In this article I examine as mediations of urban experience poems written by Koos du Plessis. a contemporary Afrikaans poet. together with their musical rendition by Johannes Kerkorrel. a singer and musician from the Afrikaans altemative music scene and former member of Die Gereformeerde Blues Band. The poetry was initially published with musical arrangements in the volume Kinders van die Wind : En Ander Lirieke (1981) . In order to use this material in an article produced as part of an English study . I have translated the poetry into English . The translation (in linguistic and performative terms) of these poems has the dual effect of rendering them more appropriately for this study, and making them accessible to a wider audience. I am concemed with the way poems written by a poet from an earlier decade (the 1980s) interpret and mediate an urban identity and. further. with the fact that performance not only gives them a new lease of life. but also transforms them into works which have meaning and appeal for a more contemporary, broader audience. The fundamental issues addressed in this poetry , namely a response to and a negotiation of urban (South African) experience. continue to speak compellingly today. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2002.

This thesis challenges the position that the serek texts are primarily prescriptive and legal, as they have been customarily defined. It argues that the term serek should be reconceptualized according to descriptive analysis, with the purpose of creating what C. Newsom terms a ‘Gestalt structure.’ In order to achieve this, four serek texts (M, S, Sa, and D) will be analyzed at three literary levels—semantic, textual and hypertextual—explaining how the elements at these levels interact as cohesive wholes, thus serving to create a more complete picture of this group of texts as a literary unity. Thus, while the separate, constituent semantic, textual and hypertextual parts must be analysed as separate elements, the fundamental questions posed regarding these elements will be different in a Gestalt paradigm as compared to a traditional, definitional analysis. Going from the micro to the macro, the first chapter will look at the serek texts through the ‘microscope’ of close philological analysis, examining how the term serek functions atomistically within the Dead Sea Scrolls. Building upon these results, the second chapter will more broadly analyse the structure, themes and narrative apparent in the serek texts, thus creating a fuller understanding of how the serek texts relate to one another and respond to circumstances in community life. Finally, the last chapter seeks yet more broadly to understand the serek texts in the wider literary milieu of the Second Temple Period. Here, a scribal technique present in the serek texts will be compared to a similar technique used in the Book of Isaiah—arguably the most important prophetic work for the Qumran sectarians.

This thesis challenges the position that the serek texts are primarily prescriptive and legal, as they have been customarily defined. It argues that the term serek should be reconceptualized according to descriptive analysis, with the purpose of creating what C. Newsom terms a ‘Gestalt structure.’ In order to achieve this, four serek texts (M, S, Sa, and D) will be analyzed at three literary levels—semantic, textual and hypertextual—explaining how the elements at these levels interact as cohesive wholes, thus serving to create a more complete picture of this group of texts as a literary unity. Thus, while the separate, constituent semantic, textual and hypertextual parts must be analysed as separate elements, the fundamental questions posed regarding these elements will be different in a Gestalt paradigm as compared to a traditional, definitional analysis. Going from the micro to the macro, the first chapter will look at the serek texts through the ‘microscope’ of close philological analysis, examining how the term serek functions atomistically within the Dead Sea Scrolls. Building upon these results, the second chapter will more broadly analyse the structure, themes and narrative apparent in the serek texts, thus creating a fuller understanding of how the serek texts relate to one another and respond to circumstances in community life. Finally, the last chapter seeks yet more broadly to understand the serek texts in the wider literary milieu of the Second Temple Period. Here, a scribal technique present in the serek texts will be compared to a similar technique used in the Book of Isaiah—arguably the most important prophetic work for the Qumran sectarians.

Support, à l'origine, d'une genèse à la fois textuelle et intellectuelle, lieu mémoriel par excellence, le carnet développe aussi, grâce aux conditions d'écriture spécifiques qu'il favorise, une poétique de l'attention et du regard dont découlent directement écriture de l' « incident » (Barthes) et saisies de l'instant. La discontinuité formelle qu'elles engendrent, en évinçant l'écriture du Moi au profit de l'écriture du Monde, semblent, d'autre part, encourager une poétique de l'anti-journal – perceptible autant d'un point de vue métatextuel que formel. Dans le carnet, de surcroît, se déploient des etha spécifiques et complexes, fondés sur une dialectique subtile entre le « dedans » et le « dehors ». Enfin, la question de la mise en livre du carnet doit être interrogée, sous l'angle de sa publication autant que sa réception : quel protocole éditorial privilégier ? Quel lecteur pour le carnet d'écrivain ? / Originally a medium of genesis, both textual and intellectual, an archetypal memory space, the notebook also develops, thanks to the specific writing conditions it favorises, the poetics of attention and regard from which « incident » (Barthes) style and seizure of the moment style emanate directly. The formal discontinuity that these styles create, World writing rather than writings of Self, seems, on the other hand, to encourage the poetics of the anti-journal – perceptible from both the metatextual and formal points of view. Moreover, in the notebook, specific and complex etha unfold, based upon subtle dialectics situated between the « in » and the « out ». Finally, the question of transforming a notebook into a book has to be asked, from the angle of publication as well as in it's reception : which editorial protocol should be priviledged ? What type of reader for a writer's notebook ?

O discurso empresarial institucional tem se mostrado bastante eficiente em sua tarefa legitimadora, consolidando novas formas de ver o mundo e atuar nele. O discurso empresarial institucional, aparentemente objetivo e homogêneo, constrói a si mesmo através de um bem articulado jogo polifônico, em que a voz de um locutor (L) - que representa a voz institucional - \"orquestra\" as demais vozes que surgem nos tetos de modo a abafar as que se opõem à direção argumentativa que L pretende impor. Tal direção argumentativa dá-se necessariamente no sentido de afirmar determinada ideologia. Considerando a importância que o discurso empresarial institucional assume nos dias de hoje, ao consolidar-se como um dos principais aliados de um capitalismo renovado, em que os discursos neoliberal, da privatização, globalização, qualidade e preservação do meio ambiente formam a base do pensamento econômico moderno, torna-se necessário compreender melhor sua dinâmica de produção, o que inclui desnudar as bases ideológicas que o sustentam. Desta forma, a partir de conceitos da pragmática, em particular da semântica argumentativa de Oswald Ducrot, são analisados neste trabalho textos institucionais de certa empresa privada para se verificar como as diferentes vozes se articulam e como desta articulação se legitima uma ideologia que cria, mantém e difunde significações. / Institutional business discourse has proved efficient in its legitimatory task of consolidating new worldviews and forms of acting in the world. In its apparent objectivity and homogeneity, institutional business discourse develops in a well articulated polyphonic game. In this game, the voice of a locator (L) - which represents the institutional voice - \"orchestrates\" the other voices that occur in the text in an attempt to erase those voices which move in an opposite direction relative to the argumentative orientation of the discourse. The argumentative direction of the discourse necessarily leads to the affirmation of a particular ideology. Institutional business discourse plays an important role nowadays, as one of the main allies of a renewed capitalism, which finds its basis in modern economic thinking informed by neoliberal discourse, the discourse of privatization, that of globalization, and those of standards of quality and preservation of the natural environment. Thus, it becomes necessary to better understand the conditions of its production, which presupposes unmasking the ideological basis that underlies institutional business discourse. On the basis of concepts derived from studies in the field of pragmatics, particularly those from Oswald Ducrot’s argumentative semantics, a number of institutional texts from certain private company were examined, with a view to investigating how the different voices featuring in such texts articulate with one another and by so doing legitimate an ideology that creates, maintains, and spreads particular types of meaning.

Esta dissertação analisa comparativamente textos cabo-verdianos de autoria masculina e feminina à luz do tema Literatura e representação social das mulheres em Cabo Verde, com o objetivo de demonstrar como constroem a historicidade das mulheres naquele contexto, com base na abordagem de gênero e numa hermenêutica do cotidiano feminino. Diante do exposto, centramos as leituras nas personagens femininas das narrativas, especialmente as protagonistas, no intuito de acompanhar suas trajetórias de objetos a sujeitos históricos, tendo em conta a complexidade do fenômeno da emancipação feminina em Cabo Verde e a entrada um pouco tardia, todavia decisiva, de produções de mulheres no cânone literário. Buscamos demonstrar, em nossa pesquisa, como a escritura literária masculina de António Aurélio Gonçalves, Baltasar Lopes, Manuel Ferreira, Oswaldo Osório, Teobaldo Virgínio e Virgílio Pires apreende e apresenta realidades femininas, sobretudo por meio da exposição, ao passo que as escrituras literárias femininas de Camila Mont-Rond, Dina Salústio, Fátima Bettencourt, Ivone Aída e Maria Margarida Mascarenhas revelam subjetividades femininas que lançam novos olhares e novos recortes que dialogam o universo representado pela ótica masculina. / This dissertation analyses comparatively Cape Verdean texts of masculine and feminine authorship by the light of the subject Literature and social representation of the women in Cape Verde, with the objective to demonstrate how they build the historicity of women in that context, based on the approach gender and a hermeneutics of everyday women. Given the above, the readings have focused on female characters of the narratives, especially the protagonists in order to follow their paths of objects to historical subjects taking into account the complexity of the phenomenon of female emancipation in Cape Verde and coming a little late, but decisive , productions of women in the literary canon. We demonstrate in our research, such as male literary writings of António Aurélio Gonçalves, Baltasar Lopes, Manuel Ferreira, Oswaldo Osório Pires Teobaldo Virgínio and Virgílio Pires learns and presents women\'s realities, especially through the exhibition, while the female literary writings of Camila Mont-Rond, Dina Salústio, Fátima Bettencourt, Ivone Aída and Maria Margarida Mascarenhas and reveal female subjectivities that cast new visions and new cuts that dialogue the universe represented by the male perspective.

O objetivo deste estudo foi o de apresentar uma nova tecnologia de software especialista, denominada Inteligência Práxis (IP), para a gestão da análise do conteúdo de textos de dissertações, relatórios e indicadores da produção. Este software demonstra através de gráficos lineares e da nuvem de palavras, o foco do texto em análise. Ele também permite a visualização do conteúdo, a partir das palavras contidas no texto e transportadas para um dicionário de dados criado pelas evidências relacionadas, organizando e apresentando para análise do pesquisador o conteúdo proposto como base do conhecimento (Corpus). O software foi implementado em linguagem de programação Delphi, Versão 7 e para armazenamento de dados foi utilizado o banco de dados Absolute Database. A metodologia utilizada para a análise dos dados foi a Metodologia Delphi e a Lógica Fuzzy. Esta tecnologia traz uma inovação na análise do conteúdo dos textos consultados, demonstrando a imagem consolidada do foco do corpus, a partir do dicionário de evidências contidas e pontualmente relacionadas. O mapeamento produzido e a interpretação dos diversos indicadores conduzem a um maior grau de acerto na análise do conteúdo contido no documento, inferindo um melhor entendimento das diversas demandas envolvidas, desveladas pela análise, na expectativa do melhor resultado possível. Assim, pode-se concluir, que a ferramenta desenvolvida atendeu aos objetivos propostos com eficiência e agilidade. / The objective of this study was to present a new specialized software technology, called Intelligence Práxis (IP), for the management of content analysis of dissertations, reports and production indicators. This software demonstrates through linear graphs and the word cloud, the focus of the text under analysis. It also allows the visualization of the content, from the words contained in the text and transported to a data dictionary created by the related evidences, organizing and presenting to the researcher the proposed content as the basis of knowledge (Corpus). The software was implemented in Delphi programming language version 7 and for data storage the Absolute Database was used. The methodology used for the data analysis was the Delphi Methodology and the Fuzzy Logic. This technology brings an innovation in the analysis of the content of the texts consulted, demonstrating the consolidated image of the corpus focus, from the dictionary of contained and punctually related evidences. The mapping produced and the interpretation of the various indicators lead to a greater degree of accuracy in the analysis of the content contained in the document, inferring a better understanding of the diverse demands involved, revealed by the analysis, in the expectation of the best possible result. Thus, it can be concluded that the tool developed met the proposed objectives with efficiency and agility.

Le papyrus du Vatican n° inv. 38603 est un Livre des morts hiératique daté de l’époque tardive, provenant vraisemblablement de la ville de Thèbes et contenant un certain nombre d’originalités iconographiques et textuelles. Son étude exhaustive est entreprise à l’aide d’une présentation détaillée, d’une traduction complète, d’un commentaire de chacun des textes qui le composent, d’une mise en contexte au sein de la documentation tardive du genre et d’une paléographie. Ces éléments permettent de mettre en valeur divers aspects des croyances funéraires des égyptiens de cette époque. D’autre part, ils autorisent à resserrer la datation du papyrus autour de 300 av. J.-C. et à replacer le document dans un contexte précis en forte relation avec la religion et les cultes osiriens qui se développent à Thèbes à partir de laTroisième Période intermédiaire. / The Papyrus Vatican inv. No 38603 is a hieratic Book of the Dead dated of the late period, coming probably from the city of Thebes and containing a number of textual and iconographic peculiarities. His comprehensive study is undertaken using a detailed presentation, a complete translation, a commentary on each of its component texts, a contextualization within the late documentation of the type and a paleography. These elements can highlight various aspects of Egyptian funerary beliefs of that time. On the other hand, they allow for closer dating of papyrus around 300 BC. and put the document in a specific context in strong relationship with religion and cults of Osiris that develop at Thebes since the Third Intermediate Period.

Esta dissertação visa apresentar a trajetória e os resultados da análise da atividade oficina de construção colaborativa de textos multimodais em ambiente virtual wiki, ministrada a 52 usuários do Telecentro instalado na Biblioteca Pública Municipal Monteiro Lobato, na cidade de São Paulo. Os dados foram coletados de junho de 2008 a fevereiro de 2009, período de duração das cinco turmas da oficina. Utilizando os preceitos da teoria da atividade (Leontiev, 1978; Engeström, 1997; Nardi, 1996) e principalmente o conceito de contradições apontado pela teoria (Engeström, 1997) procura-se identificar, classificar e problematizar, na análise de dados, as contradições relacionadas a aspectos linguísticos, cognitivos, sociais, culturais e técnicos que surgem entre os elementos que compõem a atividade (sujeito, ferramentas, objeto, regras, comunidade e divisão do trabalho) durante a realização da oficina. A análise das contradições da atividade demonstra, contudo, que professora e alunos não encontraram soluções em todos os casos. Concluiu-se nesta pesquisa que a análise das contradições da atividade foi profícua para a compreensão detalhada das relações entre os componentes da atividade em todos os seus níveis. Também foi compreendido que uma análise dessa importância deve sempre motivar e ser seguida pelo planejamento e implementação de um modelo de reformulação da atividade que incorpore ações de transformação e inovação, que efetivamente levem aos resultados esperados. Embora o escopo desta pesquisa não tenha permitido que isso fosse feito, algumas sugestões de como se poderia tentar fazê-lo em pesquisas futuras são esboçadas e apresentadas no final do trabalho. / This dissertation aims to present the history and the results of the analysis of the activity: workshop for collaborative construction of multimodal texts in a virtual environment wiki, taught to 52 users of the Telecentro located at the Public Municipal Library Monteiro Lobato, in the city of São Paulo. Data were collected from June 2008 to February 2009. Using the precepts of activity theory (Leontiev, 1978; Engeström, 1997; Nardi, 1996) and especially the concept of contradictions, pointed out by that theory (Engeström, 1997), this research seeks to identify, classify and discuss the contradictions related to the linguistic, cognitive, social, cultural and technical aspects arising among the elements of the activity (subject, tools, object, rules, community and division of labor) during the workshop. The analysis done shows however, that teacher and students did not find solutions to all the contradictions that emerged. We conclude that this study\'s analysis of the contradictions of the activity was helpful for the detailed understanding of the relationship among the components of the activity, at all levels. An analysis of this importance should motivate and be followed by planning and implementing of a reformulation model that incorporates actions for change and innovation, and effectively, leading to expected results. Although the scope of this research did not allow it to be done, some suggestions on how one might do so in future research are outlined at the end of this study.

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