Volume 13 Number 1 2021

American Dream Revisited: A Media Discourse Representation in Cognitive-linguistic Perspective

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Svitlana Lyubymova

National Linguistic University, Kyiv, Ukraine. Email: elurus2006@gmail.com

Volume 13, Number 4, 2021 I Full-Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n4.27

Abstract

Considered in cognitive-linguistic perspective, “American Dream” is a represented in media discourse stereotype that embodies ideal of happiness in a prosperous democratic society. The research   methodology rests   on   the   premise of cognitive-linguistic approach to study of sociocultural stereotypes, which are seen as complex phenomena of social and cultural experience, manifested in behavioural, material, and verbal codes.  Methodological tools of discursive and corpus analysis proved the variability of meaning of the stereotype. In the course of time, it shows semantic changes, conditioned by socio-economic and cultural factors. Empirical study eventuates in distinguishing three periods that correlate with transformation of the stereotype. The period of formation outlines the ideal of freedom and equality. The next period, which started in the 1950s, manifested changes toward obtaining happiness only in virtue of wealth. In recent years, “American Dream” is being associated more with freedom of choice than mere financial success.

 Keywords: stereotyping; American Dream; media discourse; cognitive-linguistic approach; corpus analysis; semantic change

The Impact of COVID Pandemic Consequences on Public Demand for Competence Formation in Humanitarian Education

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Yuri Vsevolodovich Maslov1, Iryna Sergiivna Pypenko2, Yuriy Borysovych Melnyk3

1 PhD, Associate Professor, Belarusian State Economic University, Belarus; maslove@tut.by; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5715-6546.

2 PhD, Associate Professor, Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics; Scientific Research Institute KRPOCH, Ukraine; iryna.pypenko@hneu.net; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5083-540X

3 PhD, Associate Professor, Scientific Research Institute KRPOCH; Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of Health”, Ukraine; y.b.melnyk@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8527-4638

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n4.26

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The COVID pandemic has affected all human activity, most of all education. Lockdowns obliterated traditional teaching. Student attitudes towards educational format and content have also changed. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the pandemic consequences on public demand for competence formation in humanitarian education. Gathered through systemic written surveys (Project Tuning methodology) and interviewing the respondents (173 faculty and 322 students), participants to CIES-2020 and PPPMSF-2021 international conferences, the data were systematized, rated and analyzed using the methods of statistical analysis. Consequently, actual public demand for student competences was formulated. Top five choices by the faculty include: 1) ability to adapt to and act in new situation; 2) commitment to safety; 3) ability to search for, process and analyze information; 4) skills in the use of information and communications technologies; 5) ability to evaluate and maintain the quality of work. The student choices differ from faculty prioritizing the abilities: 1) to work autonomously; 2) to design and manage projects; 3) to adapt to and act in new situation; 4) to apply knowledge in practical situations; 5) to work in an international context. The results have shown a statistically significant difference between the public demand prior to the pandemic and after the introduction of social distancing measures. Views of faculty and students on the importance of particular competences have remained divergent, and the specific priorities are changing. One noticeable trend is prioritizing the ability to adapt to new situations by both faculty and students.

Keywords: Humanitarian Education, Faculty and Students, Competences’ Rating, Social Distancing

The Concept of Neuro- Linguistic Programming in Improving the Receptive Skills in English

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S.Sunitha1, A .Catherin Jayanthy2, G. Kalaiyarasan3,  N.Annalakshmi4

1Ph.D Scholar(full time),Department of Educaiton, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India. Email:  yogucharu@gmail.com1

2Assistant Professor,Department of Educaiton, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India.

3Head of the Department, Department of Educaiton, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India.

4Ph.D Scholar(full time),Department of Educaiton, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India.

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.49

The Concept of Neuro- Linguistic Programming in Improving the Receptive Skills in English

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From the long years ago, education have been trying a proper way to improving the skills of English. Educators tried several methodologies in English to choose the better one. This paper brings out the effect of teaching Receptive skills by implementing NLP (Neuro- Linguistic Programming) in second language as English. Neuro- Linguistic Programming is one of the methods to catch up the English by giving focus on the brain anatomy. Brain anatomy can motive the creativity as well as the skills of using language. It also exist the role of Neuro Linguistic Programming in teaching the Receptive skills of English, which could make the students to improve the Receptive skills such as listening and reading.  The study, in short, affirms that NLP strategies could be quite efficacious in making the students procure the skills that are indispensable in workplaces effortlessly. As it involves teaching a reading comprehension course by NLP concepts and techniques, the approach used in this study is experimental. In addition, the experimental method involves pre-and post-tests conducted before and after the course by the control group (40 students) and the experimental group (40 students). The students of the experimental community are chosen from the secondary school students.  After the NLP experimentation, it was revealed from the study that there was a significant difference in the level of the experimental group in pre and post-test.

Keywords: NLP, Receptive Skills, Concept of NLP in learning receptive skills

“Prompter’s Whisper”: History, Travel and Narrative in Post-Colonial Indian English Travel Writing

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Komal Yadav

PhD Research Scholar, JNU, ORCID: 0000-0003-4049-8192, Komalydv94@gmail.com

 Volume 13, Number 1, 2021 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.48

“Prompter’s Whisper”: History, Travel and Narrative in Post-Colonial Indian English Travel Writing

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The theory revolution and the counter-traditional wave in humanities in the 1980s have garnered attention towards new localism by positing alternatives to the great tradition. In this, Travel writing has proved adaptable and responsive to post-colonial and Globalization studies, thereby shaking off its ‘middlebrow’ status. Keeping in mind the relevance of travel writing in Global politics, the paper aims to engage with In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveller’s Tale (1992) by Amitav Ghosh to delineate the question of History, Travel and Narrative in Indian English Travel Writing. The paper contends that Ghosh uses the Hybrid non-fiction space of the travelogue to write a counter-narrative to the Eurocentric discourse of Travel writing. It seeks to foreground that the reverse Grand tour of Amitav Ghosh problematizes the western hegemonic hold on the field of Ethnography and History. The paper is divided into two parts- the first part will establish In an Antique Land as Resistive subaltern history, followed by the second part, which focuses on Ghosh’s privileging of third world ethnography to write an alternative narrative.

Keywords: Travel, Subaltern History, Ethnography, Narrative.

Modernity and Alienation in Fahd Al-Atiq’s Life on Hold

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Dr. Ebrahim Mohammed Alwuraafi

Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of science and Art-Al-Mandaq, Al-Baha University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Email. ebrahimwarafi@gmail.com, e.mohammed@bu.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5537-7548

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.47

Modernity and Alienation in Fahd Al-Atiq’s Life on Hold

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The second half of the twentieth century Saudi Arabia witnessed an extraordinary economic boom that resulted from the oil production. The new wealth changed people’s life and instead of the old and impoverished life, there started a new one of unimaginable riches and wealth. This sudden metamorphosis has had negative psychological impacts such as alienation and estrangement on Saudis who, unexpectedly, found themselves in an entirely new world. Fahd Al-Atiq’s novel Life on Hold depicts this economic transformation and its impact on the life of Saudi people. The aim of this paper is to analyze Al-Atiq’s usage of alienation as a consequence of modernity and consumerism in Saudi Arabia. The paper examines Al-Atiq’s disappointment with modernity as a culture of alienation in its celebration of appearance and superficiality which necessitates the need to look beyond the surface.

 

Keywords: modernity, alienation, Saudi Arabia, Saudi novel

The Image of the Goddess Umay in the Contemporary Fine Art Culture of Kazakhstan

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Malik F. Mukanov1, Gulfiya T. Meldesh2 & Ayaulym M. Hurbekova1

1Department of Fine Arts, T.K. Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan

2Department of the Fine Arts and Drawing, Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan. E-mail: mmukanov@tanu.pro

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.46

The Image of the Goddess Umay in the Contemporary Fine Art Culture of Kazakhstan

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The article examines the ethnographic and art-history aspects of the reflection of the artistic image of the ancient Turkic goddess Umay in the modern visual culture of Kazakhstan. The image of this goddess is one of the most widespread in the work of modern Kazakhstani artists, who refer to the symbolism of Tengrian culture in their works. Each of the masters, due to their individual worldview and creative style, interprets it in their own way, thereby enriching the modern visual culture of independent Kazakhstan. It is also necessary to mention that the embodiment of symbols and artistic images of the ancient Turkic Tengrian culture by contemporary artists of Kazakhstan in the visual arts reflects the desire to preserve and rethink the national identity in the context of globalisation processes. The study is an attempt at art criticism analysis based on the application of the hermeneutic methodology of numerous author’s interpretations of the artistic image of the goddess in the fine arts of modern Kazakhstan. The study of the problem of finding and embodying artistic images of the Goddess Umay, reflecting the sacred and mythological aspects of the Tengrian worldview, traditional for the nomadic peoples of the Great Steppe, in the visual culture of modern Kazakhstan, has an important theoretical and educational and methodological value. The conclusions of this study can be used and continued not only in the historical and theoretical works of art historians, cultural experts but also in research and educational-methodical works, when creating courses on the history and theory of fine and applied arts, scientific projects of the teaching staff, students, undergraduates and doctoral students, as well as in the artistic practice and creative activity of contemporary artists.

Keywords: Turkology, Tengrianism, Tengrian worldview, author’s painting of Kazakhstan.

Laughing out Loud: The Popular Politics of Schadenfreude in Joker

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Nishat Atiya Shoilee

Lecturer, Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. ORCID: 0000-0002-7170-5513. Email: nishat.atiya@ulab.edu.bd

 Volume 13, Number 1, 2021 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.45

Laughing out Loud: The Popular Politics of Schadenfreude in Joker

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This research attempts to identify and analyze the relatively less explored aspects of schadenfreude as a primary currency in an American attention economy as depicted in the 2019 movie, Joker. It discusses how the protagonist’s comedic ambition to become a live performer falls short of its aim, as he feels inclined to embrace the negativity bias in his city and its questionable amusement impulses. Maintaining the appealing and appalling forces of liking and disliking; the deservingness of others’ good and bad fortunes; desirability for self-evaluation; rivalry and intergroup factors- the paper pursues schadenfreude as the masses’ new opiate. It analyzes the American renaissance of self-effacement and public humiliation in light of its mass media environment that had been abandoning meaningful stories for ticklish delights since the mid-nineties. Both primary and secondary data are used to reinforce an end result which takes the current glocal reality to be the distinct creation of a bizarre comedic moment that both defies and weaponizes a mediafication of its consumers’ emotional health.

Keywords: Schadenfreude, comedy, laughter, American humor, sociopolitical identity, transgression

On Dramaturgy of Russian Romances of S.V. Rachmaninov

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Li Eryong

Department of Music, Musicology, College of Arts, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchan, China. E-mail: li.eryong@uoel.uk

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.44

Oronyms of Monsalvat and Valhalla in Dramaturgy of Wagner’s New Myth “Lohengrin”

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The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that the main field of Rachmaninov’s vocal creativity was lyrics, the world of personal feelings and moods. In its origins, it is associated mainly with Tchaikovsky’s legacy, which is also manifested in the general emotional “openness”, sincerity and immediacy of expression, and in some more specific stylistic characters. The novelty of the study determines that, like Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov sought above all to capture the basic mood of a poetic text in a bright melodic image, showing it in growth, dynamics and development. Therefore, there are those long lines of rise, growth and pathetic climax, which Rachmaninov’s romances abound with. The authors show that he did not miss the experience of the senior masters of the “St. Petersburg school” with their careful, attentive attitude to the poetic word. Rachmaninov, with some rare exceptions, does not allow arbitrary permutations of words or repetitions that violate the form of the verse, his vocal declamation, as a rule, is accurate and distinct. In this regard, he was quite at the level of his time – the era of the highest, most refined poetic culture. The practical significance of the research is determined by the fact that the study of the heritage of the art of Rachmaninov will be important for the general study of the flow of musical culture of the period under study.

Keywords: Rachmaninov, musical culture, romance, composer, heritage.

 

Oronyms of Monsalvat and Valhalla in Dramaturgy of Wagner’s New Myth “Lohengrin”

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Olena H. Roshchenko

Department of Theory and History of Music, Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Email: o-roshchenko@uohk.com.cn

 Volume 13, Number 1, 2021 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.43

Oronyms of Monsalvat and Valhalla in Dramaturgy of Wagner’s New Myth “Lohengrin”

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The paper deals with the following elaboration levels of opera myth in Wagner’s “Lohengrin”: the semantic functions of the Monsalvat and Valhalla oronyms, concentric dramaturgy as a sign of the reverse time of the chronotope-sacra. The research is based on the principles of mythooperology, musical onomatology, encyclopedic, intro- and extra-myphological types of analysis – scientific fields of musicology and methodological principles developed by the author of this paper. Valhalla and Monsalvat fulfilled at different times the similar functions (world resurrection mountain, castle, dwelling of heavenly warriors of light), which gave the sacred oronyms meaning of semantic twins in R. Wagner’s opera. “Lohengrin” opera transmythology, which takes place in the era of destroyed Klingsor, is based on a confrontation between Wunder and Zauber, a duel for the rule over Brabant (Midgard). Four large circles (the circle of Monsalvat, the narrative circle, the circle of Dei Judicium, the vow circle), two small circles, two transitional or intermediate circles (conspiracy and Valhalla) structure the content of the musical-scenic whole. The sacral centre of the opera myth is interpreted through scenes 4 and 5 act 2, where the conflictive opposition between Valhalla and Monsalvat acquires public form. According to the doctrine of “transcendental philosophers”, R. Wagner’s new opera myth acquires the value of a fragmentary formed encyclopaedia-chaos, which is dominated by the rigid logic of artistic form design with the pattern of freedom.

Keywords: romantic docta stilo, transmythology, opera, chronotope-sacra, German-Scandinavian world.

Gender Subversion in Iris Murdoch’s The Unicorn

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Soheila Farhani Nejad

English Department, Islamic Azad University, Branch of Abadan, Iran.

Email: soheila.farhani@gmail.com. ORCID:  0000-0001-8168-0703

 Volume 13, Number 1, 2021 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n1.42

Gender Subversion in Iris Murdoch’s The Unicorn

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This study examines the various representations of female identity in Murdoch’s The Unicorn. The analysis of the novel revolves around the character of Hannah who is the center of everyone’s obsessive gaze. She is described both as an angel and a monster, a victim and a victimizer. Her victimization is aggravated by her passive submission to the will of her victimizers. This simultaneous presence of contradictory features in one character problematizes the notion of perceiving female identity in terms of binaries. As a typical Gothic heroine, Hannah is trapped within cultural assumptions about women. She passively and yet subversively plays the roles projected on her by the contradictory desires of other characters. It will be argued that the obsessive pursuit of perfection in a female figure as well as the disruption of the boundaries of victim and victimizer in this novel serve to problematize the cultural tendency to understand individuals in terms of stereotypes. Therefore, this study aims to illustrate how Murdoch has used an enigmatic female character to challenge the readers’ disposition to perceive characters in terms of gender stereotypes.

Keywords: Gothic, Gender stereotypes, Binaries, Victimization.

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