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Der Autor unternimmt eine theoretische Analyse des Begriffes "locality". Hierzu wird zunächst der Begriff "community" näher betrachtet, der in der Bedeutung für das Alltagsleben eine eigene Geschichte hat und sich daher grundsätzlich von "locality" unterscheidet. Anschließend wird der sich auf eine supralokale Ebene beziehende Begriff "nation" diskutiert, der wesentliche Dimensionen sozialer Macht einschließt, die für das Verständnis von "locality" Bedeutung haben. Schließlich wird mit einer realistischen Begrifflichkeit versucht, das Konzept "locality" aus einer Untersuchung der theoretischen Beziehungen zu entwickeln, die das "Nationale" und das "Lokale" in einer modernen Gesellschaft miteinander verbinden. "Locality" hat in den Sozialwissenschaften einen durchaus konzeptuellen Status und ist insbesondere von community durch die aktive, eingreifende Kapazität zu unterscheiden, die sie Bürgern für die Durchführung verschiedenster sozialer Projekte bietet. Es wird abschließend eine theoretische Bestimmung von "locality" erreicht, die sowohl externe Determinationskräfte berücksichtigt, die zur Ausprägung spezifischer localities beitragen, als auch die internen Effekte, die Individuen und soziale Gruppen auslösen können, wenn sie innerhalb von localities handeln und locality dabei als Basis für soziale Mobilisierung nutzen. Locality kann nach Meinung des Autors als ein sozialräumliches Konstrukt aufgefaßt werden, um das sich ein bedeutendes Element sozialer Dynamik aufbaut, das die Entwicklungsprozesse der modernen Gesellschaft vorantreibt. (ICK)

Abstract.  The central issue addressed here is syntactic locality, and the main proposal is that movement and anaphoric relations are governed by a unified concept of locality. The specific phenomena to be investigated are (i) infinitive constructions, in particular, Accusativus cum Infinitivo (AcI) complements, (ii) the German Possessor Dative Construction (PDC), with a dative nominal playing the role of both possessor and affectee, and (iii) binding, the conditions under which reflexive and nonreflexive pronouns may occur. The focus is mainly on binding and how to account for instances of noncomplementarity, but also on the PDC, which can be analyzed as possessor raising. Ultimately, it will become clear that the unifying principle of locality must be the phase, and that phasehood determines the transparency/opacity of phrases (CP, vP, DP, and PP) for both movement and anaphoric relations.

Seemingly, Globalization, the recent world phenomenon, will get rid of all frontiers possessed by a state. This is due to the fact that each person, whatever citizenship the person possesses, may communicate with any one else wherever he or she live, and may move to any place to which he or she would like. Accordingly, the world phenomenon will play great roles in setting particularly socio-cultural, political, educational, and legal patterns and formulations of locality. However, this locality is an exception. It is a distinctive and peculiar border. The Great Tradition, possessed by the Reflective Few, is going to be hand in hand with the Little Tradition of the Unreflective Many to shield their local properties. They won't let outsiders, through the globalization stream, destruct their local social structures, even though such consciousness belongs more greatly to the former group rather than the latter. However, the former is used to invite the latter to cooperate in handling foreign destructive influences.

Despite the success of CDCL SAT solvers solving industrial problems, there are still many open questions to explain such success. In this context, the generation of random SAT instances having computational properties more similar to real-world problems becomes crucial. Such generators are possibly the best tool to analyze families of instances and solvers behaviors on them. In this paper, we present a random SAT instances generator based on the notion of locality. We show that this is a decisive dimension of attractiveness among the variables of a formula, and how CDCL SAT solvers take advantage of it. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first random SAT model that generates both scale-free structure and community structure at once. ; This work was partially supported by the MINECO/FEDER project RASO (TIN2015-71799-C2-1-P), the CSIC project LOGAL (201450E045), and the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) / ERC grant agreement no. 279611. ; Peer Reviewed

A busy industrial centre in a prosperous agricultural state, the town of Ludhiana in Punjab has been a porous site for both overseas migration and an influx of workers from other parts of the country. In the early 2000s, in the wake of economic reforms in India, the city was celebrating a new sense of cultural identity, not only at the regional (Punjabi) level, but also—unexpectedly—at the level of the city itself. How did this recent self-reflexive public culture link up with the simultaneous consolidation of cable TV networks in the city? This article examines the imagined communities and self-images that foster and are fostered by this form of globalised media capitalism, through the commodification of cultural identity. At the same time, however, it argues that the establishment of a televisual regime is also accompanied by performed communities, whose political valence has remained largely unarticulated and unacknowledged. The interactions between these virtual and performative communities have unfolded in different registers, thriving on the largely informal arrangements that corporate television networks and advertisers have had to rely on to operate at the local level. Attending to interactions such as these may be a useful supplement to the emphasis on semiotic practices of 'reading' and meaning-making in ethnographies of the media.