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Dialogicality and imaginings of two 'community' notice boards in post-apartheid Observatory, Cape Town
This article undertakes a poststructuralist multisemiotic analysis of posters and notices
found on two 'community' notice boards in the trendy, multicultural neighbourhood of
Observatory in Cape Town, South Africa. An analysis of the two notice boards endeavours
to reveal different strategic uses of English as well as varying constructions of
(transnational) place-making and community in Observatory. The two notice boards
reveal voices of transient and permanent groups alike and index new imaginative
constructions of this changing neighbourhood. Furthermore, this paper explores the
implications of strategic linguistic processes in self-marketisation of transnational
and 'local' community members in Observatory. We conclude by expounding on the
new perspective of transcultural capital and what it means to the sociolinguistics of
a super-diverse neighbourhood in the post-apartheid neighbourhood of Observatory
in Cape Town, South Africa.IS
Relating the Cosmological Constant and Supersymmetry Breaking in Warped Compactifications of IIB String Theory
It has been suggested that the observed value of the cosmological constant is
related to the supersymmetry breaking scale M_{susy} through the formula Lambda
\sim M_p^4 (M_{susy}/M_p)^8. We point out that a similar relation naturally
arises in the codimension two solutions of warped space-time varying
compactifications of string theory in which non-isotropic stringy moduli induce
a small but positive cosmological constant.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, references added and minor changes made, (v3) map
between deSitter and global cosmic brane solutions clarified, supersymmetry
breaking discussion improved and references adde