Thematic Volume Research Articles

Vapaasti tuotettu puhe tutkimuksen kohteena

Freely produced speech is a common source of data for speech research. This article is an introduction to this thematic volume and discusses freely produced speech from different perspectives. Freely produced speech is often seen as the opposite of controlled, often phonetic experiments in laboratory conditions. However, it is very difficult to determine which data collection methods are sufficient for freely produced speech to be considered authentic and natural. The topics of the articles included vary from dialectological research in Finland and the phonetic features of Namibian English to second language fluency studies as well as proficiency or speaker assessments in a second language. As this thematic issue will show, it is essential to conduct research on freely produced speech in a comprehensive way, as well as to understand the importance of the results obtained. The way freely produced speech is assessed can have a significant impact on an individual’s life, for example, in gatekeeper evaluations.

Digitale Öffentlichkeit(en). Linguistische Perspektiven

Abstract In this thematic volume we ask how digitalization and mediatization are transforming public communication and its conceptual understanding. This introductory text delves into the historical shift from oral and body media to written media in societal communication, highlighting the evolution through telecommunication mass media to the replacement of analog communication by digital forms. It addresses the lack of consensus on the definition of ‘publics’ and public communication, underscoring the multidimensional, heterogeneous, and fluid nature of these concepts. We ask how digitalization and mediatization processes raise questions about fundamental changes in publics due to new technological-communicative possibilities. Furthermore, we discuss the concept of publics as communicatively constructed and maintained, shaped by media and community ideologies. We propose a continuum model for digital/digitized publics, ranging from dyadic communication to multi-party communication. It emphasizes four key aspects for linguistic engagement with digital publics: communicative construction, technical and social affordances, multiplicity of addressing, and practices of digital community formation. With this model and the contributions following the introduction we contribute to a nuanced understanding of digital publics, considering their scale, complexity, and the dynamics of content creation and audience interaction.

WOMEN AND IMMATERIAL LABOUR: UNVEILING THE UNSEEN DYNAMICS

This thematic volume of the journal Topos sprang from the international conference entitled Gender and Im/Material Labour, which was organized by the Center for Gender Studies at the the European Humanities University and held in Vilnius on June 15–16, 2023. The con- ference was part of the Women in Tech educational and research project, the project was launched by the EHU Center for Gender Studies and is funded by the European Union. Apart of the articles, submitted by the participants of the given conference, the volume also features the outcomes of the Women in Tech research grant program (held in 2022–2023), that was aimed specifically at the young female scholars, whose research has been focused on various gender-related issues of the IT industry in Belarus and in the region in the period of 2020–2023.

Ideas, Ideologies and Public Consent: Introducing the Issue

The concept of consent is essential for every society society, affecting almost all its spheres - from everyday life to socio-political bases. Therefore, it cannot be considered accidental that both the idea itself and the diverse directions of its interpretation, dating back to the era of early modernity, today constitute one of the most priorities, intellectually saturated segments in modern socio-political theory. It is impossible to deny the appeal of the doctrine of personal consent (and the parallel thesis that no government is legitimate unless it acts without the consent of the governed). It has had a great influence on the political institutions of many modern states and has been a major factor in the direction that political theory has taken since 1600. In the second half of the 20th century, two approaches prevailed in political theory, within the framework of which the process of formation of the consensus tradition: personal and historical ones. The most impact to the theory is made by criticism of the unilinear model of consent analysis in the works of George Klosko, analysis by R.D. Bernstein of the problem of consent in the form of critical remarks on the philosophical position of R. Rorty, the concept of socialist “consent strategy” developed in the 1980s by E. Laclau and Sh. Mouffe, the controversy of the Canadian political philosopher James Tully with neo-Marxist theorists, the philosophical interpretation of consent by Jürgen Habermas as part of his analysis of the “rationalization paradox” etc. This theoretical and methodological frame becomes a basis for the thematic volume, where the articles on the history of socio-political thought are followed by the chapter devoted to the problems of Russia between cleavages and social harmony. Russian problems are blended with an international context, and the issue ends with an attempt to understand the ideological attitudes of modern youth.

Raluca Bianca Roman, Sofiya Zahova, and Aleksandar G. Marinov, eds. Roma Writings. Romani Literature and Press in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century until World War II

Raluca Bianca Roman, Sofiya Zahova, and Aleksandar G. Marinov, eds. <i>Roma Writings. Romani Literature and Press in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century until World War II</i>

Thematic Volume Introduction: Shakespeare and Ideology on Page and Stage

Thematic Volume Introduction: Shakespeare and Ideology on Page and Stage

Literature and Medicine: The First Decade.

Literature and Medicine:The First Decade Anne Hudson Jones (bio) The first volume of Literature and Medicine, which appeared forty years ago in 1982, offers many answers to the important question, Why? Why did the unusual conjunction of these two disciplines merit starting a journal? Equally important at the time was the question, How? How does one start a journal, especially without the support of an institution or professional society or financial guarantor? The answers to these basic questions help explain some of the constraints and opportunities that shaped the journal in its first decade. They also offer an opportunity to recognize and thank those without whose help the journal might not have begun or been able to develop and flourish as it has during the past four decades. Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi, a feminist scholar and professor of English literature, religion, and humanities at the State University of New York's Upstate Medical Center, was the initiator. In 1978, she had organized a special session on literature and medicine for the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA), which attracted a surprisingly large audience. Joanne Trautmann, who had been teaching literature and medicine at Pennsylvania State University Medical Center in Hershey since 1972, was on the panel, along with Harold Gene Moss from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and James C. Cowan from the University of Arkansas.1 Having recently accepted a new position in literature and medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, I was an enthusiastic member of the audience, thrilled to see so much interest at the MLA in this new field. In answer to a question that evening about why she chose to work in medical education, Trautmann replied, "We are missionaries." Her comment surprised me at first, but I came to understand it as I learned more about the Society for Health and Human Values (SHHV) and the Institute on Human Values in Medicine (IHVM). Both had been [End Page 205] established "to explore creative methods to reintegrate the humanities into medical education."2 The goal was to help restore the important human relationships between caregivers and patients that had eroded even as scientific and technical advances provided ever more efficacious responses to bodily ills and malfunctions. Physicians, chaplains, and theologians at the forefront of the SHHV and the IHVM understood the important role literature could play in the education of health professionals by letting them hear fictional and autobiographical accounts of patients' experiences of illness and suffering, as well as the personal stories of fellow health professionals striving to care for patients, often against the odds. In the months that followed the MLA session, Rabuzzi, Trautmann, and I discussed the possibility of starting a journal. We enlarged our group, inviting D. Heyward Brock, Peter W. Graham, and William F. Claire to join our conversations and the cause. Brock, a professor of English literature and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware, was working at the intersection of literature, science, and medicine. Graham had recently taken a position in the English Department at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Claire, then a lobbyist for the State University of New York System, was the only one of us who had experience as a founding editor of a literary journal. We agreed that each of us would try to secure a contract with a press to publish the journal and that whoever succeeded in doing so would become its first editor. The rest of us would serve as associate editors, and each of us would take responsibility for a thematic volume to take the journal through its first six years, at which point we would reassess. Rabuzzi and Claire were soon able to secure an agreement with the State University of New York (SUNY) Press at Albany to begin publishing the journal, with Rabuzzi as the first editor. The first volume built on the conversation that had begun at the 1978 MLA special session, taking as its theme Toward a New Discipline. In retrospect, that theme seems wrong to me because the volume's essays, long and short, point...

Topoi of Classical German Philosophy in Progress. A Thematic Issue Dedicated to Jakub Kloc-Konkołowicz

Preface by the Editors to the special thematic volume dedicated to the memory of Jakub Kloc-Konkołowicz.

The TAME domain in Baltic and its neighbours. An introduction

This article outlines the aims, methodological approaches and research topics of the thematic volume Studies in the TAME Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours. It also briefly characterises the individual contributions to the volume, highlightingtheir main ideas and pointing out their relevance to ongoing discussions as well as the impulses they can give to further (also cross-linguistic) research. The grammatical domains explored in the volume are tense, aspect, mood andevidentiality/mirativity.

Multilevel Governance of Migration for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from the Global Souths

This chapter introduces the thematic volume Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths: Challenges and Opportunities. It presents the aims and scope of the Volume, and a discussion on contributions to migration studies from the global Souths, in particular analysing positive and negative aspects of the multilevel governance of migration. It also provides an overview of a broad conceptualisation of sustainable development through five dimensions—people, planet, profit, peace and partnerships—before highlighting the main contributions of the individual chapters. Finally, we conclude by underlining the insights brought by a multiplicity of perspectives from the global Souths to an analysis of the complex configuration of migration governance.

Introduction. Critical Issues Emerging from the Study of Unspent Funds

This chapter introduces the thematic volume The Puzzle of Unspent Funds. It explains the scope of the Volume, which conducts a cross-context analysis of unspent funds in its other individual chapters. These chapters span two different socio-economic and institutional contexts: India and Italy, thus presenting valuable points of comparison. They map underspending through the four fiscal phases of collection, allocation, use and monitoring of funds, analysing these phases through the key notions of fiscal architecture and administrative structures, which this chapter explains before emphasizing the main contributions of each individual chapter. This Volume provides an innovative perspective to analyse institutional design and reforms in multilevel governance contexts; administrative and bureaucratic state practices; modalities of state-society engagement; and mechanisms to increase democratic accountability.

Некоторые религиозные термины, хадисы и аяты в башкирских мунаджатах

Introduction. In the oral popular art and written literary monuments of the Bashkir people, there is a special musical-poetic genre of the lyric-epic and religious character, which is called munajat. This article aims to analyze some of the ayats, hadiths, and religious terms used in the Bashkir munajats. Materials and methods. Samples of religious poetry borrowed from a thematic volume of the Bashkir folk art compendium were used as the main source of the research data. Over 1,500 examples have been identified, some of which are used in this article. A systematic and comparative analysis and a historical-typological research method were employed for the analysis of the material. Results. Many Bashkir scholars were among the students of the munajats. In their works, they often focused on the main features of the genre, such as religious motifs, plots, and appeals to Allah that they contain. Since early 1990s, the munajats have been experiencing a rebirth: old versions have returned to become popular again; also, new types, composed by our contemporaries, have emerged, and spread in various regions. The study resulted in identifying over one and a half thousand examples containing Muslim terms, ayats, and hadiths; some of them have been included in this article. Conclusions. The present study shows the peculiarities of the use of religious subjects, terms, and motifs in the Bashkir munajats. Some words and phrases were changed to adapt to the popular usage, while preserving the Arabic cliché. In its turn, the use of religious vocabulary enriched the Bashkir language and literature.

Conclusión. Ver patrones, encontrar diversidad: investigar y comprometerse con el género y la construcción de la paz en Indonesia y Nigeria

These concluding remarks sum up some of the key themes arising in this thematic volume’s contributions, chapters that cover a breadth of different gendered aspects of peacebuilding in Indonesia and Nigeria, including the post-conflict experiences of women ex-combatants; women and land conflicts; arts, gender and peacebuilding; the gendered dynamics of post-conflict economic development; gender, spirituality and peacebuilding; gender-based violence; and the ethics of researching these issues and ‘giving back’. Throughout this volume, we have documented a broad variety of ways in which gender interweaves with peacebuilding, but also similarities in the emerging patterns, around how gender and peacebuilding are understood, how integral gender is to identity and how gender is mobilised as a resource. These remarks also summarise some of the challenges and gaps we encountered, such as the risks of silencing and essentialising of gender identities, and the continued need to go beyond simplistic notions of ‘adding gender’ to peacebuilding process, practice and research.

¿Investigar de forma diferente? Poner en práctica los principios de la investigación feminista

Ensuring that research is ethical and contributes to the reduction of inequalities, especially gendered, class-based and racialised power imbalances, is a central tenet of feminist research. The same, ideally, goes for peacebuilding processes. However, in spite of important and meaningful attempts to redress power imbalances, both academic research and peacebuilding work too often continue to be highly unequal endeavours. These imbalances persist between the global North and global South, but also within countries. For the most part, these imbalances are inescapable, for now at least, as both research and peacebuilding are in multiple ways entangled with broader, unequal power structures that are underpinned by patriarchy, militarism, neo-coloniality and neo-liberal capitalism. However, feminist-inspired research and peacebuilding work both do also create opportunities to analyse and question these power structures, to think and act beyond and to develop less extractive and more emancipatory alternatives and practices. This interlude examines how, as a transnational feminist research project, the researchers of this thematic volume sought to develop and foster such practices together with the communities involved in the research, and what this might mean for future research in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Entanglements of Law and Space: An Introduction

Introduction to the thematic volume of Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica – devoted to the issue of law and space – provides basic context for the publication, placing special emphasis on the current state of legal geographical inquiries conducted by Polish scholars. Moreover, it briefly presents each article in the volume and comments on articles’ selected aspects to show how they can be located within the entire broad legal geography scholarship.

Editorial

i Editorial Last year’s volume of Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy was a special issue on the theme of ‘Climate and society in Ireland: from prehistory to the present’. It was initially published in the journal’s usual format and then, in summer 2021, as a separate title. Though too early to judge its impact, the initial response to the volume has been very encouraging. Currently, its key findings are being communicated to a wider audience through a series of blogs and podcasts available on the Academy’s website. The editors and board of the journal sincerely hope that the volume and related content will make a meaningful contribution to wider discourse and debate, in Ireland and beyond, on the complex relationships between climate and societies in the longue durée and how knowledge of climate history might usefully inform our approach to the current climate crisis. Though more disparate in the themes they address, the papers collected in the current volume maintain the high standards that readers expect from Proceedings . There is a wide chronological span from early prehistory to the early twentieth century. Given the journal’s long record of publishing prehistoric research , it is gratifying to see two substantial contributions in this area, following on from the very considerable prehistoric component in last year’s thematic volume. The flow of high-quality submissions in this area remains strong, so prehistory is also likely to feature prominently in next year’s volume, while the online supplement and open access agreements mentioned below should further raise the profile of the journal among prehistorians. In the present volume, Dowd and colleagues present a reassessment of the 1902 excavation of Alice and Gwendoline Cave, Co. Clare, informed by a recent re-excavation, which, like the original, was funded by the Academy. The second paper, by Kearney and O’Brien, presents a palynological study spanning much of the Holocene undertaken at the excavated later Bronze Age copper mine at Derrycarhoon in West Cork. The continuing legacy of prehistoric hillforts in the early medieval landscape is considered in O’Driscoll and Gleeson’s paper on Baltinglass, County Wicklow. There follows three papers on complementary aspects of the medieval archaeology and history of major ecclesiastical sites: Manning on the buildings and layout of Monasterboice; Murray on two crosiers associated with Clonmacnoise; and Bhreathnach and Dowling’s interdisciplinary study of Ferns, Co. Wexford. From a historical perspective, Grace’s paper on bloodletting, spanning the medieval to modern periods, is followed by O’Neill on the role and experience of women during the Nine Years War, while Barnard takes the study of material culture into a new arena with his exploration Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Vol. 121C, i–iv © 2021 Royal Irish Academy https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2021.121.11 Editorial ii of the circulation of English ceramics in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Finally, Coghlan and colleagues present new evidence about the life and work of Percy Ludgate, ‘Ireland’s first computer designer’. The concept of themed special issues, inaugurated a decade ago, is but one of the ways Proceedings has evolved and adapted in recent years. A complementary new initiative is the recent decision by the editorial board to approve the production next year of an online supplement on Mesolithic Ireland . With an introductory essay by Prof. Graeme Warren, a member of the board, the supplement will bring together the most important papers about the Mesolithic period published in the journal over the past century or so. Its appearance will coincide with UCD’s hosting of the thirteenth Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS) in June 2022, the first time this major international meeting will take place in Ireland. There are precedents for such online supplements among the Academy’s journals,1 and in the case of Proceedings further opportunities may arise in the years ahead to employ this format to showcase the journal’s unique and enduring contribution to the study of Ireland’s past. Another welcome development is the recent Read and Publish agreement between the Academy and IReL, the Irish e-resources licensing consortium for leading higher education institutions in Ireland, which...

The voice domain in Baltic and its neighbours

This article outlines the aims, methodological approaches and research topics of the thematic volume Studies in the Voice Domain in Baltic and Its Neighbours. It also briefly characterises the individual contributions to the volume, highlighting their main ideas and pointing out their relevance to ongoing discussions as well as the impulses they can give to further (also cross-linguistic) research. The grammatical domains explored in the volume are the passive, the middle voice and the causative.

Images of Political Leaders of Advanced Foreign Countries in the Minds of Russian Citizens: General Analysis of Problematics

The importance of solving the problem of evaluation and management of foreign politicians’ images is justified. The content of the "image of the political leader of the advanced foreign country (PLAFC) in the minds of Russian citizens (RСs) concept is reviewed. The main "components" of these images, their formation peculiarities and RCs’ perception in information and telecommunication technologies development are described.&#x0D; Purposes and methods (technologies) of PLAFCs’ image-building management in the RCs’ minds, ensuring the stability of these images over time; "promotion" of information on the PLAFCs in infosphere; ensuring its visibility and accessibility for RCs, including World Wide Web, are studied from the positions of interest of various groups of an individual person and legal entity (Russian and foreign).&#x0D; Taking into account developing opportunities and the volume of usage of information and telecommunication technologies, the following issues were analyzed: change in the structure and characteristics of information about PLAFCs incoming to the RCs of fact; selection and usage of methods for controlling the composition and volume of incoming information.&#x0D; It is testified that in RCs’ minds the images of PLAFCs are for medwith thematic composition, content, tonality and volume of information about the PLAFCs previously accumulated and newly received; by information evaluation approaches of different categories of RCs, by their age, social and economic group, level and scope of education and some other factors.

Актуальні питання стану та тенденції розвитку дослідницьких робіт за напрямком «Дитяча діабетологія»

Мета — вдосконалення науково-інформаційного забезпечення фахівців галузі охорони здоров’я дітей і підлітків за напрямком «Дитяча ендокринологія». Матеріал і методи. Дослідження проводили за даними бази рефератів звітів науково-дослідних (39) і дисертаційних робіт (79), які проведено в Україні 2001-2017 pp. з актуальних питань дитячої ендокринології, з використанням семантичного, інформаційного, наукометричного, бібліографічного, патентного, статистичного методів. Для вивчення інформованості лікарів щодо наукового продукту, створеного за напрямком «Дитяча ендокринологія», використано розроблений авторами опитувальник. Результати. У статті наведено дані про розвиток дослідницького процесу за напрямками дитячої ендокринології протягом тривалого терміну (2001-2017 рр.). Визначено кількісні показники збільшення проведення науково-дослідних і дисертаційних робіт, їх тематичну спрямованість, обсяг і структуру створеного наукового продукту, його використання фахівцями з дитячої ендокринології. Висновки. В Україні стабільно здійснюється дослідницький процес за актуальними напрямками дитячої ендокринології, у тому числі діабетології, створюється відповідний інформаційний та інноваційний ресурс, основним змістом якого є: вдосконалення ранньої діагностики цукрового діабету, визначення чинників ризику його виникнення в дітей і підлітків, розробка терапії згідно з протоколами лікування цього контингенту хворих, удосконалення диспансерного нагляду, навчання хворих на цукровий діабет принципам самоконтролю, реабілітація дітей і підлітків у санаторно-курортних умовах. Надзвичайно важливим є подальший розвиток наукометричних досліджень за напрямком дитячої ендокринології для вибору перспективних і пріоритетних досліджень, моніторинг дослідницьких розробок і науково-технічної продукції для вдосконалення впровадження результатів досліджень у практику дитячих ендокринологів, оптимізації їх науково-інформаційного забезпечення.

Upgrading event and pattern detection to big data

Social mediating technologies have engendered radically new ways of information and communication, particularly during events; in case of natural disaster like earthquakes tsunami and American presidential election. The growing complexity of these social mediating technologies in terms of size, number of users, and variety of bloggers relationships have generated a big data which requires innovative approaches in order to analyse, extract and detect non-obvious and popular events. This paper is based on data obtained from Twitter because of its popularity and sheer data volume. This content can be combined and processed to detect events, entities and popular moods to feed various new large-scale data-analysis applications. On the downside, these content items are very noisy and highly informal, making it difficult to extract sense out of the stream. Taking to account all the difficulties, we propose a new event detection approach combining linguistic features and Twitter features. Finally, we present our event detection system from microblogs that aims (1) detect new events, (2) to recognize temporal markers pattern of an event, (3) and to classify important events according to thematic pertinence, author pertinence and tweet volume.