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English Language Teaching: Exploring Enhanced Employability through Soft Skills

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Kabita Kumari Dash1, SwayamPrabha Satpathy2, Susanta Kumar Dash3

1Srusti Academy of Management

2Associate Professor, SOA University. Email: dr.swayam.prava@gmail.com

3OUAT

 Volume 12, Number 6, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.27

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250 under graduates and management students of SOA University of 1st year, taken at random, were selected  as subjects in this case study. 3 groups comprising of 30 students in each at random were given training on soft skill viz. grammar, vocabulary and speaking ability with 1 credit hour as extra class on Saturday during course curriculum Rest 160 students in same batch were taken as control. After one year of the of the final examination, means with incubation period of one year after the training period, it was found that 22(73.33%),18(60.0%),and 28(93.33%) students belonging to Grammar, Vocabulary and Speaking ability group, respectively  got a placement in the campus selection. The overall placement in the batch of students under trial was estimated as 105(42.0%) and the students without soft skill training was as low as 37(23.13%), recorded in control group.

Key words: Communication, Employability, Language, Placement, Soft skill, Training

Hair in Exile: Manifestations of Displacement, Difference, and Belongingness through Hair in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

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Shuchi1 & Josephine Ramdinmawii Zote2

1Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Mizoram, shuchi.nitmz@gmail.com , ORCID- 0000-0002-8490-3631

2Research Scholar, Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Mizoram, joseyhearts@gmail.com, ORCID- 0000-0002-2368-3436

 Volume 12, Number 6, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.26

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One familiar phenomenon that is often found in diasporic identities is the preconceived idealization of their host lands prior to their displacement. Once disillusioned from this fantasy, the realities of their inhospitable surroundings set in, and a grave sense of displacement and nostalgia for their homelands continue to materialize. Such people often seek for a sense of home and communal consciousness connected to their homelands. In the case of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), this connection manifests, and is explored by the protagonist, principally through hair. Americanah (2013) guides us through the discovery of, and inquiry into, the intricacies of race, gender, and identity by Ifemelu with her venture into a host country whose social and political history has put in front of her an unfamiliar identity to adopt. This paper attempts to trace the protagonist’s experiences of displacement and existence in relation to the dominant community in her host country, as well as her discovery of a symbolic community where she adopts a new form of communal consciousness. Through a narrative that takes us back and forth different continents, showing us the difference between what it is like to be black in Nigeria and in America, Adichie shows us the impossibility to successfully encapsulate heterogeneous identities into an all-encompassing category of race. This paper explores the dynamics of differences as projected through the issue of identity with an emphasis on the subject of hair politics in Americanah (2013).

Keywords: Displacement, hair, diaspora, home, race, identity.

A New Study on the Contemporary Aesthetics based on the “Applied Ontology” Theory of Roger Pouivet

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Hoda Zabolinezhad1 & Parisa Shad Qazvini2

1PhD, Post-doc researcher at Alzahra University of Tehran, Phd in Visual Arts from University of Strasbourg (France), H.zabolinejad@alzahra.ac.ir, tarzaboli@gmail.com

2 PhD, Assist. Prof. At Faculty of Arts, Alzahra University of Tehran, shad@alzahra.ac.ir

 Volume 12, Number 6, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.25 

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This article, based on Roger Pouivet’s “Applied Ontology” Theory, studies the effect of Warhol’s Brilloo soap boxes. The work was challenged at the time of its performance and could not convince the art world of accepting it, as an artwork. The research questions of this article are: 1. In the contemporary period, what aesthetic criteria turn a human work into an artwork? 2. According to Pouivete’s “Applied Ontology” Theory, how and with what approach is contemporary work of art considered as the personal symbolism of the artist and how is the governing aesthetics read? The hypothesis of the article is that the work of art in any way includes formal and content symbolism. Basically, in the contemporary period, the artist’s personal symbolism plays a finishing role in the creation of the artwork by mixing with already known collective symbols in a culture. The result suggests that in Contemporary Aesthetics, a work is recognized as a work of art when it is debated and exchanged without the need for consensus among art experts. The research method of this article is analytical-qualitative which has been done by collecting library information and virtual documents.

Keywords: Contemporary Aesthetics, Applied Ontology Theory, Andy Warhol, Art Criticism, Audience Reading

The Image of Syncretic Javanese Women in Digdo Irianto’s Paintings

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Nanang Yulianto1, Narsen Afatara2, Bani Sudardi3 & Warto4

1Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia, nanangfirel@yahoo.co.id

2Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia, narsen-afatara@yahoo.com

3Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia, banisudardi@yahoo.co.id

4Universitas sebelas Maret, Indonesia, warto-file@yahoo.com

 Volume 12, Number 6, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.24 

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Through his paintings, Digdo Irianto unveils figures of Javanese women showing an expressive, bold and open face and body gestures. His imagination was based on a cultural change observed in Surakarta society which is heavily dominated by syncretic characteristics, evoking Javanese traditional cultures and modern culture. His conceptual imagination indicates his desire to put a woman in an honorable position where the body can be interpreted as a medium meant to sow and revive a dry soul following the presence of image embedded in modern life. Javanese women can synergize the spirit and essence of Javanese cultural values which uphold philosophical ??and practical, materialistic modern culture.

Keywords: Imagination, Javanese women, paintings, syncretic culture

A Feminist Reading of Filipino Women Poets

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Jennie V. Jocson, PhD

Philippine Normal University, Philippines. ORCID: 0000-0002-0042-2962. Email: jocson.jenniev@gmail.com

 Volume 12, Number 6, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.23 

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This paper draws on ideas from a shared identity of Filipino women writers. While a shift in 21st Century feminist reading, mainly the slant that to think about woman is also to think about gender, has become available for interrogation and re-inscription, the study on Filipino woman as a construct and a subject of self-representation of contemporary Filipino poetry remains scarce. Drawing at how women and their experiences were represented in select poems written by 4 contemporary women poets, this paper explored common patterns of women imaging using textual and thematic analysis, alongside French feminism expounded by the arguments of Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva. The findings revealed that women poets’ rhetoric, awakening, resistance, and call to action had redefined women experience as a collective whole. Collective as they seem, the poems established a strong articulation of a feminist stance, which is a resistance against subversion and marginality. The paper is of relevance both to feminist scholars and others with practical interests in women poetry as it will enable them to better understand Filipino women experience and its representation in verse.

Keywords: Filipino women, feminist, poetry, representation, imaging.

Performative Retrieving of Tradition for Socio-Political Intervention: A Study of the Protest Theatre of Dario Fo

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Sohaib Alam1 & Farhan Ahmad2 

1Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Sciences and Humanities, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. ORCID: 0000-0002-9972-9357. Email: s.alam@psau.edu.sa (Corresponding Author)

2Assistant Professor, Department of English Studies, Faculty of Indian and Foreign Languages, Akal University, Talwandi Sabo, India. ORCID: 0000-0001-5710-7800. Email: farhan_eng@auts.ac.in

 Volume 12, Number 6, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.22

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Theatre provides Dario Fo with a unique vantage point through which he vents out his thoughts on issues of class, justice, equality and lays bare in his performances that are comic, derisive, and outspoken people’s discomfort with the prevailing order. They are an indictment of the establishment’s perceived apathy and neglect of the oppressed groups. He does not let the zany spirit of his performances to overshadow his art but redirects it in a constructive and meaningful way.

Keywords: performance, folklore, popular culture, hegemony, dissent

Reconstruction of the Costume Elements of the Shilikty “Golden Man”

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Abdesh Toleubayev1, Rinat Zhumatayev2 & Samat Shakenov3

1,2,3Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Republic of Kazakhstan.

Correspondence: zhumatayevr@gmail.com

 Volume 12, Number 6, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.21

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The article contains the reconstruction of the Shilikty “Golden Man” clothing based on multidisciplinary studies of the archeological material from the royal kurgan “Baigetobe” in the Tarbagatai foothills. The authors describe in detail the reconstruction of the anthropological appearance and the results of studying organic samples from the burial complex, as well as explain the final shape of royal attire and justify the details and components of the reconstructed costume. The methodological basis of the study is the systemic approach that allows one to view the categories of the Saka royal clothing as profound systems. Within the approach, the methodology and the recreation of ancient royal clothing rely on a wide range of analogies from Eurasian Saka-Scythian monuments and ethnographic materials. Based on these monuments and materials, the authors have established that certain elements in the clothing of early nomads of Kazakhstan have more in common with the clothing of neighboring tribes of Asian steppes in the early Iron Age. This is evident in the cut, detailing and the décor of clothing recovered from such monuments as Pazyryk, Katanda, Tuyekta and Akalakha. The methodological challenge to study clothing based on archeological data is primarily related to the condition of the source. The authors briefly characterize the organic probes from the kurgan burial chamber that have been studied using regular and digital microscopes and conclude that the clothing of the Shilikty Man was colorful. Within the framework of multidisciplinary research, the authors have conducted an anthropological study of the skeletal remains and the sculptural reconstruction of the person from the Baigetobe kurgan. Anthropologically, this person belongs to the mixed Caucasoid and Mongoloid type with prevalent Caucasoid elements, which agrees with the anthropological features of the ancient population of Central Asia in the early Iron Age. Therefore, gold jewelry, the quality of fabrics and the multilevel burial structure confirm the high profile of the Shilikty Golden Man. The conclusions and results can be used for the reconstruction of the composite image of the nomadic nobility in Central Asia in the early Saka period.

Keywords: Shilikty, Tarbagatai, reconstruction, Saka-Scythian world, clothing, Golden Man.

Costume as a Form of Visualization of Ethnicity: From Tradition to Modernity

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Daria Yurievna Ermilova

Russian State University of Tourism and Service. Email: id311@yandex.ru

 Volume 12, Number 6, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.20

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The article traces the transformation of visualization of a person’s ethnicity through costumes – from traditional to modern. The object of the study is to understand the costume as an informational and sign structure. The topic of the study is the visualization of ethnicity through costumes from a historical perspective. The study aims to identify the specific characteristics of visualization of ethnicity in traditional and modern costumes. The study hypothesis is that, unlike traditional costumes that demonstrated regional and national affiliation, modern “Western” clothing has mostly lost these functions. Although in some regions costumes are still relevant as a “living” tradition, national clothing is disappearing from everyday life. Ethnic style using regional and national traditions as a source of stylization does not present an indicator of a person’s nationality. Nevertheless, some examples of modern clothing visualizing ethnicity can be found. The functional and semiotic approaches to the analysis of costumes serve as the basis of the study. Since the late Middle Ages, the development of urban dress in Western Europe has been determined by fashion rather than tradition. In Russia, the process of an urban costume losing the function of visualization of ethnicity began with the reforms of Peter the Great and for peasants’ costumes, this process did not start until the middle of the 20th century. At the beginning of the 21st century, traditional costumes were mostly worn by ethnic minorities as a symbol of national identity and self-affirmation. Referring to others’ traditions as a source of fashion innovations led to the emergence of ethnic style. Ethnic style is characterized by a superficial attitude towards the source. Ethnodesign, on the other hand, follows the principle of deep and thoughtful care about the tradition which gains relevance due to the rise of glocalization manifesting in the intensification of regional differences. Although the proponents of ethnodesign insist on the ability of design to integrate traditional ethnic symbols into modern culture, the question is about the ability of modern people to understand the meanings contained in traditional forms remains. The present article identifies the cases of a costume serving the function of visualization of ethnicity in modern society.

Keywords: visualization, ethnicity, traditional costume, ethnodesign, modern costume, functions of a costume.

The Role of Media in Consumption under “Attention Economies”: A Study Based on the Interviews of Chinese Postgraduates towards the M&M’s Advertisements

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Yuting Xie1, Megat Al Imran Bin Yasin2, Syed Agil Alsagoff3, Lay Hoon Ang4

1Department of Communication, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Email: shirley_xieyt@hotmail.com

2Department of Communication, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Email: megat@upm.edu.my

3Department of Communication, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Email: s_agil@upm.edu.my

4Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Email: hlang@upm.edu.my

 Volume 12, Number 6, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.19

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The rapid development of media in the world promote the prosperity of the economy to a certain degree. Advertisement, as one of communication form of mass media, gradually becoming one of an important part in the attention economy. In view of these, the research chooses M&M’s advertisements as examples to discover what factors attract audiences’ attention and then lead to consumption, and how they play their role during the process. Three methods are employed in this research: in-depth interview, observation and textual analysis. Five Chinese postgraduate students are selected as objects, and they answer the questions by the researcher after they watched two types of M&M’s advertisements (celebrity-based advertisement and content-based advertisement). Through the combination of interview, it can be found that both celebrities, memory and social media platform can exert their role in the attention economy. This article also expects to offer a reference for advertisers and product manufacturers, helping them adjust their marketing strategies rationally by using celebrities and other elements.

Keywords: Attention Economy, Advertisement, Media, Celebrities, Memory.

Memory Anchored by Place Attachment and Cognitive Maps in Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight and The Cat’s Table

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Justy Joseph1 & Dr. Nirmala Menon2

1PhD Research Scholar, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. ORCID id: 0000-0002-7182-0108. Email id: phd1901261006@iiti.ac.in

2Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Email id: nmenon@iiti.ac.in

 Volume 12, Number 6, 2020 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n6.18

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Recollection is a gangplank between an obsolete past, indisputable present and an unidentified future, but human memory is convoluted as the compendium of a landscape.  Perceptions, values and experiences fastened to a landscape can anchor memories, shift perceptions and can alter the aboriginal integrity and cognitive capabilities of an individual. This research article studies the Canadian Nobel Prize winning author Michael Ondaatje’s novels The Cat’s Table (2012) and Warlight (2018) venturing to understand how characters and their identities are created with the aid of memory. This study examines how place attachment and understanding of environmental configurations through generation of cognitive maps distorts or ascends recollection.

Keywords: place attachment, cognitive geography, cognitive maps, memory, landscape

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