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Ghanaian Cultural Symbols As Wall Decorations For Cultural Education And Revitalization In Higher Institutions Of Ghana: The Case Of K.N.U.S.T., Dickson Adom, Osafo Agyemang, Gideon Owusu Manu

Journal of Urban Culture Research

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology - KNUST is one of the leading universities in Africa that should vividly portray the rich cultural heritage of the Ghanaian people to the diverse people who come to the institution. One powerful means for offering such cultural education is through the visual representation of Ghanaian cultural symbols that have philosophical underwriting of the ideologies, norms, and beliefs of Ghanaians. This research utilized the studio based research and qualitative study approaches in investigating and producing samples of cultural symbols that could be used for such decorations on buildings at vantage spots of …

Dandakaranya In Shanghai: A Transcultural Discussion Of City-Zen, Gisa Jähnichen

Journal of Urban Culture Research

The Shanghai Conservatory of Music owns a large collection of 'Oriental Musical Instruments' that are exhibited and stored in its museum. Every week, a gamelan class is held in order to promote the collection of instruments. Recently, scenes from the Dandaka forest of the Ramayana were put in a dance performance accompanied by students playing the large Javanese gamelan of the museum. The paper shows how the discussion of global human values as well as the necessity of practicing ensemble playing in a highly competitive cultural environment makes the gamelan class becoming a time space for mental recreation and a …

The Success And Failure Of Oneida Community Architecture, Kevin Coffee

American Communal Societies Quarterly

The Oneida Community Mansion House comprised multiple structures, including four large interconnected structures built as the 1862 Main House, the 1864 Tontine, the 1869 South Wing and the 1878 New House. Three of those structures were primarily residential. The 1864 Tontine building was designed as a workhouse and dining room. It is these four buildings that are the focus of this essay.

This essay proceeds from the assertion that the architecture of the Oneida Community is much more than background. The Community’s residential buildings reveal much about their communal experiment and the trans-Atlantic world with which they communicated. What follows …

Document: Reasons For Uniting With The People Called Shakers: Comprised In A Short Sketch Of The Author’S Religious Exercises, And A Brief Statement Of The Peculiar Doctrines And Practices Of That People, Proctor Sampson

American Communal Societies Quarterly

Proctor Sampson (ca.1773-1855) was instrumental in gathering the community at Sodus Bay, New York. He wrote Remains of Joseph A. H. Sampson (Rochester, N.Y.: E.F. Marshall, 1827), the first Shaker biography, as a loving elegy to his son, who died a Shaker at age twenty. This first section of his “Reasons for Uniting with the Shakers” has never been published. It is one of eighteen chapters, the rest devoted to theology, comprising a manuscript now in the collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, (VII:B-50). Sampson’s colorful narrative sheds much light on the religious ferment in southern Maine …

The Value Of Disagreement In The Grammatical Lesson Of Abi Hayyan Al-Andalusi, Muhammad Fadel Saleh Al-Samarrai

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

This paper tackles the value of controversy and disagreement in grammar lessons particularly in Abi Hayyan Al-Andalusi’s works. His long grammar books are filled with controversies related to grammar lessons. Such controversies might be discussed in a number of pages and, at other times, it would be brief. The focus of this research is the grammatical controversy in Abi Hayyan AlAndalosi who is very keen on showing, in many pages in his books, the result of the controversy in the cases that he shows, while he also shows how there are some cases in which such controversies are useless. In …

A Classicalization Of Some Arabic Terms Used By Ordinary People, Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Hussein

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

This study discusses some Arabic terms that are likely to be used by ordinary people and not educated, cultured persons or writers thinking that these terms are colloquial even though they are not. The researcher will for the terms used in Colloquial Arabic and at the same time found in Classical Arabic books, lexicon, The Glorious Quran, Arabic poetry, Arabic prose, and the statements of big figures and Arabic linguists. The very end of this search is to ensure the classical roots of these terms.

Ibn Al-Hannat Al-Andalusi, His Life And The Rest Of His Poetry, Muhammad Abdullah Abbas Al-Shall

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

This research seeks to highlight the famous Andalusian poet who has been overlooked by the researchers and scholars in their study of Andalusian literature. Ibn al-Hanat emerged as a renowned poet in Cordoba at the beginning of the fifth century in the era of the sovereign state, the end of the Umayyad state, and the first era of the state republic. He was very close to kings and princes and ministers and praised them for money and gifts. In this research, his poetry will be collected and analysed. This study deals with Ibn al-Hanat’s life, work, his relationship with his …

The Establishment Of The Adjective Is The Position Of The Described A Grammatical Study In The Book (Al-Tibyan Fi Al-Israb Al-Qur'an) By Al-Akbari (D. 616 Ah), Saad Eddin Ibrahim Almustafaa

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

This research deals with the use of the adjective instead of the noun in the book entitled Explanation of the Grammar of the Quran, for Abi Albaqaa Abdullah bin Alhussain Alaekbari (616 H) who is an expert of Arabic Language and grammar. His contribution is not limited to the analysis of the Quran only, but it includes texts of Arabs' speech, poetry and prose. He does not stop at the level of lexis, but goes beyond than that to include the meaning and the addressee’s knowledge. Thus, it is important to understand the context and to analyze the social and …

Bedouin Song...A Theatrical Phenomenon, Rajeh Youssef Abdel Aziz Mohamed

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

This research is a study about the "Badwain Song", its types and kinds according to its geographical area all over Egypt, especially Fayoum Province. The study follows field study and uses personal interview with badwain singer 'Mohamed Shoshan', as a main tool in this research. The study shows that this song is a unique kind of Egyptian heritage of folklore, and this song is a drama phenomenon depends on a singer, audience and a place to present the show, especially when the song is accompanied with a dancer (Hagalla).

The Bridge, Volume 15, 2018, Bridgewater State University

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Editor-in-Chief: Mialise Carney

Managing Editor: Alex Everette

Lead Designer: Cady Parker

Editors:
Sydney Cabral
Jake Camara
Christina Carter
Care DeSouza
Gabriel Hazeldine
Parker Jones
Karina Lagstrom
Alexandria Machado
Emily Melo-Coppinger
Katie McPherson
Joe Near
Harrison Ryan
Soraya Santos
Treina Santos
John Wilson

Faculty Advisor: Evan Dardano

Graduate Assistant: Jill Boger

Consultant: Cheryl Sirois, Design

Introduction

Russian Language Journal

The editorial team of Russian Language Journal is pleased to present volume 68. This issue sees five articles received through our regular blind review process, one review article, and five book reviews.

In our first section on Pedagogy and Practice, Yunusova provides a theoretical framework for assessing the appropriateness of literary texts for use in foreign language classrooms. Caffee and Lucey describe an innovative peer-to-peer experiential learning project based around foodways. Both of these articles should provide concrete and innovative ideas for Russian language classrooms.

Our second section on Linguistics, contains three articles. Soboleva tackles the thorny question of aspect, …

Defining The Accessibility Of A Literary Text: Contemporary Russian Literature In A Cefr B2 Russian As A Foreign Language Classroom, Sofya Yunusova

Russian Language Journal

In the last three and a half decades, a considerable number of publications in foreign-language methodology have addressed the use of literary texts (LTs) in foreign-language classrooms. While at the beginning of the twentieth century learning a foreign language still meant a close study of canonical LTs for linguistic and humanistic purposes following the grammar-translation method (Kramsch and Kramsch 2000; Iatsenko 2017b), by the middle of the century, literature was replaced by more functional models of learning (Carter 2007). The 1980s opened new perspectives on the didactic role of L2 literary reading, which are commonly associated with the confluence of …

Загадки “Слинкса” (Slynx) Татьяны Толстой. Дешифровка Мифологии Романа “Кысь” В Переводах На Французский И Английский Языки, Филипп Фризон, Елена Гаврилова

Russian Language Journal

“Кысь” (фр. Le Slynx, англ. The Slynx) - первый роман Т.Н. Толстой, увидевший свет в 2000 г. Его появление не осталось незамеченным: в следующем году книга стала победителем конкурса “Лучшие издания XIV Московской международной книжной выставки- ярмарки” (г. Москва) в номинации “Проза-2001” и удостоена литературной премии “Триумф”. На французском языке “Кысь” вышла в 2002 г. в переводе с комментариями Кристофа Глоговски, на английском - в 2003 г. в переводе Джейми Гэмбрелл, без комментариев, но с перечнем цитат в приложении. Предметом рассмотрения настоящей статьи стали именно иронические и фольклорные моменты повествования и подход французского и английского переводчиков в их стремлении передать …

Review: Russian Science Fiction Literature And Cinema: A Critical Reader, Alla A. Smyslova, Alexandra Portice

Russian Language Journal

Anindita Banerjee’s critical reader provides excellent insight into the development of science fiction literature and cinema in Russia from the early nineteenth century all the way to the mid-2000s. The book features four sections, each of them comprising four articles by different authors, and an introduction from the editor. The latter provides a brief but brilliant overview of Russian nauchnaia fantastika, or “scientific fantasy,” positioning it within the context of literary, social, and scientific life in the USSR, as well as outlining the existing scholarship on the topic. From the very beginning, when the genre first emerged at the turn …

Borscht, Bliny, And Burritos: The Benefits Of Peer-To-Peer Experiential Learning Through Food, Naomi Caffee, Colleen Lucey

Russian Language Journal

Like other disciplines in the humanities, Russian Studies faces an ongoing crisis of recruiting and retaining majors and minors for the longevity of undergraduate programs (Looney and Lusin 2018). Shrinking budgets and limited resources compound the problem as language and culture departments across the United States are asked to do more with fewer resources (Gerber 2015). In the context of an increasingly corporatized academy where language and cultural studies are marginalized, faculty in Russian Studies have a powerful means at their disposal to attract new students and build cross-campus alliances: the common language of food. Courses on foodways can reinvigorate …

Вторичные Имперфективы В Системе Русского Глагола В Свете Классификации Глагольных Предикатов По Вендлеру, Валентина C. Соболева

Russian Language Journal

В данной статье представлена попытка проанализировать семантические особенности вторичных имперфективов и их видо- вых коррелятов на основе классификации глагольных предикатов по Вендлеру.1 Следует отметить, что наличие в аспектологической литературе необозримого количества исследований по самым разным вопросам, касающимся функционирования категории глагольного вида в русском языке, говорит о том, что в данной области многие кардинальные проблемы остаются нерешёнными, включая как видовую парность глаголов при наличии видовых троек и одновидовых глаголов, так и семантическое содержание каждого вида.2 И, наверное, в связи с нерешённостью этих кардинальных вопросов, глаголам вторичной имперфективации не уделяется достаточного внимания, хотя некоторые исследователи отмечали «загадочное» поведение вторичных имперфективов (О. Swan, …

Cultural Differences In Russian And American Magazine Advertising: A Pragmatic Approach, Emily Furner

Russian Language Journal

Though some may think that TRANSLATION and LOCALIZATION are two words that represent the same function, many scholars make a distinction between the two terms, and some even add a third term, GLOBALIZATION, into the mix. Translator and localization specialist Bert Esselink (1998) perhaps best defined the distinctions in these terms: Globalization […] is typically used in a sales and marketing context, i.e., it is the process by which a company breaks free of the home markets to pursue business opportunities wherever their customers may be located. Translation is the process of converting written or displayed text or spoken words …

Cherchez La Femme! Cherchez Laura A. Janda!, Michal Korenar

Russian Language Journal

In The Mohicans of Paris (1871), Dumas’s detective concludes at some point that a woman was necessarily involved in an investigated crime, leading him to famously exclaim: “Cherchez la femme!”, which is translated to English as “Look for the woman!” (Horn, 1991). One does not need to be an actual detective to reveal the purpose of the reviewed book Each Venture a New Beginning: Studies in Honor of Laura A. Janda. Needless to say, I do not want to imply in any way that Janda has committed a crime. Still, I find the expression rather apposite because the reader can …

Review: A Convenient Territory: Russian Literature At The Edge Of Modernity, Joe Peschio

Russian Language Journal

The Festschrift is an odd, performative genre, and it tends to comprise loose collections of gestures—gestures of gratitude, gestures of respect, gestures of celebration. Not so with this Festschrift. With only a few exceptions, the works here are very form- and literature-centric, something as rare these days as it is welcome. This is as good a reflection as any of the honoree’s place in our field. As the astonishing bibliography of Barry Scherr’s works at the end of the book attests, he has been a strong force in formal analysis, poetics, exact methods, and, in general, empirically minded literary scholarship …

Review: Studies In Phonological Theory And Historical Linguistics, James Joshua Pennington

Russian Language Journal

This volume represents a definitive collection of Bill Darden’s research over his career of more than forty years as a linguist. The book is divided along his main areas of expertise into two parts: (1) “Historical Linguistics,” consisting of 17 chapters that cover a variety of problematic issues in Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, and Slavic historical phonology, morphology, and syntax; and (2) “Phonological Theory,” comprising 10 articles, which illustrate Darden’s approach to tackling difficult issues in phonological theory through examples from Russian and Greenlandic.

Review: Limits To Interpretation: The Meanings Of Anna Karenina; Russian Science Fiction Literature And Cinema: A Critical Reader, Serenity Stanton Orengo, Alla A. Smyslova

Russian Language Journal

Limits to Interpretation is a staple of Tolstoy scholarship. Newly reprinted in paperback, it is worth revisiting, even for those already familiar with this work. Alexandrov’s aim in the book, outlined on the first page, is to “propose a text-specific reading methodology, one that is tailored as much as possible to a particular work, and that is thus designed to minimize the circularity of interpretation, or the process of mediation, inherent in any act of reading” (3). Alexandrov seeks to demonstrate how a work of literature can prompt a fixed range of contradictory and divergent interpretations simultaneously. He wants to …

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Russian Language Journal

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Hazard, Jinny Kang

The Messenger

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Handed It, Jinny Kang

The Messenger

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Unmasked, Zachary Cain

The Messenger

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Tamamonomae, Yuwei Lin

The Messenger

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A Letter To Good Hair, Hunter Moyler

The Messenger

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Flood, Peyton Mcgovern

The Messenger

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Watch Ii, Nene Diallo

The Messenger

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Transplant, Dan Thigpen

The Messenger

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