Although Van Dijk and Kintsch's model of text comprehension has been shown to be an effective theory for describing many findings with academic implications, their model has far reaching potential ...beyond the classroom - perhaps into the courtroom. At the end of a criminal trial, jurors are provided with a set of instructions regarding how they should apply relevant law to the present case. Unfortunately, most current juror instructions are very difficult to comprehend. Though linguistically based simplifications of these instructions have improved comprehension for jury-eligible adults, comprehension remains quite poor resulting in jurors basing decisions on stereotypes and biases rather than the law. The present essay reviews some of the research that has been conducted on improving juror comprehension, the effectiveness of some of these attempts, and makes an argument for utilizing Van Dijk and Kintsch's situation model as a vehicle for additional improvement in juror instructions and hence juror comprehension.
This book is for scholars, practitioners, and general readers interested in charismatic leadership and its influence on politics, particularly in Latin America. It also provides key insights about ...two recent global trends: the rise of 'populist' leaders and governments and the erosion of democracy.
The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin's notion of the turn of time. Current work on Malick's films emphasizes ...the spatial dynamics of his cinema, particularly as it pertains, from within a phenomenological framework, to the viewer's experience of films. This book redirects scholarly attention to the way Malick's directorial work shapes time and duration, laying new groundwork for the analysis of how films unsettle nature-culture binaries in modernity. The study performs this intervention through a rigorous engagement with Walter Benjamin's work on time, violence and technologies and the emergent figural approach to aesthetics in film studies. Each of these methods has important precedents in film studies and other fields. The combination of methods performed in this book contributes to understanding the relevance of a time-based approach to Malick's films and the practical implications of a time-based relation to history in contemporary ecocinema discourses.
This book provides a critical analysis of the liberal ideas of the decline of the state through a historical comparison. It takes special note of the implications of state failure to control economic ...growth and market exigencies for international relations. The book is divided into three sections. The first analyzes Cobden, Mitrany, and Ohmae's empirical claims, the second looks at their normative judgements and the third looks at their predictive assertions. It concludes that the three primarily propose normative arguments for less state involvement in economic and international relations but conceal them in empirical and predictive assertions. The liberal idea of the decline of the state is more of an ideological statement in response to political, social, and economic trends than an objective observation of an empirically verifiable fact.
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Not Needing all the Words looks at Ondaatje's work in relation to the post-Cartesian idea of the modern subject as split and alienated. Highlighting the distinction between aesthesis and logic, ...Hillger traces the ways in which Ondaatje responds to the continuing process of silencing art in the modern age of reason.
Prof. Ramesh, with his thorough knowledge of the Western and Indian poetics, as well as the culture of the land is the right person to explain and interpret the poems of T. Vasudeva Reddy's Fleeting ...Bubbles. This collection of poems holds a mirror as it were to the existing social situations in India. Following an introduction, this book explores Fleeting Bubbles in six phases: Rural, Urban, Political and Social, Subjective, General, and Spiritual phases. Each chapter focuses on the aspects of a particular thematic pattern as it is analyzed and explained. _x000D_ Prof. Ramesh occupies a special place, an unenviable position with his total reliance on Indian poetics, while analyzing and interpreting a poem by an Indian poet. As such with his toolkit of integrated critical background and approach, he can easily open the chambers of the concealed beauties of the poems of Dr. T.V. Reddy and make it accessible to the average reader. _x000D_ The poetry of Dr. Reddy is loaded with the rich ore of ambiguity and Prof. Ramesh has successfully unearthed the hidden layers and beauties of the poems of Fleeting Bubbles and decoded the lines for reader's understanding. As one goes through this book, the reader can understand better the critical concepts of Dr. Ramesh and the nature of his critical approach in understanding and interpreting a poem. _x000D_ Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya, (1947 -) is a distinguished scholar, researcher, a bilingual writer in English and Bengali and editor from Kolkata. He did M. A. in three subjects, M.Phil. and Ph.D. in English and Sutrapitaka Tirtha and has retired as a college lecturer and professor. He has written more than forty books in English and Bengali and has published hundreds of critical articles and poems. He lives near Sri Ramakrishna Mission at Belur in Kolkata. _x000D_ From Modern History Press
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This book comprises interviews with some of the last surviving veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw ghetto, accompanied by never previously published photographic postcards from ...a number of ghettoes, and a reconstruction of the only surviving contemporary list of those soldiers that strives to salvage vestiges of their stories from oblivion.The first part of the book, Still Circling, is a collection of interviews with the last surviving soldiers of the Jewish Fighting Organization (OB), which fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The section opens with an interview recorded in 1985 with Marek Edelman, by then the only commander of the OB still alive, and ends with another conversation with him recorded in 2000. The other interviewees included are also OB veteransrank-and-file soldiers, men and women. These veterans relate the stories of their homes and their backgroundssome were Bundists, others from Zionist or religious familiesfollowed by their recollections of how they experienced and remembered the uprising, which provides several unique perspectives of shared episodes. Images include portraits of Grupiskas interlocutors as well as never before published photographs of the ghetto and its surroundings that are reminiscent of postcards. The second part of the book, Rereading the List, is intended to function like a litany of the names of the OB members who fought in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. This list was compiled by fighters in 1943 and discovered by the author in 2000. Each name is accompanied by a short story about the fightersometimes only a sentence or twoas well as any available photograph of the soldier. The list is followed by a reconstruction of the OB army, which captures its divisions and the places they fought.
Dennis Altman first travelled from Australia tothe United States when Lyndon Johnson was President, beginning a long obsessionwith the US. In the early 1970s he was involved in New York Gay ...Liberation; his1971 study Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation.
Critical Discourse Analysis (or Critical Discourse Studies – CDA/CDS) examines the relationship between texts, discourses and power, dominance, power abuses and social inequalities. Critical ...discourse analysis is a multidisciplinary research perspective, which not only examines the interactions between the text, the micro level and its surroundings, the macro level, but its main goal is to uncover social inequalities, expose the forms and modalities of abuse of power. The representatives of CDA are committed to social equality and justice. Present paper presents the work of one of the outstanding representatives of Critical Discourse Analysis, Teun A. Van Dijk, by presenting the history and possibilities of CDA, and also the key elements of Van Dijk’s approach. This study aims to show how knowledge, power and discourse are connected in Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis.
A kritikai diskurzuselemzés (Critical Discourse Analysis, újabban Critical Discourse Studies – CDA/CDS) a szövegek, diskurzusok és a hatalom (power), uralom (dominance), hatalmi visszaélések (power abuse) és a társadalmi egyenlőtlenségek közti viszonyrendszert vizsgálja. A kritikai diskurzuselemzés multidiszciplináris elemzési perspektíva, amely nemcsak a szöveg – azaz a mikroszint – és annak környezete – makroszint – közti kölcsönhatásokat vizsgálja, célja, hogy felfedje a társadalmi egyenlőtlenségéket, felszínre hozza a hatalommal való visszaélés formáit, módozatait. A CDA képviselői elköteleződöttek a társadalmi egyenlőség és az igazságosság mellett. Jelen tanulmány a kritikai diskurzuselemzés egyik kiemelkedő képviselőjének, Teun A. Van Dijknak a munkásságát mutatja be, érintve a kritikai diskurzuselemzés gyökereit, felhasználási lehetőségeit, bemutatva Teun A. Van Dijk megközelítésének kulcsfogalmait. A tanulmány célja megmutatni, hogyan köti össze a tudást, a hatalmat és a diskurzusokat Van Dijk, különös figyelmet fordítva a Van Dijk-féle társadalmi tudat bemutatására.
