Boundaries Of Discourse Research Articles

The making and screening of independent films in the absence of radical Revolution: An interview with Augustine Mok Chiu-yu on social movements, technology, and censorship

This is a wide-ranging interview with Augustine Mok Chiu-yu. It focuses on topics including film exhibition in Hong Kong of political films from across the globe and the making of independent and experimental cinema in Hong Kong. This contributes to an assessment of Hong Kong left-wing cinema in the 1970s that transcends and moves beyond the limiting boundaries of the US-Soviet Union Cold War discourse. Mok discusses his own role and history in producing and screening of progressive films in Hong Kong during this period. Augustine Mok Chiu-yu was a founding member of The 70’s Biweekly, an independent youth magazine first published on the first day of 1970. He was a social/political activist in The 70’s but he became more a cultural activist involved in writings and cultural work in subsequent years. He moved into theatre, performance art and community cultural development work and has performed in the US, UK, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Kathmandu, Bangla Desh, Myanmar Republic, South Korea etc. He has organized many cross-cultural projects that toured in Asia and Europe. He won the first ever Award for Theatre of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for the year 1998 and has been a great promoter in arts and disability, community arts and community cultural development in Hong Kong. He helped to found the Hong Kong International Deaf Film Festival and has been its hearing organizer for the 12 editions of the Festival. He was the producer of the 35 mm film entitled An Open Letter to Hong Kong’s Literary Youth and the documentary Black Bird - A Living Song. He has acted in Life and Times of Ng Chung Yin (Evans Chan), Ordinary Heroes (Ann Hui), Port Unknown (Mamunur Rashid), and N+N (Mo Lai).

Legal Media Discourse: Boundaries, Structure, Categories

The paper considers legal media discourse as a discursive format that arose as a result of the interaction of legal discourse and media discourse. The research is aimed at defining the boundaries, structure and categories of legal media discourse. The material of the research are texts of legal media discourse including analytical articles on legal issues, regulatory legal acts, news materials and other genres implemented within the boundaries of the discursive format under study. The research applies methods of scientific description (systematization and interpretation), discursive analysis, as well as the simulation method. The paper provides an overview of research in the field of legal discourse and media discourse, which helps to get closer to defining the boundaries of the format under study, which represents a promising direction for further research. As a result of the systematization of the theoretical and practical material, the boundaries and structure of legal media discourse are determined. It is established that the boundaries of legal media discourse, which is a hybrid discursive formation, lie within the intersection of legal discourse with media discourse. The resulting discursive space has a field structure (core, periphery) and represents a discourse format that concretizes two types of discourse (legal discourse and media discourse) and is represented in turn by different genres. The article gives the description of the categories of legal media discourse, which is based on the model proposed by V. I. Karasik. The paper reveals typical participants of communication, their possible presuppositions, sphere of functioning, chronotope, goals and strategies, genre organization. The author also discusses the issue of implementing the expressive function in legal media discourse through the use of colloquial and obscene lexemes.

Emotionalisation of contemporary media discourse: A research agenda

This special issue continues the discussion of the role of emotion in discourse (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 2015 (1) and 2018, 22 (1)) which, as testified by the burgeoning body of literature in the field, has become more prominent in different spheres and contexts of public life. This time we focus on emotionalisation of media discourse. We highlight the intensification of emotions in media and, showcasing contributions from international authors, critically reflect on constructions, functions and pragmatic purposes of emotions in media discourse. Our aim is to investigate emotions in the media from semiotic, pragmatic and discursive perspectives against the contemporary socio-political background in which traditional notions concerning the role of media are being noticeably changed. In this introductory article, we also put forward an agenda for further research by briefly outlining three main areas of exploration: the logics of media production and reception , the boundaries of media discourse, and the semiotic resources deployed to construct emotionality . We then present the articles in this issue and highlight their contributions to the study of linguistic representations of emotions. We then summarise the main results and suggest a brief avenue for further research.

Le discours électoral : entre transversalité et frontières génériques

The electoral speech appears as an asserted genre of political discourse with its own defining criteria. However there are speeches that are hardly part of an electoral context, but which carry relevant criteria of power conquest speeches. Our analysis of former Ivorian Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly’s speech on the occasion of the Gôh region’s day of tribute to President Alassane Ouattara is intended to challenge some defining features and thus, the generic boundaries of electoral discourse.

Expanding the boundaries of vaccine discourse: impact of visual illustrations communication intervention on intention towards COVID-19 vaccination among victims of insecurity in Nigeria

ABSTRACT Research on how to promote vaccination among victims of conflict is scarce. In this study, we conducted an experiment to determine how an artistic illustration communication intervention delivered alongside counseling will influence the behavior intention toward COVID-19 vaccination. The study involved 470 respondents (n = 235 control) and (n = 235 treatment). Variables from social cognitive theory and theory of planned behavior were used to develop the study hypotheses. The result of the study showed that victims of conflict who are exposed to visual messages on COVID-19 vaccination reported greater self-efficacy than those who are not. Also, victims of conflict who are exposed to visual messages on COVID-19 vaccination reported greater task efficacy than those who are not. Furthermore, victims of conflict who are exposed to visual arts on COVID-19 vaccination reported more positive outcome expectancy from the vaccine than those who are not. Finally, the result showed that victims of conflict who are exposed to visual messages on COVID-19 vaccination reported intention to make themselves available for vaccination than those who are not. We discussed these findings and highlighted the nexus between insecurity and health promotion.

Reimagining the Boundaries of Health and Medical Discourse in Technical Communication

ABSTRACT In this introduction, we emphasize the urgency of centering bodyminds and communities whose lives and experiences have been disregarded, or viewed as disposable, in medical and technical communication. With an expansive vision of health, we set the interdisciplinary stage for authors who answer the call of multiply-marginalized scholars working in (and beyond) medical rhetorics to reimagine health-related research that centers the perspectives, experiences, and embodied realities of multiply-marginalized communities (Jones, 2020; Walton, Moore, Jones 2019).

Circus Industry in the Context of State Culture Policy: Culturological Analysis

The aim is to conduct the culturological analysis of circus industry in modern Ukraine in the context of the state culture policy, define and substantiate the essential contents of the state regulation of circus industry in the context and within its legislative and normative­legal field.
 The relevance of the main provisions of this study in the formation of the latest scientific discourse in the field of circus art is substantiated. The basic concept of circus industry was updated, which lies in formation of a legislative and regulatory framework for the development of national circus art. The culturological analysis of the circus development program is carried out. It is emphasized that the legislative and regulatory framework of the sphere of culture has universal, on the one hand and on the other hand specific provisions, inherent only in a particular art form. Emphasis is made on the need to introduce a modern, civilized paternalistic state policy for the development of circus art, in particular. It is emphasized that modern civilized paternalism will allow to maintain a stable presence of the national circus product at the national and world market of cultural and artistic services, and through this — to provide the stable development of domestic circus industry. It is updated that thanks to modern paternalism and enhanced budget support for all components of the circus industry, such as: training systems for creative and managerial staff, amateur circus art system, stationary circuses system, will ensure sustainable development of the national circus industry in its entirety.
 Therefore, the purpose of the article is to carry out a culturological analysis of circus in modern Ukraine in the context of state culture policy, to determine and justify the essence of state regulation of circus, in the context and within its legislative and regulatory framework.
 As the most scientific ones for the study of circus industry in the context of state culture policy can be considered the following methodological approaches: culturological analysis of the legislative and regulatory field of culture; convergent­divergent approach, which considers the legislative and regulatory framework in a dynamic aspect as an integral system that normalizes the relations between the state and the sphere of culture and creates conditions for the development of arts; the principle of comparative analysis, aimed at identifying specific components and finding universal, peculiar to the entire artistic sphere legislative and regulatory documents.
 Thus, the scientific novelty of the represented work is that the state culture policy in the field of circus industry is considered as an integral, systemic phenomenon, the basic component of which is the legislative and regulatory field.
 Conclusions. Since Ukraine’s independence, the state has formed and pursued a culture policy that regulates the relationship between the cultural and artistic spheres and the state. After all, the state provides the development of culture and art, free access to cultural heritage, provides comprehensive artistic and aesthetic education of the population, supports the activities of cultural industries. The basic component of the state culture policy is the legislative and regulatory field.
 Ukraine has formed a meaningful and extensive legal framework for all types of art that are developing in our country. The legislative base of the culture sphere ensures the sustainable development of culture and art, the formation of an integral system of institutions and institutions that produce cultural and artistic products, train artistic personnel for the field of culture and art.
 It can be stated that the circus industry in Ukraine, unfortunately, was left out of the attention of culture sphere politicians and statesmen, because currently not developed and adopted the Law of Ukraine “On Circus Industry and Circus Art”, which would ensure further development of circus and circus art. The adoption of this law is timely and extremely relevant in the current socio­cultural realities.
 Prospects for further research. Cultural theorizing of circus, in particular in the context of state culture policy, creates the preconditions for the emergence of the latest humanities — circology, a science that will carry out an integral analysis of circus. A new scientific discipline — circology, will provide a harmonious combination of theory and practice of circus, both within the national boundaries of scientific discourse and in the field of international scientific theorizing of art in general.

Lab Reports and Horror Stories: Leveraging Chemistry Majors’ Writing Interests for Student Engagement and Retention

Perceived divisions between arts/writing and science/disciplinary writing stymie science students' writerly growth. This study adopted a case-study qualitative design to discover how science undergraduates at one public university in the eastern U.S. understood writing and how they evaluated creative or personal writing in relation to their science identities. Findings show that science majors in this sample defined science writing as distinct from others kinds of writing, but they also saw creative writing as personally enjoyable and valuable. Conclusions are made that science educators may be able to leverage creative, imaginative writing that used in industry, such as science fiction prototyping, to give students chances to demonstrate how creative narratives do not lie beyond the boundaries of scientific discourse.

Lenin-Style: on the Possibilities. and Boundaries of the Performative Discourse

Lenin-Style: on the Possibilities. and Boundaries of the Performative Discourse

Alex ChristofiDostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

0 various minority discourses in African literature. The editors introduce the book by explaining their rationale for the project. Being from minoritized regions in Nigeria and Cameroon, Ojaide and Ashuntantang explain that their initial interest was to explore minority discourses in both countries from a comparative context, but they ultimately decided to engage minority discourses in the entire African continent. Moving beyond the Euro-American focus on race and “ethnic literature,” the editors establish the parameters by which they define minority discourse to include “issues of disability, the environment, gender , sexuality, and others.” By being more inclusive in what constitutes a “minority ,” they push the boundaries of minority discourse in African literature to include any group that is dialectically opposed to a “majority” or a center, in whatever form it takes. Ojaide’s introductory chapter theorizes the aesthetics of minority discourse. Drawing from the folkloric, historical, and political nature of African literature, this chapter succeeds in establishing minority discourse as a way of engaging African literature by reading heterogeneity and resistance as integral aspects of African cultural productions. The other chapters in the book are presented in six sections, and each of them is devoted to a significant minority discourse in African literature. The second section is titled “Political and Racial Forms of Marginalization,” and all the chapters here interrogate minority discourse with reference to groups that have been minoritized based on politics, geography, or race. Joyce Ashuntantang’s “Anglophone Cameroon Literature” unravels the politics of marginalization that have plagued those from Cameroon’s northwest and southwest regions due to their linguistic and ethnic identity. Her chapter further explores how anglophone Cameroonian writers respond to political minoritization in their literary works. “Culture and Language” is the book’s third section, and the chapters here explore the use of minoritized languages in African literature. Chike Okoye’s “Of Pidgin, Nigerian Pidgin Poetry, and Minority Discourses ” examines the use of Nigerian Pidgin as a form of minority discourse in EzenwaOhaeto ’s poetry to express the “voice and quality of the lowly and suffering.” “Patriarchal Domination, Gender, Sexuality , and Other Sociocultural ‘Minorities ’” is the title of the fourth section of the book, and here the chapters explore the role of cultural constructs and structures in the minoritization of people based on gender and sexual orientation. Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega’s “Representation of Women in Udje, an Urhobo Men’s-only Oral Poetic Performance Genre” positions women as a minority within the Urhobo patriarchal construct, and she draws examples from Udje poetry and performance in her analysis. In her view, women are “given subordinate roles of clapping and fanning the dominant ebo-ile (cantors); they dance outside the theatre of performance, but they are never the centre of the udje performance .” The fifth section of the book is title “Intranational, National, and International Marginalization/Conflict,” and its chapters engage minority discourse using the category of the national. Charles Cantalupo’s “The Odds against Eritrean Literature” positions Eritrean literature as a minority literature in the context of international marginalization, especially in relation to Ethiopia. The sixth and seventh sections are titled “Literature and Disability” and “Recent Trends of Marginalities: Timely and Timeless.” Both sections contain chapters that treat the minoritization of those with physical and mental disabilities and the new ways, approaches, and contexts that we may conceive minority discourses in Africa. Sule Emmanuel Egya’s “Not Yet Season of Blossom: Writing Northern Nigeria into the Global Space” invites us to think of northern Nigerian literature as minority literature in Nigeria even though the population of northern Nigeria is, according to many sources, greater than southern Nigeria. His approach confirms the fluidity of what can be described as “minor,” especially with the idea that even the “major,” in terms of population and other factors, can produce minor literature. The importance of this book hinges on its scope and ambitiousness. Intended as a handbook, it serves as reference material for scholars with interests in minority discourse , identity studies, African literatures, and comparative literature, among others. The categories of minority and minority discourse are deployed in various contexts in order to localize minority discourse studies in Africa. Mathias Iroro Orhero McGill University Alex Christofi Dostoevsky in Love: An...

The Deconstructive Potential of Collective Biography Writing

In this paper, I highlight the deconstructive potential of the collective biography writing (CBW) method, referring both to its selected theoretical assumptions and those elementsof its research procedure which particularly favour sensitivity to dominant, normative discourses. Since the effectiveness of the method is determined by analytical practice, an importantpart of the article is devoted to recalling my own experience with its application. The use of “checkpoints” specific to the CBW method in the course of collective analytical work makes the relativity of dominant discourses more visible to the esearch team and thus also more suitable for examination and understanding. Therefore, a further inherent purposeof the collective writing procedure is to support the development of critical competences in research participants, which results in showing the method presented herein also as a method of learning critical thinking. As a context for investigating the “invisibility” of discourses and the discourse boundaries in which we are enclosed, I choose the phenomenon of cultural obviousness.

Образование как фантасмагория

This text discusses the argumentation of the authors of the article “Carnival Time: Russian Higher Eductaion and Science in the Postmodern Era” by Doctor of Economics, Professor P.A. Orekhovsky and Doctor of Philosophy, Professor V.I. Razumov, where they analyze the situation in modern Russian higher education. It is noted that the desire to expand the boundaries of scientific discourse on this urgent topic leads researchers to search for non-traditional methods of analysis of the current situation in education. In this case, the author considers the modern problems of domestic education through the prism of the literary theory of the carnival developed by M.M. Bakhtin for the analysis of artistic phenomena of a completely different order. It is argued that the experience of a critical understanding of the problems of education in the artistic works of various authors and eras leads to obvious parallels both among themselves and with the current situation in the domestic higher education, which is confirmed by a comparison of P.A. Orekhovsky’s and V.I. Razumov’s observations and conclusions, with texts by Lao She, Jean Baudrillard, Yuval Noah Harari, with the statements of the President and Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia G.O. Gref and Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, previously the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation, A.A. Fursenko. On the basis of multiple comparisons of a number of texts and statements, it is concluded that the progressive stratification and destruction of the system of domestic education reflects a global trend due to a change in the global social assessment of the meaning of truth and the scientific knowledge needed to find it, and the practical use in the interests of all mankind, or part of it. The author supports the forecasts by P.A. Orekhovsky and V.I. Razumov about the upcoming change in the types of institutions of science and education, as well as about imminent changes in the field of goal-setting and the organization of intellectual activity in states with developed scientific and educational potential.

Multilingualism in Greater Poland court records (1386–1448): tagging discourse boundaries and code-switching

This paper introduces the Electronic Repository of Greater Poland Oaths, eROThA (1386–1446), a digitisation project of a diplomatic edition of mediaeval land court oaths recorded in Latin and Old Polish, resulting in a small, lightly tagged specialised bilingual corpus. We present the background, aims, design and methodology of the project. We also discuss the problems and limitations entrenched in turning a printed diplomatic edition into a machine-readable diplomatic edition equipped with a new interpretative layer that is sensitive to the switches between Latin and Old Polish. In addition to the automatic annotation of code-switched items on the basis of typographic characteristics of the printed edition, flexible coding of recurrent language and discourse boundary phenomena has been introduced manually to account for linguistically ambiguous or neutral forms. The project offers a fully multilingual corpus, as well as customised Polish-only and Latin-only datasets, and enables filtered metadata searches in the online front-end. Overall, the report presents a methodology for constructing multilingual corpora in the context of legal cultures in medieval Central Europe that may be extrapolated to datasets originating in other periods and regions.

Linguo-pragmatic parameters of the English medical scientific minitexts

This paper proposes the linguo-pragmatic analysis of English medical abstracts within scientific discourse. Both scientific medical advancement and increasingly larger role of scientific discourse as a source of authentic evidence-based knowledge motivated this research. Evidence-based medicine is gaining importance and, as a result, becomes quite popular. Its foundations are becoming the methodological framework in scientific medical research. Advances in understanding of medical science cause the creation of new medical terms which enrich the concept medicine. This study seeks to reveal and systematize linguo-pragmatic characteristics of the concept medicine within the boundaries of scientific discourse. We focus on the analysis of medical scientific minitexts, abstracts in particular, because they perform both informative and pragmatic functions. The empirical study is based upon the modern scientific articles from top-rated medicine journals BMC Medicine, BMJ Open, The Lancet Infectious Diseases and includes such methods as data collection and analysis, description and classification of material, semantic and conceptual analysis accompanied by discourse analysis. One important finding is that according to the most popular themes of medical studies we can find the main trends in the evolution of modern medicine. Another remarkable result is that the medical linguistic markers under consideration form the concept medicine mainly nominating diseases, diagnostic techniques, medical studies and trials as well as medical scientific models. It is interesting to note that the highest human values life and healthlie at the heart of medical trials and form their pragmatic potential. Further analysis showed that the authors use of word compression, abbreviation, stylistic devices (metaphors, metonyms and allusions) and graphic design (quotation marks and italic type), which are the most popular and vivid linguo-pragmatic features of abstracts in English-language medical articles contributes to pragmatic potential of the texts under study and makes them appealing to the reader.

Framing The Greek Memoranda (2010-2015): A Polarised yet Hollow Debate

This study examines the contribution of media frames to democratic debate. Focusing on Greece, the article investigates how the press frames the Greek memoranda (2010-2015) and the contribution of these frames to the construction of democratic debate. Relying on an in-depth qualitative framing analysis of the coverage of the three memoranda and combining insights from framing theory and political economy, the major frames that shaped debates on the issue and the boundaries of discourse that they set are identified. The findings illustrate that, while the application of frames might differ across outlets, a rather uniform debate around the memoranda is promoted through the press. These results raise doubts about the performance of the media in the coverage of the most significant political issue in Greece’s recent history, and reveal the silencing of alternative voices that could have challenged the dominant frames of the debate.

“It is for Everything”: Religiosocial Discourse Experiences of Methodist Youth

Informed by interpretive phenomenological analysis and sociocultural theory, this study examines the language experiences of seven Methodist youth. Analysis of 9 months of observations and 30 interviews yielded a set of experiences that represent the intimacy and complexity of youths’ religious discourses. As an essential feature of this congregation, discourse helped create a safe religious learning environment, fostered positive social relationships, and helped youth develop personally. On occasion, youth also violated acceptable discourse boundaries, sparking tension and uncertainty. At the intersection of religion, language, and social contexts, this study raises questions about the relationship between words and (religio)social worlds.

Иконический компонент поликодового медиатекста и его стилистический потенциал

The article considers various peculiarities of implementing stylistic devices (metaphor, gradation, personification, contrast) in the advertising poly-code media text that, in its turn, serves as the object of the research. The research proves that the realization of stylistic devices can be actualized not only on the basis of the close correlation of iconic and verbal components (integration or extension relationships), but also within the structure of the iconic component independently and without any verbal elements. The author searches out that the notion of the stylistic device can be expanded and go beyond the boundaries of text and discourse. This fact outlines and stresses the high stylistic potential of the iconic component in the structure of the advertising media text and gives reasons for the development of visual stylistics that can be considered to be a new branch of stylistics in general.

Social Justice Dilemmas: A Multidimensional Framework of Social Justice Educational Leadership

ABSTRACT This paper presents a multidimensional framework of social justice educational leadership (SJEL), which accommodates various dimensions of social justice that are either discussed in the literature but rarely in tandem, or those that are largely marginalized or thought to reside beyond the boundaries of SJEL discourse. At its core, the framework presents the division between social equality and individual self-determination. The paper systematically accounts for the inherent conflicts and dilemmas within and among the various dimensions of social justice, thereby offering educational researchers, leaders and policy-makers a practical methodological tool with which to engage social justice leadership actions and policy.

Thanatomorphose and Contracted: Feminine body and sexuality in horror and the horror of feminine body and sexuality

Thanatomorphose and Contracted: Feminine body and sexuality in horror and the horror of feminine body and sexualityThe paper juxtaposes two films — Thanatomorphose directed by Éric Falardeau 2012 and Contracted directed by Eric England 2013 — in order to illustrate how both use similar themes of rot, disfigurement and decay of the body to paint different images of the female body and its aesthetic and functional value. Through the use of close reading, the analysis focuses on the manner in which the aforementioned themes in the discussed film texts are expressed within the boundaries of horror discourse to emphasize issues such as abuse, objectification and self-harm.

Monsters in the Attic: Women’s Rage and the Gothic

Monsters in the Attic: Women’s Rage and the Gothic