Ramón Campos Pérez : un teórico del lenguaje dejado en el olvido

Ramón Campos was very much influenced by the sensationist views current in French linguistic theory and developed these further, even to the point of drawing radical conclusions. In his opinion, abstraction is solely possible by using words. According to his ideas, articulated spoken language is the essential prerequisite for higher thought processes. Furthermore, the adjectives which name characteristics are derived from nouns. Memory and the formation of general ideas are the result of the “gift of the word” and by no means are actions of the human mind. Sign language, which was accepted in French linguistic theory as a precursor of spoken language, is not enough for carrying out abstractions. The tendency of thought to concretise contributes to the dissemination of abstractions. No dependent or referential word can be understood as the original word. He also developed these ideas in his treatise De la desigualdad personal en la sociedad civil (‘On personal inequality in civil society’), where they became the basis of a new ethics of communication. This paper intends to explore the concept of the “gift of the word”, which according to Campos is the only instrument of abstraction and analysis. Applying this concept, human thought can be divided into two capacities or powers: imagination and memory.Ramón Campos fue un autor muy influenciado por la corriente sensualista del pensamiento lingüístico francés, el que había incluso llevado a sus extremos más radicales. Para él, la abstracción se llevaba a cabo por medio de las palabras, del lenguaje articulado, sin intervención del pensamiento. Los nombres adjetivos son en su origen sustantivos. La memoria y la formación de las ideas generales son efectos del don de la palabra, y de ningún modo operaciones del pensamiento. El lenguaje de acción no es suficiente para la operación de la abstracción. La tendencia del pensamiento hacia la concretización hace cundir las abstracciones. Ninguna palabra dependiente o referencial es palabra primitiva. Estas ideas se reafirman también en el contexto de su obra De la desigualdad personal en la sociedad civil donde sirven de base para una nueva ética de la comunicación. Estudiaré el concepto de ‘el don de la palabra’, que en este contexto es el instrumento único de la abstracción o descomposición, capaz de partir el pensamiento en dos facultades o potencias diferentes, ‘imaginación’ y ‘memoria’

Evidential and epistemic sentence adverbs in Romance languages

In this paper evidential and modal adverbs will be studied, such as French apparemment, évidemment, visiblement, Italian apparentemente, evidentemente, ovviamente, and Spanish aparentemente, evidentemente and visiblemente. The development of their signification will be discussed, including German adverbs like offensichtlich. In these means of expression, the functional-semantic categories evidentiality and epistemic modality seem to overlap: on the one hand, they are used if the state of affairs talked about cannot be verified, that is, if there is still a moment of insecurity concerning the transmitted information. Then adverbials with a special structure (preposition + article + nominal form of a verb) will be analysed, and we will examine if they behave in the same way

Why We Should Distinguish Between Mobilization and Participation When Investigating Social Media

In the recent past, social media has become a central channel and means for political and societal mobilization. Mobilization refers to the process by which political parties, politicians, social movements, activists, and other political and social actors induce citizens to participate in politics in order to win elections, convince others of their own positions, influence policies, and modify rulings. While not sufficient on its own for facilitating participation, mobilization is necessary for participation to occur, which justifies examining mobilization specifically to understand how people can be involved in politics. This thematic issue of Media and Communication presents various perspectives on the role of social media in mobilization, embracing both its recruitment side (traditional and non-established political actors, social and protest movements) and its network side (the ways citizens respond to mobilization appeals). Taken together, the thematic issue highlights the multifaceted nature and scholarly fruitfulness of mobilization as an independent concept

Mobilization in the Context of Campaign Functions and Citizen Participation

Mobilization strategies are an essential part of political parties’ campaign communication. By mobilizing voters and supporters, parties promote civic participation in politics, the forms of which have multiplied given the possibilities of user activities on social media. To define their online mobilization strategies, parties have to choose which forms of participation (e.g., voting, donating, or liking or sharing a post) they will seek to mobilize. Understanding mobilization as a communicative appeal to engage audiences in participatory actions, in our study we conceptually linked parties' mobilizing appeals with three campaign functions - information, interaction, and mobilization - to systematize different types of mobilization. We applied that categorization to the social media campaigns of parties and top candidates in Germany and conducted a manual quantitative content analysis of 1,495 Facebook and 1,088 Instagram posts published in the run-up to the 2021 federal election. Results show that parties primarily mobilized their audiences to vote and seek out more information (e.g., on the party’s website). Although user reactions are generally an important factor of performance on social media, parties mostly avoided calls to like, share, or comment on posts. When compared, the strategies of parties and candidates indicate that mobilization is more the task of parties than of candidates. Differences between Facebook and Instagram can be attributed to the different technical affordances of the platforms. Because Facebook, unlike Instagram, supports clickable links in posts, parties are more likely to encourage users on Facebook to seek out more information online

Quasi-Static Fluid-Structure Interactions Based on a Geometric Description of Fluids

This thesis deals with the description of quasi-static fluid-structure interactions. Regarding an efficient computation of such kind of problems all relevant properties of the fluid, such as density, pressure or fluid level, will be captured using only the geometry of the surrounding wetted structure. This allows an analytical description of the fluid, with its strain energy implemented in a volume-dependent energetic equivalent loading acting on the structure