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Simulacro e retórica : construção de ethé e do humor em artigos de opinião de Elio Gaspari

Esta pesquisa propõe um estudo sobre a construção de ethé e do humor em artigos de opinião intergenéricos assinados por Elio Gaspari. Partindo da hipótese de que, nos textos, a construção discursiva de ethé alheios constitui a principal estratégia argumentativa, buscamos verificar como, pela utilização de recursos retóricos e humorísticos, é possível construir ethé de figuras expressivas da política brasileira. Para tanto, selecionamos oito artigos de opinião publicados em forma de e-mail no jornal Folha de S. Paulo. Uma vez estruturados a partir do processo intergenérico, esses artigos de opinião simulam trocas de e-mail entre personalidades políticas, evidenciando ethé dessas personalidades, o que os torna um lugar propício para se observar o ponto de vista retórico da construção de imagem. Assim, ao mostrar como se dá a construção de ethé dos políticos nos artigos intergenéricos, este trabalho se torna relevante na medida em que pode ampliar reflexões em torno dos artifícios utilizados em textos opinativos para levar o auditório a aderir ao posicionamento do orador. Para a condução deste estudo, adotamos os construtos teóricos desenvolvidos por estudiosos da Retórica (Retórica aristotélica e Nova Retórica), dos gêneros e do humor. As análises revelaram a constituição, pelo viés do humor, de ethé positivos dos políticos que atuam como remetentes dos e-mails e de um ethos negativo daqueles que desempenham o papel de destinatário. Ainda foi possível constatar que, ao construir ethé de outras personagens, o orador acaba construindo representações de si. Concluímos, assim, que é por meio do recurso ao ethos e ao humor que o orador busca obter a adesão de seu auditório, levando-o a partilhar seu posicionamento crítico acerca da política brasileira.

Humour and translation, an interdiscipline

This paper calls for greater attention from researchers into the nature of humor translation as an interdisciplinary area that should be of interest to translation and humor studies. It includes a brief review of the complexity of translation and the problems posed by traditional approaches. The paper introduces a number of parameters that may be of assistance in developing joke typologies for translators or translation scholars. A model is presented for structuring joke-types according to binary branching. An attempt is then made to combine the model with ideas and concepts put forward in Attardo (2002). The result is a binary branch tree for the 6 Knowledge Resources and the hierarchical structure that Attardo claims they have. One important conclusion is that sameness, or similarity, may have little to do with funniness, and, if this is so, it is going to create a dilemma for translators wishing to achieve equivalent effect.

Collection of Canadian periodical clippings and Peninsular Game Club of St. Catharines broadside, 1874, [1910-1950]

Items include: 13 small poems clipped from newspapers. None of the poems list authors. Most of the poems are based on life lessons. Clippings of short stories which appear to have come from a St. Catharines newspaper. The stories include anecdotes, humour and medical advice. There is no author listed on any of the stories. 2 coloured sewing machine advertisements each measuring 9 cm. x 13 cm. and 9 cm. x 14 cm. 1 broadside measuring 27 cm. x 37 cm. and posted by the Peninsular Game Club of St. Catharines. The broadside is a copy of the game laws of 1874 with a warning that breach of these laws will bring rigorous prosecution.

Current Expressions of American Jewish Identity: An Analysis of 114 Teenagers

This chapter explores the characteristics of 114 American teenagers' Jewish identities using data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR). The NSYR includes a telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 3,290 adolescents aged 13 to 17. Jewish teenagers were over-sampled, resulting in a total of 3,370 teenage participants. Of the NSYR teens surveyed, 141 have at least one Jewish parent and 114 of them identify as Jewish. The NSYR also includes in-depth face-to-face interviews with a total of 267 U.S. teens: 23 who have at least one Jewish parent and 18 who identify as Jewish. The following analysis draws upon quantitative data from the 114 teens who identified themselves as Jewish in the face-to-face interviews.

Panel 5: Memories and Fantasies of Genocides

Panel 5: Memories and Fantasies of Genocides Mark Hobbs, University of Winchester, United Kingdom: "Destroying Memory: The Attack on Holocaust Conscience and Memory in Britain 1942-2011" Download paper (login required) Kristen Dyck, Washington State University: "Hate Rock: White-Power Music in International Perspective" Download paper (login required) Audrey Mallet, Concordia University, Canada: “The Old Jewish Strangler and Other Ghost Stories: Poles’ Struggle to Come to Terms with the Holocaust” Download paper (login required) Tea Rozman-Clark, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia: “Oral History: UN Peacekeepers and Local Population of the UN Safe Area Srebrenica” Download paper (login required) Chair: Kimberly Partee and Kathrin Haurand, Clark UniversityComment: Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen

[Old and new interventional therapies in the treatment of symptomatic benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH)]

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia is a common entity among the aging male population. Its prevalence is increasing with age and is around 80% in the over 80-years old. The androgen-estrogen ratio changes in favor of the estrogens, which leads to a growth of prostatic tissue, presenting histologically as hyperplasia. BPH can cause irritative or obstructive symptoms or both. Nowadays we speak of bladder storage or bladder voiding symptoms, summarised as LUTS (Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms). LUTS has a structural and a functional component, the structural being caused by the size of the adenoma itself the functional depending on the muscle tone of the bladder neck and the prostatic urethra. To investigate LUTS, we use validated symptom scores, sonography for residual urine and eventually a urodynamic evaluation. There are 3 grades of BPH. The indication for an interventional therapy is relative in BPH II, and absolute in BPH III. Prior to treatment, other diseases mimicking the same symptoms, have to be ruled out and adequatly treated. Electro-resection of the prostate (TUR-P) remains the standard therapy and the benchmark any new technology has to compete with. TUR-P has good short- and longterm results, but can be associated with a considerable perioperative morbidity, and the learning curve for the operator is long. The most promising of the newer techniques is the Holmium-Laser-Enucleation of the prostate (Laser-TUR-P), showing at least identical short- and median-term results, but a lower perioperative morbidity than TUR-P For several minimally-invasive techniques, indications are limited. TUMT TUNA, WIT and laser-coagulation all produce a coagulation necrosis of the prostatic tissue by thermic damage with secondary tissue shrinking. Urodynamic results however, are not comparable to TUR-P or Laser-TUR-P, and significantly more secondary interventions within 2 to 5 years are required. Minimal-invasive techniques present a favorable alternative for younger patients without complications of BPH, and for older patients with relevant comorbidities, and can usually be performed under local anaesthesia. The morbidity is low and further therapies remain possible later, if necessary.

Mutations in SLC1A4, encoding the brain serine transporter, are associated with developmental delay, microcephaly and hypomyelination

BACKGROUND L-serine plays an essential role in neuronal development and function. Although a non-essential amino acid, L-serine must be synthesised within the brain because of its poor permeability by the blood-brain barrier. Within the brain, its synthesis is confined to astrocytes, and its shuttle to neuronal cells is performed by a dedicated neutral amino acid transporter, ASCT1. METHODS AND RESULTS Using exome analysis we identified the recessive mutations, p.E256K, p.L315fs, and p.R457W, in SLC1A4, the gene encoding ASCT1, in patients with developmental delay, microcephaly and hypomyelination; seizure disorder was variably present. When expressed in a heterologous system, the mutations did not affect the protein level at the plasma membrane but abolished or markedly reduced L-serine transport for p.R457W and p.E256K mutations, respectively. Interestingly, p.E256K mutation displayed a lower L-serine and alanine affinity but the same substrate selectivity as wild-type ASCT1. CONCLUSIONS The clinical phenotype of ASCT1 deficiency is reminiscent of defects in L-serine biosynthesis. The data underscore that ASCT1 is essential in brain serine transport. The SLC1A4 p.E256K mutation has a carrier frequency of 0.7% in the Ashkenazi-Jewish population and should be added to the carrier screening panel in this community.

"Contra toda forma de opresión" : Sexo, política y clases medias juveniles en las revistas de humor de los primeros '70

Este artículo explora cómo las revistas de humor político-cultural de los primeros '70 devinieron una fuente de autorreflexión para un público, o espacio social, que se constituyó en torno a ellas. A partir del análisis de la más importante de esas publicaciones, Satiricón, es posible aseverar que en términos socio-demográficos ese espacio social se componía de segmentos juveniles de los sectores medios intelectualizados que podían a la vez reírse y hacer reír, en especial cuando se remarcaban incongruencias en sus experiencias sexuales y políticas. Las revistas de humor elaboraron múltiples incongruencias: los llamados a una educación sexual imbricados con la persistencia de viejas creencias sexuales; el lenguaje "psi" domesticando, antes que ayudando a liberar, las represiones sexuales; los varones temiendo por el fin de privilegios ante la afirmación sexual de las mujeres; y, más en general, la militancia política como forma de opresión. Las incongruencias eran la base de lo risible, mientras que en su centro estaban los y las jóvenes de los sectores medios, a quienes se convocaba a un tipo de reflexión que, en ese contexto político, quizá era solo viable a partir de la exageración y del humor

"Contra toda forma de opresión" : Sexo, política y clases medias juveniles en las revistas de humor de los primeros '70

Este artículo explora cómo las revistas de humor político-cultural de los primeros '70 devinieron una fuente de autorreflexión para un público, o espacio social, que se constituyó en torno a ellas. A partir del análisis de la más importante de esas publicaciones, Satiricón, es posible aseverar que en términos socio-demográficos ese espacio social se componía de segmentos juveniles de los sectores medios intelectualizados que podían a la vez reírse y hacer reír, en especial cuando se remarcaban incongruencias en sus experiencias sexuales y políticas. Las revistas de humor elaboraron múltiples incongruencias: los llamados a una educación sexual imbricados con la persistencia de viejas creencias sexuales; el lenguaje "psi" domesticando, antes que ayudando a liberar, las represiones sexuales; los varones temiendo por el fin de privilegios ante la afirmación sexual de las mujeres; y, más en general, la militancia política como forma de opresión. Las incongruencias eran la base de lo risible, mientras que en su centro estaban los y las jóvenes de los sectores medios, a quienes se convocaba a un tipo de reflexión que, en ese contexto político, quizá era solo viable a partir de la exageración y del humor

"Contra toda forma de opresión" : Sexo, política y clases medias juveniles en las revistas de humor de los primeros '70

Este artículo explora cómo las revistas de humor político-cultural de los primeros '70 devinieron una fuente de autorreflexión para un público, o espacio social, que se constituyó en torno a ellas. A partir del análisis de la más importante de esas publicaciones, Satiricón, es posible aseverar que en términos socio-demográficos ese espacio social se componía de segmentos juveniles de los sectores medios intelectualizados que podían a la vez reírse y hacer reír, en especial cuando se remarcaban incongruencias en sus experiencias sexuales y políticas. Las revistas de humor elaboraron múltiples incongruencias: los llamados a una educación sexual imbricados con la persistencia de viejas creencias sexuales; el lenguaje "psi" domesticando, antes que ayudando a liberar, las represiones sexuales; los varones temiendo por el fin de privilegios ante la afirmación sexual de las mujeres; y, más en general, la militancia política como forma de opresión. Las incongruencias eran la base de lo risible, mientras que en su centro estaban los y las jóvenes de los sectores medios, a quienes se convocaba a un tipo de reflexión que, en ese contexto político, quizá era solo viable a partir de la exageración y del humor