The Lacuna as a Cultural Phenomenon: Analyzing Martin Camaj’s “Circles”

The Title of a Literary Text as a Discursive Phenomenon

Modern text linguistics pays serious attention to the significant structural elements of the text, which carry special knowledge. Such structural elements include the title. In this article, the title is considered as a linguistic and cognitive characteristic and a spatially fixed structural element of the text – «frame», which is located around/before/behind the text, focusing on the importanc...

Social Networks as a Phenomenon of the Information Society

Social networks, which emerged due to the rapid development of modern telecommunications and information technologies that led to the emergence of the Internet, can be viewed as a phenomenon of the information society. In a short time, there has been both quantitative and qualitative growth of social networks, which have become a common phenomenon in our life and the dominant way of communicati...

A Lacuna in the Guidelines

Physicians treat chronic hypertension almost exclusively in ambulatory care settings according to evidence-based guidelines1 based on blood pressure (BP) measurements obtained under prescribed conditions.2 Other recommendations cover how to deal with hypertension in dialysis units2 and emergency departments,3 but none address a very commonly encountered problem: what to do about acutely elevate...

School Names as Cultural Arenas: the Naming of U.s. Public Schools after Martin Luther King, Jr

The commemoration of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) is a growing movement in many American cities and towns. School naming is an important yet underanalyzed part of this project. A recent struggle in Riverside, California over naming a high school for MLK is used as a springboard for: (1) conceptualizing school names as cultural arenas for debating student and community ...

Guest editorial: Climate change as a complex phenomenon and the problem of cultural governance