Symbolic Ideas Research Articles

A Literary and Interpretive analysis of Bihu Songs' Identity

The research paper titled “A literary and interpretive analysis of Bihu Songs' identity” attempts to conduct an artistic analysis of the symbols used in the text of the Bihu song. Symbols are objects, people, situations, or words that signify something else. In literature, symbols represent thoughts or emotions, which is one of the attractions of poetry. The idea of symbol has evolved in human culture over time. Parallelly, the symbols have been reflected in folk tunes. Bihu songs are the most characteristic genre of folk song in Assam, northeast India, both in terms of literary substance and musical mode. Symbols have played a significant role in Bihu Songs. This research gives an analysis of how different sorts of symbols are used in the text of Bihu songs. This paper's major research method is analytical. Data are gathered from library and field surveys.

Idioms and Proverbs With a Plant Component in English Language and Culture

The article is aimed at analyzing the symbolic specificity of the Plant component, being a part of idioms and proverbs, formulating English language and culture ground.The research methodology is complex and is based two groups of methods, which are general scientific methods group, including analysis and synthesis, generalization, and special methods group, including the descriptive method, the method of component analysis, and the quantitative method.The research proves that the symbolic component, being the part of idioms or proverbs, make specific images in a person's mind causing special associations. The Plant component in idioms and proverbs especially in modern English culture is an integral part formulatung special part of lexis in English culture. The author identifies such subgroups of Plant components as part of idioms and proverbs as “tree components”, “tree names components”, “tree parts components”, “tree fruit components” and systematizes their properties from the standpoint of language and culture symbiosis understanding. The research asserts that the qualities typical for Plant components realization are associated with a person and various aspects of his activity.The research work results in two groups of idioms and proverbs with a Plant component classification types revealing main aspects of British culture by means of symbolic ideas: the group “man” describing peculiar features of man’s appearance, character, speech, mental abilities; and the group “specific features of human life”, being subdivided into subgroups “material life” and “immaterial life”, representing the features of tangible and intangible values of English language and culture.

C. I. Lewis's Theory of Ideas: Royce's Problem and Lewis's Solution

Abstract Implicit in C. I. Lewis's conceptual pragmatism is an account of how our ideas undergo a process of social development. Lewis's account of that process resolves a problem with Josiah Royce's theory of ideas. Royce holds that there are both sensuous and symbolic ideas. It is, however, possible for someone to have only a sensuous idea of how middle C sounds and for another person to have only the symbolic idea that middle C is 261.63 Hz. In what sense, if at all, can these two persons have the same idea, namely, the idea of middle C? On Lewis's account, while ideas in individual minds are typically constituted of both sensory correlates and pure concepts, ideas are also social products that individuals inherit through education and language acquisition. For two people to have the same idea is for them both to be heirs to the social development of the idea.

증강현실과 가상현실의 매체 재현전략 연구

This study tried to conceptually summarize the interaction characteristics of augmented and virtual reality media with Perth's symbolic idea and prove its validity through four case analyses. Therefore, the emphasis was on discourse argumentation rather than empirical research by experiment. As a result of the case analysis of this study, augmented reality showed both immedicay and hyper-medicay and virtual reality showed immedicay but not hyper-medicay. To re-analyze this into four interaction characteristics, The immedicay strategy of augmented reality was analyzed as a behavioral medium as an unfinished identity identification, and the hyper-medicay strategy was analyzed as a state medium of behavior as a possibility of thinking. The immedicay strategy of virtual reality was analyzed as the behavioral medium of reclassification, and the hyper-medicay strategy was analyzed as the state medium of behavior as a reference to objects.

Through Archetypal Criticism in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

This paper presents a brief overview of archetypal criticism, a literary theory that seeks to identify universal patterns and themes in literature rooted in the human psyche. It is based on the idea of archetypes, symbols and motifs in the collective unconscious of humanity, popularized by Carl Jung. As applied to literature, the theory of archetypal criticism involves exploring these universal themes and symbols in work and how they reflect the human condition. The paper aims to analyze William Shakespeare's tragedy The Merchant of Venice through the lens of archetypal criticism to uncover deeper meanings in the literature. The play explores themes of justice, mercy, and true love through its complicated characters and dramatic plot. Through archetypal criticism, the play delves deeper into its universal meaning. It reveals psychological and emotional truths about the human condition, inviting reflection on beliefs and values that shape our experiences in the world. The paper explores the play by applying archetypal criticism. There are archetype characters of Shylock and Jessica that embody the outsider archetype as Jews in a predominantly Christian society and moneylenders. The archetypal criticism also explores different forms of love, including romantic love between Bassanio and Portia, the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio, and the complex relationship between Shylock and Jessica. The theme of revenge is embodied by Shylock and depicts an archetype. The play features archetypal symbols, including the casket challenge, the green-eyed monster, the test of worthiness, and the trickster. Some situations in the play and the play's ending are also significant from an archetypal perspective.

Deconstructing Truth as a Symbolic Construct in Mukoma wa Ngugi’s Nairobi Heat

As a literary work which builds its plot on the intricacies of crime and murder, Mukoma wa Ngugi's Nairobi Heat has many of its criticisms focused on vices thus giving the text a meaning as expected, of a crime fiction. However, critical discourse has not been focused on deconstructing the symbolic idea of Truth in the text and its relevance in generating new and multiple meanings in the text. Therefore, through a close reading, this research aims to explicate the running idea of truth in the novel as a symbolic construct and traces the chains of multiple meaning it signifies. This is achieved through a focus on Paul Ricoeur's dialectical hermeneutics of faith and suspicion, which seeks to unearth hidden meanings from the primary symbol. To this end, the research focused on three objectives, first, it devotes itself to the identification of truth as a symbolic construct in the text; second, analyses the symbol of truth based on the hermeneutics of faith, which reveals truth to be that centred on the true reasons behind the death of Marcy Jane and other crimes in the text thus making it a quest for justice: while lastly, the symbol of truth is critiqued based on the hermeneutics of suspicion, which demystifies the hidden meaning of truth as truth for self-identification and truth about Africa which also serves as the supreme finding of the research. Keywords: Truth, Symbol, Hermeneutics, Faith, Suspicion, Meaning, Mukoma. DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/95-02 Publication date: January 31 st 2023

Artistic properties of natural materials in object design: imitation and interpretation

The purpose of the article is to study the artistic properties of natural materials in modern object design. The focus is on the problems of using the artistic properties of natural materials, as well as their interpretation in morphology and aesthetics.
 An important element of this interaction is the use of natural materials in design, which today is a current trend not only in the artistic, but also in the commercial context. Thus, natural materials often become the main goal of design practices. They are systematically used by artists to express their symbolic ideas, which explore the properties and content of materials.
 My personal experience in both design and fine arts allows us to speak about the important role of the analysis of the artistic properties of natural materials. From my point of view, this area of design requires a separate, deeper reflection. It is necessary to study and generalize the system of artistic representation of materials, which is often considered by researchers as a secondary task.
 As my research showed, an important component in the analysis of the expressive means of natural materials is the subject environment. It is for this reason that natural materials are equally interesting for both designers and artists. Orientation to the subject environment raises the question of the nature of the use of natural and artificial materials, their combination in artworks.
 The methodology. The purpose and objectives of the study determined the methodology. As the main ones, I used the methods of typology and structural generalization.
 The results. The study of the artistic experience of European designers, as well as the study of special scientific literature, allows me to mark out two main groups of formal means of expression. They are formed on the basis of the criterion of interaction with the natural properties of natural materials:
 1) means of expression that transform the original features of natural materials; this group considers those artistic practices that change the original features of the material under the influence of a general design decision;
 2) means of expression, which are the most natural properties and characteristics of the material; this group considers such artistic practices that do not significantly change the basic qualities of natural materials.
 Each group has its own morphological features, which to some extent affect the artistic integrity of the work. Natural materials are natural carriers of textural and textural qualities, the identification and use of which greatly contributes to the quality of the aesthetic solution. The natural aesthetic properties of, for example, stone or wood have a significant impact on the compositional-plastic and figurative-stylistic features of the work. These features form a more expressive artistic language.
 The scientific novelty. The article proposes the author’s typology of the use of natural materials in the design of objects.

Metaverse: The latest sign of human existence

<p>The explosion of the “metaverse” provides an opportunity to reflect on the impact of intelligent digital virtual technology on contemporary humanity. While the metaverse opens new worlds of possibility for humanity, the extreme reality. The world and the people in it have been rewritten as a result of the inversion of reality and the obscuring of so-called “augmented reality”, which has led to the retreat of the original reality. In the metaverse, the world is grasped more by perceptual perceptions, the objects are informational and symbolic ideas, and the subjects of grasp are increasingly becoming twin digital doppelgangers, digital beings. The metaverse will bring about the tribalization of public life and the territorialization of public space. The construction of a metaverse order is essentially a governance of the human imagination, which will require a shift in political philosophy. The metaverse is the inevitable consequence of the so-called “humanization” of technology. The increasing “staying” and “involution” of people in the world of intentionality, their domination by instrumental reason, their anti-intellectualization and their dumbing down, all of which are the paradox of “human, too human”. The interaction between individual intentionality and extensiveness, as well as the risk of serious consequences brought by technological innovation, make the individual’s free choice involve problems, so we must appeal to re-moralization, and the basis of re-moralization is individual cultivation. Philosophic workers should not only keep an open attitude, but also keep a thinking attitude towards the metaverse.</p>

Metaverse: The latest sign of human existence

<p>The explosion of the “metaverse” provides an opportunity to reflect on the impact of intelligent digital virtual technology on contemporary humanity. While the metaverse opens new worlds of possibility for humanity, the extreme reality. The world and the people in it have been rewritten as a result of the inversion of reality and the obscuring of so-called “augmented reality”, which has led to the retreat of the original reality. In the metaverse, the world is grasped more by perceptual perceptions, the objects are informational and symbolic ideas, and the subjects of grasp are increasingly becoming twin digital doppelgangers, digital beings. The metaverse will bring about the tribalization of public life and the territorialization of public space. The construction of a metaverse order is essentially a governance of the human imagination, which will require a shift in political philosophy. The metaverse is the inevitable consequence of the so-called “humanization” of technology. The increasing “staying” and “involution” of people in the world of intentionality, their domination by instrumental reason, their anti-intellectualization and their dumbing down, all of which are the paradox of “human, too human”. The interaction between individual intentionality and extensiveness, as well as the risk of serious consequences brought by technological innovation, make the individual’s free choice involve problems, so we must appeal to re-moralization, and the basis of re-moralization is individual cultivation. Philosophic workers should not only keep an open attitude, but also keep a thinking attitude towards the metaverse.</p>

Logic Design and Power Optimization of Floating-Point Multipliers.

Under IEEE-754 standard, for the current situation of excessive time and power consumption of multiplication operations in single-precision floating-point operations, the expanded boothwallace algorithm is used, and the partial product caused by booth coding is rounded and predicted with the symbolic expansion idea, and the partial product caused by single-precision floating-point multiplication and the accumulation of partial products are optimized, and the flowing water is used to improve the throughput. Based on this, a series of verification and synthesis simulations are performed using the SMIC-7 nm standard cell process. It is verified that the new single-precision floating-point multiplier can achieve a smaller power share compared to the conventional single-precision floating-point multiplier.

Symbolism of the renaissance sculpture: Aedicule of Sholts-Volfovych townhouse in Lviv

The specific conditions of architectural development in Lviv promoted the expansion of the Renaissance traditions in the architecture in the XVI century. The local traditions considerably influenced the classical forms as well as techniques suggested by the Italian architects. As a result, the architecture of Lviv had taken the peculiar features that reflected the character of an indigenous revival. A significant feature of a Renaissance townhouse in Lviv lies in its abundant decoration. as it was created according to the symbolic ideas and was filled with the philosophic content. The façade of Sholts-Volfovych apartment house situated in 23, Rynok Square in Lviv deserves special attention. The abundant exterior design includes the composition «Epiphany», located in the aedicule of the second floor. Using the principle of hermeneutics the article presents the author’s interpretation of a symbolic meaning of this sculptural composition, based on the Gospel texts and is connected with the Renaissance meditations about a human place in the world and his/her relationship with God.

Формирование символического пространства политической карты мира в российском массовом сознании

The paper describes the major models of building symbolic spaces of the world maps in the Russian collective consciousness and provides the classification of the factors to build symbolic representations. The author considers the potential risks associated with shaping unfavourable symbolic outlines in the representations of the political world map with respect to each model. Risks were primarily related to the negative impact of anxiety on the level of collective attitudes; the symbolic voidness of images of certain countries; negative attitudes towards the international order; the conflicted or, conversely, idealized viewpoint on the entire international (foreign) affairs; the transformation of russocentrism into the image of confrontation between ‘us’ and ‘them’ in the context of the insufficiently built national-state identity and passive dissatisfaction; the stereotyped, often cognitively shallow and ‘mosaic’ perception of own country by Russian youth.
 The symbolic ideas of both possible and desirable international trends in Russian collective consciousness can be described as fragmented, which can probably be due to the inadequate completeness of the symbolic space of the political world map. The vague ideas by Russians regarding the country’s place in the world and its possible behaviour strategies in international politics make foreign policy perception hypersensitive and dependent primarily on stereotypes and the media’s informational agenda, which is also a risk.
 Following the study outcomes, a set of socio-political mechanisms and measures that can prevent and minimize the identified challenges and the risks was proposed. The need to frame an elaborate and consistent information policy (through media, cultural, educational and youth policy, educational system, non-profit institutions) aimed at minimizing the symbolic voidness of the world map perceived by Russian citizens, at building the national-state identity and forming symbolically complete images of own territory and those of other countries as well as at systematic and adequate informing citizens about current international events and contacts through dialogs is of major importance.

Символический мир модернизируемых обществ: изобретение традиций (кейс Японии)

This article discusses the specifics of Japanese modernization laid down during the Meiji reforms, which is believed to have achieved a kind of viable synthesis of Western and non-Western patterns of behavior, thinking patterns, and complexes of symbolic elements and ideas. Japan in the second half of the 19th century was faced with the task of catching up with Western countries, which implied, for example, copying certain Western traditions and social institutions. Nevertheless, Japan managed to carry out its modernization quite successfully, without losing its national identity. Today Japan is already an object itself, whose modernization experience other countries are trying to copy. Thus, under the conditions of globalization, Japanese behavioral patterns and other socio-cultural elements are spreading. The authors of this article utilize the concept of Eric Hobsbawm’s “invented traditions” to reveal the specifics of Japanese modernization. This approach assumes that Meiji modernity was designed or “invented” by some consensus of the Japanese elites of that time. Thus, in order to achieve modernity, Japanese elites had to “invent” traditions in a certain way, so that people could accept said traditions as their own. The invention of traditions itself, in turn, is a complex process of constructing socio-cultural patterns during which new practices and behaviors are made to seem older than they actually are, emphasizing their originality and connection with the people’s past. In Meiji Japan, various groups of Japanese elites had their own designs for the invention of traditions, in other words, the achievement of modernity. The authors conclude that the winning model implemented by the Meiji government was quite successful and allowed Japan to compete with Western powers on relatively equal terms.

Unpacking the Logic of Compliance in Special Education: Contextual Influences on Discipline Racial Disparities in Suburban Schools

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ([IDEA] 2004; IDEA Amendments 1997) is a civil rights–based law designed to protect the rights of students with disabilities in U.S. schools. However, decades after the initial passage of IDEA, racial inequity in special education classifications, placements, and suspensions are evident. In this article, we focus on understanding how racial discipline disparities in special education outcomes relate to IDEA remedies designed to address problem behaviors. We qualitatively examine how educators interpret and respond to citations for racial discipline disproportionality via IDEA at both the district and the school level in a suburban locale. We find that educators interpret the inequity in ways that neutralize the racialized implications of the citation, which in turn affects how they respond to the citation. These interpretations contribute to symbolic and race-evasive IDEA compliance responses. The resulting bureaucratic and organizational structures associated with IDEA implementation become a mechanism through which the visibility of race and racialization processes are erased and muted through acts of policy compliance. Thus, the logic of compliance surrounding IDEA administration serves as a reproductive social force that sustains practices that do not disrupt locally occurring racialized inequities.

Learning mathematical symbolization: conceptual challenges and instructional strategies in secondary schools

Abstract This paper investigates South African 12th Grade students’ conceptual challenges with mathematical symbolization and instructional strategies that teachers use to mitigate mathematical symbolization. The study is motivated by the students’ failure to connect representations between symbolic and mathematical ideas to understand concepts and procedures. The study attempts to gain insight into mathematical symbols as potential barriers to students’ understanding of mathematical concepts and processes. The study consists of 120 randomly selected 12th Grade students and 15 purposefully selected mathematics teachers from Sekhukhune district of Limpopo Province, South Africa. Data was collected through questionnaires and focus group interviews. A mixed-method sequential explanatory design was employed. An SPSS cluster analysis of data produced three (3) clusters consisting of 50 (41.6%), 47 (39.3%) and 23 (19.1%) students with severe, mild, and minor challenges with mathematical symbols. Two themes emerged from the students’ difficulties with mathematical symbols. Firstly, students lack symbol sense for mathematical concepts and algebraic insight for problem-solving. Secondly, students disregard conceptual and contextual uses of symbols. The study therefore suggests that students’ negotiation of discourse between the mathematical symbol and the mathematical concept or procedure is crucial developing symbolic meaning. Therefore, teachers need to use appropriate strategies to engage students in processes that allow them to make meanings of mathematical symbols. The study recommends that concepts should be understood before symbolised.

Workshops as Tools for Developing Collaborative Practice across Professional Social Worlds in Telemonitoring.

Background: Lately, patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease use telemonitoring services from home. We discuss three professional groups’ idea of good care in terms of living as a chronically ill patient. Methods: We scrutinize a workshop consisting of the following: (1) presentation of pre-workshop interviews focusing on good patient flows; (2) presentation of the participants’ photos illustrating their idea of the good life with telemonitoring; (3) discussion of what the three social worlds of care can do together. We understand workshops as learning events founded on the symbolic interactionist idea of learning as reflexism. That is, the process where participants make joint action an object of attention. Results: We propose that not only people, but also objects such as applications, gold standards, and financial arrangement are actively involved in hampering collaboration across social worlds. The contribution is a discussion of the contemporary challenges of technological intensification into healthcare processes seen as a learning event. Conclusion: Workshops constitute useful tools to understand more of how professional groups seek to adopt new technologies and learn about the larger structure of telemonitoring. Developing joint action among social worlds appears to be one of the main challenges of technologically driven innovation in healthcare.

New Look at Common Analogies in Language and Culture

To describe gemstones, jewelry components, and scientific properties, jewelry has its own vocabulary. The object of the current study is samples of folk jewellery in the spatio-temporal scale. The subject of the research is artistic-figurative-semantic ideas embodied in jewellery. The problem of the study is establishing the similarities of the main categories and types of jewellery in macro-time and macro-space on the basis of comparative research. The purpose of the work is to reveal the etiology of the revealed community of global jewellery. The results of the study showed that the revealed similarities of the indicated jewellery are determined by the identity of figurative and symbolic ideas that arose from ancient times, as a result of the collective unconscious. The similarities of the studied objects are also determined by the commonality of associations, the lepton basis of human thinking.

САДЫ РАБАТА, КАК ПРИМЕР ИНТЕНСИВНОГО ВЛИЯНИЯ ЕВРОПЫ НА КУЛЬТУРНЫЕ ЛАНДШАФТЫ СЕВЕРНОЙ АФРИКИ

The article examines the formation of a neo-Mauritanian landscape and architectural style of Morocco, new for North Africa, during the reign of the French protectorate in the first half of the 20th century. A historical retrospective of the works of French architects, descriptions of the gardens and parks of the city of Rabat, built and reconstructed during the rule of the French protectorate, are given. Brief information is given about the redevelopment of the city, according to the ideas of the modern structure of colonial cities that existed at that time, described in the works of French architects. The process of landscape-architectural organization of the garden space is analyzed. The main planning and design features of the Moroccan gardens of the first half of the twentieth century, as well as the significance of the main elements that embody symbolic, religious and practical ideas, are revealed. It has been established that when designing the gardens, French architects tried to combine several styles, including landscape and architectural techniques traditional for Islamic gardens, inscribing them into the classical French regular layout characteristic of the European Art Nouveau period.

Approaching culture in medical education: Three perspectives

The notion of culture is increasingly invoked in the medical education literature as a key influence on how educational strategies unfold, and culture change is frequently identified as a necessary precursor to progress. A meaningful perspective on what culture means is often missing from these discussions, however. Without a theoretically grounded notion of culture, calls for culture change are challenging to interpret and to act upon. In this cross-cutting edge paper, we explore how culture has been defined and theorised using three lenses: the organisational perspective; the identity perspective, and the practice perspective. We consider what each perspective might offer to medical education researchers. Each of these perspectives draws on a range of disciplinary influences, and none represents a singular theory of culture. Broadly, the organisational perspective directs our attention to the shared assumptions and values that bind individuals within an organisation. It tends to view culture through a strategic lens; culture may be either a barrier to or a facilitator of the changes that are inevitably required of an organisation if it is to maintain its relevance. The identity perspective, particularly the notion of figured worlds, alerts us to the power of communal narratives to shape how individuals see themselves within particular cultural worlds. The practice perspective emphasises what actually occurs in practice, avoiding symbolic ideas about culture and shared values and instead privileging activity and human-material networks or arrangements. These diverse perspectives share a common thread- they shift our research gaze beyond the individual, allowing us instead to see how those individuals form organisations, inhabit cultural worlds and constitute practices. They afford substance and direction for explorations of culture, and thus offer the promise of a more nuanced understanding of some of medical education's most challenging problems.

Symbol Emergence in Cognitive Developmental Systems: A Survey

Humans use signs, e.g., sentences in a spoken language, for communication and thought. Hence, symbol systems like language are crucial for our communication with other agents and adaptation to our real-world environment. The symbol systems we use in our human society adaptively and dynamically change over time. In the context of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive systems, the symbol grounding problem has been regarded as one of the central problems related to {\it symbols}. However, the symbol grounding problem was originally posed to connect symbolic AI and sensorimotor information and did not consider many interdisciplinary phenomena in human communication and dynamic symbol systems in our society, which semiotics considered. In this paper, we focus on the symbol emergence problem, addressing not only cognitive dynamics but also the dynamics of symbol systems in society, rather than the symbol grounding problem. We first introduce the notion of a symbol in semiotics from the humanities, to leave the very narrow idea of symbols in symbolic AI. Furthermore, over the years, it became more and more clear that symbol emergence has to be regarded as a multifaceted problem. Therefore, secondly, we review the history of the symbol emergence problem in different fields, including both biological and artificial systems, showing their mutual relations. We summarize the discussion and provide an integrative viewpoint and comprehensive overview of symbol emergence in cognitive systems. Additionally, we describe the challenges facing the creation of cognitive systems that can be part of symbol emergence systems.