Interpretation Of Discourse Research Articles

"Poster girl": The discourse constructing the image of "girls in distress" as existential epistemic injustice.

The present study is focused on understanding how the image of the girl designated "in distress" in official regulations guiding the provision of public social services to girls in Israel can be structured. The study takes a qualitative approach, and employs the critical-feminist paradigm to the analysis and interpretation of discourse, combining thematic content analysis and deductive critical discourse analysis. Its main findings disclose an organized process of establishing the normative authorities dominating the discourse on public social services for girls; classifying groups of service recipients to which a girl can belong; constructing their forms; and ultimately circumscribing the girls thereto, determining the performative acts on which receiving state assistance is conditional. Through discursive maneuvers of construction, the image of the girl is "born" as an undisputed "truth" deriving from the deviance attached to her every move. In this trajectory, basic epistemic injustices are perpetuated and solidified, and a new form of epistemic injustice-existential epistemic injustice-is revealed. This process's implications are proposed.

Explanatory hypotheses of the ecology of new clinical presentations of Dissociative Identity Disorders in youth.

Dissociative Identity Disorders (DIDs) are controversial psychiatric conditions encountered in clinical practice and nosology. DID as described in the international classifications has little similarity with the clinical picture of “DID” met in current youth psychiatry. From this Perspective, we hypothesize that this current clinical presentation does not satisfy the categorical criteria of the international classifications. Based on the two terminological challenges related to the definition of DID (i.e., the notion of dissociative disorders and the different meanings of the term identity), we propose to differentiate two distinct entities from each other. The first is medical and listed in diagnostic criteria of international classifications; the second comes from popular culture and refers to the vast majority of clinical presentations received in daily clinical practice—presented under the term Dissociative Identity Conditions (DIC). Since the status of DIC is a hot topic in current clinical psychiatry, we aim to identify eight possible explanations that can be provided to support its occurrence: (1) impact of iatrogenicity; (2) factors of suggestibility and desire for social acceptability; (3) psychoanalytic explanations; (4) neuropsychological explanations; (5) socio-cognitive explanations; (6) emotional labeling; (7) narrative explanations; (8) and transient illnesses explanations. In conclusion, we sustain that DIC results from a narrative interpretation of medical discourse by popular culture, developing in patients presenting undeniable distress. Such a transient disease fits in an ecological niche, which echoes the values of society, persisting under the action of a need for narrative continuity of the self.

Tourism: Economic Booster for Pakistan’s Fragile Economy

Tourism plays a vital role in economic growth. People interact with each other and facilitate each other at national and international levels. The developed countries generate revenues from their tourism industries, contribute to their economic growth, and improve the country's GDP. Third-world countries like Pakistan are facing troubles in the tourism department due to a lack of funding and mismanaging dilemmas. Pakistan is an attractive destination for tourists but the absence of infrastructure makes the tourism sector problematic. Pakistan’s government and policymakers need to take interest in Tourism and take steps to promote it at national and international levels. Economic boost through tourism leads the country into economic stability. This qualitative research study uses reports as empirical data, analysis the case studies of Aruba and Maldives as evidence, and implies interpretative discourse analysis as a methodology. This paper seeks to contribute to the tourism research sector of Pakistan in the economic aspect because solely tourism strengthens the economy of Pakistan and paves the way for new concerns of economic development.

Ikegami Eiko’s honorific individualism thesis – critique and development

The aim of this qualitative study is to test Ikegami Eiko’s “honorific individualism” thesis, which claims that the modernization of Japan was the result of a tension between honorific individualistic and collectivistic impulses in the dominant samurai culture, against our counter-hypothesis that the development of conscientious collectivism was the cause of modernization in Japan. We propose a multi-dimensional theoretical framework for the individualism-collectivism divide, and by applying this framework to the interpretation of the ethical discourse of the samurai it is possible to show that our counter-hypothesis is more successful in interpreting the historical data than Ikegami’s thesis. We furthermore test both theories against recent empirical data from the GLOBE study, and also this result supports our hypothesis that modern Japan is best characterized as a conscientious collective society. The driving force towards the modernization of Japan was therefore not honorific individualism (a combination of shame and egoism) but much more likely conscientious collectivism (a combination of guilt and altruism)

О синтаксической интерпретации русской прозы конца ХХ — начала ХХI века

The appeal to the syntactic interpretation of modern prose discourse is motivated by the inadequacy of a grammatical approach to new linguistic phenomena, an obvious gap between cultural studies, literary studies and linguistic studies. The article examines the functioning of syntactic units in Russian prose of the late XX — early XXI centuries, punctuation and graphic arrangement of statements and text. Special attention is paid to the multicomponent complex utterance as an indicator of modern prose writer’s style. Syntactic processes are analyzed in language, speech and textual aspects, which allows interpreting the peculiarities of author’s styles. In the language aspect, changes in the field of simple and complex sentences are characterized, some contradictions in their qualifications are resolved. In the speech aspect, the author considers the influence of the spoken element and visualization tendencies on the literary norm, in particular, the transformation of a structure with direct speech, the development of interaction between monologue and dialogical speech. In the textual aspect, the role of modern Russian prose in the formation of new syntactic phenomena is revealed. The material of the article is the works of E. Vodolazkin, V. Pelevin, L. Petrushevskaya, D. Rubina, T. Tolstaya, V. Makanin, V. Tuchkov, A. Matveeva and other authors.

Unpacking ableist discourses in Cypriot education policy during the pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, children with disabilities were confronted with ableist discourses that justified unfair policy measures. This study is concerned with the discourses recorded in a range of education documents, published during the pandemic within the Republic of Cyprus. It employs an interdisciplinary framework, informed by Critical Discourse Analysis, Inclusive Education, and Critical Disability Studies, to examine the powerful actors and the ideologies that influenced the formation of discourses. The paper undertakes a critical interpretation of the disability discourses developed in Cyprus during the pandemic, links this with other relevant research conducted in other European countries prior to and during the pandemic, and suggests policy actions/measures that value children with disabilities and their families.

Dialogic authorial academic language learning

This paper reenvisions academic language learning in the university from a dialogic authorial perspective inspired by the work of Bakhtin. I argue that language pedagogues have misappropriated the radical alternative Bakhtin poses for language learning in his critique of genre through adopting a Vygotskyian internalization approach to discourse and a post-structuralist interpretation of Bakhtinian dialogic discourse as intertextuality. I explore how genre pedagogy has adopted these misunderstandings of Bakhtin to prioritize students’ and scholars’ socialization within pre-existing, commonly accepted, shared, authoritative patterns of discourse. I claim that genre pedagogy tends to legitimize the practice of university writing curricula to postpone students’ engagement in meaning making, focusing on training over education. I explore the consequence of this prioritization on socialization and training in form for suppressing students’ dialogic addressivity to and problematization of the ideas of others, which is an essential for meaningful academic discourse. By contrast, a dialogic authorial approach to language learning prioritizes education through students’ and scholars’ ontological engagement in posing problems and authoring meaning in communion with others. The expectation is for language forms to become a necessary byproduct of the production of utterances that are meaningful to oneself and responsive to others. When focused on meaning, academic language forms become invisible except when there are challenges with intelligibility or modality. I argue for a radical rethinking of university language learning curricula in terms of a focus on voice and the “stylistics” of form to serve meaning making.

Современная военно-политическая коммуникативистика

Introduction.
 Due to the fact that modern military-political communication science deals with very contradictory both factual non-verbal and text-discursive phenomena, it seems necessary and relevant the scientific systematization of military-political terminology. The development of a unified terminological apparatus and methodological approach also needs to be clarified in modern communication science.
 The aim of the article is a communicative-cognitive and textual-discursive study of the segment of political communication science called military-political science.
 Methodology and research methods.
 Adhering to the traditional three-term division for discursive, communicative and lexico-grammatical levels of description, we present the communicative-discursive model "modern war" based on the materials of the official Russian media in 2021-2022.
 The article uses the research methods of linguoconceptology, linguoculturology, such as modeling concepts, methods of component lexical analysis that help to establish the seme composition of individual lexemes. And there is also lexicographic analysis aimed at compiling a fragment of the dictionary, which concerns modern military-political terminology.
 Results.
 The article demonstrates that the communicative-discursive fragment "war" not only forms the core of military-political communication science, but also sets many directions for interpreting and modeling the basic dominant associative-semantic components."Modern war" is presented as a hybrid, multifaceted, multicomponent, covering and connecting absolutely all spheres of human and social life, both real and virtual. It is the latter that transforms war into a cruel game, where certain actions are carried out in a false, illusory space according to easily violated rules.
 Interpretation and modeling of modern military-political discourse creates a communicative-cognitive base for a correct understanding of real events, excludes the possibility of manipulating public consciousness, excludes the possibility of effective information and propaganda wars, and therefore serves as a powerful methodological tool for verifying the modern most complex information field.
 The scientific novelty of the study lies in the systematization of the structure and content of the terminological system of military-political communication science as a section of political communication science and communication science in general.
 The practical significance of the study lies in the use of modeling methods for various text-discursive fragments in the communicative aspect, which is aimed at clarifying existing models and constructing and interpreting the latest ones.

ЗАСОБИ ПЕРЕКЛАДУ АНТРОПОНІМІВ У МЕДІАДИСКУРСІ

The article is devoted to the observation of existing interpretations and features of anthroponyms, media discourse and the usage of anthroponyms in media discourse. Currently, there is no unanimous opinion on the classification of an throponyms as well as strategy for their reproduction in media discourse, which determines the relevance of the paper. The objective of the work is to identify options for the translation of anthro ponyms based on the material of English-language articles and their translation into Ukrainian. The article examines modern classifications of anthroponyms and com pares them. The most and least frequently used means of their reproduction are represented as a percentage. Present interpretations of media discourse and approaches to its explanation were also examined. A number of issues were identified and must be examined in the future for further development and un derstanding of the concepts of anthroponyms, which take an important place in media discourse.

Event Construal in Text and Image. Gaze Behavior and Discourse Interpretations

The study explores the combinatorial prevalence effect in Event construal techniques in text and image components of heterosemiotic book pages. We hypothesize that their activity and contingency affect their interpretation, here tested in the oculographic experiment and discourse responses check. To proceed, we develop the parametric system applied for 100 book pages annotation and further statistical analysis. This study reveals the relevance of Truth, Type, Relation, Manageability, Completeness, Instantness, Achievement, Evaluation, Space location, Time location, Repeatability, Cause and effect parameter groups in Event construal in text and image as well as their resonance in concomitant activity. To select the samples serving as stimuli in the oculographic experiment, we apply Principal component analysis, which assigns Uniqueness indices to the samples, here ranging from 0.111 to 0.675, and provides diversity of Event construal techniques to be tested in terms of their interpretation. The results evidence that participants applied different text and image attention distribution patterns with longer fixations on text component in case the image displayed physical contact, static and desirable events. When the creation or destruction events, events-achievement, events located in time or causal events were not present in the text, the participants were more likely to address the image, not the text. Parameter activity also affects the choice of Descriptive, Narrative and Speculative discourse responses, with a restricted number of parameters stimulating Narrative discourse, with a restricted in text and vast in image number of parameters stimulating Speculative discourse, which evidences in favor of their more predetermined and predicted character. Hopefully, the results may be used to predict the interpretation effects and to further cognitive linguistic and semiotic research coordination.

Категориальная реализация концептуально значимого смысла в дискурсе И.А. Ильина

The paper discusses the specifics of the synthetic discourse of works by I.A. Ilyin, which connects the features of philosophical, religious and aesthetic discourses. The method of linguity literal interpretation, aimed at justifying the characteristics of the functioning of language units in the discourse of the individual, is established by the originality of the interaction of philosophical, religious, political and aesthetic plans of the content in the word and text. Three options for the interaction of discourses are described: philosophical plus political, plus religious, plus aesthetic; philosophical plus religious, plus aesthetic, philosophical plus aesthetic. It is determined that in the discourse of I.A. Ilyin structural and semantic synthesis of word and text conditions implemented by the categories of personality, events, temporality, space and evaluation, asked by the philosophical mental vector, due to the interaction on the field of discourse of philosophical and religious, philosophical and aesthetic, philosophical and political conditions of content. Conceptually significant meaning is decoded by establishing the explicit and implicit methods of representation of the semantics of the word, micro and macrocontext, deterministic cohesion of the personal discourse. The proposed interpretation of the synthetic type discourse determines the discourse of the works of I.A. Ilyin as a specific communicative space, outlined by the following coordinate system: Actually thinking (philosophy), an active public position (polytick), the purpose of “seeing in the whole of God” (religion), “Justice in the subject / subject” (aesthetics).

АКСИОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ КОНЦЕПТЫ В ИНТЕРПРЕТИРУЮЩЕМ ДИСКУРСЕ

Statement of the problem. The problem of discourse impact attracts a lot of attention in modern linguistics. That calls for elaborating methodological tools that can be used to describe the process of involving the addressee into the activity suggested by the sender of the message. The article reveals the role of linguoaxiological modelling in promoting the speaker’s values and shaping the perlocutionary effect via interpretation. That motivates the study of axiological concepts activated in the interpretative discourse for a pragmatic effect on the target audience. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the status of interpretation as a potent tool for shaping the discourse impact and describe the cognitive operations that create the illocutionary force of axiological concepts in the interpretative discourse. The methodology of the research bases on findings in the spheres of cognitive and linguistic modelling, theory of interpretation and linguistic pragmatics. The key methodological principle consists in viewing the discourse as an interpretative field that shapes the actual value of a concept depending on the speaker’s intentionality and the parameters of the pragmatic context. Research results. The study of axiological concepts in the interpretative discourse has revealed their dialectic nature. On the one hand, axiological concepts have the status of cultural maxims. On the other hand, they acquire their actual values in the interpretative discourse. Via interpretation axiological concepts turn into attractors, i.e. tools for winning the addressee’s attention, approvement, empathy and solidarity. The trigger values of axiological concepts are integrated into destination oriented processes, such as legitimation, evaluation and promotion that are verbalized by value-charged lexemes. Conclusions. The methodological content of discourse impact inventory can be widened by elaborating the idea of linguoaxiological modelling that consists in shaping the communicative environment by activating axiological concepts congruent with the speaker’s intentionality. The illocutionary force of axiological concepts in the interpretative discourse is created via interpretation that has three aspects: goal-oriented operational and resultative. In the intentional aspect interpretation models the illocutionary force of axiological concepts by legitimation, evaluation and promotion. The operational aspect consists in inferring a value component from a conceptual structure by identifying an evaluative interpretant. The resultative aspect presents itself as an image that has been formed in the addressee’s mind by a cluster of axiological concepts activated in the interpretative discourse.

Memahami Larangan Kawin Beda Agama di Indonesia (Kajian Filsafat Hukum Islam)

This article explains the ratio legis of prohibition of interfaith marriage in Indonesia. Indonesia has indirectly prohibited interfaith marriage through the marriage law, the Compilation of Islamic Law, and the fatwa of the Indonesian ulama Council (MUI). The research data was obtained from a literature review of theworks of scholars who discussed the wisdom prohibiting interfaith marriage. Althought there are differences of opinion and interpretation in figh discourse regarding the legal statur of interfaith marriage, depending on personal and political situations, this article argues that the state still priotitizes to choose a life partner, which is the argument of advocates of the legality of interfaith marriage. This prohibition is based on views related to personal (theological) and communal (political) beliefs, that the purpose of marriage is to achieves a happy, peaceful, and loving family which is difficult to achieve in interfaith marriage. This overarching narrative is still maintained, although efforts to amend it are made in vatious ways

Transcendentalizm jako podstawa projektu zradykalizowanego dyskursu metafilozoficznego

The article is a comparative study of selected elements of three philosophical positions which arose on the theoretical underpinning of the concept of transcendental idealism: Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge, Edmund Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology, and Marek J. Siemek’s transcendental philosophy. The primary aims of the study are to examine the epistemological assumptions underlying the three positions, and then critically reconstruct and bring into focus their metaphilosophical component. The article seeks to corroborate the titular thesis that transcendentalism as an epistemological position provides the concepts discussed here with a theoretical framework for a radically conceived interpretation of metaphilosophical discourse.

Interpretasi partikel wacana ‘Lah’ berdasarkan ilmu Balaghah

The development of studies in Malay and Arabic has prompted researchers to construct an interpretation of the discourse particle ‘lah’ based on the Arabic linguistic perspective. This research adapted methods used by Sidnell in detailing aspects of interpretation choice with regard to discourse type, informants, and data transcription procedures. Recordings of the discourse on Wacana Sinar with the title “Plan for National Young Leaders/Pelan Pemimpin Muda Untuk Negara” is used. The interview involved a moderator and three-panel members from the government and from the opposition parties. In the process of developing interpretation for the discourse particles ‘lah’, knowledge of Arabic Balāghah is adapted to its use in Malay. Based on this knowledge, specifically on knowledge of al-ma’ānī, analysis to build the discourse interpretation of the particle ‘lah’ is focused on the form of spoken speech (khabarī), aspects of the structure of speech (isnād) and aspects of language style (uslūb). The result of this study indicated two interpretations of the discourse particles ‘lah’. One is indicative of the speech structure used (isnād). Apart from that, twelve other interpretations of discourse particles ‘lah’ are based on aspects of language style (uslūb). This cross-language study is expected to increase the knowledge of the elements of Arabic which in turn enables it to re-dignify the Malay language.

Necessity of The Abhidhamma for The Interpretation of Early Buddhist Discourses

This paper presents an overview about the necessity of the Abhidhamma for interpreting several main teachings found in the early Buddhist discourses. The study is based on the Tipiṭaka and some other information taken from exegetical literatures (Aṭṭhakathā). Several important points found in the early Buddhist discourses are critically analyzed in the light of the Abhidhamma. It is found that certain points referring the two kinds of truths which have not been clearly distinguished in the early discourses, are made clear in the Abhidhamma by introducing the two kinds truths, namely sammutisacca and paramatthasacca. Furthermore, some controversial matters such as the doctrine of puggala promulgated by some Buddhist schools, and the wrong views of eternalists and nihilists which are often stated in the early Buddhist discourses but yet not so much discussed, are successfully refuted in the Abhidhamma. Thus, the present study has highlighted the importance of Abhidhamma in giving a better explanation regarding some important and controversial points found in the early discourses.

The Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect: Performing Norm Leadership

Abstract How does the Special Adviser decide to call for the ‘responsibility to protect’ populations from atrocities? How have different postholders understood and shaped their role in practice? This article examines the ‘performative leadership’ of the Special Adviser of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). In contrast to the dominant approach informed by conventional models of norm diffusion, this research develops a framework which connects strategic norm-building with symbolic interaction and performativity. Given this, I argue that the postholders do not merely enact institutional scripts but ‘perform’ certain meanings of R2P, both creatively and strategically, while being deeply situated in a rigid environment with existing rules. This study brings to the fore subtle yet deep-seated contestations around R2P, which become visible with the inclusion of the Special Adviser. Methodologically, this article relies on interpretative discourse analysis of the representations of the advisers’ creative choices regarding their performances.

THE DOMESTIC RIGHTS OF THE WIFE (Viewed from KH. Husein Muhammad's Thoughts)

As the queen of the family, the wife is a determinant of household harmony who understands every detail of her domestic realm. But in fact, several social traditions and norms under the guise of religion limit the space for wives to move in their palaces. This study aims to reveal Husein Muhammad's thoughts on domestic rights in the household and to analyze his mindset in doing istinbath. The method used is literature study in the study of thought. This descriptive qualitative research used the main data sources in the form of two books by Kyai Husein, namely: (1) Women's Fiqh: Kyai's Reflections on the Interpretation of Religious and Gender Discourses published by LKiS in 2019; and (2) Islam, Religion Friendly to Women: Defending Kyai Pesantren, published by LKiS in 2009. Data collection techniques tend to be qualitative with literature documentation techniques. Therefore, an analysis of Kyai Husein's istinbath mindset was carried out using a deductive mindset approach. The results of this study are: (1) The wife has several domestic rights in the household, including the right to support, the right to be the head of the household, the right to express an opinion, the right to mu'asyarah bi al-ma'ruf, and the right to get health services; (2) The mindset of Kyai Husein Muhammad in determining legal istinbath departs from the postulates of sharia with cultural contextualization which then gave birth to the principles of justice and human equality, the concept of sharia as a cultural reflection, and emancipatory jurisprudence.

The Interpretation of the “Discourse” as a Term

The article is devoted to the interpretation of the term discourse in linguistics. As this topic is not unambiguously interpreted in various fields of science, including linguistics, the status of the term discourse is still debated. Given the tendency of the issue to develop in this direction, it should be noted that the subject of research is essential for linguistics. This type of scientific research and various theoretical sources are referred to as the material of scientific research. During the study, analyzes are carried out using the method of comparative descriptive linguistics. At the end of the article, the scientific results are reflected. It is noted here that discourse and text relations allow us to understand the creation of the texts by the persons within any communicative act.

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.