20 research outputs found
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
Some remarks on contextual boundness and semantic relations in the thematic-structure of sentences
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