Texts Of Writers Research Articles

A Conceptual Framework for Emergent Digital Literacy

As we progress in the 21st century, children learn to become proficient readers and writers of both digital and non-digital texts. Knowledge, skills, and understandings of literacy emerge through sociocultural interactions with non-digital tools (e.g., paper-printed books) and digital tools (e.g., touch screen tablets). However, debate is ongoing over the role that digital experiences play in emergent literacy development. Researchers have voiced the need to conceptualise a common framework for literacy development that considers the emergence of digital literacy skills alongside conventional literacy skills and how these skills might interact during development. This is particularly important in light of the increasing use of digital texts used by young children, such as E-books and digital games. Therefore, this paper proposes a framework that might guide research and practice by examining the relationships between emergent literacy skills, emergent digital literacy skills, and proficiency in reading and writing.

The Re-imagining Inherent in Crime Fiction Translation

The Re-imagining Inherent in Crime Fiction Translation

TEXT CONTENT DEPENDENT WRITER IDENTIFICATION

Text content based personal Identification system is vital in resolving problem of identifying unknown document’s writer using a set of handwritten samples from alleged known writers. Text written on paper document is usually captured as image by scanner or camera for computer processing. The most challenging problem encounter in text image processing is extraction of robust feature vector from a set of inconstant handwritten text images obtained from the same writer at different time. In this work new feature extraction method is engaged to produce active text features for developing an effective personal identification system. The feature formed feature vector which is fed as input data into classification algorithm based on Support Vector Machine (SVM). Experiment was conducted to identify writers of query handwritten texts. Result show satisfactory performance of the proposed system, it was able to identify writers of query handwritten texts.

“So Much Research, So Little Change”: Teaching Standard English in African American Classrooms

Since the 1950s, in analyzing the reasons US schools fail African American learners, sociolinguists have located dialectal difference as central to the educational theater of operations. Recognizing that African American Vernacular English (AAVE) was not itself an obstacle to learning, linguists instead identified “ignorance of nonstandard English rules on the part of teachers and text writers” as the culprit ( Labov 1969 , p. 29). This article reviews the history of academic responses to the vernacular “language problem,” identifying key issues, moments, controversies, and positions relevant to teaching Standard English in African American classrooms. It argues that while linguistic scholars and critical language theorists have developed intricate analyses, knowledge, and responses to vernacular dialects, these advances have not taken root in the schools of America. This article concludes that until standardized assessments require teachers to distinguish pattern in vernacular dialect from error in Standard English, US schools will continue to fail African American learners.

The Content of Dream in Islamic Mystic Prose Texts (Pre–Seventh ah/13th ad Century)

Dream is one of the important topics of mystic texts and is of great significance in Islamic mysticism. Most writers of such texts have allocated a section of their books to it. Dream could be viewed from different perspectives, but it seems, what attracts mystics the most is the content of dream. The important issues considered the content of dream are seeing God, the Prophet, the Imams, the saints; the state of mystics after death; seeing angels and Paradise huris (the beauties); seeing what helps the Wayfarer in his difficulties; gaining knowledge of the future; and, finally, seeing Iblis (the Satan). In this article, an attempt is made to analyze the reactions of dreamers to each type of content by comparing the content of mentioned dreams in mystic prose texts of pre-seventh century. The results show that dreaming the beloved (God) is of the most importance whereas dreaming the Satan is the least desirable one. As for the reactions, the most frequent reactions are fear, enthusiasm, hope, confidence, pride, and joy.

Detecting a Feminist Reading Model:

ABSTRACT: This article demonstrates how Chilean Marcela Serrano's fiction posits a political value for women readers in bonding through texts. It argues there is clear evidence of a project to model text-mediated relationships with and among her readers that can encourage women to construct more rewarding self-definitions. This project's logistical hub resides in Serrano's Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (1999), a novel that features a female detective and exhibits for women readers a step-by-step approach toward establishing empowering connections. This article examines this process of reading-to-connect as instantiating the feminist model of reading based on intersubjective encounters among woman reader, text, and woman writer discussed in Schweickart (1986), drawing on Adrienne Rich's search for connection with Emily Dickinson. To provide insight into the dynamics of cultivating reading-based bonds, both within and beyond Serrano's text, this articles uses conceptual tools from Italian feminism's practice of relations. To assess Serrano's putative project of connecting women through the writing and reading of female characters' life stories, it adduces results from a reader response questionnaire conducted with a sample of Serrano's readers. Their responses indicate that reading Serrano's fiction can open up for women readers a space of female sociality that validates and encourages female desires.

The New Women from the Margins

The New Woman makes an appearance in the texts of both male and female fin de siecle writers, although unsurprisingly she was more often an important focus for women writers. And although women writers from the margins of Europe faced many challenges that were similar to those of their contemporaries in English speaking countries, they were also simultaneously confronted with local and contextually specific issues. In this article, we tackle the specificities of the literary New Women in Slovenian and Finnish literature, and in particular, the texts of Zofka Kveder (1878–1926) and L. Onerva (1882–1972). Both women writers sought ways of engaging with questions of female identity in societies obsessed with cultural nationalism, and which saw woman primarily in terms of her role as wife and mother. Both L. Onerva and Kveder foregrounded the New Woman, depicting her as wanting to live her life on her own terms, even if this coincided with a painful awareness of the difficulty of such an enterprise. Both writers suggested that the New Woman’s personal ambivalences and inhibitions were often felt more acutely than any external force. L. Onerva and Kveder enriched Finnish and Slovenian literature with bold new themes and depictions, adding their own provocative ideas about love, sexuality, and emancipation to those being expressed by other better known New Woman writers, including Ellen Key.

Siberia in the Mirror of Other Cultures: Literature and Translation

The article deals with the origin and the matter of reflecting the “Siberia” concept in the texts of Russian literature, which has resulted in the creation of a “strong” literary image of Siberia. The particular attention is paid to the Siberian text as a translation object and to translation units in the text. The article considers the main types of Siberian texts involved in the interlingual literary translation: tales and epic texts of the peoples of Siberia, literary texts of Siberian writers (V.P Astafyev, V.M. Shukshin). The Siberian text is understood as an integral and significant part of the Russian cultural and literary space. Being involved in the continuous process of global cross-cultural interaction and mutual influence, the Siberian text broadcasts cultural information about Russia and Siberia to the representatives of “other” cultures.

Poetic vision of the text: evidence bases typological comparison of B. Schultz's prose and B.I. Antonich's poetry

The article is a propaedeutic step to a broad study of the authors' works and can serve as a model for other similar studies, during which there are problematic issues of the varietal incompatibility. In the studio, the main task is to explain the appropriateness of typological analysis of prose and poetry of the above authors. Writers' texts are poured in during the all-European context (where we are more interested in its Ukrainian and Polish versions) "the expression of the indescribable," which we can consider to be the original first evidence base for a comparative study of this topic. The second evidence base, which allows us to carry out a comparative analysis of lyrical and epic works, is the significant presence in the texts of both writers of such a literary phenomenon as literary diffusion.

Heritage in Danger or Mission Accomplished?

They are colourful and tasty. They are discarded by agri-business and free to swap and share. For these and many other reasons, the idea of “heritage” vegetables has been mobilised by diverse groups in the UK in recent years to critique and re-imagine industrial food production systems. However, from activist leaflets to gardening advice, claims about the value of heritage foods are rarely subject to critical scrutiny. Using existing work on the uses of heritage discourse in ancient monuments as a starting point, this article explores some of the ways heritage vegetable narratives can frame food heritage in ways that imply not only different conceptions of value, but different models of custodianship and access to heritage resources. The focus here is on the way three interest groups structure the story of “heritage in danger” in two radically different ways with regards to the passage of time. Using a discourse theoretical approach, I explore how a range of institutions and campaign groups use a linear model of time to paint a picture of catastrophic loss of diversity, which threatens the future of humankind. Meanwhile a narrative model commonly employed by writers of lifestyle media texts suggests the time of loss has been superseded by a new golden age of consumer-driven abundance and taste.

The Art of Listening in the Early Church. By Carol Harrison

Carol Harrison, Professor of the History and Theology of the Latin West at Durham University, has produced a groundbreaking book on listening in the early Church. Going beyond the analysis of early Christian use of rhetorical language and techniques, she seeks to understand the synergy between the art of speaking and the discipline of hearing. So rather than focusing on the (male) educated elite, Harrison is more attentive to what she calls the “cultural literacy” or the facility for “literate listening” among the illiterate majority in the ancient world. This allows her to explore the Christian culture built up by speakers and writers of early Christian texts. She wants to discover how these authors were influenced by their intended hearers, and also how these hearers, in turn, heard and responded to them. This is well captured by Harrison when she describes this as eavesdropping on a conversation. As she rightly states, if we ignore the listener then we also close our ears to the real “resonances” of what is being said, as speech is an act that is always two-sided.

Idioms-Proverbs Lexicon for Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Sentiment Analysis

Although, the fair amount of works in sentiment analysis (SA) and opinion mining (OM) systems in the last decade and with respect to the performance of these systems, but it still not desired performance, especially for morphologically-Rich Language (MRL) such as Arabic, due to the complexities and challenges exist in the nature of the languages itself. One of these challenges is the detection of idioms or proverbs phrases within the writer text or comment. An idiom or proverb is a form of speech or an expression that is peculiar to itself. Grammatically, it cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements and can yield different sentiment when treats as separate words. Consequently, In order to facilitate the task of detection and classification of lexical phrases for automated SA systems, this paper presents AIPSeLEX a novel idioms/ proverbs sentiment lexicon for modern standard Arabic (MSA) and colloquial. AIPSeLEX is manually collected and annotated at sentence level with semantic orientation (positive or negative). The efforts of manually building and annotating the lexicon are reported. Moreover, we build a classifier that extracts idioms and proverbs, phrases from text using n-gram and similarity measure methods. Finally, several experiments were carried out on various data, including Arabic tweets and Arabic microblogs (hotel reservation, product reviews, and TV program comments) from publicly available Arabic online reviews websites (social media, blogs, forums, e-commerce web sites) to evaluate the coverage and accuracy of AIPSeLEX.

Three Writers of Arabic Texts in Yogyakarta

This study examines the use of the Arabic alphabet in religious literature in Yogyakarta. This study uses a case study on three figure writers of religious texts that using the Arabic alphabet in southern part of Central Java (Yogyakarta), namely Asrori Ahmad (Magelang), Ali Maksum (Yogyakarta), and Ahmad Mujab Mahalli (Bantul). This study concluded that the writing of religious texts in Arabic alphabet in the southern Java area had been carried out by means of using Arabic Pegon, and only a few people who wrote in the Arabic language. The transmission of Arabic Pegon in Yogyakarta is allegedly from north coast of Java, especially from Lasem / East Java. The tradition of Arabic language teaching in the pesantrens still focuses mostly on the reading effort, communication, and understanding and it is not oriented to the writing skill. The presence of international journals initiated by the College of Islamic religious institutions and the effort of translation business into Arabic from certain institutions gives an opportunity to strengthen the use of the Arabic alphabet in Indonesia.

PETER W. M. BLAYNEY, The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501-1557, 2 vols.

FOR quite a long time those who work in the Early Modern history of the book have told each other untruths or semi-truths, have relied on unverified or unverifiable records, and have created a story of the Stationers’ Company which is seriously inaccurate. A clue to the problem for English book history before Mary I’s granting the Stationers a charter of incorporation on 4 May 1557 can be seen in the title of the book under review: ‘the Stationers’ Company and the Printers of London’. That ‘and’ indicates how we have misunderstood things for quite a long time. Blayney’s two volumes are a masterful and detailed correction of many of the common and entrenched views. In the ‘Preface’ Blayney is at pains to state our current difficulties. He demonstrates the errors made by three giants in this field, H. R. Plomer, Cyprian Blagden, and W. W. Greg, and notes that their eminence will cause their errors to be repeated by others unless they are corrected, and so he has ‘chosen to take arms against a sea of muddles, and by exposing, mend them’ (xx). And his method is to actually go out and search the records, be they guild, civic, parish, or any other surviving records. Alas, the earliest records held by the Company date only from 1555 (membership records) and 1557 (legal and official records) and so Blayney must go further afield, much further afield, since the Company was first officially organized in 1403, and he is at some pains to determine the correct meaning for the title ‘stationer’ as it was in use from the beginning of the fifteenth century until incorporation. What Blayney does tell us is that at least until the introduction of printing in England those in the company were text writers, sellers of manuscript books, as well as some blank books and, in some amount, binders. In other words, they were in the book trade but they were not the book trade, and those scholars who have held that there was some sort of general and systematic growth of the trade and the company in tandem which made the charter of 1557 inevitable have simply been engaged in wishful thinking without recourse to real evidence.

ON SOME JOURNALS WRITTEN DURING THE LATIN PRESS BAN

<p>The work of gathering information about writers and rewriters started soon after the abolition of Latin press ban in 1904, especially actively participating in the process on the 40th and the 50th anniversary. During the 80s of the 20th century a bibliographer and specialist in literature Aleksejs Apīnis named the writers of Press ban time the farmers’ Prometheus.</p><p>From about 20 currently known rewriters the life and creative work of Andrivs Jūrdžs have been revealed most exhaustively. Many Prometheus are known only by their name, but not the text, that they had recorded. The problematic issue is also the question of how not to mistake the author (a text writer) with the text owner.</p><p>The aim of the article is to have a closer look at some of the manuscripts, which have been so far kept in private collections and seen as an integral part of family history. The authors of these works are known, so the list of the writers of Latin print ban time will be complemented.</p><p>In some 20-page notebook a former soldier Jezups Veituls (1845–?) in 1878 recorded two fasting period and two Christmas time songs. The song of 74 verses “Dzismie ap muku kunga Jezu Chrysta” seems as a summary of several Fasting songs, united by a refrain “Atey Jesu, Atey Jesu, Atej Jesu O! prica./ Miłoju tiewi sirds wysa”. The song tells about Saviour’s pathway of pain. The second song – “Pazamud cyłwaks” – calls for a return to God. Both songs have failed to find originals. Scientists have managed to find the origin of Christmas songs – “Pasokat miłi Ganini” and “Pestitoys dzyma”. The first one is the translation of some variant of the Polish song “Powiedzcie, pasterze mili” (from the book “Symfonie anielskie” (“Symphony of Angels”), 1631), the other one is the translation from Polish “Mesjasz przyszedł na świat prawdziwy” (“W Kanie Galilejskiej”), which was read the first time in Latgalian in the book “Eysas łyugszonas un dzismies” (1824). It is one of the few spiritual songs, that were sung at Latgalian weddings.</p><p>The author of the article finds it essential to search for originals of spiritual songs, because their absence would allow writers to think about the poet’s talent and would enable to see some creative sparkle. Texts are compared with Andrivs Jūrdžs’ recorded works. We would like to believe, that there was an edition of spiritual songs translated under the guidance of some clergyman or organist. References can be found in the Polish Catholic press in the 80s of the 19th century. But it should be inspected separately.</p><p>Veitulu Jezups, who was 33 years old, when he was recording songs, was a farmer and a skilled carpenter. He graduated from folk school, where it was not taught to read and write in Latvian (Latgalian). What made him write? Was it salary for the recorded text, the lack of songs, or maybe it was still wish for self-actualization? The writer’s great-grandson Ivars Vītols has carried out a valuable research on his family, which will be replenished with a proud of great-grandfather’s belonging to the unique recorder’s circuit of Latin Press Ban time.</p><p>One of the first known women transcribers during the Latin Press Ban was Anna Laizāne (1873–1958), who acquired the literacy at home. She was a colorful personality, in Taunagas Manor bill book next to a variety of medical prescriptions and incantations suitable for healing, she transcribed so-called heavenly book – with the registration of unfortunate 42 days and divine instructions.</p><p>The witness of people’s faith in living with superstition is the book written on canvas by the farmer Benedikts Višņevskis (1871–1943), who lived in Atašiene. Heavenly letter transcribed in 1903 (shortly before the abolition of the press ban) revealing many promises and also threats shows the time, when faith is suppressed and books are banned, but superstition replaces enlightenment. But the recorders daring to get into the unknown world through print signs and incomprehensible expressions of rewritable sources must be accordingly evaluated. A small cloth book has been used as an amulet, so it is a value for another Višņevskis family. The work transcribed by B. Višņevskis is the evidence of the existence of hitherto unmentioned heavenly books or genre of letters in Latgalian spiritual literature.</p><p>The works of Press Ban time can also be found today – 110 years after the abolition of the ban, but still there are many, including still unknown and undiscovered written evidences of the life of people at the end of the 19th century – at the beginning of the 20th century.</p>

At læse efter generne

Literary Darwinism challenges mainstream literary scholars by claiming that literary phenomena can be explained by biological theory. The Darwinists claim that modern literary studies lack a solid scientific base and that this is due to the influence of the postmodernists. Rather than idle speculations about textual autopoiesis and the death of the author, literary scholars should adopt the methodologies of the natural sciences and thus produce real explanations.This essay argues that even though there is certainly much of so-called postmodernism that can be criticized and that modern literary studies lack a thorough debate about the nature of scientific inquiry, the study of literature remains fundamentally the study of text. Thus, text sets the criteria for proper scientific procedure and methodology in the field of literary studies.This is not to deny that man is the product of natural selection or that bodies and brains are the readers and writers of text. But these facts are but conditions of possibility. Knowledge of biological theory will only to a very limited extent give real explanations of literature and culture: in fact, such explanations are almost always trivial and thus incapable of producing new knowledge.Biology is not only ill suited to give us new insights; it cannot provide a scientific base. This is because in order to obtain objective knowledge of literary phenomena, the object of inquiry is not human nature but real text. Instead, we must look to intertextuality and constructivism to provide the criteria of proper science.

Vashti and the Golden legend: A pagan queen turns saint?

Hagiographic texts establish a narrative template for shame, avoidance of shame, what looks like death wish in courtly literature. Scenes of shame and its avoidance through death are adapted and folded into romance and other genres and affect how characters behave and are described and gendered. This article treats saints’ lives as literary texts and identifies the language used for female saints in the Old French and Old Occitan versions of the Legenda aurea and uses that codified language to compare the hagiographic text with a vernacular Jewish narrative: the Occitan Romans de la reina Ester , written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets by Crescas Caslari in 1327. This codification gives insight into how widespread such language and description became by the fourteenth century across language and culture barriers. Both the hagiographic texts and the romance are read as narrative, regardless of their intent for the original audiences. Acknowledging the deep-seated literary tradition of shame in a woman’s bodied existence and attempts to avoid that shame through dying, it is argued that both narratives have such substance and language in common that there may be crossover between the readers or writers of Jewish and Christian contemporary texts. This article first establishes the critical approaches to the lives of the saints and the death wish more generally. Secondly, it shows one pattern of the death wish in the French and Occitan Golden legend, that of a desire for death to avoid shame. Thirdly, it presents the language of the death wish for a female character folded into a Jewish text and how the similarities between Christian and Jewish description of such a character could imply an even more widespread sharing of saints’ lives than just among a Christian community.

Cultural grounds of corruption in Russia

A subject of the research is the strategies of corrupt behaviour of the modern Russians and possible cultural grounds of these strategies. Having analyzed modern theories of the corrupt behaviour and cultural texts of Soviet writers, filmmakers, contemporary Russian writers we found cultural grounds of social communications rooted in an archaic and traditional Russian cultural space. Modern Russian social communications include cultural practices associated with giving and feasting. The difference between the strategies of the corrupt behaviour and cultural practices of giving and feasting is fundamental and should be considered in the modern Russian social management. Methodology of the study is related to the conceptual analysis of texts of cultural anthropologists, including those who study the economic and social aspects of giving. We applied hermeneutics of cultural texts, art representatives of the Soviet mythological world view and the Russian national image of the world. Scientific novelty of the study involves identifying interdependence between the Soviet mythological world view, the Russian national image of the world and the economic and social communications of giving and feasting. It is shown that the legal mechanisms to overcome the negative consequences of the corrupt behaviour are insufficient. It is necessary to introduce cultural practices based on the archaic and traditional values transformed to the new social communications and new strategies of social management.

L2 Learner Corpus Analysis of Modal Expressions in Written Text

This study aims to compare different uses of epistemic modality used in both non- native texts (NNT) and native texts (NT) of writers based on the frequency of epistemic modality. In addition, there is an insightful exploration of how these different usage of modality should be tackled in order to foster the pragmatic competence of L2 learners in second language teaching and learning environment since the use of epistemic modality is a crucial area of pragmatic failure in the work of L2 learners. In order to answer the research questions, the range and frequency corpus program was used to show the total frequency of word usage including different types of epistemic modality. 180 NNT and 152 NT were collected and analyzed based on the categorization of epistemic modality. The study shows that can and should are prominent features, taking a higher frequency in NNT of writers among other modal expressions used. On the other hand, would and might are the ones much less used in comparison to ones in NT. In addition, NNT of writers tend to overuse a number of epistemic modality such as think, know, always, and a lot of, indicating the lack of awareness of using various types of epistemic modality particularly used by NT of writers such as would, might, seem, perhaps, likely and so on. This study also demonstrates a number of misused examples of epistemic modality which are corrected by native writers. These cases indicate the possibility of first language transfer and weak pragmatic competence of learners in second language learning environment.

Störfälle : Literary Accounts from Chernobyl to Fukushima

Nuclear accidents and the radiation they release into the environment exceed human sensory perception and, ultimately, comprehension. Whereas sociological analyses of such catastrophes tend to emphasize the difficulties of risk management, writers of literary texts raise questions of meaning and narrative control. Spanning the period from 1987 to 2012, the disaster texts by Christa Wolf, Inka Parei, Yoko Tawada, and Elfriede Jelinek that are the focus of this essay explore the personal, political, linguistic, and historical complexities of such catastrophes. Expressing and acknowledging the helplessness of the subject, they offer narrative approaches to catastrophe beyond individual responses and responsibilities.