Pestalozzi Scenes and Memorials

Pestalozzi and The Oswego Movement

Memorials to Modernity: Postcolonial Pilgrimage in Naipaul and Rushdie

Translation and Hybridity in Scenes and Frames Semantics

 The present study is a theoretical attempt to illustrate how Fillmore's Scenes and Frames Semantics (SFS) could be employed as a framework to portray the process of understanding and translating hybrid texts. It first reviews the origin of SFS; then it maps SFS onto Nida’s linguistic model of translation process and the Interpretive Theory of Translation; it examines in the next section, withi...

German Memory of the Holocaust: The Emergence of Counter-Memorials

Authority from grief, presence and place in the making of roadside memorials.

Those who make memorials for the victims of motor vehicle crashes assume an authority to do so that stems from three main elements of experience: the overwhelming empowerment of grief; the belief that the presence of the deceased can be felt and recognized; and the understanding that the place where life was lost is a special place for memorialization. The strength of grief, the power of presen...