Use Of Symbolic Language Research Articles

All the Light We Cannot See -- A Community with a Shared Future for Mankind Through the Lens of Horney's Anxiety Theory

In All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr masterfully crafts a narrative that not only traverses the boundaries of time and geography but also delves deep into the core of human experience. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of World War II, the novel intricately weaves the lives of MarieLaure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a German boy whose fates intertwine in the fortified town of Saint-Malo. Through a narrative that oscillates between the haunting beauty of Doerr's prose and the stark reality of war, the novel explores themes of fate, resilience, and the unseen connections that bind us. This paper will dissect the novel's stylistic elements, including its narrative structure, thematic explorations, and symbolic use of language. Furthermore, it will apply Karen Horney's anxiety theory to analyze the deeper psychological dimensions of its main characters, providing insight into their behaviors, motivations, and evolution. Finally, the essay will interpret the story from the perspective of a community with a shared future for mankind, exploring how the novel's themes and messages resonate with and inform our understanding of our interconnected world.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF BAUDLER'S POETRY

This paper explores the poetics of Charles Baudelaire, one of the key figures of French symbolism, through the analysis of his poetic actions, themes, and influences. Baudelaire, known for his vision of a modern world shrouded in dark melancholy and despair, creates a poetic universe that transcends traditional aesthetic norms and lays the foundations of symbolist aesthetics. Through the analysis of Baudelaire's verses, we discover the complex relationship between beauty and evil, as well as the deep melancholy that permeates his poetry. Baudelaire's relationship to man and his view of human nothingness and conflict with the world are also explored, and thus we mark the inseparable connection between poetry and philosophy. Through the use of symbolic language and metaphors, Baudelaire creates poetic images that express existential anxiety and the inner struggle of man with himself. In addition, we analyze the role of poets in the development of Marxist aesthetics and political thought. Through it all, his poetry is a complex, deeply introspective, and universally relevant body of art, as summarized in the book Flowers of Evil, which continues to inspire and provoke readers around the world.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0758/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Rolul comunicării simbolice în viziunea integrării de ordin sociocultural

Symbolic communication plays a pivotal role in the socio-cultural integration process. This form of communication involves the use of symbolic languages, such as words, gestures, symbols, and cultural artifacts, to convey information, ideas, and meanings among individuals and within cultural communities. Therefore, symbolic communication is an essential component of socio-cultural integration, contributing to the understanding, transmission, and promotion of culture, the development of cultural identity, and the facilitation of interactions between different cultures. It is a vital tool for fostering a harmonious social environment and promoting cultural diversity in today’s globalized society.

A study on pre-service mathematics teachers’ criteria of proof evaluation

Proof is foundational to mathematics, and constructing proofs and establishing their validity are both important mathematical studies. Determining the validity of a proof is a part of the process of proof evaluation. Proof evaluation contributes to students’ ability to construct and revise their own proofs. The purpose of this study was to determine the criteria pre-service mathematics teachers take into account in evaluating a proof. The study was carried out with 50 first-year university students enrolled in an elementary mathematics teacher education program. The data were collected through activities relating to proving. The results of this study revealed that, when evaluating a proof, the participants regarded use of appropriate definitions, axioms, or theorems in the steps of the proof as the most important criterion with reference to justification, while in terms of mathematical language; they regarded appropriate use of symbolic language as the most important criterion. However, they tended to ignore situations where non-symbolic language was used. To address this issue, it is recommended that mathematics-learning environments include the use of non-symbolic language, as well as symbolic representations, in the definition of mathematical concepts.

Symbolic Use of Language as a Means to Demonstrate Accommodation

This paper reports on how a prominent American football player, Joe Burrow, from the state of Ohio adopts the Cajun English spelling system used in Louisiana, a southern state in the U.S., in a symbolic and innovative way during his short stay there when he relocated to Louisiana from Ohio for the final two years of his college career. In previous studies of language attitudes toward English dialects in the U.S., Michiganders evaluated the English used in the Great Lakes area (including Ohio) as the best variety while judging the English spoken in the South (including Louisiana) as the worst. Although Burrow may not carry such language attitude, it is implicitly demonstrated in media coverage related to his college football career. Despite the harsh folk evaluation and rather negative portrait from the media of the Southern U.S. English, Burrow’s accommodation to the Cajun English spelling was a means to express his gratitude to the state of Louisiana and resonated through the U.S. in various ways.

The Construction of Acehnese Identity in Serambi Indonesia after the Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding

The signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of Indonesia and The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in 2005 in Helsinki officially ended the armed separatist movement in Aceh. The long history of separatist movement in the region had created the question of identity between Acehnese and Indonesian identities among Acehnese. This study investigated the construction of Acehnese identity in relation to Indonesian identity in Serambi Indonesia, the most prominent local media, after the signing of the Helsinki peace accord. This study used a textual analysis to examine the construction of Acehnese identity through the use of symbolic language. The sample of 88 articles collected from July 2012 to May 2013 were analyzed based on five coding categories; themes, framing perspectives, labels to describe Aceh, labels to describe Indonesia, and depiction of Aceh-Indonesia relations. Findings revealed that Serambi Indonesia had managed to negotiate the tension between Acehnese and Indonesian identities. The newspaper overtly legitimated Aceh as an Indonesian region while maintaining the specialty of Aceh in comparison to other provinces of Indonesia. These findings suggested that the local media played a significant role in identity reconciliation during the reconciliation process in the post-conflict area

Musicality as material culture

From an enactive perspective, one should be able to explain how perception and actions, constituted in patterns of interactions with the world, evolve into the capacities for social coordination and social understanding distinctive of human beings. Traditional accounts of our social understanding skills, focusing on the role of intentionality as the “aboutness” associated with the use of symbolic language, make this sort of explanation difficult to articulate. A satisfactory explanation should start with the recognition that intentionality is not a monolithic phenomenon and that more basic kinds of intentionality embodied in material culture have played a crucial role in allowing for the complexity of human social cognition. We argue for the importance of kinds of bottom-up intentionality, which arise from the world as it is experienced, dynamically structuring and directing our cognitive capacities toward possibilities of (joint) action. Musicality (our capacity for being musical) is a particularly rich kind of cultural expression, in which intentionality embodied in material culture can be studied and its significance for the structure of our deeply social cognition can be explored.

Deaths and symbolic use of language: Semiotics and thanatological reading of the film Nell

IntroductionPsychiatric disorders may become more severe when the subject is exposed to a hostile environment. Symptoms of mental malaise are expressed by the senses, including speech and language.MethodsThe method is used of semiotic analysis and thanatological movie.ObjectiveTo investigate the limit and death as a trigger of a singular mode of use of the spoken language. The problem presented in this paper is the linguistic system created by Nell.ResultsPartial results show that spoken language in this particular cut, becomes an instrument for dealing with the losses accumulated throughout his life. The life of isolation, restrictions on maternal vocalization, her mother's death and mourning acted as an inhibitor of language.ConclusionThe spoken language works like kaleidoscope of interactions of the individual with their group, with the medium in which it is inserted, with the set of beliefs that nourishes and with the world that she wants there, even if only in your intimate venue. Thus, demonstrating the sociolinguistic approach inalienable role in speech performance.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

The Fatastic and The Simcolic as Spaces for The Survival of The Eternal Feminine in The Origins of Contemporary Art

This article intends to make a tour through the art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in search of the feminine aspects of divinity, particularly in the symbolist and surrealist movements. These movements, influenced by some currents opposed to dominant rationalism, opened the way for the exploration of the inner dimensions of nature and the human being beyond their immediate reality. To achieve this, the use of symbolic language and the creation of fantastic worlds were essential. However, the move away from tradition marked a break between the spiritual world and the material one. This split generated a misinterpretation of the feminine, which appeared in its most horrible aspect. When contemporary art regained a connection with authentic traditional thinking, the Eternal Feminine flourished again. In this respect Louis Cattiaux’s work is the exemplary model.

The linguistic servicescape: Speaking their language may not be enough

This paper explores Hispanic immigrants' reactions to linguistic servicescapes in retail banking in Southern California. This fertile area of enquiry combines the sociolinguistic theory of linguistic landscape with research into multilingual service encounters describing what happens in the retail servicescape before the service encounter which sets up expectations for what happens during the service encounter. This new term describes the use of language in and around a service encounter including signage and promotional materials as well as bilingual personnel. In multilingual areas such as Southern California where the use of a minority language is politically charged, effective encoding of symbolic language by the service provider is crucial for the success of a service encounter. The results of this study indicate that management's actual or perceived lack of sensitivity to appropriate linguistic symbols leads to both confusion and an attribution of discrimination towards the targeted ethnic group—even if none were intended. What is written or said in the service encounter is important, but this research illustrates that the context is also significant. The wider symbolic use of language is key in determining the success of service encounters.

Mengoli's mathematical ideas in Leibniz's excerpts

Dedicated to the memory of Jacqueline StedallIn the seventeenth century many changes occurred in the practice of mathematics. An essential change was the establishment of a symbolic language, so that the new language of symbols and techniques could be used to obtain new results. Pietro Mengoli (1626/7–86), a pupil of Cavalieri, considered the use of symbolic language and algebraic procedures essential for solving all kinds of problems. Following the algebraic research of Viète, Mengoli constructed a geometry of species, Geometriae Speciosae Elementa (1659), which allowed him to use algebra in geometry in complementary ways to solve quadrature problems, and later to compute the quadrature of the circle in his Circolo (1672). In a letter to Oldenburg as early as 1673, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) expressed an interest in Mengoli's works, and again later in 1676, when he wrote some excerpts from Mengoli's Circolo. The aim of this paper is to show how in these excerpts Leibniz dealt with Mengoli's ideas as well as to provide new insights into Leibniz's mathematical interpretations and comments.

La guerra salvadoreña vista desde la literatura autoficcional: Dios tenía miedo, de Vanessa Núñez Handal

This article analizes the labors of memory in Vanessa Núñez Handal’s novel Dios tenía miedo. By looking into both the familial and the national past in El Salvador through an autofictional exploration of the ways in which her own family was involved in the war she herself experienced as a child, Vanessa Núñez Handal experiments with the explanatory potential of both the creative imagination and the use of symbolic language, in a process where writing seems to be as much a method as a goal in order to remember and, above all, understand the percepticide that took place during the war. The ambiguity of the autofictional pact rules over the novel, giving her the liberty to combine fictional, autobiographical, and testimonial techniques, with the aim of articulating her interpretation of the traumatic past.

Psychopathology of social isolation.

The most important defining factor of being human is the use of symbolic language. Language or communication problem occurs during the growth, the child will have a higher risk of social isolation and then the survival will be threatened constantly. Today, adolescents and youths are familiar with computer and smart-phone devices, and communication with others by these devices is easy than face-to-face communication. As adolescents and youths live in the comfortable and familiar cyber-world rather than actively participating real society, so they make social isolation. Extreme form of this isolation in adolescents and youths is so-called Socially Withdrawn Youth. In this study, the psychopathological factors inducing social isolation were discussed. Development stages of social isolation in relation with types of social isolation, Ego-syntonic isolation and Ego-dystonic isolation, were also considered.

The corregidor as dragon and the encomendero as lion

Abstract With his Primer nueva coronica y buen gobierno Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (ca. 1535–post 1616), the best known Andean early-17th century author of indigenous descent, created a comprehensive and complex work about the indigenous past and the colonial present of his time. Colonial language data and information in an Amerindian language, interpreted from within the writer's framework as well as parting from Andean and European traditions, can be used to better understand the author's objectives for employing a certain text genre and language. This paper gives a sociolinguistic and ethno-historical analysis of Guaman Poma's work. Guaman Poma uses animal imagery of wild beasts in order to portray colonial society. Certain functionaries are likened to animals which threaten the indigenous people. The critical author presents these menaces in two sections of his work: in a critique of the administration which contains an illustration that links wild animals and functionaries directly and explicitly, and through prayers seeking protection from these same threats. Making use of symbolic language, textual and visual imagery, Guaman Poma associates uncivilized elements of nature with the barbaric behavior of the authorities. Nature and culture have always been closely linked in the Andes, and Guaman Poma makes extensive traditional and at the same time creative use of this connection. I argue that in doing so he creates a new colonial indigenous discourse and uses subversion in the repressive context of the time to call the attention of the reader to the social problems created by colonial rule, thereby making an innovative use of both his native language and Spanish traditions.

Poincaré on logic and foundations

Poincare’s intervention in the philosophical debate on mathematics of the beginning of the twentieth century is circumscribed but had lasting effects. The important aspects considered here are his defence of intuition against all forms of logicism and his fierce condemnation of the use of symbolic languages; the criticism of the vicious circle as responsible for all the antinomies, and the influence both on Russell, who was led to adopt the theory of types, and on Weyl, who tried a predicativistic reconstruction of mathematical analysis; the fight with Hilbert for the circular use of induction of the proof of the consistency of arithmetic; his discussions with Peano and Zermelo on the Cantor-Bernstein theorem and on predicative proofs in general.

The Government and Politics of Cyprus (review)

Reviewed by: The Government and Politics of Cyprus Van Coufoudakis James Ker-Lindsay and Hubert Faustmann, editors. The Government and Politics of Cyprus. Oxford, Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang. 2009. Pp. 293. Paper $74.95. Cyprus is a small island strategically located in the Eastern Mediterranean. Thanks to a documented record going back at least 11,000 years, Aphrodite's island has produced a staggering number of studies from archaeology to zoology. During the course of 2010, the fiftieth anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Cyprus is expected to stimulate more publications on the politics and history of this European Union (EU) member. The volume under review is one of the first of these to emerge. The co-editors are familiar with Cyprus, having lived there and written about various aspects of the Cyprus problem. The volume consists of 11 chapters, five of which, in addition to the introduction, have been written by the co-editors. That is one of the volume's basic weaknesses, as a greater diversity of viewpoints would have added to its credibility. The book includes appendices with electoral data from presidential and parliamentary elections in the Republic of Cyprus, along with electoral returns from occupied Cyprus. There is also a lengthy, but highly selective, bibliography reflecting the ideological preferences of the co-editors. In the introduction, the editors correctly observe that most publications address the protracted Cyprus problem rather than the fact that the Republic of Cyprus is a successful, functioning democratic state that joined the EU on 1 May 2004. This was shown by the minimal time required for the conclusion of the [End Page 158] Cypriot accession talks. In fact, Cyprus would have been an EU member earlier had it not been for the debate within that organization on the "widening" of its membership and pressure from the United States and the United Kingdom to link Cypriot accession to an imposed political solution of the Cyprus problem and to Turkey's EU prospects. The contributors' focus is on how Cypriot state institutions have evolved over the past 50 years through conflict, external interference, an imposed constitution, invasion and continuing occupation, economic modernization, and EU accession. This is a welcome approach as most analysts forget that, because of the Ottoman past (1570-1878) and the British colonial experience (1878-1960), Cyprus did not experience the forces of political development that shaped modern Western Europe. Rather, in a short time and under adverse circumstances, Cyprus developed into a successful European democracy. In their introduction and analytical contributions, the editors betray their ideological biases by the symbolic use of language and various code words whose meaning may be lost to those unfamiliar with the Cyprus problem. For example, while presenting the Turkish/Turkish Cypriot view of the Republic of Cyprus, they conclude that "for the purposes of this book the Republic of Cyprus is considered still to be a valid entity and the government and politics of this entity are presented here" (p. 13 [italics added]). This "entity" is an internationally recognized sovereign European state that Turkey, the United States, and some allied countries have repeatedly tried to subvert and dismantle. That process started with the 1964 "Acheson Plan" and culminated in 2004 with an Anglo-American plan promoted by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The failure of that plan disappointed a minority of Greek Cypriots, most Turks, and their allies. The fact remains that the Republic of Cyprus is not an abstraction likely to be invalidated in the near future. The co-editors, by their wording and "definitional clarifications" (pp. 12-13), imply something different and indirectly equate the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus with the illegal entity set up by the Turkish army in occupied Cyprus. UN Security Council resolution 541 of 15 November 1983 declares that entity to be legally invalid and calls on all nations not to recognize any other state than the Republic of Cyprus. The Cypriot accession to the EU was one more affirmation of that fact. Three of the 11 chapters of this book are worth reading. These include Chapter Four by Christophoros Christoforou on the evolution of Greek Cypriot politics, Chapter Seven by Giorgos Charalambous...

Symbolic Politics, Criminal Justice Policy, and Third Political Party Platforms

The theory of symbolic politics, which posits that political acts are viewed as symbols conveying a political meaning that are an end unto themselves, is used to examine the elements of criminal justice policy in third political party platforms. It is hypothesized that third political parties use their political platforms to make symbolic, rather than substantive, statements. Data were collected from a variety of sources presenting third party platforms to assess the political language used from 1872 to 2004. A content analysis of these platforms offers some support for the use of symbolic language by third political parties.

A shark-tooth ornament from Pleistocene Sahul

The tooth of a tiger shark, perforated to make a pendant, was lost in New Ireland, New Guinea between 39500 and 28000 years ago. The author argues that this has to be the work of anatomically modern humans, and implies the use of symbolic language not only across the former continent of Sahul, but also Eurasia.

Psychopathology and the essence of language: the interpretation of aphasia by Kurt Goldstein and Roman Jakobson

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the research on aphasia carried out by the linguist Roman Jakobson and the neuropsychiatrist Kurt Goldstein. The linguistic theory of aphasia advocated by Jakobson in the 1950s and 1960s is based on clinical case studies reported by Goldstein at the beginning of the 1930s. However, Jakobson used Goldstein's clinical observations without taking into account his theoretical work on language pathology. In particular, Jakobson fed the symptoms described by Goldstein into a structuralist model, allowing him to predict different types of aphasia deductively. Goldstein, however, saw the clinical manifestations of aphasia as a particular way of being in the world. By studying the changes associated with the patient's reaction to the disease, Goldstein wanted to reach an understanding of language functioning in the normal subject. He distinguished between an instrumental use and a symbolic use of language, the latter mainly characteristic of language use in the normal subject. Only a symbolic use reveals the essence of language by showing its intimate nature, the psychic link tying the subject to the world.

The Political Spectacle of Arizona's Proposition 203

Arizona's Proposition 203 places restrictions on bilingual and English-as-asecond-language programs and essentiality mandates English-only education for English language learners (ELLs). This article provides an analysis of this initiative and the wide variations in its interpretation and implementation. Data sources include official policy and related documents, media coverage, and observations of key policy events. The findings provide evidence that Proposition 203 and its implementation are political spectacle, rather than democratic rationale policy making with true concern for ELL students. The analysis focuses on the components of the political spectacle framework evident in the initiative, its campaign(s), and its implementation, including the use of symbolic language, the use of plots and story lines, the creation of leaders (heroes) and enemies, the evoking of symbols of rationality, and distinctions between on-stage and off-stage actions. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications for English language learners in Arizona.