Looking Globally, Seeing Locally: Exploring Some Myths of Globalisation in Academia

Globalisation is a buzz word in many discussions of current social and communicative change, where it resounds in different voices and in various keys. The present paper looks at some globalizing tendencies of today from the perspective of some ideologies and practices, whether past or present, including universalism (and relativism), (anti-)intellectualism, and the pos- tulates of (non-)rhetorical research writing. The role of English as academic lingua franca is discussed against the pressures for new ventriloquation. This is done from the perspective of Polish, a “minor” linguistic and academic community, with special attention to the situ- ation of English studies. An argument is put forward that a major effect of globalization is the rise of reverse, localizing, ideologies and practices.Globalización es un término de moda que resuena con distintas voces y tonos en muchas discusiones sobre los cambios comunicativos y sociales que están ocurriendo hoy en día. Este artículo examina alguna de las actuales tendencias globalizadoras desde la perspectiva de ciertas ideologías y prácticas, presentes o pasadas, que incluyen el universalismo (y el relativismo), el (anti)intelectualismo y los postulados de la investigación (no)retórica de la escritura académica. El papel del inglés como lingua franca académica se aborda en el marco de la imposición de una nueva forma de ventriloquia. Estos temas se enfocan desde la perspectiva de una comunidad académica y lingüística “menor,” la polaca, prestando espe- cial atención a la situación de los estudios ingleses. Asimismo se argumenta que un efecto significativo de la globalización es la aparición de prácticas e ideologías localizadoras e inversas

BridgeHand2Vec Bridge Hand Representation

Contract bridge is a game characterized by incomplete information, posing an exciting challenge for artificial intelligence methods. This paper proposes the BridgeHand2Vec approach, which leverages a neural network to embed a bridge player's hand (consisting of 13 cards) into a vector space. The resulting representation reflects the strength of the hand in the game and enables interpretable distances to be determined between different hands. This representation is derived by training a neural network to estimate the number of tricks that a pair of players can take. In the remainder of this paper, we analyze the properties of the resulting vector space and provide examples of its application in reinforcement learning, and opening bid classification. Although this was not our main goal, the neural network used for the vectorization achieves SOTA results on the DDBP2 problem (estimating the number of tricks for two given hands)

Centra, hybrydy i zmiana społeczno-dyskursywna

Centres, hybrids and socio-discursive changeIn the article I examine general issues concerning the function of the centre-periphery visualisation in discourse analysis and, indirectly, in many other studies into modern social communication. I emphasise the dynamics of mutual relations between the centre and the peripheries, including the definitional and categorial instability of both concepts as well as the relativity of research heuristic using this kind of metaphor. The point of reference is the English-language literature on the subject. In the article I focus briefly on two aspects of the problem: external and internal with regard to discourse analysis. In the case of the former, my interest focuses on globalisation, i.e. how social, economic, cultural and technological transformations influence our social actions and thinking about discourse, symbolic power and social identity. The latter case is about the genre which for me is the definitional centre for linguistic discourse analysis, especially for critical discourse studies with an interdisciplinary background. The aim of my reflections is to show how socio-discursive changes, including the growing hybridisation and multimodality of communication as well as the generic openness of new discursive formations, influence the destabilisation of the centre-periphery relations in social perception and discourse analysis. I believe that both turns in contemporary discourse studies — the critical and the semiotic — pose completely new challenges to linguistically-based discourse analysis and, consequently, to linguistics itself.Centres, hybrids and socio-discursive changeIn the article I examine general issues concerning the function of the centre-periphery visualisation in discourse analysis and, indirectly, in many other studies into modern social communication. I emphasise the dynamics of mutual relations between the centre and the peripheries, including the definitional and categorial instability of both concepts as well as the relativity of research heuristic using this kind of metaphor. The point of reference is the English-language literature on the subject. In the article I focus briefly on two aspects of the problem: external and internal with regard to discourse analysis. In the case of the former, my interest focuses on globalisation, i.e. how social, economic, cultural and technological transformations influence our social actions and thinking about discourse, symbolic power and social identity. The latter case is about the genre which for me is the definitional centre for linguistic discourse analysis, especially for critical discourse studies with an interdisciplinary background. The aim of my reflections is to show how socio-discursive changes, including the growing hybridisation and multimodality of communication as well as the generic openness of new discursive formations, influence the destabilisation of the centre-periphery relations in social perception and discourse analysis. I believe that both turns in contemporary discourse studies — the critical and the semiotic — pose completely new challenges to linguistically-based discourse analysis and, consequently, to linguistics itself

A note on rhematic subjects in English

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Does the Way of Financing Quantitative Easing Programmes Matter?

This paper applies a DSGE model to find whether the way of financing QE2 matters for the reaction of the economy. The model includes a segmented bond market structure, thus the large-scale asset purchases may successfully influence the economy. It is shown that the effects on macroeconomic variables are very similar regardless of whether the government finances the purchases by lump-sum taxes or by short-term debt which signifies that the quantitative deviation from Ricardian equivalence introduced by bond market segmentation is insignificant. The redistribution effects caused by financing are noticeable

OPIEKA PIELĘGNIARSKA NAD PACJENTEM PO PRZEBYTYM ZAWALE SERCA I ANGIOPLASTYCE WIEŃCOWEJ- STUDIUM PRZYPADKU

W Polsce choroby układu krążenia są jedną z najważniejszych przyczyn zgonów. Leczenie pacjenta  opiera się głównie na udrożnieniu tętnicy dozawałowej za pomocą farmakoterapii bądź poprzez zastosowanie przezskórnych metod rewaskularyzacyjnych. Okres hospitalizacji po zabiegu wiąże się z wystąpieniem wielu problemów pielęgnacyjnych