceptual design narrativises philosophical, artistic and technological aspects of design, enriching design products with an expressive metaphoricity. It is revealed that in modern art history a clear definition of the term system of the conceptual direction in design has not been formed till now. The research of this complex phenomenon, synthesised by fashion and artistic clothing design, requires a complex interdisciplinary approach. The conceptual costume is studied as an art-design object from the standpoint of global and local tendencies in the society development, which declare certain worldview values in the form of a visual metaphor. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the theoretical understanding of the conceptual costume grounds on the interaction of design with culture and art as a special space of its direct functioning, which makes it possible to form project conceptualism as a special methodology. Conclusions. The authors’ concepts in the costume are extrapolated in different ways: as visual quotations or metaphors; as a transformation of the art object idea into the form of the costume. Actually, they need in-depth and detailed studying.

Italian «erudite comedy» in the sociocultural and linguistic context of the 16th century

The Italian «erudite comedy» was an important stage in the development of the Western European theater, a kind of mediator between ancient dramaturgy and the dramaturgy of the New Age, and although its artistic merits are ambiguously assessed, its appearance and flourishing in the era of the formation of the literary Italian language give to the modern researcher a happy opportunity to get acquainted with different registers of the Italian language during this period. Thus, the subject of this article is the development and the peculiarities of the genre of «erudite comedy» in the Central regions, in the North and in the South of Italy in the XVI century. The purpose is to identify the main trends of its formation. The main research methods are the comparative method, the method of linguistic and cultural interpretation and sociolinguistic methods. Earlier comedies often became subject of literary analysis, but were not used as a source useful for sociolinguistic research. The results of the work consist in generalizing existing and obtaining new information about the development of «erudite comedy» in different regions of Italy and can be applied in further sociolinguistic research because to present the linguistic situation of the XVI century in its entirety it is necessary to take into account both its participants and data about them – territorial features, regional characteristics, level of education.

Emotive Pragmatics of Popularisation Discourse: The Impact of Contextualisation on Reader’s Interest

The paper adheres to the pragmatic approach to emotion processes and focuses on emotion-evocative communication. Its goal is to investigate the impact of contextualisation techniques, which employed by popularisation discourse to induce readers' interest. The research is carried out in two ways, discourse-pragmatic and experimental. First, by adopting the sociopragmatic view of emotions and using methods of discourse analysis, the paper fleshes out a model of emotion-evocative communication, outlines contextualisation techniques, and introduces text materials. Second, by representing the experimental study, the paper assesses the interest-evoking effect of contextualisation. The experimental study involved 400 undergraduate students. We employed the scaling method (7-point bipolar scales) to measure participants' attitude to generalised and contextualised text passages. The data analysis applied the Wilcoxon test, the Kolmogorov – Smirnov test, Spearman's correlation coefficient, the linear regression, and the explanatory factor analysis. The comparing tests reveal that contextualisation promotes reader's interest in the popularisation text. The findings suggest that contextualisation techniques make the text content more relevant to the reader. Personal relevance – as a kind of mediator – causes interest responses. Beyond that, it was found that that reader's expectations about text strategies to presents knowledge construct interest-evocative communication. The findings demonstrate how communicative variables combine into the model of emotion-evocative communication.

:Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities

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Онімний простір українських компаративних паремій (на матеріалі збірки Матвія Номиса “Українські приказки, прислів’я і таке інше”)

Background. In today’s dynamic world, Ukrainians, like other peoples, are trying to preserve their national identity. Studying the peculiarities of the linguistic world of our ancestors becomes a primary task in modern linguistics, because language is a kind of mediator that ensures continuous communication between different generations. For many of us, it is important to feel the persistence of language and cultural traditions. The paremic subsystem of the Ukrainian language is the most interesting and the most eloquent. The study of paremias not only makes it possible to delve into the depths of the ages and trace the purely lexical or grammatical features of the language at a certain synchronous section, but also to try to reproduce important fragments of the linguistic picture of the world of our ancestors, which will help to understand their way of thinking. The purpose of this study is to find out the peculiarities of the organization of the onymic space of comparative paremias, attested in the collection of M. Nomys “Ukrainian proverbs, sayings, and the like” (1864), to determine the role of precedent onyms, which are important components of comparative proverbs and sayings, in the linguistic picture of the world of Ukrainians of the 19th century. Methods. The comparative and qualitative methods were applied. Results. During the study, the structure of the onymic space was characterized, its components – onymic fields (anthroponymic, toponymic, as well as ethnonymic) were distinguished and analyzed. It was found that the anthroponymic field is quite informative and bright, which most often includes units with such anthroponyms and their derivatives: Настя, Сидір, Хведько, Семен, etc. In addition, comparative paremias with precedent onyms (Гоне, як вітрів батько; Побілів, як Пилат) are considered and characterized. The onymic components of these units have a wide cultural and historical context, and are also powerful linguistic and ethnocultural codes of the Ukrainian people. The field of toponyms is valuable for the study of socio-historical realities. Proverbs and sayings often include the following toponyms and their derivatives: Очаків, Переяслав, Поділля, Полісся, etc. It is not surprising that the ethnonymic field is the largest. The collection of M. Nomys contains proverbs and sayings, which include the following ethnonyms: жид, циган, москаль, русин, швед, татарин, etc. The conducted study of the onymic space of Ukrainian comparative paremias made it possible to characterize the system of views and value orientations of our ancestors, to reconstruct the fragments of the linguistic and conceptual pictures of the world of Ukrainians of the 19th century, which are partly lost today.

Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: mediating presence and distance

ABSTRACT This introduction opens a collection of seven articles which investigate how religious communities negotiate demands for physical distance induced by governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in accord with their religious and spiritual aspirations to establish presence and togetherness. Grounded in ethnography and media analysis, our contributors offer studies on Pentecostal healing, Mormon eschatology, Hindu diasporic rituals, Chinese spirit mediums, the virtual Burning Man festival, Sufi sonic meditations, and televised Shia Muslim mourning. These studies collectively demonstrate that in pandemic rituals (1) Media are reflexive and enchanted; (2) The religious sensorium is sticky and lingers in embodied and mnemonic ways even under new circumstances of mediation; (3) Space and time emerge as modular, transposable, condensed, yet expanding. Ritual innovations can provoke new kinds of mediations, sensory engagements, and temporal-spatial arrangements, while revealing continuities with pre-pandemic cosmologies, theologies, liturgies, and social hierarchies, and relying on memories of previous ritual sensory experiences.

THE BASIC APPROACHES TOWARDS MEDIA-MANAGEMENT STUDIES IN SCIENCE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES

The publication is devoted to the current trend in modern science – media management, which can be understood in two ways - as media management "from the inside" (at the level of the first head or the governing body of the media itself), as well as a set of measures to manage and regulate the media sphere by the state. Using qualitative scientific methods (desk research, deduction and induction, comparative analysis, classification), the author of this article prepared an overview of the foreign scientific and theoretical base on media management, an attempt was made to categorize the main existing approaches to studying this issue in the science of various non-CIS countries. Based on the study, the author comes to the conclusion that an integrative, interdisciplinary approach is needed to study media management. The article highlights a number of aspects that will be relevant when studying the Kazakh experience in the field of media management in general and state media management in particular. Such aspects include, for example, the specifics of state media policy, regulatory legal regulation of the media sphere, issues of state supervision in the field of the media, spin-doctorate as a kind of mediation between the state and the press, issues of leadership in the media sector and training for media management.

Обиходные вещи в культовых практиках среднедонского оседлого населения скифской эпохи

The article systematizes information about utilitarian objects found on settlements in such an archaeological context, which indicates the transformation of their semiotic status. They come from buildings and pits related to cult and ritual activities, collective burials on the territory of the hillforts, which were special funerary and sacrificial complexes, as well as from burial grounds, which were cemeteries of the settled population of the Don forest-steppe. The author considers war and hunting accessories (arrows, spears, harpoons), household and everyday life utensils (tools, ceramic wares), which acquired a semiotic function in these objects. Their semantics is unclear. But it can be assumed that the sharp tips of weapons and tools placed on the remains of people or in ritual pits served as apotropai or mediators, linking the sacred and profane spheres of life. Ceramic vessels, whole or broken, formed an important part of sacrificial offerings. Often they were found in ritual bonfires. The upper part of the jar in one of the children’s graves, apparently, also acted as a kind of mediator between the earthly world and the otherworld.

Философия и когнитивная наука: варианты диалога

This paper is about the question of the possibility, prospects and forms of dia­logue between philosophy and cognitive science, raised in a recent publication by V.A. Lektorsky. Several variants of their dialogue are discussed. Thus, philo­sophy can claim to be a kind of mediator in the interaction of the disciplines that make up cognitive science. It can also act as an interpreter of the experimental results obtained in these disciplines. Another variant of the dialogue involves the promotion of philosophers to the vanguard of experimental research, where they can point and illuminate the way for cognitive scientists. A full-fledged dialogue implies equality of the parties, and the article argues that such equality in the dia­logue between philosophy and cognitive science is possible only if cognitive sci­ence and philosophy can obtain meaningful results independently of each other. Therefore, the key to the success of the dialogue between philosophy and cogni­tive science lies, paradoxically, in the success of armchair philosophy, indepen­dent from experimental research. Author shows also under which conditions an armchair philosophy could overcome the current obstacles and make a success.

Anne Applebaum’s Strategy of Telling the History of International Relations in Central and Eastern Europe

The text aims to present the strategy used by Anne Applebaum to bring the history of Central and Eastern Europe closer to western audiences. In the article, the author was presented as a journalist and public intellectual who developed an original way of speaking and writing about the past of Central and Eastern Europe. She has been portrayed as a kind of mediator who attempts to explain the essence and sources of the diverse identities and narratives that have formed among the nations and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe. Selected assessments of her activity, formulated by historians as well as public opinion leaders, were also presented.

From the Editor

Welcome to the final edition of Afterimage for 2021 (Volume 48, no. 4).In this issue’s peer-reviewed section are examinations of two very different projects connected by their attention to space(s) and the position of the human body within it. First, Curt Lund looks at the work of twentieth-century photographer Alexey Brodovitch, who was best known for his decades-long tenure as art director of Harper’s Bazaar. Lund’s re-reading of Brodovitch’s 1945 photobook Ballet newly ties Brodovitch’s own artmaking to his “unorthodox” teaching philosophies and “groundbreaking” classroom practices. Through archival resources, the nature of Brodovitch’s experimental, even revolutionary teaching is brought to light. In our second article, Alena Kavka explores the displacement of Anthropocentrism in the unconventional architectural arrangements of Gregor Schneider’s Haus u r. Schneider’s ongoing domestic installation space in which he deconstructs and reconstructs the interiors of his family home in Germany, “defies easy categorization as an artwork.” Kavka argues that the project “offers an alternative to spatial anthropocentrism through the production of ‘antihuman’ rooms, which ultimately confer agency onto the space itself, forming a kind of body in which the viewer is made into the object of its senses” with Schneider moving “between these nodal sites as a kind of mediator.”In our reviews section we have a diverse selection of project, exhibition, and book coverage. To begin, Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann dig deep into the myriad layers of SwampScapes, a multi-platformed cocreation by Elizabeth Miller, Kim Grinfeder, and Juan Carlos Zaldivar. Covering a “mosaic of multiple issues, politics, and environments in South Florida,” SwampScapes, as Hudson and Zimmermann write, uses “technological interfaces to reconnect people to the swamp environment and to environmental epistemologies [as] an act of restoration, moving away from drainage and development into embodied and immersive engagements with natural environments that continue to exist in proximity to human-built environments.” Alisia Grace Chase explores the late Niki de Saint Phalle’s recent exhibition Structures for Life at MoMA PS1, finding the display confining for the size and scope of the works, noting that the artist’s “oeuvre is predicated on its scale and overall relation to site.” Regardless of some curatorial decisions, Chase concludes, “Saint Phalle’s life and this show prove…she was definitely capable of transforming it into art.”Alexander L. Fattal provides rich context for Verde, photojournalist Federico Rios Escobar’s book of photographs of the insurgents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). In this collection, published by Raya Editorial, an independent publisher of artisanal photobooks based in Manizales, Colombia, Rios Escobar, Fattal writes, shows his “expert eye,” “evinces a strong social concern,” and “transmits a sociological sensibility.” In her review of the abundantly illustrated A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia, Jocelyn Jurich shares how author Marko Ilić reveals “the ways in which the New Art Practice emerged from and critically responded to the period when Yugoslavia became increasingly enmeshed in Western capitalism and how the economic inequalities among the republics…affected artists and artistic practices.”* * *Along with scholarly submissions intended for peer review, we welcome reports on events and happenings (taking place both in person and online); essays; photo essays; interviews with artists, curators, writers, and theorists; and exhibition, book, film, video, and project reviews. We also encourage proposals of dossiers and guest-edited issues.As we head into a second pandemic winter, we at Afterimage wish you and yours a safe and healthy season. We will see you again in 2022.

For Structural-Semantic Perception of Georgian Short Prose Titles

We consider the analysis of the linguistic aspects of titles as one of the important components of the study of Georgian short prose, as it is an integral part of the text and a kind of mediator with the reader. That is why the difficult task facing writers i.e. the meaning of a title which represents a phrase consisting of one or more words - is special. A poorly thought-out title can diminish the meaning of the text, or, if it effectively exceeds the content of the text, disappoint the reader. The title is also seen not only as an indicator of the author's style, but also as an expression of the artistic-cultural thinking in which it was created. In this paper, we discuss the main features of the structure and semantics of the titles of small prose samples.Most of the titles in Georgian short prose samples representone full word; there are relatively few samles of two, three, four and more-member cases. Expressionism and gradation are mainly served by lexical repetition, synonymy and antonymy. In the paper we draw the main conclusions based on the qualitative, quantitative, analysis and synthesis methods of research.

Linking political brand image and voter perception in India: A political market orientation approach

Political parties in order to design their competitive strategies are always keen to understand the factors that govern voter's perception. Voter's perception in this paper utilizes voter's acknowledgement of voter orientation (VO) of political parties. The purpose of this paper is to examine the constituent variables and their cumulative impact on voter's orientation and examine the linkage that exists between them. The authors have proposed four key constructs that demonstrates causality namely voter involvement (VI), voter subjective knowledge (VSK), political brand image (PBI) and environmental factor (EF). The study has used SEM method of model estimation. VI and VSK merged into a new construct labelled as voter engagement (VE). Engaged voter would impact PBI positively and political brand impacts VO. The relationship of VE and VO is mediated PBI, but the same kind of mediation is not witnessed in the case of EF. This research advances the understanding of composite variables of VO from the vantage of political market orientation. Political brand mediates the association between VE and voter perception.

Влияние рассказов о самопроизвольном обновлении икон на формирование и распространение нарративов о чудесах в народной традиции белорусов в XX – начале XXI в.

The purpose of the study is to trace the influence of stories about the spontaneous renewal of icons found in the folk tradition of Belarusians in the XX-early XXI centuries on the formation and dissemination of narratives about miracles. The publication examines the views of various authors on the place of the concept of miracle in Belarusian folk culture and its evolution under the influence of various contextual factors, attempts to typologize stories about the spontaneous renewal of icons and search for their place in the most common structures of stories about miracles. The article also shows the attitude of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches to the renewal of icons in the territories where stories about them were most common. The scientific novelty lies in the study of the selected material, as well as the results of interviews with informants from the expeditions undertaken by the author, which are necessary for the analysis. As a result, it was found that the stories about the renewal of icons became a kind of mediator between the" book " miracles and the miracles of the new time.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING OF THE INTERPRETERS UNDER THE EFFECTIVE INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of professional training of interpreters in the framework of intercultural communication. The authors substantiate the expediency of training translation specialists to take into account the correct interpretation not only of specific words and phrases, but also the content of each sentence in the context of the general meaning of the material in the future. The work emphasizes the need to pay attention to the specifics of translation, where there is a difference in the semantic meaning of different cultural terms, and a professionally trained translator in most cases must interpret what is said in another language, avoiding glaring errors, inaccuracies and interpretations in the opposite sense. The authors claim that when considering translation, it becomes important to understand that communication is a kind of interaction between individuals, in which subjects communicating with each other act as subjects of culture, representatives of a certain linguo-socio-cultural community, and translation, being a kind of mediation, is not only a means of interlingual, but also intercultural communication.

Mechanism of Interinstitutional Cooperation in the Framework of the Ordinary Legislative Procedure According to the EU Law

The article is devoted to the issue of the interaction of key institutions in the European Union in the process of adopting acts within the framework of the usual legislative procedure. The authors provide the analysis of the process of the ordinary legislative procedure on the basis of the norms of the primary and secondary law of the EU, as well as the decision making practice of the Parliament and the Council of the EU. It has been revealed that throughout the legislative procedure there is an active interaction of the Parliament, the Council and the EU Commission in order to develop and adopt the compromise text of an act. This interaction is most active in the form of informal trilateral consultations, the mechanism of which is not formally enshrined in the EU Constituent Treaties. A significant role in their implementation is assigned to the Commission, which in general, throughout the ordinary legislative procedure, acts as a kind of mediator in the interaction of the Parliament with the Council. In most cases the mechanism of tripartite consultations allows the adoption of a legislative act already in the first reading without the second and third readings. At the same time, the established practice of interinstitutional interaction within the framework of the usual legislative procedure increases the duration of consideration and adoption of draft acts.

Common and distinctive features of judicial and extrajudicial mediation in disputes concerning appeals against decisions, actions or omissions of subjects of power

The article examines the place of disputes over appeals against decisions, actions or omissions of the subjects of power in modern conditions. Some scientific views on the classification of types and kinds of mediation as a legal institution are analyzed. Existing models of mediation are identified. It is stated that in the Ukrainian legal system there are two possible models of mediation: judicial and extrajudicial. The own concept of «judicial mediation» is formulated. It is argued that judicial mediation is provided by administrative procedural law in the form of dispute resolution with the participation of a judge. The content of out-of-court mediation and its significance in administrative disputes are revealed. Features and signs of judicial and extrajudicial mediation are described. It is stated that judicial mediation is rarely used in administrative proceedings, and there are no mechanisms for the use of out-of-court mediation. The essence of judicial and extrajudicial within the framework of resolving disputes concerning appeals against decisions, actions or omissions of subjects of power has been studied. Modern scientific approaches to the ratio of components of judicial, extrajudicial mediation and litigation are generalized. It is proved that in science there is no single approach to the characteristics of extrajudicial and judicial mediation. For the first time, the author provides a comparative description of the main elements of judicial and extrajudicial mediation in disputes concerning the appeal of decisions, actions or omissions of the subjects of power. The role of judicial and extrajudicial mediation as legal institutions is defined. The possibility of using judicial and extrajudicial mediation in disputes concerning appeals against decisions, actions or omissions of subjects of power has been established. The basic principles of judicial and extrajudicial mediation are formulated. The status of a mediator in judicial and extrajudicial mediation is revealed. The functions of the mediator are highlighted. The duration of judicial and out-of-court mediation procedures is stipulated. The cost of judicial and extrajudicial mediation procedures is substantiated. The essence and content of the result of judicial and extrajudicial mediation procedures are determined. It is proved that judicial and extrajudicial mediation in disputes with public authorities and their officials have their advantages and disadvantages. In particular, it was found that, compared to judicial, out-of-court mediation in disputes over appeals against decisions, actions or omissions of subjects of power is a more effective conciliation procedure, but there are questions about the level of professionalism and education of the mediator. Ways are provided to improve the implementation of judicial and extrajudicial mediation in resolving disputes concerning appeals against decisions, actions or omissions of the subjects of power.

Media, Mediation, and Milton's Eve

ABSTRACT In Milton's Paradise Lost, creation is mediated from the beginning. The Fall of humanity changes some modes and degrees of mediation, but the epic suggests that considering differences among kinds of mediation is more fruitful than seeking to avoid it. Paradise Lost offers a useful context for our own debates about incessant digital distractions by exploring the affordances and challenges of different kinds of mediation, by positing links between femininity and mediation, and by considering how mediation affects attention.

Structural analysis of consequences of corruption in the environmental sector in modern society

This article shows the dialectic influence of phenomenon of corruption on the social reality of modern society. The main approaches to assessing the consequences of corruption processes are considered. Through the prism of these approaches, a structural analysis of consequences of corruption in economic, political, social and spiritual spheres of society is carried out. Based on the philosophical principle of reflection, factors of social danger of corruption are identified, main manifestations of corruption affecting the formation of the image of social reality are described. The article provides a critical analysis of the revisionist approach. Its supporters believe that corruption can be viewed as a natural phenomenon that manifests itself in the transitional periods of development of society, with a change in the norms of its functioning and the lack of consensus, as well as a kind of mediator that unites the emerging privileged and excluded strata a changing society. The main function of corruption within this approach is to preserve the unity and maintain the integrity of socio-economic system in certain conditions, after which corruption should disappear. The laws of dialectics are manifested in this area of human interactions. Therefore, we can talk about the socially constructive function of studied social phenomenon. It is shown that the ratio of constructive and destructive consequences of corruption manifestations in various social systems and at different stages of their historical development varies.

The Role of Pedagogical Translation on The Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence in Language Teaching

Methods of language teaching have neglected the role of pedagogical translation throughout the twentieth century in order to prevent the use of the L1 in the classroom. With the elaboration of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in 2001, there has been a radical shift from an interactional language learning perspective at a bilingual environment to an intercultural perspective at a multilingual level with the recent theories of sociocultural learning and the emergence of intercultural competence. This study intends to redraw the theoretical background of translation in language learning after the traditional grammar-translation method and to deconstruct the neglected role of translation in the emerging methods during the second half of the twentieth century up to communicative and action-oriented approaches. The study aims at reinitiating the translation-based learning in coherence with the action-oriented approach, which is based upon the appropriation of an Intercultural Communicative Competence in language teaching. It was a qualitative phenomenographic research and the researcher examined data collected from ten experts and three main categories had been determined. The main theme was the impact of translation on intercultural communicative competence, which was divided into three categories (role, impact, and awareness via translation) It has been concluded that the translation is a way to surpass cultural boundaries in language teaching and the role of translating is a kind of mediation. Translation is not only an activity of transcoding, but also a complex procedure in which interfere language, culture, but also the inter-subjective pragmatic relations between individuals and the society.