Search results

The disclosure of the unusual arrangement, uncovered during a congressional inquiry into the Benghazi terrorist attack, has dogged Hillary Clinton for months, as she has dismissed allegations of wrongdoing, played down the FBI investigation into whether the server compromised national security, and struggled against the perception that she is dishonest, secretive, and untrustworthy. It's a losing battle. By the end of summer vacation, Clinton's poll numbers had become so worrisome, and the threat of Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden so real, that her top aides ran to the New York Times to reassure donors and Democratic elites that a change in strategy was coming. They aren't laughing because they must rec- ognize that the 'new focus' the Clinton campaign announced with such publicity is just the latest in a decades-long series of renovations, reboots, restarts, shifts of emphasis, changes in strategy, corrections in course. Adapted from the source document.

This paper explores how (re)translation – interlingual and intersemiotic – can be perceived as a way of both remembering the literary legacy of other cultures but also as a way of re-membering/re-generating the body of literature(s) of the importing culture. It focuses on what is called "a classic" and anchors its reflexion in polysystem theory and in the metaphorical vision of literary works as an organic living body. To do so, it concentrates on the British literary classic Oliver Twist and its translations and adaptations into French. The article addresses the following questions: What is to be remembered of certain works? Why, how and by whom are those works remembered?

Argentine soy production from the 1990s to the 2010s has shown major shifts in both production techniques and the ping-pong-relationships between the agribusiness and national governments. The objective of this paper is to introduce a new statistics-based perspective on soy production in Argentina. We analyse variables of technological innovation, weather, price, territorial expansion, and the role of the state to show the extent of influence these variables have on the decision-making of agribusiness representatives and subsequent production and export of soy. As a result, we show that the primary resource 'soybean' does not equal the soy commodities that are exported: National refinement does occur, watering down the re-primarization argument within the debate on neo-extractivism and re-defining the actual role of national governments from steering power of 'what' and 'how much' is produced to 'in what form' soybeans are exported. ; A produção argentina de soja da década de 1990 até a década de 2010 mostrou grandes mudanças, tantonas técnicas de produção, quanto nas relações de "pingue-pongue" entre o agronegócio e os governosnacionais. O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar uma nova perspectiva, baseada em estatísticas, sobrea produção de soja na Argentina. Analisamos as variáveis de inovação tecnológica, previsão do tempo,preço, expansão territorial e o papel do Estado, para mostrar a extensão de suas influências na tomadade decisões por parte dos representantes do agronegócio e para subsequente produção e exportaçãode soja. Como resultado, mostramos que o recurso primário 'soja' não é igual às commodities de sojaque são exportadas: o refinamento nacional ocorre diluindo o argumento de primarização no debatesobre o neoextrativismo e redefinindo o papel real da soja. Os governos nacionais controlam o poderde 'o quê' e 'quanto' é produzido para decidir 'sob que forma' a soja será exportada.

AbstractThe present paper aims to re-investigate the status of Japanese honorifics in pragmatic principles, and attempts to see how various dynamic uses of honorific terms for different purposes can be unified with the idea of "the grammar of society" (Bicchieri 2006). To reach this conclusion, the paper is organised in the following way. First, I argue that honorifics, or more precisely honorific markings, function as the grammatical conversion of what has already been strategically constructed, and solely index a social or psychological distance between the interactants. This means that honorifics present a double layer of linguistic architecture: a strategically constructed unit and honorific marking on the unit. Second, the paper examines honorific terms used in speech (plus-) level shifts to see a parallel between them and the so-called 'conventional' honorifics, and to find similar attributes shared between them, which are in many ways derived from the origin of honorifics. Finally, by re-investigating and reinstating the term 'social norm', which Bicchieri (2006) compares to "the grammar of society", I demonstrate how honorific terms as social norms are first employed, and then applied, manipulated and pragmatically expanded for various purposes.

Metamorphosis is the new and powerful keyword in time of crisis. We are not undergoing a mere -even though dramaticpassing situation, but we are living in a crisis which requires a metamorphosis of the ecological, cultural, economic, social and political systems to get out of it other than we were when entering it. The metamorphosis will have to be mainly urban, because we are now in the Urban Age in which more than half the population live and work in cities, at levels exceeding 80% in Europe. The city, as the predominant form of inhabiting, is invested with the "responsibility" of producing innovative, more sustainable, intelligent and creative life styles, able of generating the innovative propelling force which can make us emerge from the quagmire of decline.