Verb Phrase (VP) is one of the most important types of phrase for its function. It provides information about the subject of the sentence. Verb Phrase itself has more than one type. It also has ...ontological aspect, an aspect by which a certain situation is represented. This aspect is made up by features. This study aims at finding out and analyzing the types of VP and their ontological features in National Geographic’s Visions of Mars. By analyzing and understanding the types of VP and their ontological features, readers understand the discourse more. They gain more perspective syntactically. This study employs syntactic approach and is qualitative in nature. The results yield three different types of VP, i.e. action, process, and state where action VP places the highest position. There are four ontological features found in Visions of Mars, i.e. dynamic, agentive, non-evolving, and evolving. The findings imply how Visions of Mars is structured. The deeds are mostly conducted or done by an agent and show prompt situations.
National Geographic magazine's January 2017 special issue focused on gender around the world, including the magazine's first explicit discussion of gender identity and transgender lives. I argue that ...the issue enacts a colonizing rhetoric of new discovery to address gender identity, whereby the magazine obscures past and present understandings of gender identity from cultures around the globe to position itself (and the United States) as especially innovative and progressive. I name the phenomenon of talking about the present in ways that forecast a brighter tomorrow by deflecting other pasts and presents futurespective kainotēs.
In an era before affordable travel, National Geographic not only served as the first glimpse of countless other worlds for its readers, but it helped them confront sweeping historical change. There ...was a time when its cover, with the unmistakable yellow frame, seemed to be on every coffee table, in every waiting room. InAmerican Iconographic,Stephanie L. Hawkins tracesNational Geographic's rise to cultural prominence, from its first publication of nude photographs in 1896 to the 1950s, when the magazine's trademark visual and textual motifs found their way into cartoon caricature, popular novels, and film trading on the "romance" of the magazine's distinctive visual fare.
National Geographictransformed local color into global culture through its production and circulation of readily identifiable cultural icons. The adventurer-photographer, the exotic woman of color, and the intrepid explorer were part of the magazine's "institutional aesthetic," a visual and textual repertoire that drew upon popular nineteenth-century literary and cultural traditions. This aesthetic encouraged readers to identify themselves as members not only in an elite society but, paradoxically, as both Americans and global citizens. More than a window on the world, National Geographic presented a window on American cultural attitudes and drew forth a variety of complex responses to social and historical changes brought about by immigration, the Great Depression, and world war.
Drawing on the National Geographic Society's archive of readers' letters and its founders' correspondence, Hawkins reveals how the magazine's participation in the "culture industry" was not so straightforward as scholars have assumed. Letters from the magazine's earliest readers offer an important intervention in this narrative of passive spectatorship, revealing how readers resisted and revisedNational Geographic's authority. Its photographs and articles celebrated American self-reliance and imperialist expansion abroad, but its readers were highly aware of these representational strategies, and alert to inconsistencies between the magazine's editorial vision and its photographs and text. Hawkins also illustrates how the magazine actually encouraged readers to question Western values and identify with those beyond the nation's borders. Chapters devoted to the magazine's practice of photographing its photographers on assignment and to its genre of husband-wife adventurers reveal a more enlightenedNational Geographicinvested in a cosmopolitan vision of a global human family.
A fascinating narrative of how a cultural institution can influence and embody public attitudes, this book is the definitive account of an iconic magazine's unique place in the American imagination.
The April 2018 issue of National Geographic, dubbed "The Race Issue," began with an editorial that acknowledged the magazine's racist history. Although the editorial and the issue it introduced ...enjoyed popular reception as an apology for the magazine's racism, I argue the apparent apology instead functions as a half-performative that, while effective in some respects, otherwise works to mask ongoing racist representations. The magazine's half-performative apology contributes to the normalization of whiteness in U.S. culture, even while the magazine profits from the cultural capital it gains for (partially) apologizing for racism. I call for the rigorous analysis of non-performative and half-performative apologies and the construction of better, more genuine apologies.
Magazyn „National Geographic”, ukazujący się w Stanach Zjednoczonych od XIX wieku, pojawił się na polskim rynku w 1999 roku w efekcie zaistniałej transformacji ustrojowej, która doprowadziła do wielu ...zmian, również na rynku medialnym w kraju. Czasopismo to ze względu na zawartość przynależy do segmentu prasy popularnonaukowej. Jego redaktorzy za cel wyznaczają wzbudzanie w czytelnikach zainteresowania rozmaitymi zagadnieniami, w tym tymi, dotyczącymi Kosmosu. W artykule przedstawiono analizę formalno-treściową periodyku jako potencjalnego źródła informacji w tej sferze zainteresowania. Omówiono m.in. zarys historyczny tytułu na polskim rynku wydawniczym, przybliżono dane statystyczne dotyczące wybranych publikacji, ich wartość merytoryczną, poznawczą oraz estetyczną.
This study investigates the types of modulation which were used on the translation process of National Geographic Magazine of June 2014 both on USA and Indonesian issue. The purposes of this study ...areto describe the use of modulation in translating “National Geographic” from English to Indonesian and to describe the maintenance of the source target meaning in the target text. The qualitative approach was used to describe the quantitative data which was got from the analysis. The data of this study was collected using reading and inventorying stages and analyzed using comparing, identifying, and evaluating process. The collected data then was analyzed to investigate the modulation‟s impact on message maintenance. Based on those analyses, substitution has the highest rank of modulation type used on the magazine‟s articles (37.8% of total 111 data) followed by reversal (34.2%), deviation (14.4%), specification (8.1%), and generalization (5.4%) sequentially. This result is linear to the maintenance of message rating which was taken from five English Department lecturer raters. It shows that the highest number of score 3 (well delivered) percentage ratio is obtained by specification (75.5%) followed by reversal (72.6%), deviation (72.5%), substitution (71.2%) and generalization (60%). From the result above it can be seen that the more frequent occurrence does not always mean to be so effective compared to the less frequent one. The highest percentage of successful maintenance was obtained by specification, which is on 4th rank on the frequency of occurrence table. The most frequent type of modulation, substitution, only settles on 4th rank on the table of score 3. On the other hand, the most distorted type of modulation is gotten by reversal with 9.5% on score 1, while the least distorted one is gotten by generalization.
What do people share from quarantine? Nikjoo, Adel; Shabani, Bardia; Hernández-Lara, Ana Beatriz
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The COVID-19 pandemic, and its consequent self-isolation, has imposed changes on various aspects of people's lifestyle. The present study aims at exploring the effect of these lifestyle changes on ...the content people share on their social media pages. To do so, we analysed Instagram posts containing the hashtag #viewfromquarantine which is promoted by the 'National Geographic' on a global scale. Adaptation to the new lifestyle, self-expression, and social issues were identified as the main issues shared by people during this time of pandemic.
This article investigates how polar bears were established as icons of climate change in the popular science magazine National Geographic. In a multistep process, anthropomorphized depictions first ...established polar bears as subjects of identification. Then, polar bears were visually connected to the endangered Arctic. Finally, they emerged as ambassadors of a threatened ecosystem and icons of climate change. I highlight the wider political contexts of this process of iconization and the semiotic and cultural resources on which it draws, showing what kind of climate change communication the polar bear icon enables or inhibits. The icon lends itself to being deployed in visual communication strategies creating personal concern and public awareness for climate change. At the same time, the icon fosters an individualized, emotionalized, and localized account of climate change but does not make its wider causes visible.
Nonhuman animals play significant roles in children's lives. While research into children's relationships with animals is thriving, an overlooked area is children's vicarious experience of animals ...through realistic representations in nonfiction books, magazines, and other media. We used content analysis to examine how animals were represented on 103 National Geographic Kids magazine covers from 2004 to 2013, a magazine with an enormous readership and classroom application. Specifically, we measured the represented animals' demographics, conservation status, levels of charisma, and degrees of anthropomorphism. We found that the covers represented charismatic mammals (mostly wildlife) more frequently than less charismatic domestic animals (mostly companion animals) who were also significantly more likely to be anthropomorphized in the images. Importantly, there were no representations of farm animals, captive animals, invertebrates, or detritivores on the covers, and their absence was a critical finding of the research. By not representing these animals, the covers may lead children to undervalue them, thus perpetuating the exploitation of vulnerable species.
This study aims to analyse the construction of environmental problems of National Geographic Turkey magazine. National Geographic magazine presents important environmental problems like melting ...glaciers, deforestation, and the extinction of species like gorilla to 60 millions of people in 41 languages for more than a century. In this study, 7 environmental articles published between 2001 and 2016 are examined through qualitative content analysis. The categories of qualitative content analysis are the six approaches of narration and five key factors of effective environmental media content developed by John Hannigan. Findings show the dramatic elements like the narration of gorilla killings as a murder case and the story of native and sorcerer beside the catastrophic themes like drying of Aral Lake and turning the local population into refugees. Conflicting views of different sides are presented in issues like raising exotic animals, settlements in valleys and protection national parks from the effects of climate change. In conclusion, the efficient narration style of magazine consisting of science, disaster and conflict themes includes dramatic elements, scientific and institutional references and implementations for solutions.
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