Translanguaging is both going between different linguistic structures and systems and going beyond them. It includes the full range of linguistic performances of multilingual language users for ...purposes that transcend the combination of structures, the alternation between systems, the transmission of information and the representation of values, identities and relationships.
Translanguaing space is a space for the act of translanguaging as well as a space created through translanguaging. It is a space where the process of what Bhabha calls “cultural translation” between traditions takes place. The notion of
translanguaging space embraces the concepts of creativity and criticality, which are fundamental but hitherto under-explored dimensions of multilingual practices. Using a combination of observation of multilingual practices and metalanguage commentaries by three Chinese youths in Britain, the article retells their experiences of growing up in a society which is dominated by a variety of monolingual ideologies, their multilingual practices and the creativity and criticality shown through such practices, the identity positions they construct and present for themselves, and the social spaces they create and occupy within the wider space they find themselves in. It examines the following themes: fun with words, from weekend bilingualism to flexible multilingualism, creating space and cultivating relationships, and transnational space. In examining these themes, a method, called Moment Analysis, is proposed, which aims to capture what appears to be spur-of-the-moment actions that are semiotically highly significant to the actors and their subsequent actions, what prompted such actions and the consequences of such moments including the reactions by other people.
To understand how people cultivate and sustain authenticity in multiple, often shifting, work roles, we analyze qualitative data gathered over five years from a sample of 48 plural careerists—people ...who choose to simultaneously hold and identify with multiple jobs. We find that people with multiple work identities struggle with being, feeling, and seeming authentic both to their contextualized work roles and to their broader work selves. Further, practices developed to cope with these struggles change over time, suggesting a two-phase emergent process of authentication in which people first synchronize their individual work role identities and then progress toward harmonizing a more general work self. This study challenges the notion that consistency is the core of authenticity, demonstrating that for people with multiple valued identities, authenticity is not about being true to one identity across time and contexts, but instead involves creating and holding cognitive and social space for several true versions of oneself that may change over time. It suggests that authentication is the emergent, socially constructed process of both determining who one is and helping others see who one is.
“Fake news” has emerged as a global buzzword. While prominent media outlets, such as The New York Times, CNN, and Buzzfeed News, have used the term to designate misleading information spread online, ...President Donald Trump has used the term as a negative designation of these very “mainstream media.” In this article, we argue that the concept of “fake news” has become an important component in contemporary political struggles. We showcase how the term is utilised by different positions within the social space as means of discrediting, attacking and delegitimising political opponents. Excavating three central moments within the construction of “fake news,” we argue that the term has increasingly become a “floating signifier”: a signifier lodged in-between different hegemonic projects seeking to provide an image of how society is and ought to be structured. By approaching “fake news” from the viewpoint of discourse theory, the paper reframes the current stakes of the debate and contributes with new insights into the function and consequences of “fake news” as a novel political category.
Investigating Human Interaction through Mathematical Analysis offers a new and unique approach to social intragroup interaction by using mathematics and psychophysics to create a mathematical model ...based on social psychological theories. It draws on the work of Dr. Stanley Milgram, Dr. Bibb Latane, and Dr. Bernd Schmitt to develop an algebraic expression and applies it to quantitatively model and explain various independent social psychology experiments taken from refereed journals involving basic social systems with underlying queue-like structures. It is then argued that the social queue as a resource system, containing common-pool resources, meets the eight design principles necessary to support stability within the queue. Making this link provides a means to advance to more complex social systems. It is envisioned that if basic social systems as presented can be modeled, then, with further development, more complex social systems may eventually be modeled for the purpose of identifying and validating social structures that might eventually support stable governments in our common environment called Earth. This is a fascinating reading for academics and advanced students interested in political theory, detection theory, social psychology, organizational behavior, psychophysics, and applied mathematics in the social and information sciences.
There are thousands of ethnic Chinese students from different backgrounds in British universities today, a fact that has not been fully appreciated or studied from an applied linguistics perspective. ...For example, there are third- or fourth-generation British-born Chinese; there are students from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore who have received whole or part of their primary and secondary education in Britain; and there are Chinese students who completed their schooling in their home countries. To add to the diversity of the Chinese student population, several distinctive varieties of Chinese are spoken as well as different varieties of English and other languages. In terms of their choice of language and social networks, the Chinese students have several options, including, for example, staying with their own language variety group (e.g. Cantonese, Mandarin); staying with their own region-of-origin group (e.g. British-born, Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kong); and creating new transnational and multilingual groupings. This article focuses on a group of Chinese university students who have chosen to create transnational and multilingual networks. Through analysis of narrative data and ethnographic observations, we explore issues such as their socio-cultural identification processes, the interactions between their linguistic and political ideologies; their multilingual practices and what they have learned from being part of this new social space. Adapted from the source document
Privacy and Social Spaces Da Silva Perez, Natália
Tijdschrift voor sociale en economische geschiedenis,
11/2021, Letnik:
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In this introductory text to the special issue Regulating Access: Privacy and the Private in Early Modern Dutch Contexts, Natália da Silva Perez argues that privacy can be a productive analytical ...lens to examine the social history of the Dutch Republic. She starts by providing an overview of theoretical definitions of privacy and of the ‘private versus public’ dichotomy, highlighting their implications for the study of society. Next, she discusses the modern view of privacy as a legally protected right, explaining that we must adjust expectations when applying the concept to historical examination: in the early modern period, privacy was not yet fully incorporated within a legal framework, and yet, it was a widespread need across different echelons of society. She provides a historical overview of this widespread need for privacy through instances where people attempted to regulate access to their material and immaterial resources. Finally, she describes how the four articles in this special issue contribute to our understanding of the role of privacy in early modern Dutch life.
Among the Otomi of the eastern Sierra Madre mountain range, the question of alterity addresses the status of antagonistic beings interacting within the social space of the native community which ...encompasses both the ecosystem of the living and the domain occupied by the dwellers of the underworld. We emphasize the contrast between an exoalterity concerning all the foreign alteri, i.e. unknown people, and an endoalterity that includes threatening enemies originating from the very circle of commensality. Among the latter are the witches, some of whom are kin to those in the circle of commensality, on a quest for blood entailing the sacrifice of newborns, assimilated to the progeny of the Devil, in order to satisfy the predation of this vital substance, assimilated to semen, which is the preliminary condition leading to the revitalization of the cosmos, as expressed in a spectacular way by the octava ritual at the end of Carnival time.
Brasile: territorio ed epidemia. Annotazioni Teresa Isenburg
Nuovi autoritarismi e democrazie : diritto, instituzioni, società : NAD,
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This essay aims to provide an initial assessment on the territorial consequences of Brazilian Coronavirus epidemic’s management policies.
Territorial aspects of social processes, which are the subject of the study of the sociology of space, are becoming increasingly relevant for our country due to the expansion of economic ties between ...the West and the East and the increasing importance of the territory of Russia connecting the European Union and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region – the main beneficiaries in the future economic integration of Europe and Asia. In line with the sociology of space, the author examines the geostrategic potential of Russia in this process. The sociology of space contains two main meanings – physical, characterizing natural conditions, and social – the result of people's activities to transform nature, the material environment, society and the person. The Russian state, which emerged on the foundation of European culture, developed in the process of close interaction with Asian cultures – first of all, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, which determines the special role of the Russian social space in the future unification of Europe and Asia into a single mega-continent. For Russia itself, this means that it has the prospect of converting its unique experience of centuries– old coexistence in a Christian state of various civilizations and cultures, as well as its geographical advantage – bi-continentality into real economic results. To substantiate the reality of this perspective, the author relies on a broad factual base.
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