Translating and visualizing Chinese childhood: intermedial mediation in Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes

Environmental issues have been described as one of society’s wicked problems. In contrast to widespread technological responses to environmental issues, I spotlight social aspects as chief barriers to productive change. I posit that socially constructed frames can influence people’s perspectives, opinions, and behaviors regarding environmental issues. In this project, I explored organizational work and framing processes as a means to bridge the chasm between technological and social approaches to environmental issues. To date, researchers using framing theory have narrowed their focus to testing the effectiveness of different frames. By doing so, however, researchers remain limited to discursive explanations regarding how frames are constructed at a micro level. In contrast, I adopted a multimodal approach that accounts for both discursive and non-discursive modalities to investigate how organizations deploy visual, material, and textual approaches to shape environmental meaning through framing processes. Specifically, I focused on organizational campaigns to construct meaning around the contentious issue of bottled water. I adopted a qualitative approach, using a multimodal analysis, to explore advertisements and campaigns used by bottled water companies and environmental activist groups to shape perspectives, opinions and behaviors of plastic containers and bottled water usage. I found that visual, material, and textual modalities can be used as value-neutral tools to help stakeholders construct different frames and shape the public’s opinion of bottled water. Different multimodal elements serve different functions in constructing different frames. I also identified particular barriers for the framing construction process.

This paper constructed a multi-modal analysis framework of teacher-student interaction based on intelligent technology. Voiceprint recognition was used to divide the teaching video into slices according to sentences and then used speech recognition, speech emotion analysis, gaze point estimation, and other technologies to recognize and encoded the multimodal behavior of each slice. We analyzed 10 lessons using the event sampling method proposed in the analysis framework in comparison with the classical temporal sampling analysis method and demonstrated the results of multimodal interaction analysis of an instructional video as an example. The results indicated that the event sampling method proposed not only reduces the number of analysis units but also has more complete information about the utterance of each unit, overcoming the incomplete information or information redundancy of analysis units caused by the mechanical segmentation of temporal sampling. The multimodal analysis showed that taking into account both teacher-student verbal and nonverbal interactions can reveal richer and deeper information about classroom teaching and learning. This framework provides an important reference for intelligent multimodal analysis of teacher-student interaction.

The phenomenon of Cinta dan Rahasia teleseries has finished but still get a place in the hearts of fans.In addition to the increasingly interesting conflicts, the thing that keeps many people from following this teleseries is the quotes from the players in each episode.The purpose of this research is to find out the representation story of family, friendship, and romance in teleseries.Qualitative research design with multimodal semiotics analysis approach was used in this research.The research subject was Cinta dan Rahasia teleseries on Net TV, object of the research was a scene that contained elements of family, friendship and romance.Data analysis technique with multimodal analysis with 2 stages, first, linguistic analysis, second visual analysis.The conclusion of this study showed that refresentative family stories, friendships, and romance in Cintadan Rahasia teleseries conducted by multimodal analysis methods yield results there is a multimodal semiotic system in these shows.

Discourse analysis has become a central tool for exploring how classroom practices, institutional structures, and pedagogical ideologies are constructed and reproduced through language and multimodal communication. Despite its theoretical richness, a disconnect remains between discourse frameworks and their practical application in everyday educational research. This article addresses that gap by presenting a portfolio of four case studies that apply Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), multimodal analysis, and corpus-based methods across varied educational contexts. The studies include data from bilingual classrooms, teacher training modules, ESL instruction, and university-level workshops. Each case offers a distinct methodological design while collectively showcasing how discourse-analytic tools can reveal patterns of authority, inclusion, ideological framing, and pragmatic misalignment in educational settings. The findings emphasize the potential of discourse-based research to inform teaching practice, foster critical pedagogy, and expand methodological repertoires in educational inquiry.

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The last decade has seen a palpable rise of domestic and international instruments to facilitate the enforcement of cross-border mediated settlement agreements. Most recently, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has agreed to create a multilateral convention and to amend the Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation to facilitate cross-border enforcement of commercial disputes via mediation. The mediation process is one of many ways in which dispute resolution has been privatized and taken out of the formal court system. The first wave of privatization probably commenced with the growth of arbitration, leading to the wide ratification of the New York Convention. Mediation now appears to be following the same path treaded by arbitration, spawning the growth of mediation regulations, professionalization systems and now enforcement instruments. Both dispute resolution processes allow the parties to participate more fully in comparison to litigation. Party autonomy is a common attraction shared in both these processes. However, party autonomy plays a much more integral role within mediation. Under most mediation frameworks, the disputing parties not only choose their mediator and type of mediation process, but also have to freely consent to the mediated settlement. Parodoxically, the legitimacy of mediation “requires the use of the very litigation system which the parties eschewed in the first place”. The exercise of party autonomy within this process has to be validated through the courts’ willingness to enforce the mediated agreement across borders. Mediated settlement agreements require the courts’ support by ascribing legal effect to them when the need arises. The efforts by UNCITRAL to create an expedited cross-border enforcement mechanism thus raise the crucial question about how best the litigation system can support the exercise of party autonomy within mediation. This article discusses both the great potential and likely difficulties faced in giving weight to consensual agreements reached through the private mediation process. Part II explores the need for a mechanism to be created to support autonomy, while Part III provides an overview of the key provisions of the convention. Two areas of tension will then be explored. Part IV discusses the difficulties in giving effect to party autonomy amidst the plurality of domestic and international mediation standards; and Part V examines the tension between respecting party autonomy and giving weight to the enforcing state’s public policies. It will be argued in Parts IV and V that the challenges arising from the proliferation of enforcement regimes are not insurmountable. The brave new world of cross-border enforcement may bring about some unavoidable challenges. Nevertheless, the very effort to facilitate international enforcement provides the much-needed impetus to overcome these challenges by encouraging greater convergence of mediation standards and more candid discussion about managing the relevant tensions.

Modes of meaning expression go beyond verbal articulation to comprise other means of representation. Visual representation of still images can convey extensive realms of connotations and interpretations. The present paper investigates the semiotic resources of 12 images representing Muslims on the covers of western print media in the period post 9/11 events until the present time. The analysis is conducted textually and visually. Muslims depiction is probed using multimodal discourse analysis (MDA) comprising two models; the textual one using Halliady’s (2004) systemic functional grammar (SFG) and the visual one using Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) visual grammar (VG). The ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings of the cover titles and cover lines are investigated on the one hand. While the representational, interactive and compositional meanings of the cover images are investigated on the other hand. The MDA model proves to be quite practical and well designed to reveal the pervasive ideas and recursive ideologies of covers of print media which have effectual impact upon the readers and viewers, and thus enticing certain actions or stances. The presumed appalling, atrocious image of Muslims as savage terrorists spreading abhorrence and fright, is not the only pervading image in the western print media. Muslims are also illustrated as positive models of accomplishment, fulfillment and completion. Parameters of transitivity, mood and theme systems combine on the textual level to realize certain ideological frames either positive or negative. Parameters of representation, image act, social distance, perspective, modality, information value, salience and framing join on the visual level to communicate the same schematic impressions

Water is a crucial resource for life; however, its uneven distribution and increasing demand have led to significant conflicts among nations, often referred to as 'water wars'. The study aims to investigate the types of transitivity processes most frequently used in the politicians' utterances regarding the water war between Iraq and Turkey. Additionally, it seeks to analyze how positive self-representation and negative other-representation are uncovered at the micro level in these utterances. Employing a qualitative descriptive approach, the study analyses two purposefully selected reports from Al Arabiya News and Reuters through critical discourse analysis. It adopts an eclectic model, combining Fairclough's (1995) three-dimensional framework with Van Dijk's (2000) ideological square to explore how political discourse shapes ideological narratives. The findings highlight a predominant focus on material processes, indicating a strong emphasis on actions and decisions related to water management. Furthermore, the findings showed that Iraqi and Turkish politicians construct ideological representations by emphasizing the positive aspects of their group while minimizing their flaws and highlighting the negative aspects of the opposing group. These insights highlight the crucial role of discourse in shaping public perceptions and political narratives, underscoring the importance of more equitable and transparent communication in managing water conflicts. Future research should incorporate a multimodal discourse analysis, including visual and multimedia elements, to examine their role in the ideological framing.

This study explores how Pakistani Generation Z uses memes as a coping mechanism and a form of digital resistance during the 2025 Pakistan-India conflict. It analyzes around 90 memes collected from social media platforms. This study introduces Meme Frame Analysis (MFA), an extension of Framing Theory that integrates multimodal discourse analysis and semiotics to examine memes as ideological texts. MFA examines humor strategies, visual-textual interactions, and ideological messages in memes, focusing on themes like self-deprecation, anti-India satire, and historical references. Unlike traditional Framing Theory, which does not fully address the participatory, viral, and multimodal nature of memes, MFA uses diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framing categories to explain how humor, irony, and shareability spread ideological messages online. Using NVivo coding, the study finds that about 40% of memes feature self-deprecation, showing resilience in the face of economic and geopolitical challenges. Other memes negotiate national identity and challenge dominant narratives through satire and historical references. The findings present memes as micro-narratives that diagnose problems, suggest solutions, and mobilize political-cultural identities, embedding ideology through humor. This study advances digital humanities and conflict studies by framing memes as powerful ideological tools that shape and contest narratives in digital spaces. It suggests that the frames themselves are ideological containers — memes aren’t just jokes, they’re micro narratives that diagnose, prescribe, and mobilize in line with political-cultural identities.

An advanced sports video browsing and retrieval system based on multimodal analysis, SportsBR, is proposed in this work. Its main features include event-based sports video browsing and keyword-based sports video retrieval. The paper first defines the basic structure of our SportsBR system, and then introduces a novel approach that integrates multimodal analysis, such as visual streams analysis, speech recognition, speech signal processing and text extraction to realize event-based video clips selection. The experimental results for sports video of world cup football games indicate that multimodal analysis is effective for video browsing and retrieval by quickly browsing event-based video clips and inputting keywords according to a predefined sports vocabulary database. The system is proved to be helpful and effective for the overall understanding of the sports video content.

It should be noted that since the second half of the 20th century, the inclination towards negotiation, which emerged as a response to the events of the Second World War, has determined two phenomena: 1) a new surge of interest in hermeneutics as a scientific method; 2) has gained momentum and demonstrated a demand for the application of skills in resolving disputes at both the level of subject-subject relations and at the levels of subject-group and group-group. This involves the procedure of understanding (now more commonly referred to as mediation). The purpose of research is to analyse mediation as an applied form of hermeneutics, a thorough understanding of which as a method allows parties in a dispute to become aware of their positions and subsequently reach an understanding when making a well-considered joint decision. The conflict parties, entering the mediation process, must, based on their understanding of the conflict’s essence and a clear awareness and justification of their needs and interests, formulate a desired balance of intersubjective relations with opponents and the future. Mediation, as an applied form of hermeneutics, presupposes that its procedure begins with the parties’ knowledge and understanding of their own position and the position of the Other. Knowledge and understanding are conditions for mutual understanding, essentially allowing us to assert that mediation is profoundly hermeneutic, although this is often not consciously acknowledged and not emphasized as a component of a mediator’s professional knowledge. It is concluded that mediation parties, as subjects without setting a specific cognitive task for themselves, reflect on their own position and the position of the other party during the mediation process, considering their own experience and the experience of opponents, and clarify what precisely led to the conflict/dispute. The awareness gained during the mediation procedure is discursive in nature and includes three components: “understanding – interpretation – application”, essentially indicating that mediation is an applied form of hermeneutics. Within the framework of mediation, hermeneutics becomes a tool for revealing human attitudes towards the Other and the world as a whole. Key words: hermeneutics, mediation, awareness, interpretation, understanding, individual.

The article examines the extent to which the principle of the best interests of the child is effectively implemented in the mediation process, and to what degree existing legal and practical mechanisms ensure the actual realization of this principle. It discusses the instruments and procedural safeguards through which the protection of the child’s interests can be achieved and evaluates their effectiveness from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Particular attention is given to the roles of the mediator, the parties to the mediation, and their representatives in ensuring the child’s best interests. The significance of the mediator’s professional competence, impartiality, and child-sensitive approach is analyzed, as well as the responsibility of the parties to avoid violating the child’s rights and interests during the process. The article also explores the legal and practical challenges related to the child’s right to be heard and to participate in mediation. These include the issue of summoning the child to mediation sessions and the associated risks, problems in determining the appropriate age threshold, ensuring the voluntariness of the child’s participation, the influence of parents on the formation of the child’s position, and the mediator’s competence to ensure the free and protected expression of the child’s views. The analysis of these issues aims to identify the circumstances that either facilitate or hinder the effective protection of the child’s best interests within the framework of mediation.

In China’s global media discourse, diplomatic allusions are not simply translated; they are coordinated across text, image, and sound to project national soft power. Yet systematic, translation-centred accounts of how such allusions are reframed and circulated across modes remain scarce. To address this gap, we build a manually curated corpus. We annotate diplomatic allusions in Chinese – English parallel texts and then trace their reuse across international-facing state media, including CCTV/CGTN broadcast segments, Beijing Review video explainers, and related China Daily webpages. Integrating soft power theory, multimodal discourse analysis, and translation framing, we examine how classical allusions are re-authored across languages and modalities. The findings show that multimodal translation operates as a strategic framing resource. Concise verbal renderings work with visuals, voice-over, captions, layout, and editing to stabilise preferred interpretations. Recurrent framings foreground civility, continuity, and shared cultural roots, and cross-platform repetition amplifies uptake. We argue that diplomatic allusion translation is organised into multimodal packages and that analysing their framing mechanisms clarifies how China’s global media pursues soft power through translation and intersemiotic design.

The purpose of this writing is to uncover how graffiti can multimodally represent Indonesian police and create ideology through the use of its textual and visual element. This writing is descriptive qualitative research with multimodal discourse analysis approach. The data of this research are collected through the internet, as the real graffities have been erased from the real-life locations. The data of this research consist of virtual images and sentences of the graffiti that have been documented. The data are analysed through the use of Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen’s multimodal discourse analysis theory of the representational meta-functions, and Michael Halliday’s ideational meta-functions. The analysis is divided into textual and visual analysis. The result of the analysis shows that the graffities represented ideologies that Indonesian police is easily corrupt, enemy of the people, and does not accept critique from the public by the use of specific visuals and words. The graffities that are used as the data of this research are forms of the creators’ ideologies toward Indonesian police.

We present a conceptual mediation framework that features three layers of mediators: presence, integration, and homogenization layers that work together in a peer-to-peer (p2p) manner to facilitate the delivery of multimedia data. On arrival of each request for data from a client, a global-mediator is elected from a group of integration layer mediators to service that request. Using distributed hash table (DHT), the global-mediator dispatches the request to other integrator mediators to track down the data sources. Upon receipt of the results, from the source(s), the global-mediator presents the data to the client via a presence-mediator. The presence-mediator may need to reformat the data to suit the execution context of the client. This mediation process is context-aware, adaptive and dynamically structured. Quality of service (QoS) factors are taken into consideration in the retrieval and presentation of data.