Intersubjective Meanings Research Articles

COVID-19 y su incidencia en el periodismo lojano

El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar la repercusión del COVID-19, en el trabajo de los periodistas de la ciudad de Loja. El enfoque usado es cualitativo, permite realizar un análisis profundo de los significados subjetivos e intersubjetivos que forman parte de las realidades del trabajo periodístico. La muestra del estudio es intencional, se compone de 10 periodistas, de ellos 5 comunicadores de radio y 5 reporteros de televisión vinculados con los distintos medios de comunicación de la urbe. Los instrumentos que se utilizaron para la recolección de datos fueron: página web de Consejo de Información y Comunicación del Ecuador (CORDICOM), entrevista semi-estructurada y rastreo digital de los datos difundidos en sus redes sociales personales de los periodistas participantes. Los resultados muestran que en contextos de emergencia: a) el uso de plataformas virtuales es esencial para el trabajo a distancia, b) el distanciamiento a causa del Covid- 19 afecta el trabajo periodístico, pero no es la única causa c) debido a la crisis sanitaria, los periodistas y reporteros se muestran preocupados ante la incertidumbre laboral, el riesgo a su salud y a los impactos emocionales de la cobertura.

MOVILIDAD INTERNACIONAL Y EL MERCADEO DE LA MIGRACIÓN SEGURA A TRAVÉS DE LA TEORÍA CRÍTICA DE LAS RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES

This article aims to analyze the regular migration that occurs through Golden Visa from the application of the critical theory of International Relations (IR). The preliminary hypothesis for the study assumes that Golden Visa represent the binomial of inclusion and exclusion observed by critical theory. This study carries out a thematic literature review that seeks to answer the following questions: What is the Golden Visa? How are Golden Visa perceived in the context of contemporary migrations? How are they explained by critical theory? The final part delves into the three key elements of critical theory: the contestation of the liberal international order, the transformation of intersubjective meanings and the dialectical confrontation caused by the Golden Visa system.

Managing interpersonal discourse expectations: a comparative analysis of contrastive discourse particles in Dutch

Abstract In this article we investigate how speakers manage discourse expectations in dialogue by comparing the meaning and use of three Dutch discourse particles, i.e. wel, toch and eigenlijk, which all express a contrast between their host utterance and a discourse-based expectation. The core meanings of toch, wel and eigenlijk are formally distinguished on the basis of two intersubjective parameters: (i) whether the particle marks alignment or misalignment between speaker and addressee discourse beliefs, and (ii) whether the particle requires an assessment of the addressee’s representation of mutual discourse beliefs. By means of a quantitative corpus study, we investigate to what extent the intersubjective meaning distinctions between wel, toch and eigenlijk are reflected in statistical usage patterns across different social situations. Results suggest that wel, toch and eigenlijk are lexicalizations of distinct generalized politeness strategies when expressing contrast in social interaction. Our findings call for an interdisciplinary approach to discourse particles in order to enhance our understanding of their functions in language.

Феномен и кризис доверия в монокультурных и межкультурных коммуникациях

The article attempts to integrate existential, cultural, sociological and psychological approaches to the problem of trust based on the category "meaning". The phenomenon of trust is relevant because of the following fact: people are beings who are voluntarily at each other's disposal and, accordingly, are vulnerable to each other. A trust is an attitude in which this fundamental vulnerability is exchanged for humanity. That is why humanity is attributed to persons. At the same time, trust and mistrust are an integral aspect of the processes of meaning formation and embodiment. That processes are related to intersubjective meaning formations (intensional structures and contexts) of lifeworlds. Lifeworlds are spheres of human existence. First embodiment of the trust intensive structure is socio-cultural patterns and institutions. They are embodied in social meanings and people relations. The social sphere which trust embodies is the circulation of gifts (potlatch). Finally, relevant existential, socio-cultural and social meanings find embody in various subjective manifestations of trust. That occurs because people are participants in existential, socio-cultural and social relations mediated by their psychology. But a person can also obtain agency and enter the sphere of "absolute relations with the absolute" as in being, in which faith/trust becomes the very way of being.

Interpretacjonizm w nauce o polityce. Stanowisko Charlesa Taylora na tle współczesnych debat o tożsamości politologii

The article is an intervention into the ongoing debate about the identity of political science. Drawing on the views of Charles Taylor, it argues for the interpretive model of political science. Interpretive political science maintains that (1) political practices and institutions are constituted by intersubjective meaning; (2) it is impossible to draw a clear-cut distinction between normative and empirical theory since any non-trivial political theory is bound to reveal some value slope. The article argues that the interpretative approach not only can provide a better explanation of current research practice within political science but also opens promising vistas for future research.

МОВНІ АПОСТЕРІОРИЗАЦІЇ СЕНСОРНОГО ҐЕШТАЛЬТУ ЯК ОПРИЛЮДНЕННЯ ТОТАЛЬНОСТІ СЕНСУ ТА НАОЧНОСТІ (на матеріалі множини деривативних одиниць словотвірного типу«база-тематизатор+афікс «аdа»)

The article is devoted to the study of linguistic aposteriorization of the Sensory Gestalt as a manifestation of both comprehensiveness and clarity of meaning. The research is conducted on the basis of linguistic material of the numerous derivative units which belong to a word-formation type thematic base + affix ada in the Spanish language. The relevance of this work is explained by its focus on a comprehensive and in-depth study of the constitution / functioning of language consciousness of phenomenological intentionality and corresponding forms of linguistic aposteriorization as correlates of original phenomenological consciousness. The phenomenological discovery of the world of human existence is demonstrated by specific, recurrently reproduced notions consciousness – clarity – meaning – language. The implemented methodological approach to the study of linguistic phenomena can be described as a challenge to the postulation of exclusively logical-semantic, symbolic, mental-cognitive structure of language. Thus, it represents the mentally mediated meaning of empirical-pragmatic consciousness. At the same time, the controversial issue of discreteness – continuity of language is raised. To some extent, the study of language as the demonstration of events of human life (existentials) in words-phenomena is a response to the authoritative philosophical opinion on the matter of "complete oblivion of language", and it is an attempt to return it from oblivion. Personal contribution of the researcher involves the implementation of the main provisions of the phenomenal – existential method of philosophical reflection to the facts of linguistic empiricism. Until now, this method has only been briefly mentioned, or even completely ignored in linguistic research precisely because of impossibility of its systematic application to a certain type of speech phenomena. Long-term observations of linguistic material have allowed us to single out the links of application of this method to a large array of recurrently reproducible derivative units of language and to establish the possible limits of their variation as a consequence of mentally mediated meaning-making in the topological field of phenomenological consciousness. In turn, the adequacy of the combination of methodology of both philosophical and linguistic research caused a chain reaction. Therefore, the application of the provisions of scientific disciplines which represent a lower level of formalization has taken place. These disciplines include the following: psychology, the evolutionary theory of human cognition, general theory of perception, cognitive psychology, anthropolology, etc. For all the above mentioned reasons, the article paid special attention to the study of linguistic aposteriorization of the Sensory Gestalt as a pre-mental form of image derived from the specifics of phenomenological perception. Thus, the interparadigmatic synergy of our study may prove its linguistic validity and quality (the analysis of endo- and exo-consistency of derivative units of the word-formation type ada) and the refutation / irrefutability of the given argumentation. The article is dedicated to the study of structuring and functioning of the linguistic consciousness of phenomenological intentions as a correlate of the topological field of phenomenological consciousness and the collective consciousness of intersubjective meanings in particular. Totality of perception, intentionality and linguistic aposteriorization in complex groups of mediations demonstrate the biography of a man in the world as a longevity-continuum of recurrent existentials embedded in the field of identical meanings of intersubjective significance Collective Safety. Empirical observations on the material in the Spanish language have led to unexpected evidence of the presence of derivative units of the above mentioned word-formation type in closely related and typologically unrelated languages as a noticeable trend towards their universalization.

La reduplicación léxica como mecanismo metalingüístico

The aim of the present article is to analyse the metalinguistic function of the nominal reduplication in Spanish. The lexical reduplication is a mechanism that consists in repeating a lexical unit within one phrase. The study shows that the nominal reduplication presents metalinguistic functions that reveal the interest of the speakers in a number of semantic issues related to the linguistic categorization and the concept of prototype. What is more, the metalinguistic aspect of the reduplicative constructions play a crucial role in a variety of situations as it entails some intersubjective meanings that are of a great importance for the interaction.

An attachment-based model of family therapy provided online

Attachment theory and research provides an important organising framework for understanding the nature of family relationships that promote the psychological development and well-being of all members of the family. The fundamental features of the parent relationship with the infant continue to be present in family relationships throughout the life span. These features provide psychological safety, intersubjective meanings regarding self and other, open and engaged emotional conversations, and the development of family stories that ultimately create coherent family narratives. This article utilises this knowledge of healthy family relationships and communication patterns in an attachment-based family therapy. A family case study is used to demonstrate how maladaptive relational patterns and stories based on shame and fear may be addressed and then, through engaging in therapeutic conversations, the family is able to develop stories of healing and transformation.

Industrial relations dominance in the ride sharing transportation apps

The development of digitalisation has penetrated the transportation sector. Indonesia has become a market for ride-sharing startups which has proliferated in the past three years. This article aimed to understand the hidden interests and dominance occurring in industrial relations in the sharing economy system in Grab Indonesia, especially in GrabCar services. The formulations of the problem in this paper were: whether the cause of the conflict between Grab company and its business partners reflected the company's or business partners’ hidden interests? And then, what were the implications of the conflict on industrial relations for Grab and its partners?. This study used a qualitative approach with the Verstehen method to find the deepest and intersubjective meanings of social actions. This research applied the theory of conflict, industrial relations, and partnerships. Data sources in this study were primary sources in the form of interviews and secondary sources through newspapers, journals, books and webpages. The results showed that the cause of the conflict between Grab and its business partners revealed hidden interests of the company and some of its business partners. and also, conflicts caused imbalance and dominance of industrial relations in which the company has stronger power and authority than its business partners.

The Idea of Dialogue of Civilizations and Core-Periphery Dialogue in International Relations

The idea of dialogue of civilizations, as was envisaged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, includes multi-layer, multi-actor dialogues. Civilization, when defined as “correspondence between material conditions of existence and intersubjective meanings,” has epistemological and ontological elements that constitute the parameters of knowledge. One may easily claim that the existing knowledge of international relations has its roots in Western civilization and, if it is to become a truly global body of knowledge, it has to be nourished by contributions from various civilizations, mostly belonging to the “periphery”. Yet, even this is not enough if we just reach an archipelago consisting of various islands of knowledge without a connection to each other. What may help bridging these islands is dialogue. Dialogues among IR scholars from different civilizational backgrounds may lead to more mutual understanding and even may lead to some common grounds found in-between. Dialogues can be conducted both at inter-civilizational and intra-civilizational levels as civilizations cannot be taken as monolithic wholes. This article seeks to clarify the meaning and implications of dialogue of civilizations in IR. Furthermore, the way in which dialogue of civilizations in the discipline can be conducted and the expectations thereof are discussed.

Theoretical explanation, understanding and prediction in management studies

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to question whether the management studies is rigorous and/or relevant is a recurrent debate in the discipline. There is reason to believe that this dichotomy is simplistic as relevance is a consequence of rigor (defined in a variety of ways in the literature), whereas the epistemic value of rigor must per se be examined in more detail.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on the study of the analytical philosophy of Donald Davidson, rigor is here conceptualized as the capacity to examine how intersubjective meaning is constituted on the basis of the semantics of the everyday language.FindingsIn Davidson’s pragmatist view, individual beliefs are established through communication, and beliefs generate preferences and “pro-attitudes” that result in social action. Using Ian Hacking’s term undoing as a critique of a proposition or idea as being no contender for truth (or some other quality) at all, the paper questions the proposition that scientific rigor can be operationalized as the use of data collection and analysis methods developed in other and more authoritative disciplines, e.g. economics. On the contrary, to make accurate descriptions of beliefs, preferences and actions on the basis of the use of everyday language is the mark of scientific rigor in management studies.Originality/valueThe paper addresses the question of how rigorous research in management studies is essentially a matter of explanation, and that explanation, in turn, demands a more elaborate theory of action. The paper also introduces the work of Donald Davidson as an important figure when theorizing action.

Modal particle meanings

Abstract One of the challenges of modal particle research is the search for appropriate ways to describe the meanings these particles convey. As these meanings are subtle and situated at the abstract and non-propositional level of intersubjective meaning making, the function of the particles is notoriously hard to pin down. As a consequence, scholars also disagree on what the precise relation between different but related particles is. In this paper, I show that gesture analysis can shed new light on these issues. By looking at the gestures used with the German particles denn, ja, doch, eben, einfach, and halt, the paper illustrates how studying gestures can lead to a better understanding of the particles and their mutual relations by showing how gesture data can offer new evidence for existing hypotheses and help in finding a way out of matters of discussion.

Synchronicity in improvisational music therapy – Developing an intersubjective field with a child with autism spectrum disorder

ABSTRACTIntroduction: For children with severe autism spectrum disorder (ASD) intersubjective relating through interactional synchronicity is challenging. However, in a case of improvisational music therapy (IMT) with a 5-year-old boy with severe ASD several moments of synchronicity occurred. The following study aims to characterize the phenomenon of synchronicity as it occurred in the case, and to interpret the intersubjective meaning of the synchronicity.Method: Explorative microanalyses of videotaped IMT sessions were conducted within an interpretivist theoretical framework to investigate the phenomenon of synchronicity. Literature from the field of developmental psychology, ASD and music therapy was reviewed in order to interpret the intersubjective meaning of the occurring synchronicity.Results: Three types of synchronicity were identified: Synchronicity type one (initiated by the music therapist), synchronicity type two (co-creation of a shared rhythmicity between child and therapist) and synchronicity type three (initiated by the child). The three types of synchronicity worked on different levels of intersubjective relating.Discussion: Participation in interactional synchronicity may be reachable within the frame of IMT for a child with severe ASD, because it is facilitated by the inherent property of pulse in music and the way IMT reinforces the intersubjective dynamics of early interplay. A clinical focus on synchronicity can provide an arena for the child to show hitherto unseen resources and participate in synchronous interactions fundamental to further development. The benefit of an interdisciplinary approach to such work is highlighted, as is the need for further research on the topic.

The Organised Self and Lifestyle Minimalism: Multimodal Deixis and Point of View in Decluttering Vlogs on YouTube

Abstract This paper explores how people present their relationship to their domestic objects in decluttering vlogs on YouTube, where they show the process of getting rid of undesired items. These videos are associated with discourses of ‘minimalism’ that are currently prevalent on social media platforms. The paper adopts a multimodal social semiotic approach, focusing on how language, gesture, and the visual frame coordinate intermodally to make meanings about objects. The multimodal construction of deixis in coordination with a type of ‘point-of-view shot’, filmed from the visual perspective of the vlogger, is examined. The broader aim is to investigate what these videos reveal about how digital semiotic capitalism is inflecting the lived experience of social media users. What is at stake is how people articulate intersubjective meanings about their experiences and relationships through the way they communicate about their objects.

A multilevel neo-institutional analysis of infection prevention and control in English hospitals: coerced safety culture change?

Despite committed policy, regulative and professional efforts on healthcare safety, little is known about how such macro-interventions permeate organisations and shape culture over time. Informed by neo-institutional theory, we examined how inter-organisational influences shaped safety practices and inter-subjective meanings following efforts for coerced culture change. We traced macro-influences from 2000 to 2015 in infection prevention and control (IPC). Safety perceptions and meanings were inductively analysed from 130 in-depth qualitative interviews with senior- and middle-level managers from 30 English hospitals. A total of 869 institutional interventions were identified; 69% had a regulative component. In this context of forced implementation of safety practices, staff experienced inherent tensions concerning the scope of safety, their ability to be open and prioritisation of external mandates over local need. These tensions stemmed from conflicts among three co-existing institutional logics prevalent in the NHS. In response to requests for change, staff flexibly drew from a repertoire of cognitive, material and symbolic resources within and outside their organisations. They crafted 'strategies of action', guided by a situated assessment of first-hand practice experiences complementing collective evaluations of interventions such as 'pragmatic', 'sensible' and also 'legitimate'. Macro-institutional forces exerted influence either directly on individuals or indirectly by enriching the organisational cultural repertoire.

Why we need to think beyond NATO’s 2 per cent benchmark: suggestions for amending the research programme

ABSTRACTThe research programme on NATO burden sharing is heavily influenced by quantitative political economists who are interested in testing theories with statistical inferences and regression analysis. It uses predominantly rationalist, deductive reasonings and is informed by methodological individualism. However, there are significant theoretical and methodological limitations with such an approach, above all in understanding burden sharing as a social practice rather than a static outcome. This contribution offers suggestions for a post-positivist turn of NATO’s burden sharing research programme, especially those that highlight the importance of intersubjective meanings and the role of social forces, norms, beliefs, and values in burden sharing decisions that are not derived from material interests and reflexively inform behaviour. Such a post-positivist turn, we charge, would help us to explain how collective burdens are constructed and perceived by the member states. We also offer suggestions on how to operationalize this turn in the research programme.

A performative exploration of the lifeworlds of human capital and financial capital: an intellectual capital case vignette

The primary purpose here is to briefly outline and illustrate how one particular relationist/realist ontological approach to performative research, with a focus on professionals’ subjective interpretations of intangibles/intellectual capital, may be capable of generating reasonably substantive findings. Methodologically the paper illustrates, if in skeletal form, how adopting a Habermasian performative attitude allied with Wittgenstein’s use-theory of language may direct performative research on values, value orientations, norms and legitimacy as a means of addressing the subjective interpretations of worker/manager/professional groups. Drawing on a case vignette, personal value orientations towards intangibles/intellectual capital provide both the performative methodological access points and the empirical focus. The performative method applied appears capable of generating reasonably substantive findings. Value orientations towards intangibles/intellectual capital are clearly present in the human resource (human capital) profession; what is striking is their apparent absence in the finance/accounting (financial capital) profession as the phenomenon may be perceived by the latter to lack professional accounting legitimacy. Mutually-recognised inter-subjective meanings, inclusive of common value orientations towards the case site’s intangible value creating processes, are apparently absent in this professional relation. Theoretically, ontologically and methodologically influenced by Habermas and Wittgenstein the paper illustrates the potential of adopting a performative attitude towards values, norms and legitimacy as a means of addressing the subjective interpretations of workers/managers/professionals towards emergent business concepts such as intellectual capital or indeed integrated reporting.

Turn-peripheral management of Common Ground: A study of Swabian gell

The present study investigates the function of the Swabian particle gell. This particle is employed to manage the Common Ground – either in a narrative or in a dialogical context. Focusing on the dialogical context, I show that gell has two intersubjective flavors: one is to request confirmation; the other is to demand it. Both flavors are available at the beginning and at the end of a turn. This is demonstrated by a quantitative analysis of the distributional behavior of the two flavors in two independent forced-choice response studies. Both flavors show an identical response pattern at both peripheries. This result is relevant for the question of whether the two turn peripheries have different discourse-functions. Under such an asymmetric perspective, turn-initial particles have a subjective meaning and turn-final particles have an intersubjective meaning (e.g. Beeching et al., 2009). Beyond a peripherally-independent meaning, the properties of gell suggest that the notion of intersubjectivity is best conceived as a matter of degree: gell has three different contexts of use, each instantiating a different degree of intersubjectivity.

Transatlantic burden sharing: suggesting a new research agenda

ABSTRACTCurrent studies on NATO burden sharing are only able to show some weak statistical trends between selective variables; they are unable to explain and show why this trend exists and why it occurred at particular times (or not). This is due to the dominant deductive and hypothesis testing research designs that prevent researchers to produce richer causal explanations or intersubjective understandings of how states, for example, construct and assign meaning to burdens or what forms of social representation, values, norms and ideals influence the making of (national) burden sharing decisions. Thus, we charge, the literature needs to adopt an eclecticist approach to studying NATO burden sharing – that is to combine rationalist with sociological approaches and methodologies highlighting the importance of intersubjective meanings and the role of social forces, norms, beliefs, and values. The article lays out what such a research programme might look like and how one could operationalise it.

Researching Inter-Organizational Embeddedness: Visual Methods For Qualitative Network Research

Social network research remains dominated by structuralist approaches involving the analysis of numerical data stored in data matrices. While such research has advanced our understanding of the inter-organizational domain in important ways, repeated calls have been made for qualitative and mixed- methods network research that attends to the inter-subjective meanings attached to both relationships and network structures. In this article, we advance a nascent literature on qualitative network research by drawing together developments in visual network research from across the social sciences. We introduce a typology of three visual methods that are particularly pertinent for the collection of network data: Participatory network mapping, network map interview and visual network survey. Drawing on three empirical examples, we demonstrate how these methods can be used for the collection of qualitative and quantitative relational data, and how they can be triangulated with other qualitative methods and Social Network Analysis. We discuss how the degree of structuration and standardization of both procedure and network map has crucial implications for data collection and data analysis. We evaluate the merits and limitations of the presented methods and conclude that visual network research, if used reflexively, may provide a very useful addition to existing management research tools.