Interpretation Of Discourse Research Articles

Am I trolling?: A CA-informed approach to Gangjing in a Chinese online forum

Because digital affordances of the Internet have provided spaces for linguistic creativity, a large number of popular terms derive from the Internet. Analyses of these forms serve as a lens through which essential aspects of social realities can be analyzed. This study focuses on the use of a trolling label Gangjing popularized in Chinese digital interaction. Collecting data from interactional threads in Baidu Post Bar, the CA-informed study investigates what communicative actions netizens perform in using the term and what responsive behaviors it triggers. Pragmatic notions such as identity construction and relational acts are adopted to interpret its use. Results show that Gangjing is used to show disagreements, delegitimize others as irrational participants, express negative emotional stances, and invite people for entertainment. Different responsive behaviors, including resisting, criticizing, mocking, attacking, and playing, are triggered. Overall, the creative trolling label can function as an interactional resource accomplishing interpersonal functions. By nuanced analyses of the dynamics of a popular reference term rooted in Chinese language and culture, the study adds to the current interactional approach to creative language use in online communication while providing new insight on interpretations of online trolling discourse.

Arab Psyche, Indian Dream, and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Arab Psyche, Indian Dream, and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Modernity from Elsewhere: Psychoanalysis, Ethnography, and Speculative Horizons of Self-Assertion

Modernity from Elsewhere: Psychoanalysis, Ethnography, and Speculative Horizons of Self-Assertion

Poetics and Practice of Modern Urbanism: “Garden City“ as a Technology of Social Integration in Obninsk in the 1960s

The article, based on newspaper materials and oral recollections about Obninsk, the city of atomic science in the 1960s, explores how the Soviet ideology in its postwar version functioned in a small community of a newly built city, where the task of creating both an urban space and urban social environment was of paramount importance. Following the ”third wave” of Soviet studies, the author “takes seriously” Soviet ideological clichés and such activities sanctioned from above as volunteer tending of urban green spaces and amateur gardening. Using the poststructuralist interpretation of discourse by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, the author identifies two main discourses, each offering its own version of urban sociality and urban identity, and both being components of the Soviet urbanism of the 1960s. The “garden city” discourse is formed by gardening metaphors, institutions, and activities. In this discourse, a city resident is any person involved in the care for urban space and, above all, in growing trees and flowers in communal spaces. The articulations of this discourse are presented in abundance in the Soviet public space of the 1960s. The data shows that participation in such activities gave some Obninsk residents a significant experience of collective activity, in other words, it played a significant role in creating the sociality of the young city. The “city of science” discourse is specific to Obninsk, the city of scientific and technical intelligentsia. Within the framework of this discourse being a city resident means being an expert in the field of science and technology and offering one’s own ideas about how the growing city should look like. Both discourses referred to the utopia of communist urbanism, but emphasized its different aspects, namely, social and technological ones: unity in a common concern for one’s living space and scientific and technological progress that should provide the means to create a communist Garden of Eden. Article in Russian

Paying lip service to health: An analysis of health in climate change mitigation policies in Spain

• Spanish mitigation policies do not present climate change as a health issue. • The engagement with health co-benefits is largely limited to air pollution. • There is a discrepancy between the ambition to engage with health and its inclusion. • The representation of health could negatively impact the support and uptake of these policies. A significant body of research points to the serious health dimensions of climate change. Yet, research suggests that the health agenda has so far had a limited role in global climate change policy. This study sets out to examine if and how health is represented in climate change mitigation policies in Spain. Through an interpretive discourse analysis following the ‘What's the Problem Represented to be’ framework, I examine whether climate change is represented to be a health ‘problem’ in key national policy documents and explore the meanings that stakeholders assign to climate change and health in Spain. This analysis suggests that climate change is hardly represented to be a health ‘problem’ in Spanish climate change mitigation policies. Instead, climate change mitigation is represented to be an economic and labour market problem. Health is relegated to the climate adaptation agenda. In turn, the representation of health is limited to quantitative gains led by air pollution reduction associated with the implementation of policies. This finding is consistent with literature in the health and climate change field. This study identifies a discrepancy between key stakeholders’ ambitions to make health an overarching priority and its limited consideration in policy documents. This article concludes that the policies pay lip service to health. The importance of health is acknowledged but the measures proposed in the policies are neither driven by nor target health goals. A discrepancy between the ambition to prioritise health and its limited consideration in policy is observed. Further research on the representation of health in climate policy elsewhere would supplement these findings.

Nigeria 2015 Presidential Election: A Multimodal Discourse Interpretations of Selected Cartoons of TELL’s News-Magazine

This paper analysed some selected cartoons from TELL news-magazines. The purpose was to describe the visual components and communicative devices employed by the cartoonist to send his message to the viewer/readers. The cartoons essentially were used to satirise represented phenomenon that arose through intrigues that characterised Nigeria 2015 Presidential elections. Data for the study were drawn from both primary and secondary sources. The main data for the study comprised 3 colour cartoons purposively selected from different editions of TELL news-magazines published in 2015. The selection of the cartoons was predicated upon the subject under consideration. Analysis of the data is based on multimodal discourse analysis as explicated by Gunter Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen (2001). The result showed that semiotic resources such as colour, image, symbols and icons, gaze and posture enhance the semantic quality of the cartoons. This study revealed very strongly and established the potentials of visual images to convey meaning beyond the verbal language in any human society

PORTRAIT OF CONTEXTUAL TAFSIR IN INDONESIA: A STUDY OF SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

Contextual interpretation is a popular discourse in the contemporary era in the study of global interpretation. In Indonesia, this discourse is also rolling and has become a hot topic of discussion among commentators. Contextual interpretation then becomes the new alternative chosen by commentators in studying the Qur’an. To prove this hypothesis and at the same time find out to what extent the contextual interpretation discourse has been discussed, the authors examine journal articles from MORAEF, Garuda, and Google Scholar using a systematic literature review method. The journal article search used the keywords “tafsir”, “interpretation”, “contextual”, and “al-Qur’an”, which were applied to the three search sources in the period 2009-2020. This study found that the discourse of contextual interpretation received a positive response in Indonesia. However, there are no significant developments or updates. Quantitatively, the address is proliferating from year to year from 2009-to 2020. Meanwhile, the quality of the study is stagnant and undeveloped. This is because the discourse of contextual interpretation in Indonesia is identical to the figure of Abdullah Saeed. Saeed’s methodology has become a reference for many researchers because it is considered to have wooden steps compared to other contextualist thinkers.

Innovations in audiovisual translation – thematic analysis of national art texts

The article discussed innovations in audiovisual translation: from reproduction to perception of music or film texts. Cinematography is an integral part of world art, representing a universal way of interaction between different cultures. Audiovisual translation is currently a popular type of translation activity since foreign films form the basis of film distribution in the country. Today, over 50% of the cross-cultural exchange of information is carried out through films, television programs, shows, and video games. Audiovisual translation requires special skills and abilities from translators since the actions they perform are radically different from their usual experience of working only with a verbal (text/speech) series. Recipients of an audio-visual work process message are received simultaneously through several information channels. This imposes a special responsibility on audio-visual translation. The work aims to identify the main features of audiovisual translation as a particular type of translation activity. The object of the research is the process of audiovisual translation as a special type of translation activity. The subject of the study is the features of subtitling as a type of audiovisual translation. The research is based on the method of linguistic translation analysis, which includes such components as observation, description, generalization, comparison, and systematization. In addition, the methods of contextual and interpretative analysis, discourse analysis, and comparative analysis of film discourses were used. The practical results of the research are the systematization, generalization, and application of existing methodological recommendations for working on an audiovisual translation (in particular, over-subtitling), the linguistic translation analysis of the film "Searching for Sugar Man,” as well as the creation of the text of the translation of this film into Russian using subtitling. The choice of the material is due to its novelty and the diversity of social, historical, and cultural realities and the song component, which are of interest from the point of view of linguistic translation analysis.

Dynamics of development of Indian media industry in the world media space: results of 2020-2021

The purpose of the scientific work is to identify trends in the development of Indian media industry in the global media space. The article examines the main statistical indicators of the development of Indian media and entertainment industry (IIMR) in 2020-2021 in an analytical comparison; reveals the dynamics of the development of Indian media industry in Asian and global media space; shows the initiatives taken by the Indian Government in the development of the national communications system. The scientific significance of the study lies in the fact that the key developmen directions of the Indian media system for the coming years have been identified. The practical significance of the work lies in the possibility of its application both as part of an educational program for students, and in further work in the field of Indian media industry. This work provides systematic and complex approaches, method of interpretation and analysis of discourse, diachronic method, methods of analysis, generalization and synthesis. The analysis of media materials involves such methods of empirical research as political-discourse and content analysis. The conducted research helped to reveal that the media market of India is at the stage of rapid development. Many projects are being implemented that support the media production of in the country. It can be concluded that India at the moment not only occupies key positions in this area in the Asian region, but also confidently moves to the world market both independently and by forming joint media conglomerates. According to the results of the study, Indian media industry occupies key positions in the Asian market. Thus, the value of this work lies in the fact that it can become fundamental for further study of the development of this industry. Considering this issue from the point of view of practical significance, it can be concluded that in the course of scientific work, the main companies - potential competitors of the current leaders of the world media sphere were identified, the positions of Indian conglomerates in the international arena were strengthened. Key words: India, the national media market, diversification, income, government initiatives, advertising, media cooperation.

The Process for Provision of Humanitarian Aid and Sustainable Peace and Development in Central Equatorial and the Other States in South Sudan: Post 2005 to 2020

Humanitarian aid aims to mitigate the suffering of people, alleviate poverty, and lay a firm foundation for sustainable peace and development. This research paper aims to assess the impact of humanitarian aid in two counties of Central Equatoria State of South Sudan. The provision of humanitarian aid is one of the pillars in the process of peace-building. Understanding the provision of humanitarian aid helps assess the impact of humanitarian activities on post-conflict communities. It contributes to understanding the practical process of peace-building to prevent a resumption of conflict in post-conflict communities. The outbreak of intra-conflict in December 2013 in Juba shows that the process of peace-building was not effective. A qualitative method was applied for data collection and analysis. Primary data was gathered through in-depth interviews of key informants, including selected community leaders, civil society organizations, national and international non-governmental organizations, staff of UN agencies, and key national and state officials. Stratified purposive interviews were conducted in Juba and Kajokeji Counties. Two focus group discussions were held in Juba and the other in Kajokeji. Secondary data from various academic and policy institutions were used to supplement the primary data. The data were analyzed using methods of ethnography and discourse interpretation, observation, and interaction. Coordinating the processes of recovery and development requires humanitarian principles. Development partners, host communities, policymakers, and others underestimated the challenges in delivering humanitarian aid. The democratic system that the national government of South Sudan advocated was not based on principles of good governance and on the engagement of civil society organizations, which are the custodian of the social contract between the citizen and the national government. The process for the provision of humanitarian aid did not relieve much suffering in communities. It contributed less effective effort to the process of peace-building to prevent the reoccurrence of conflict in Central Equatoria and the other states of South Sudan. The process would require the practice of good governance.

Aesthetics of Byzantine Christian Art

The current study addressed the study of (The aesthetics of Byzantine Christian art). Its problem was identified by answering the following question: What are the aesthetics of Christian art represented by the Byzantine icon? Also, it aims to (recognize the aesthetics of Byzantine icon art). The research community was identified to achieve the goal, which consisted of icons and religious drawings that the researchers could count as a framework for the research community after collecting pictures of the subject from foreign and Arab sources and Internet sites. The sample was drawn according to the following reasons: a) It covers the temporal and spatial limits of the research and what fits with the data to achieve the goal, b) Diversity of technical methods adopted in drawing icons and c) The study sample models witnessed a diversity of contents and ideas. The research study reached the following conclusions. First, they borrow iconographic products, religious images and semantic symbols related to the Christian tradition and employ them through analytical visual inferences, in harmony with the structural and structural treatments of the elements and organizational foundations. Second, the products of icon art are associated with the nature of the transition from the tangible to the ideal and in line with the loading of the composition structure with an expressive energy, explaining the necessity of interpretation of religious discourse, and defining the operational vision with a clear dramatic sense. Third, the iconographic models depend on philosophical data supporting the religious meaning carried in them and giving endless explanations for the public discourse affecting the functionality of (idea) or (event). Fourth, the models of iconographic art are close to the nature of the functional induction of spiritual and sacred tendencies. At the level of deep interpretations accompanying visual forms with a clear aesthetic impact, we find that icon art carries with it religious reference effects related to the sacred. Lastly, Icon art invests in accumulating aesthetic knowledge to produce the artistic image and summons the largest possible amount of data affecting its formulation and output.

Thematic Presentations in Indonesian Qur’anic Commentaries

The study of thematic interpretation (tafsīr mawḍū‘ī) in Indonesia focuses primarily on the products of interpretations written in the 2000s, with little attention paid to the origins of thematic interpretations in Indonesia. This article will look at different ways of presenting thematic interpretations in the Indonesian commentary literature prior to the 2000s. This article will also investigate whether the development of the form of interpretation in the Middle East, particularly Egypt, has had any impact on the form of Indonesian thematic interpretation. The methodology used in this study is a literature review based on thematic interpretations (mawḍū‘ī) of several Egyptian commentators, including Amīn al-Khūlī (d. 1966), Mahmūd Shaltut (d. 1963), Bint Shāti’ (d. 1998), ‘Abd al-Hayy al-Farmawī (d. 2017), Hassan Hanafī (d. 2021), and Mustafā Muslim (d. 2021). The authors also use content analysis to examine some of the Indonesian commentary literature. The conclusion of this article demonstrates that thematic interpretation discourse in Egypt had a significant influence on the development of thematic interpretation in Indonesia, particularly interpretation literature published in the 1990s. This influence can be seen in the presence of a glossary and an index of discussion topics, complete with Qur’anic verses and arranged alphabetically or chronologically. This is in keeping with the spirit of Amīn al-Khūlī (d. 1966), who emphasized the importance of thematic discussions in determining the Qur’anic viewpoint on specific issues.

Blood Collection Agency Messaging to Donors and the Public in Canada and Australia During the Early Days of COVID-19

COVID-19 has posed unprecedented challenges to health systems around the world, including blood collection agencies (BCAs). Many countries, such as Canada and Australia, that rely on non-remunerated voluntary donors saw an initial drop in donors in the early days of the pandemic followed by a return to sufficient levels of the blood supply. BCA messaging plays a key role in communicating the needs of the blood operator, promoting and encouraging donation, educating, and connecting with the public and donors. This paper is an interpretive discourse analysis of BCA messaging in Canada and Australia from March 1-July 31, 2020 to understand how BCAs constructed donation to encourage donation during this period and what this can tell us about public trust and blood operators. Drawing on multiple sources of online content and print media, our analysis identified four dominant messages during the study period: 1) blood donation is safe; 2) blood donation is designated an essential activity; 3) blood is needed; and 4) blood donation is a response to the pandemic. In Canada and Australia, our analysis suggests that: 1) in a time of uncertainty, donors and some publics trusted the BCA to be an organization with expertise to ensure that donation is safe, essential, and able to meet patient needs; and 2) BCAs demonstrated their trustworthiness by aligning their messaging with public health and scientific experts. For BCAs, our analysis supports donor communications that are transparent and responsive to public concerns and the local context to support public trust. Beyond BCAs, health organizations and leaders cannot underestimate the importance of building and maintaining public trust as countries continue to struggle with containment of the virus and encourage vaccine uptake.

Menilik Perkembangan Tafsir Feminis di Indonesia Ala Thomas Kuhn

This study aims to discuss the development of feminist interpretation in Indonesia through the existence of Husein Muhammad's thoughts. This research method is qualitative through literature study with the theory of the scientific revolution initiated by Thomas Kuhn through an interpretation approach. The results and discussion of this research include a discussion of Thomas Kuhn's paradigm transition, the dynamics of feminist interpretation in Indonesia, the discourse of feminist interpretation in Indonesia according to Thomas Kuhn's paradigm transition theory, and Husein Muhammad's feminist interpretation. This study concludes that Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift is used in interpreting feminist topics in Indonesia, which have undergone a paradigmatic transition at various levels. Tafsir Al-Qur'an Indonesia has undergone a paradigmatic transition in the classical, modern, and contemporary era. One of the commentators whose work was mapped out this time was Husein Muhammad who was in the neo-modern or contemporary era. This research is expected to have significant benefits for fans of the study of the Al-Qur'an and gender. This research only raises issues related to one feminist commentator. Then, this study recommends that in the future a more up-to-date understanding of the role of feminist commentators can be generated through a comprehensive study of western thoughts that refers to the literature on the interpretation of the Al-Qur'an in particular.

Концепт ТВОРЧЕСТВО: опыт традиционной культуры саха

The idea of the creation reflects essential characteristics of cultural autoreflexion, but it is not subjected to a lingvoculturological analysis. Attitude to the creation is represented in the linguistic world image of modern and traditional society. In the context of cultural forms' “massification” and loss of ethnocultural identity rises the role of increased interest in activities that structures the formation of self-identity of modern ethnophore. The study is based on a culturological approach that allows studying the correlation of cognitive and linguistic structures in the context of traditional sakha culture. Analysis of the lexical-semantic field of the CREATION concept, partly THINKING, CREATION methods were used in the study. Also the method of a conceptual modeling, component and interpretive discourse were applied. The model of cultural and linguistic concept of the CREATIVITY was suggested. And the study determines the content minimum and main ways of expression in culture. It defines the structure, combinatorics of the proposed concept and associative connections of the CREATIVITY in culture. There were established general and specific valuable characteristics of the concept in traditional culture. We have suggested an experience of recombination of translation forms and reconstruction of the intellectual space of culture directed at increase of historical-cultural and religious allusions' importance in the production of cultural texts. Keywords: national world image, mythological cognition, intellection, cognitive structure, creation

The Common Evolutionary Logic of the Transformation of Government Functions and the Development of Market Regulatory Governance Systems

Regulators have a crucial role to play in the economy and society. This paper presents an approach to taking into account the evolution of transnational private rule-makers. It argues that the governance of business conduct involves important, and often underproblematized, assumptions. The transformation of organizations, procedures and rules is considered as a key strength of various forms of private authority. Space is given to local, national and transnational mechanisms of business governance, aiming to explore the shifting and new roles of government in these mechanisms in novel and theoretically insightful ways. These include tensions between complementary competitive relations between public and private bodies and question the ability of the former to effectively enroll, lead and influence the latter. The article describes how regulator and organizational crises are catalyzing the formation and evolution of transnational private regulators and affect the relationship between public and private regimes. Finally, we consider the potential challenges to competitiveness arising from the use of a dynamic perspective on transnational private regulation. Thus, this piece provides an interpretation of the related historical discourses of the past half century, problematizing key underlying assumptions in the field, and proposes a research agenda for the further exploration of governments in governance, underscoring the implications for management and organizations.

Pragmatic interpretation of educational discourse and expression of dialogic discourse in the communication process

This article presents problems of discourse pragmatics, psychological-pragmatic factors of the use of language units in the speaker-addressee relationship, and the interaction of language and the human factor. The analysis of the discursive situation as a whole, that is, within the framework of educational processes related to the structure of the sentence, is expressed in the article on the basis of examples.

Понимание или ad hoc объяснение: случай аксиомы сводимости Рассела

The article examines the common interpretation of the axiom of reducibility in Principia Mathematica according to which the axiom cannot be considered as logical, which casts doubt on the success of the program of logicism. In particular, the ad hoc character attributed to the reducibility axiom is refuted and its explanatory role in substantiating Russell’s uniform approach to resolving set-theoretic and semantic paradoxes is affirmed. The key emphasis in the explanatory nature of the axiom of reducibility is placed on the intensional interpretation of mathematical discourse.

Culture in the Pesantren Environment in shaping Figures’ Character in Novel Merindu Baginda Nabi by Habiburrahman el-Shirazy

This research is based on the indication that the environment has an influence in shaping the character of a character or person. The purpose of this study is to reveal the culture in the pesantren environment in shaping the character of the characters. The object of this research is the novel Merindu Baginda Nabi by Habiburrahman el-Shirazy. This research is in the realm of the sociology of literature, with a Gramscian hegemonic approach. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The steps of the research work carried out were to make a questionnaire related to the culture of the pesantren and distributed to representatives of the students community. Then in-depth interviews with representatives of the student community. Data analysis includes the interpretation of words, sentence phrases, texts, and discourses in the novel Merindu Baginda Nabi. As far as the author knows through literature and access to journals, research on the Novel Merindu Baginda Nabi with Gramsci's hegemonic approach, has not been found. The results of the study indicate that the pesantren environment forms students who have religious values. The figure who represents this value is Rifa. Rifa is a child who diligently worships, studies, and achiever. He also has a culture of hard work in achieving his goals. Other figures such as Mr Nur also have a humble character. The relationship and hegemony between the characters in the novel went well and peacefully. The values of kindness and culture in the pesantren (religious, humble, and hard working) are able to bind the relationships of the characters in the novel into harmony.

Determinants of Modern Scientific Discourse in the Context of “Socialization” of Knowledge

The aim of the article is to disclose some general trends in scientific discourse studies that have emerged by the second decade of the 21 st century, to characterize scientific discourse as a means of promoting knowledge, and to consider its contribution to public communication. The notion of scientific discourse incorporates both conventional (scientific articles, reviews, theses, dissertation abstracts) and modern forms of discourse (online academic conferences, symposia, colloquiums, seminars). The research is viewed in the article as a result of scientists' social activity targeted at new knowledge discovery and broadcasting, whilst the scientific text is defined in terms of verbal representation of the research results in a par with new knowledge transmission. Two types of determinants are introduced to regulate the model of scientific text composition – internal and external. The internal determinant is represented by discursive structures, which promote knowledge in scientific text as the element of scientific communication, while the external dominant is represented by extralinguistic factors, which provide the promotion of scientific discourse outside the professional community (socializing). Воth kinds of determinants provide the interpretation of the scientific discourse as open systems. An assumption is made on the increasing role of external determinant in discursive extension of modern scientific text by means of the Internet; the addressee factor wider representation and scientific knowledge inclusion into cross-cultural communication.