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The fundamental objective of this short presentation is to provide readers and intercultural practitioners with a brief exposé of key elements in neuroscientific research, linguistics, and cognitive psychology that are coming to the fore and may radically affect our understanding of culture and how it functions within us and between us. Contemporary concepts and practices in the field of intercultural learning and training applications need to be reexamined closely in the light of these fresh research elements. This paper proposes that they specifically be explored and evaluated in each of ten areas that are identified as potentially eliminating or seriously altering current thinking and/or praxis in the intercultural field. These areas are rather well established, but currently being further explored and developed by neurological research and cognitive science. They are likely to lead to new factors that will need to be taken into consideration in assessing intercultural thinking and practice in the near future
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Divan poets, who created works in Sufi style, discussed the conflict of rind-zahid both in some of their independent works and in some of their poems that they wrote in verse forms such as odes and ghazels. The poets compared the type of zahid who put the mind to the fore and takes ostentatiousness as the axis, and the type of rind, who are considered as the connoisseur of the heart that isolates himself from the records of the transient world, thanks to his mystical bond stemming from malāmah (blame). While discussing the rind-zahid conflict, the Divan poets, who see themselves as rind, described the zahid type as vulgar and satirized it. In this article, firstly, a general information about the type of satire will be given and the appearance of the rindzahid conflict in Divan poetry will be discussed. Two satirical poems with "monlâ" redif, which are thought to be written by Tezvîrî, will be evaluated in terms of their features of form and content. It will be revealed in which ways Tezvîrî satirized the type of mullah and what kind of satirical styles he adopted. The article will be completed with the transcription of the poems into Latin letters.
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It can be said that school culture has developed to the extent that it gives a sense of organizational identity to all stakeholders in the school. If the school culture present in the school makes the person feel that he is a part of the school and allows the person to bond with the school, it can be said that the culture there is strong and effective. However, it is not possible to talk about a school culture in that school if it is insufficient to convey what needs to be done at school and the rules to be followed to the new attendees. Years ago, Headteacher Atatürk said: “School for young minds; It teaches respect for humanity, love for the nation and country, honor and independence... It reminds us of the safest way to save independence when it is in danger... Those who try to save the country and nation must be honest experts and scholars in their profession at the same time. . It is the school that provides it. Only in this way will it be possible for all kinds of undertakings to reach logical results.” He expressed it by saying that (Çakır, 2007).
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In this study, it was aimed to adapt the Intercultural Competence Scale (ICS) developed by Chao (2014) into Turkish and to examine its validity and reliability. For test-retest reliability, the scale was first evaluated by applying it to 74 students studying at foundation and state universities. The test-retest reliability coefficient was found to be 0.916. Secondarily, it was applied to 382 students and the reliability coefficient was found to be 0.906. The fit indices obtained as a result of Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) are among acceptable fit indices. Thus, the 30-item 5-dimensional structure adapted to our language was statistically validated in terms of validity and reliability.
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This article analyzes the relations between Turkey and the Central Asian states from the point of view of Turkish TV series, which are one of the main elements of popular culture. Questions to be answered in this research are formulated as follows: “What kind of a role did Turkish TV series play in the interaction/communication of Turkic peoples with each other?” and “Do Turkish TV series play an influential role in Central Asia in the context of soft power?” Content analysis was chosen as the method of Data analysis in this article. First of all, one of the factors that makes this study different from similar research is that the authors carried out field research in Central Asian states. This article features qualitative Data analysis. Due to the fact that since nearly 14.000 webpages were subjected to content analysis within the scope of this study, it represents a unique contribution to the national and international literature. In order to answer the abovementioned questions, the following roadmap was pursued: In the first chapter, following the method and literature sections, the concept of “soft power”, which is the theoretical framework of the study, was analyzed in terms of popular culture. In the next section, Turkish TV series, which play an important role in relations between Turkey and Central Asian states, were discussed. Hereunder, Turkish TV series published royalty-free on the Online pages originating from Central Asia were investigated. The authors focused on the Turkish series in order to provide a comprehensive content analysis in the light of the Data they obtained. At the last step, the broadcasting policy of Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) toward Central Asian states were evaluated in the light of Turkish TV series.
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Posters appear in various ways in everyday life for purposes such as transmitting information or a message to society, drawing attention to a topic, or announcing an event. Advertising banners that promote a brand, product or service are also one of them. Advertising posters use a number of strategies to differentiate themselves from competing brands identified in line with advertising campaigns. One of these strategies is the campaigns that the brand has made taking into account the cultural values in the society in which it is located. In the study, five advertising posters prepared in accordance with these campaigns were examined. The aim of this study is to examine the use of the cultural elements of the society in advertising posters. In this research, the qualitative research method, using primarily examined various brands advertising posters, advertising banners, banners and posters which is a type of a literature review made about culture under the heading of research on cultural factors.
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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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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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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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