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In the present research, we will analyze the details surrounding two recent media scandals that resulted in a various array of unpleasant outcomes for the main protagonists, outcomes ranging from financial loss to loss of face and significant damage to their reputation. We will look at the background and context of each scandal, at the consequences of the statements made by the two public figures, and we will attempt to draw a parallel between the two situations, shedding light on the existing similarities. The first situation revolves around Viorica Vodă’s allegations made at the Gopo Awards Gala (May 3, 2022), and the second, around the controversial statements regarding women made by George Buhnici (July 16, 2022), a famous Romanian influencer. We will look into these cases that both caused a stir in the media and we will aim to prove that, while they appear to be opposite in nature, they resulted in general societal reactions that can be deemed similar and hugely detrimental to the initiators.
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The following article presents the results of synchronous pragmatic analysis of mythological texts that exist in different regions of Belarus nowadays. The analysis takes into account thematic, linguistic and situational parameters of the actualization of mythological texts. It is shown that mythological texts, functioning in various forms of everyday, semi-ritual and ceremonial speech, affirm stereotypes of human behaviour, which are focused on the first member of the opposition „norm – anti-norm,” reveal the features of rules, regulations, prohibitions, and consequences. The wording of prohibitions, rules, and recommendations may not be included in the text if the experienced listener – „the bearer” of the tradition – has mastered the necessary background knowledge and is able to derive these formulations independently. Moreover, such conclusions can simultaneously relate to different areas: mythological knowledge, practical skills needed in everyday life and extreme situations, moral and ethical, religious ideas, and norms. Mythological stories, depending on the individual dispositions of the active bearers of the tradition can not only convince listeners of the existence of extraterrestrial forces and beings, the possibility of crossing the world border on both sides, the diffuse interpenetration of this and other worlds, affirm the unity of living and dead members, but also allow you to visualize, „feel/hear” representatives of the outside world. In addition to the dominant phatic function, informative, didactic, therapeutic, and emotional functions related to all of the above are defined.
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The article presents an analysis of selected examples of the use of traditions in Belarusian protests of 2020–2021 caused by the presidential election in August 2020. The arrangement of protest messages with elements of folklore and folk culture is a part of the phenomenon of folklorism. Folklorism based on the deliberate use of the content and forms of folklore extracted from the natural environment or folklore documentation and placed in current life situations. Traditional, deeply symbolic content, rooted in the people’s world picture in order to show civic resistance was relocated to the urban ground and actualized according to the current socio-political situation. The use of traditional rituals was changed into the form of performative actions, demonstrating the protest based on traditional symbols. The return to tradition contributed to the unity of protesters. It was affected on the construction of ethno-cultural identity of the protest based on elements of Belarusian folk culture. These elements of the tradition were meant to symbolically resolve national tasks important for the protest.
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The article presents issues related to intercultural teaching of Polish sociolinguistic and sociocultural customs in China. Efficient communication is guaranteed by mastering grammatical rules and vocabulary and requires knowledge of the culture of a given country. Papers on teaching Polish culture in Europe are the theoretical basis. The material was gathered by the author while she was teaching at Polish studies departments in China. Intercultural approach in teaching Polish linguistic-cultural behaviors in China demands other solutions than in the European cultural circle.
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This article analyses the concept of research in digital humanities laboratories from the perspective of vernacular culture. The text considers the theoretical assumptions of the laboratory model and vernacular culture as a methodological proposal, also taking into account the genesis of the term. The study is based on three determinants of the concept: emergent, structural subversiveness, local and amateurishness.The case study of Polish institutions was based on interviews with representatives of three media labs: in Gdańsk, Kraków and Katowice. The research conclusions led to a proposal to analyse media labs in the context of the title paradigm, taking into account the activities undertaken in the laboratories and the specificity of their functioning. The study focused on the aspects that define the activities of media labs: the regional historical context, social needs, local digital culture, and the Do It Yourself paradigm.In the summary, the author proposes a broader context for future research of digital humanities laboratories in European post-socialist countries.
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The question of the role of the Old Slavonic element in the formation of the Russian literary language today seems to have moved from the category of discussion to the category of obvious ones. And the Old Church Slavonic language is evaluated by modern science as a modeling factor of Russian culture, which played an important role in its spiritual development. The language of the culture of the Middle Ages, its value imperatives turned out to be in many ways consonant with Russian culture, being its kind of "silent heritage". At that time, Fr. P.A. Florensky, who called Cyril and Methodius the spiritual fathers of Russian culture. Speaking about the interaction of Russian culture with the culture of ancient Hellas, he wrote in the article "Trinity-Sergius Lavra and Russia": but about the very spirit of culture. 1 That is why the question of the role of the Old Church Slavonic language in the ethno-cultural system of the Russian language, its influence on the formation of the system of values of the Russian people is extremely important today, especially in connection with the unfolding cultural studies, the search for Christian foundations of Russian culture. Unfortunately, so far it has not attracted serious attention of scientists, whose interest was mainly focused on studying the phonetic, word-formation and grammatical features of Old Church Slavonicisms, assessing their role in the stylistic differentiation of Russian vocabulary, and also on identifying the percentage of Old Church Slavonicisms in the lexical system of the literary language. As for dialects, this issue has not been practically worked out, since for a long time the idea was quite stable that the influence of the Old Church Slavonic language was characteristic only of the literary form of the Russian language.
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Because of their geographic and political positions, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina always had a lot of similarities when it comes to works of children's literature. This paper will analyse and compare several works by authors whose writing marked the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. The paper presents a comparative analysis of several poets (Šimo Ešić – Stanislav Femenić) and prose writers (Zejćir Hasić – Nada Iveljić; Šefik Husagić – Maja Gluščević; Bajruzin Hajro Planjac – Ićan Ramljak).
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The paper aims at presenting a few types of representation of animals in literature and contemporary culture. Through various examples from Slavic literatures and cultures the text illustrates three mechanisms of animal substitution: cultural, linguistic, marketing. The vast diverse animal world is narrowed to just two main focuses: the scorpion and the cow, and their real life as opposed to their cultural duplicates.
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With the intensifying flow of academically motivated people between countries, the significance of research on cross-cultural adaptation increases. Although the problems and difficulties caused by cultural differences have been researched extensively, this research focused on a common practice among different cultures: participative music making in an intercultural context. Therefore, the current study explores how participative music-making shapes international students’ cross-cultural experiences in Wrocław. For this purpose, the relevance between international students’ cross-cultural adaptation and music-making as a social activity in Poland is examined. The required data were gathered through in-depth interviews with six students from various countries who made music as a collective activity during their transnational accommodation. The collected data is analysed by the inductive coding approach to explore the commonalities in the international students’ experiences. Findings concluded that collective musicmaking shapes music-maker students’ cross-cultural experiences by not merely helping them gain a specific social network but also contributing to their financial income and mood states, and finally, privileged behaviour by the host country members towards these students.
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The title of Andrić’s short story Panorama refers to an old-fashioned image sequence which represented countries and cities of the world. The already worn out form of entertainment was liked by a naive and poor boy. His complex experience of panorama causes the composition of the short story, in which several semiotic layers can be discerned. The pictures as kitschy, false representamen represent objects – landscapes, buildings, and people from different parts of the world, and the boy connects them with personal experience or images. The picture in his consciuosness (interpretant) raises the subconscious superstructure (new representamen) of still images, which become alive in the boy’s dream, but also lead into anxious outcomes caused by his poverty or fears present in children’s dreams. In the nostalgic imagination of an adult man the life course of former panorama characters is thought out by further semiosis. This last layer acts as an epilogue with several stories made up besides the remembered images. The AustroHungarian advertising trick, which even in provincial cities has no echo, realized its aim in the reception of the Sarajevo boy since he experinced the still images as potency – filling them with his own meanings. The reverse of the panorama in the moment of its departure is the boy’s realization that money, unfortunately, essentially determines the fate of people and their creations. However, an adult man does not give up on imagination as the best part of himself.
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This paper provides a brief overview of touch points between the literary opus of two great Bosnian-Herzegovinian writers: Ivo Andrić and Isak Samokovlja. The first part of the paper points to similarities of literary opus by these two writers. In the second part, this relationship is shown in concrete examples. Although, comparing the works of these two writers, there may be more differences than similarities, it is indisputable that when their narrative works are viewed in the context of time, in the changes in which the literary manuscripts, ideas, topics and accentuations of the problem are addressed, it is easy to look for similarities. It is also possible to speak about the same inspiration of both writers on topics, occurrences and people from the native Bosnia. They share their desire to demonstrate, in the image, motion and rhythm, the richness of the gloomy landscape of Bosnia, the strange manifestations of human passions that are often on the pathological path; the mystic of the environment and human souls. Bouth of them used a folk phrase to show behavior of a man in a special situation or heightened emotional pressure: Andrić and Samokovlija are masters of languages, writers who modulate human suffering in the freshness of folk speech.
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In Hungary the opportunity to study Croatian language is provided in three universities and one school of higher education (Budapest, Szombathely, Pécs and Baja). Pécs is a kind of cultural and educational centre of the Croatian minority in Hungary - whose number reaches up to 80,000 - so in Pecs one can find Croatian kindergarten, elementary school, high school and boarding school as well as the Department of Croatian Language and Literature, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. The department is continuously operating since 1948 when a South Slavic Department was founded. The most significant changes started in 1992 when the department was renamed into the Department of Croatian Language and Literature. In the academic year 2005/2006 the study expands the college program after which students become philologists and teachers. The Bologna Process (2007) with its negative and positive impact significantly affected the entire university education in the Republic of Hungary, and thus the structure of the Croatian studies. The previous five or four-year study is replaced by a three-year undergraduate studies (BA) and additional two-year diploma, so-called master (MA) studies. The paper presents a historical overview of the Department of Croatian language with its success and difficulties, then the mode of composition students, the status and position of Croatian as a minority language - which regulates with the language policy of the Republic of Hungary as a member of the European Union - as well as future plans section, which seeks to meet the current students’ expectations and demands of the labour market.
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The French Revolution of 1789 which is one of the most important events in European and World history, affects other societies as well as the French society. Famous for its nationalism, traditionalism and uniqueness, France is seen as the pioneer of European civilization, particularly after the Enlightenment movement and the French Revolution. By breaking down the feudal structure of the Ancien Régime (Old order) period in which the greater proportion of the population lived in rural areas where the king was standing as a central authority of the society consisted of three estates in which the influence of the church and traditions were strong, the French Revolution was proposed with the hope of creating a modern France and building a free future influened by the Enlightenment movement. How did this Revolution affect French national culture and organizational culture? How effective was the change brought by the French Revolution in terms of society, industry, business organizations and business life? Certain results have been achieved in this review which tried to find answers to these questions by making an evaluation in terms of the cultural dimensions that Hofstede expressed as ‘individualism-collectivism, masculinity-femininity, uncertainty avoidance, power distance, time orientation, and indulgence-constraint’.
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This review aims to evaluate the connections between emotion regulation and cultural elements via different theoretical frameworks. For this purpose, one of the most used emotion regulation models in the literature, Gross's model, is briefly explained. Also, cultural elements are discussed by focusing on socialization practices, social rules, cultural scenarios, cultural values, and cultural differences highlighted in these concepts. Besides, the cultural differences in emotional expression and regulation through cultural values are presented by using two different theories and related research. The results of these research show that suppression can be adaptive and functional in different cultural contexts, and different levels of analysis can be combined to explain the processes of emotional behavior.
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The first century of Hijri is an extremely important period for the science of tafseer. Because the comprehensibility of the revelation, which was revealed for the addressees of that period, was at a high level. Factors such as the Prophet’s (pbuh) declaration of some verses, the witness of the revelation of the Qur’an by the addressees of the period, and the fact that the Qur’an was revealed on the Arabic language enabled the verses to be better understood. From this point of view, the study of the approaches of the companions who witnessed the revelation of the Qur’an will make important contributions to the correct understanding of the verses. As a matter of fact, many interpretations of the companions about the verses of the Qur’an have been conveyed to us. When we look at the tafseer narrations, it is seen that Ibn Abbas (ra) is at the forefront of the names who are among the companions who best understand and interpret the Qur’an. Because of the fact that he is one of the people who knows the Arabic language and culture best, the fact that he received the prayers of the Prophet (pbuh) and received education from important companions put him in front of many companions. As a result of the research, the narrations reveal that he expressed an opinion on almost every verse of the Qur’an and shared important detailed information about some concepts of the Qur’an. In this context, the examination of both Ibn Abbas’ method of interpretation and the subtleties of his method of interpretation is important in terms of reflecting the approach and interpretations of the companions to the Qur’an. Therefore, in this study, Ibn Abbas’ sources of tafseer and the subtleties of his method will be revealed by referring to the important works of the field.
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While the process of culture until reaching the concept of popular covers popular culture and the areas identified with it; The concept of 'popular culture' constitutes the last leg of the emerging, developing and changing culture and has been the subject of academic literature in various ways, especially with music. What are the forces that trigger this phenomenon, which started with the change of the concept of culture? Or what lies behind the dominance of this culture? While answering these questions, it is necessary to see that all of these are rooted in culture and the base of the people, and that they have changed over time. The culture has changed and where the people are is very important. The culture, which was created by the society and then passed under the control of the capital order, has changed with different thoughts, formations and approaches. The point to be emphasized here is that the phenomenon called popular culture is related to the evolution of the concept of culture. This phenomenon, which is encountered in most areas of our lives, is under the necessity of examining it in the field of literature, because the music phenomenon to be studied in the future is the area that popular culture sheds the most light on. While examining popular culture between tradition and modernism with music, it is very clear that music is not examined under the name of art, at the latest point it has reached today, but under the changing cultural momentum. In this study, the distinctive characteristics of the discourse of Lady Gaga's songs in Fame Monster in 2009 and her single album Born This Way in March 2011 will be revealed. Also, a few lines from the Teeth song were taken for reference. The metaphorical structures that Gaga uses while meeting objects, people and actions in her lyrics, slogans and stereotypes, poetic images, emotional attitudes such as irony and santimantalism, and communication subtleties that reflect the cultural and folkloric texture established with the listener will be examined in terms of discourse analysis.
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The purpose of the article is to determine the harmonising intentions of fashion dispositive as a certain system of denial of globalisation influences in the form of leveling and simplification of modern cultural practices. The research methodology is determined by phenomenological and dialectical methods that help specify the figurative transformations of fashion as a systemic integrity of cultural creation. Scientific novelty of the article. The dispositive of fashion in a broad context as an opportunity to refer to one's own origins is an adequate way of self-realisation of the Ukrainian national ethos and of Ukrainian character. If one does not come to this globalism, the wide scale of the dialogue of cultures, the scale of opposition of nations, it is easy to fall prey to westernisation, colonisation of the culture of Ukraine. Cultural practices, particularly fashion, can stop leveling, westernisation as a type of western technological reincarnation of countries that blindly follow certain cultural patterns. Conclusions. Globalisation as the transcendence of boundaries, marketization, and transitology are certain systems of stratification of development that cannot be applied to culture as a whole. They can be indicated only within certain constellations of the economic model and production relations, but cannot characterise culture as a type of integrity. Everyday culture, which conditionally includes fashion, adapts extremely quickly to external influences, is oriented to fashionable discourse as a system of harmonising contradictions. Responsibility is formed for all dispositions, dispositives, which are formed as a permanent given of the dialogue, first of all, the dialogue of cultures. A planetary horizon is formed, which is a broad situational dimension of globalisation impulses, which is realised as a modern ideology of imagination and world-building in fashion.
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The paper presents a comparative interpretation of recent Czech and Polish transmediations of canonical literary texts and architexts: ballads by K. J. Erben and Polish legends and folk tales, which are generally regarded as representations of both timeless and historical national values. The theoretical framework is built upon the theory of intermediality introduced by W. Wolf and I. O. Rajewsky, the concept of media modalities developed by L. Elleström, and current multimodal research represented by J. Bruhn and others. The transmediations (a film, a crowdfunded comic book, a series of short films employed as online advertisements) are not only subject to analysis of media-specific strategies involved in the artistic transformations; the authors´ motivations, the economic conditions under which the examined media products were made, and the modes of their distribution and participation in cultural communication are taken into account as well. The results of the analysis illuminate the strong influence of the multimedia environment, of the generic frames of individual media and the strategies that authors of the transmediations use to attain success with audiences
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