Coherent Narrative Research Articles

Expert Testimony in Law Enforcement of Corruption in the Procurement of Goods and Services in Handling Emergencies

The objective of this research is to examine the extent of regulations regarding the utilization of expert information in the investigation of corrupt criminal acts, as stipulated in Law Number 8 of 1981 on the Criminal Procedure Code. Additionally, it aims to analyze the use of expert information in the investigation of corrupt criminal acts related to the procurement of goods and services in emergency situations. The research employs normative legal research methods. The findings reveal the role of expert testimony in the criminal law enforcement process based on Law Number 8 of 1981 on the Criminal Procedure Code. Expert testimony can serve as evidence in a criminal case in two possible ways: as expert testimony itself or as documentary evidence. Expert testimony is presented in court under oath or affirmation according to the individual's religious beliefs. On the other hand, documentary evidence is provided during an examination by an investigator or public prosecutor, in the form of a report that takes into account the oath taken when assuming the position or job. Furthermore, the use of expert information in elucidating the investigation process of corrupt criminal acts in the procurement of goods and services during emergency situations holds non-binding power. Expert information serves as a tool to mitigate the potential for human negligence. By drawing upon the information provided by experts, a coherent narrative can be constructed to uncover the truth, with the expectation that the Mataram Police Criminal Investigation Unit can reach a judgment (ratio decidendi). From the expert statement from PBJ, the Mataram Police Criminal Investigation Unit obtained this expert statement which was able to explain the case currently being handled regarding a criminal act of corruption at the NTB Province Small and Medium Enterprise Cooperative Service, that there had been a conflict of interest of the parties involved, either directly or indirectly.

THE REALIZATIONS OF TEACHING PROFESSION: FOUR INDONESIAN NOVICE ENGLISH TEACHERS' NARRATIVES DURING THE PANDEMIC

This study explores teacher professional identity (TPI) of novice English teachers in Indonesia by looking at their narratives related to their experiences before and after they entered the profession. The central question leading this inquiry is “What realizations about the profession shape the participants’ TPI?” The data were collected from four participants through emails and follow-up interviews by phone. The data, then, were co-constructed to create coherent narratives of the four novice teachers. Further analysis was conducted by identifying their new realizations and awareness of being English teachers. These realizations about teaching and the profession were discussed in terms of the TPI elements. The findings indicate that realizations about various aspects of TPI of the novice teachers could lead to a better understanding of their professional identity formation before entering the profession, after entering the profession, and at the time of COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021). The TPI claims in the three stages indicate the complex process of TPI formation and the implications of the process can be the foundation of English teacher education and professional development reform.

Assessing Narratives in the Translation of Chinese Political Discourse: A Perspective from the Narrative Paradigm

In the global era, translating Chinese political discourse is key to enhancing international understanding and diplomacy. This research employs the narrative paradigm to assess the translation of Chinese political discourse, with the goal of enhancing the effective narrative comprehension of such translations for international communication. It applies Fisher’s narrative paradigm and Baker’s assessing narratives to investigate the application and impact of the principles of narrative coherence and fidelity in the translation of Chinese political discourse for international audiences. Employing a qualitative research approach, it conducts an analysis based on translations from volumes III and IV of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, as primary case studies. The research finds that translations of Chinese political discourse face specific challenges and opportunities in maintaining narrative coherence and fidelity. The principle of narrative coherence emphasizes the importance of creating coherent, accessible narrative structures in translation, while the principle of fidelity demands fidelity to the source’s cultural information and political connotations, reflecting distinctive Chinese characteristics. Highlighting the significance of adopting the narrative paradigm in the international communication of Chinese political discourse, this research provides theoretical and practical insights for assessing narrative comprehension of Chinese political discourse translation. Moreover, the results offer a new perspective on narrative assessment for comprehension in cross-cultural and international communication, pointing directions for future research.

Word order and context in sentence processing: evidence from L1 and L2 Russian.

In this paper, we studied how native (L1) speakers of Russian and speakers of Mandarin Chinese learning Russian as a foreign language (L2) process Russian sentences with different word orders. We compared SVO (canonical) and OVS (non-canonical) orders in isolation and in context. Experiments focusing on the L2 processing of different word orders are still not very numerous, and those using context are extremely rare. In Experiment 1, target sentences were presented in isolation. In Experiment 2, one-sentence contexts introduced one NP mentioned in the target sentence, either the first (so that given information preceded new information, which is characteristic for Russian and many other languages) or the second. As a result, two factors could be compared: the syntactic (word order) and the contextual (whether the context is appropriate from the information-structural perspective). We used different measures to capture online and offline effects: word-by-word reading times, question-answering accuracy and sentence rating on a 1 to 5 scale (for L1 participants). In both experiments, RTs and question-answering accuracy data showed that non-canonical orders were difficult for L2 participants, but not for L1 participants. However, L1 participants gave non-canonical orders lower ratings in isolation, presumably because in naturally occurring texts, they are used only in particular contexts. As for the context factor in Experiment 2, some effects were the same for L1 and L2 processing: all participants read given NPs faster than new ones and preferred sentences with a 'given - new' word order. The latter may reflect the universal principles of narrative coherence. However, unlike native speakers, L2 readers are not sensitive to more subtle contextual requirements of different word orders.

Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran

ABSTRACT This special issue focuses on the vast field of propagandas in Iran resulting from the dynamic between state-sponsored cultural production and its audiences. Propagandas emerge when motifs of classical regime propaganda diffuse into the arts, film, and literature to develop an independent existence detached from the strategies of regime messaging, thereby shaping ideological negotiations and contestations across society. Since its founding in 1979, the Islamic Republic has relied on propaganda to (semi-) systematically advance and establish a political and ideological agenda in order to build a coherent grand narrative of what the ‘essence’ of life in Iran should be. However, the constant urge to maintain ideological uniformity in the face of domestic and international crises, as well as evolving technology, such as smartphones and social media, has required regime actors to rethink, redeploy, and rearrange the content and methods of their propaganda. This rebirthing and upgrading of state propaganda into new forms and meanings has been met with resistance, subversion, and assimilation. The articles in this special issue highlight how state propaganda–and its afterlives–is a key venue for the struggle over identity and ideology between state and society in Iran.

A Study of Global Trade War and Its Impact on Indian Economy

A Study of Global Trade War and Its Impact on Indian Economy

The interactive roles of narrative processing and emotion negativity/lability in relation to autonomic coordination.

Emotion regulation (ER) is a multifaceted construct, involving behavioral, cognitive, and physiological processes. Although autonomic coordination is theorized to play a crucial role in adaptive functioning, few studies have examined how different individual and contextual factors together may contribute to such coordination. This study examined the joint influences of narrative processing and emotional negativity/lability (N/L) traits on the coordination of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in a sample of 112 children, ages 8-12 years (Mage = 10.15 years, SD = 1.33). Children completed a stress-induction task followed by an interview about the task. Children's trait-level N/L was assessed via parent-report on the Emotion Regulation Checklist. Narrative processing was assessed and coded based on children's narrative accounts of the event (i.e., causal coherence, overall emotional tone). Indexes of sympathetic (skin conductance response, SCR) and parasympathetic (respiratory sinus arrhythmia, RSA) functioning were derived from physiological data obtained during the interview. Results revealed that children's trait-level N/L and narrative processing of the stressful event interacted to predict the RSA-SCR correlation. Specifically, children who were high on either N/L or narrative causal coherence, but not both, demonstrated significant RSA-SCR correlation. Similarly, children with high N/L and negative-to-neutral narratives, as well as those with low N/L and neutral-to-positive narratives, exhibited significant RSA-SCR correlation. This work provides empirical evidence that narrative processing and trait N/L, together with RSA-SCR correlation, work in tandem to regulate emotional arousal.

Explore The Application of Ink Painting in Animation from The Perspective of Chinese Painting

The study of ink painting's use in animation reveals an exciting combination of traditional Chinese art and modern animation techniques. Because of its superb brushwork, emotional resonance, and narrative coherence, "The Night Revels of Han Xizai" is a shining example of the expressive power of ink painting in animation. Animators may enrich their works' ethnic diversity, elicit complex emotions, and convey fascinating stories by using these elements. A flowing plot may be developed thanks to the continuous handscroll format, and the use of composition and space design enhances the visual appeal. This harmonious blending of innovation and heritage enriches the animation business and provides viewers with engaging and culturally significant experiences.

Beyond Conventional Metrics: Alternative Middle-Class Choice among Chinese Homeschooling Families

Sociologists have extensively studied the prevalence of intensive parenting among middle-class families as a response to uncertainties about maintaining their privileged class status. Most studies, however, have focused on traditional school systems, which overlooks the full spectrum of middle-class parenting values and practices, particularly those beyond mainstream schooling. To address this gap, this study explores an alternative middle-class choice for raising and educating children through the lens of Chinese homeschooling. Drawing on in-depth interviews with middle-class parents from 30 Chinese families of school-age children being homeschooled in Taipei and Hong Kong, this study investigates the paradoxes and ambiguities that arose as the parents navigated and negotiated competing values for their children. The findings reveal that the parents mobilised their cultural repertoires to seek a coherent narrative that made sense of and justified their homeschooling goals and practices in the Chinese context.

The Nexus of Functional Stupidity Geometrics: Unpacking the Stupidity Theory on Leadership as a Toxic Mix Between Leaving a Legacy and Leadership Failure in Business Organizations

This study fires shots on the irony of corporate stupidity in the 21st century. The present study reveals that corporate functional stupidity is viral among both smart and non-smart corporations leader, small and big corporations- capitalizing on leadership and intra-organizational power dynamics and the level of imbalances in authority between those leading and those being led [leadership-follower matrix]. The practice by corporates, especially leadership from within, to ‘construct and build huge’ systems of communicative blockades ear-marked at blind-folding and encourage employees to accept demonic and exploitative work practices as a prerequisite for corporate survival is ontologically surprising and a major cause for concern. This stupidity paradox in corporations spear-headed by leaders advances the notion that power dynamics and imbalances in authority at work places create stupid leaders who represents a distinctive form of cognitive failing. Paradoxically, modern corporations appear more stupidified from within. Stupidity is here viewed as functional and is understood definitively as a form of conceptual self-hampering, characterized by aetiology and with a range of delirious effects on both individuals at work and corporate performance at the other extreme. Functional stupidity, is in its entirety an “active refusal of using one’s intellectual capacity in other than myopic ways” and leadership. The present study is a product of the researcher’s quest and thirst for ontological perspectives in determining, what characterizes stupidity and determine the emancipatory models that are needed to contain the over-acculturalization of the practice. The primary research question posits and examines the salient characteristics of corporate functional stupidity. Together with other secondary questions, this question raises issues focused on interventions (stupidity management) leaders can make to drive down levels of stupidity in their corporates and make their organizations less stupid. A mixed methodological design is adopted in order to comprehend the ontology of functional stupidity as well as the original episteme of the same. This is done by reviewing existing literature on functional stupidity, with observatory and experiential knowledge obtainable from the researcher’s work experience. The employment of discourse analysis and content merging of other studies conducted elsewhere is becomes the pedal for data analysis. The primary finding is that corporate stupidity can translate into a dangerous sense of futility that prompts even the brightest employees to abandon objectivity and silently accept absurd tasks. Corporate stupidity is a common hazard in many companies but paradoxically enough-it can prove useful to maintaining a certain degree of cohesion. Study further shows that stupid leadership attempts to structure individuals' internal conversations in ways that emphasize positive and coherent narratives and marginalize more negative or ambiguous ones. Stupid leaders throw up a variety of communicative blockades that encourage employees to accept bad practices as an inevitability of life in the particular organizational ontology within which they find themselves. The study further perspective is that many corporations are caught in the stupidity paradox: they employ smart people who end up doing stupid things. This can produce good results in the short term, but can pave the way to disaster in the longer term. Paradoxically, the study reveals that when people are seized by functional stupidity, they remain capable of doing the job, but they stop asking searching questions about their work, get over possessed with loyalism and loose creativity and innovation. Smart corporations encourage stupidity that this pays off in the short term, but creates problems in the long term. The study recommends that systematic de-stupification and denaturalization of corporate leadership discourse is a necessary undertaking. The creation of deliberate innovative support cultures cannot be over-emphasized. The study unapologetically stands and proposes very practical steps that can be used to destupidify our corporations. Future research need to be contacted focusing on the benefits of creating stupid corporations whose stupidity manifests through the behaviour of its leaders. This study is not complete until further study is conducted across all corporates to deduce how stupidity can be transformed into both medium and long term benefits to the corporation.

Dyssynchrony, Surprise, and Multiple Perspectives

ABSTRACT The author, inspired by Anni Bergman’s work with an autistic child, describes a single play session in her work with a neurodiverse child. In this session, the first session following a missed appointment, the analyst attempts to “make sense out of nonsense” by choosing the child’s words she hopes to use as building blocks for a coherent narrative about separation and reunion, while passing over the words she finds unintelligible. A microanalysis of the analytic process reveals themes of dyssynchrony, surprise, and multiple perspectives. Using these themes to organize the meanings she takes from the verbal and nonverbal exchange in the session, she concludes that the experience of working with this – and other – neurodiverse patients offers the analyst a unique opportunity to challenge the usefulness of their clinical theories and to embrace a greater complexity. In doing so, the analyst is able to appreciate the essence of “co-creative meaning-making.”

True selves, suspicious lives: Public deceits, hopes of restoration, and existential troubles in misdocumented pasts

How do individuals, after having discovered they were lied to about the conditions of their births and their childhoods, seek out their own identities and re/establish the “truths” about themselves? Based on two ethnographic studies conducted in sites where lives and kinships were disrupted by political violence, this article aims to examine the urge for narrative coherence in contexts defined by public deceit and betrayal. In Argentina, [Author 1] lived with the nietos who, decades after the dictatorship, discovered they had been stolen and educated by those responsible for their parents’ death. In Ethiopia, [Author 2] met with adopted children who were searching for their life “of before”. In these two contexts, the interviewees explained how their lives had been shattered when they discovered the lies they had been told. Their testimony equally revealed how they felt an existential and urgent need to re-establish the “truth”. Drawing on their experiences and their feelings, this article examines the link between two truths, truth regarding the past and truth about oneself, and explores the need to be certain of facts in the making of identities.

Human-Computer Interaction in Times of Grief: Unveiling Support Processes Among COVID-19 Bereaved Users in a Facebook Group Through Netnography

During the early waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, social distancing hindered mourners in their help-seeking. A netnographic approach was employed to investigate grief and empathy expressions on a Facebook support group, created for the purpose and moderated by a psychologist. Participants (23 Females, 2 Males) knew about the research and co-participated in the improvement of the group experience. The virtual space was used by group members with two different purposes: some mainly vented their anger but others created a new and coherent narration of their loss. Differently from other peer-to-peer support groups, users supported each other continuously and in some cases took up the role of moderators. The results shed light on continuous peer support and user-driven moderation dynamics, advancing our understanding of online groups moderated by professionals. The study also prompts reflection on distinct aspects of grieving on social media during the initial 2 years of the pandemic.

Rx Metaphysics

Recent research on the structure of life-narratives and narrative identity suggests that meaning-making and narrative coherence are predictive of adjustment and resilience. I argue that the metaphysical presumptions operative in a client’s worldview are fundamental elements of meaning-making, and that these presumptions contribute to the life-narrative’s distinctive capacity to guide us through life-challenges. This application of metaphysical methodology to client worldviews represents a systematic extension of logic-based therapy. In this paper, I articulate a conceptual framework for worldview analysis and reconstruction using the resources of logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. I draw particularly on C. G. Jung’s concept of Auseinandersetzung, often inadequately translated as “working through,” John Dewey’s notion of “reconstruction in philosophy,” and José Ortega y Gasset’s exploration of worldview as a “basic orientation” in the world. I provide brief illustrations of this framework in practice, and I conclude with some observations about indications and contraindications for worldview reconstruction as a modality of philosophical practice.

Tłumacze i ich biografie – pytania metodologiczne

This article considers the methodological issues of research in Translator Studies, that is, concerning translators themselves and their biographies. Above all in the perspective of the cultural turn of the 1990s, which led to a new understanding of both the translators themselves and their role in intercultural communication, undertaking and clarifying the principles of such research seems to be a consistent step in the theoretical development of the discipline of Translation Studies. The article lists and defines the most important aims and objectives of biographical research on translators. Also presented are specific research models and paradigms, which can be used to reconstruct and describe so-called translator biographies. Finally, the author considers to what extent it is advisable to combine facts about the life and activities of translators into larger and coherent biographical narratives. In this respect Translation Studies could benefit from the conclusions of Biographical Studies, particularly regarding the reliable and adequate use of data collected in biographical research.

Гипермодерн “инженера” Гарина и преодоление постмодернизма Владимиром Сорокиным

SUMMARY: The article discusses the two latest novels by the modern Russian classic writer Vladimir Sorokin: Legacy (2023) and especially Doctor Garin (2021). Based on his interpretation of Sorokin’s aesthetical and philosophical program developed elsewhere, Ilya Gerasimov reads Doctor Garin as a literary work that did not go as planned. Dismayed by the unexpected result, Sorokin wrote Legacy as a follow-up meant to explicate Doctor Garin ’s message and explain it to himself and his readers. Therefore, Legacy develops to the extreme only one aspect of the 2021 novel. According to Gerasimov, Doctor Garin was planned as a postmodernist satire on the Russian intelligentsia, modernist literature, and the very society of modernity that produced them. Doctor Garin and his miraculous method of hypermodernism is an obvious reference to Aleksey Tolstoy’s The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1926–1927) about an impostor and adventurist seeking world domination. Sorokin mocks the modernist belief in “certain schemes to improve the human condition” (to quote this belief’s famous academic critic, James C. Scott) and Russian modernist literature, from Vladimir Mayakovsky to Vasily Aksenov, as well as modern governments’ failed political leadership. For over half of the book, Sorokin sustains his original rational design, channeling all his trademark spontaneous prose into “subtexts” – more or less extensive citations of imagined books or diaries introduced in the main text every 20–30 pages of the book. However, at some point, these subtexts disappear, and the protagonist fully immerses himself in Sorokin’s irrational narrative driven by the logic of language rather than ideological considerations. This change of narrative mode transforms everything – from the protagonist’s personality to the novel’s central message. Gerasimov argues that Sorokin chose time as a central argument of his antimodernist criticism, vindicating postmodernism as a condition of multiple isolated chronotopes, with each subculture or identity group living in a unique temporality of its own – contrary to modernism’s belief in progress and the normative universality of time. However, the spontaneous narrative of the novel’s second half produces a different effect. It models social reality as multidimensional and yet fundamentally interconnected. In any of the very distinctive chronotopes, social reality acquires its stable characteristics only situationally in the eyes of an active subject rather than by some preset, anonymous and objective factors, such as temporality or identity. This message is communicated by the narrative independently of its author, who attempted to produce a different conclusion in the follow-up novel Legacy . Inadvertently, instead of affirming a postmodernist worldview – relativist but static – and mocking the old modernism and some hypothetical “metamodernism” anticipated since the late 2010s, Sorokin outlined a program for a truly new, “post-postmodernist” modernism. It combines postmodernism’s multifaceted, multidimensional view of reality with modernism’s ability to produce a coherent narrative anchored in an unequivocal moral position. It embraces multiple temporalities, but also the idea of the future as a condition radically different from the past and present. Gerasimov uses the difference in conceptualizing temporality as the main criterion differentiating the modernist and postmodernist epistemes, in any of their aesthetic versions, as well as the hypothetical new modernism as spontaneously outlined in Sorokin’s Doctor Garin .

Bernard Lazarus Emanuel Sigamoney: A Multi-Faceted School Teacher's Biography

Bernard Lazarus Emanuel Sigamoney was born in 1888 as part of the indentured labour community. His parents ensured that he received an education and this helped him climb the social ladder in local communities in Durban and Transvaal. Consequently, his name became linked to the scout, sport, social, religious, and political movements of the day. He died in 1963 leaving behind a footprint that calls for recognition. This article placed Sigamoney, a South African politically active schoolteacher, under scholarly analysis. His circumstances of being subjected to institutional racism and forced removals make a coherent narrative an impossible task for a historian. Therefore, a disjointed but important narrative from the scraps left behind in newspaper accounts, internet searchers, and general history sources was constructed. These accounts revealed how he contributed to South African political liberation on a national and local community level. The political networks he created also present readers with a window into twentieth century resistance movements in local communities. His voice was also present in the early socialist and later anti-apartheid sports movements. He used his position as a schoolteacher to launch actions that challenged the segregation and apartheid regime of the day.

The Best Self and the Ordinary Self: The Free Play of Consciousness in Felix Holt, the Radical and Culture and Anarchy

Abstract While there is a persistent argument for the disjunctive nature of the double plots in Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), this article aims to alter this account by suggesting that Eliot’s novel is a coherent narrative about the different fates and the crisscrossing actions of the best selves and the ordinary selves. This contention is supported by putting the novel in dialogue with Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy (1869) and arguing for their common emphasis on the importance of active thinking, or in Arnold’s term, “the free play of consciousness.” In her novel, Eliot portrays the trio of Arnoldian best selves who exercise active thinking, including Felix, Esther, and Rev. Lyon, among a multitude of ordinary selves. Yet she also transcends Arnold by highlighting the role of action in one’s transformation into the best self and depicting three different types of egoism. Specifically, although Arnold emphasizes the importance of thinking in acquiring a better principle of action, Eliot gives equal weight to action in one’s development into perfection. Moreover, while Arnold denounces strong individualism and materialism in his social criticism, Eliot goes a step further by portraying three different types of egoism.

Framing the Study of Digital Religion: Waves of Academic Research, Theoretical Approaches and Themes

The phenomenon of “digital religion” has emerged as a research field over the past quarter century as religious experiences integrate into the digital sphere. Within this field, researchers have adopted various theoretical frameworks and empirical methodologies to illuminate the complex dynamics that arise from the interaction between digital culture and religion. However, the existing literature on this topic is characterized by fragmentation, which makes a comprehensive understanding of its trajectory difficult. This fragmentation is particularly noticeable in the absence of a coherent narrative that outlines the field’s development. This study aims to provide a scholarly framework for understanding the trajectory of Digital Religion Studies (DRSs), encompassing successive waves of academic research, theoretical paradigms, and thematic foci. This study provides a qualitative assessment of existing literature on the relationship between digital culture and religion through a comprehensive review. A thorough literature review reveals that research in the field of digital religion can be classified into four distinct phases: descriptive, categorical, theoretical, and integrative. The prominent theoretical frameworks that have emerged media ecology, mediation, mediatization, religious-social shaping of technology (RSST), and hypermediation. Finally, the thematic categorization of research primarily revolves around topics, such as rituals, authenticity, identity, community, authority, and embodiment.

Narracja filmowa – funkcja terapeutyczna. Kilka słów o Amatorze (1979) Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego

The strategy of the (auto)therapist in film art is a process of dynamic interaction between the transmitting and receiving roles, i.e. the director – the protagonist of his work and the projected viewers. The film is a space enabling the creator to analyze the problems of a modern man in order to increase the skills of self-understanding, self-distancing from emotions and developing reflection. The latter is conducive to the coherence of narratives about oneself and the construction of one’s identity. Results and conclusions: Projection and identification, which is part of the emotional and cognitive responses available to the creator and recipient of the work, are processes of therapeutic importance. Creation (and contact with its effect – a finished work) is then a tool helping to regulate: modulation of attention, emotions (modulation of emotion), fosters cognition (modulation of cognition), understanding behavior (modulation of behavior) and communication (modulation of communication).