Modes Of Discourse Research Articles

TOWARDS A METHODOLOGY FOR INTERPRETING VISUAL IMAGES AS CYBERNETIC SYSTEM: LACAN AND DELEUZE

This exposition endeavors to outline a theoretical framework for a methodology to interpret visual images that draws on cybernetics, semiotics, psychoanalysis and philosophical ideas. Using images, aesthetics and artistic practices as a means of generating new understanding requires translating, deciphering and interpreting those artistic products and/or processes. How can one decipher the system of visual language that underlies artistic productions? I suggest that cybernetics is requisite for such an endeavor. Cybernetic theory is the science of relations within a system, taking as its problematic the relation between a system and its productions or output; in some instances, it studies how the productions of a system influence the system itself. This exposition endeavors to articulate aesthetics or artistic works in terms of a visual language and as a cybernetic enterprise in the context of art-based research by drawing on the ideas of Lacan and Deleuze. For Lacan, aesthetics exists as a primary mode of discourse for the articulations of the unconscious, as evidenced in images in dreams, art and fantasy. Lacan is renowned for his dictum that the unconscious and its productions are structured like a language, but the kind of structure of meaning at work in the unconscious is less related to the structural grammar of a natural language than the syntax of mathematics and cybernetics. Drawing on Lacanian dream analysis, I evince how such an approach could be applied to aesthetic phenomena. Deleuze presents a semiotic theory, a theory of signs which evinces the generation of novel meaning in the unconscious; it can be said to be cybernetic in the way that it exists in a state of continual evolution, the output produced by the system engendering transformation in the system itself. Deleuze offers a framework for how the work of art or aesthetic phenomenon can be translated into new knowledge through the process of entrainment with signs.

Эмотивная суггестивность в современном китайском художественном дискурсе (на примере романа Юй Хуа «Жить», 1992)

Introduction. The study examines some theoretical aspects and outlines practical approaches to the analysis of emotive density and its suggestiveness in contemporary Chinese fictional discourse. The work’s shift of attention focus to stylistic emotive attractors and points of structural tension in the text has formed a research interface, and makes it possible to identify some approaches to the analysis of emotive density in contemporary Chinese fictional discourse. Goals. The study aims to determine the functions of emotivity in the language of literary text in terms of ethnocultural specificity and semantic realization through the example of Yu Hua’s To Live (1992). Materials and methods. Theoretically, the work contains traces of integral and suggestive linguistics related to functional syntax and pragmatics, all that to yield an interdisciplinary approach. The artistic agenda of the novel acts as an isolated subjective world model and is viewed as a cognitive set of emotive attractions, the latter’s understanding and perception be determined by personal and social experiences along the axis ‘author–character–reader’. Results. Emotivity and emotional modes of Chinese fictional discourse are characterized by spatial connectivity between structural tension elements, the function of plot-building, individual features inherent to the speakers’ speech portraits, and actual speech effects on the recipient. Becoming a central element of text, emotivity acts as a meta-entity. The systemic stylistic relations of the multi-level linguistic units of the literary text and discourse tend to reflect the general correlation potentials between the functional/semantic fields of emotivity, expressiveness and modality.

South African Literature and the “Strange Seductiveness” of the Fantastic

Abstract In Postcolonial literature, magic realism and science fiction are two sub-genres that have worked diligently to contest realism as a western novelistic tradition. In the South African context, the fantastic initiates a process of psychic liberation from old (White) world narrative domination and its cognitive codes. It recapitulates problems of historical consciousness in (post)apartheid cultures and interrogates inherited notions of imperial history. This paper reads two “fantastic” texts that belong to a similar post-colonial culture—South Africa—and strives to explain the ways in which these texts recapitulate, in both their narrative discourse and their thematic content, the “real” social and historical context in which (post)apartheid South African culture existed and thrived. Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying and Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City use magic realism and science fiction respectively to re-view and debunk inherited literary modes of colonial discourse and to work towards more authentic yet challenging “codes of recognition”. By so doing, they offer positive and liberating responses to new emerging cultural forms.

Pertarungan Makna Atas Pernyataan Cawe-Cawe Presiden Jokowi Mengenai Pemilu 2024 di Media Indonesia

The mass media has an important role as a means to reach a wide audience that can influence public opinion in society. Therefore, the media is a social institution that is contested to obtain and win power. Text is a form of ideological practice, language, writing and choice of words that are understood to carry ideological meanings that are used to win public support. In a meeting with the editors-in-chief of mass media and content creators, President Jokowi stated that he would participate in the 2024 elections to ensure that the elections take place safely and smoothly. President Jokowi's statement that he will chat in the 2024 Presidential Election has received pros and cons and has been interpreted differently by the public. The purpose of this study is to find out how the battle for meaning is being carried out by Media Indonesia regarding the statements of President Jokowi's cawe in the 2024 election in the headline news. This study uses a critical paradigm using a political economy media approach. The method used is Halliday's social discourse analysis method which is based on three concepts, namely, the field of discourse, the involvement of discourse and the mode of discourse. Based on the analysis carried out, in its reporting, Media Indonesia chose sources who were dominant against President Jokowi's cawe-cawe statements. Cawe-cawe is interpreted as the President's non-neutrality in the 2024 presidential election, a setback to democracy and as scaring the people.
 Keywords: Battle of Meaning, Cawe-cawe, 2024 Election, Media Indonesia.

DEONTIC MODALITY IN GHANAIAN PENTE-CHARISMATIC SERMONS

The linguistic analysis of sermons has in recent times attracted some attention in linguistic research. Notwithstanding, studies on language use in sermons have predominantly examined the style of individual preachers but with limited attention to linguistic resources on deontic modality. To fill this gap, the present study examines the linguistic resources employed in expressing deontic modality in selected Ghanaian Pente-Charismatic sermons. It is theoretically underpinned by the Register Theory propounded by Halliday (1989) and Biber and Conrad (2009). The study is a qualitative case study that purposively sampled twenty Pente-Charismatic sermons delivered by three Ghanaian preachers namely Apostle General Sam Korankye-Ankrah; Bishop Charles Agyin-Asare and Bishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams. The findings reveal that modal verbs are used to make declarations and admonish listeners on various Christian principles, lexical verbs are used dominantly in the form of action verbs to construe preachers as powerful people who instruct congregants on their Christian obligations while auxiliary verbs are used to support the main verbs to emphasise various actions in the sermons. Phrasal verbs, adverbs, and clauses on the other hand are insignificantly used to enable the preachers to convey their messages in plain language that would be understood by their audience. This paper extends the scholarship on register analysis of sermonic discourse by focusing attention on Pente-Charismatic sermons, a context underexplored in the literature. It also illustrates the communicative implications that underpin the use of various forms of deontic modality in sermonic discourse. The study therefore has implications for the register theory and studies on language use in sermonic discourse.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0056/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Hypertextethics as a Trans- and Posthumanistic Redemption to the Pathology of Unilinearity: A Pilot Project for Schools and Prisoners

ABSTRACT The author of this paper is currently working on a pilot project with school children and individuals who are in their final years of their prison sentence. The project should offer a pragmatic alternative to the way humanism has established and defined our mode of expressions. Such modes effect our ways of deliberation and judgement when it comes to ethical issues. This paper will act both as a critique and provide, at the same time, a positive alternative to those who are still being coerced into confessing an act they committed in a language in which they do not only not recognise themselves but risk, moreover, not being understood. The likelihood of this occurring stems from a fundamental disconnect, namely the fact that their way of communicating does not chime in with the expectations of the knowledgeable others whose formal speech registers betray deeply-ingrained oppressive humanist modes of discourse and ideologies which, having long been normalized are, to the former’s detriment, regrettably and routinely overlooked. The aim of this paper is to introduce my project in order to show the reader that many of the postmodern critiques of narrative and agent formation can be overcome by a cybernetic system of a new mode of writing, by means of which the intentions of the agent are fragmented and reconstructed immediately by a secondary, non-human agent – the software. I shall be making a case that this software will become vital to mediate human storytelling through non- human generation creating an enhanced understanding for both reader and writer.

The Solution for Girls with No Sex Appeal: The Ironized Yeast – A Multi Modal Discourse Analysis of Vintage Advertisements

This paper presents a discourse analysis of three vintage advertisements for Ironized Yeast using Multi Modal Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. Drawing on the concept of erotic capital by Hakim (2011), the study explores how these advertisements exploit women’s insecurities about their body shape while offering a solution that goes beyond physical attractiveness. The analysis reveals that the advertisements promote the idea that women can leverage their erotic capital to enhance their sex appeal, thereby increasing their chances of success in the dating and marriage market. This research examines the construction and perpetuation of the seductive power associated with a curvy figure. The findings highlight the intricate interplay between discourses of attractiveness, power dynamics, and societal expectations, urging critical reflection on the influence of such representations on individuals and broader social dynamics.

The Characteristics and Strategies of TCM Discourse Model in Higher Education in Hong Kong

Traditional Chinese medicine culture is an important part of Chinese culture. Studying the discourse mode of traditional Chinese medicine is an important way to promote Chinese culture to go global and enhance the influence of Chinese culture. The profile of colleges and universities is the official statement of the organizational identity of colleges and universities. It is an important medium for colleges and universities to convey and promote their positive image, spread discipline culture and affect the public, especially specific stakeholders. Using the Discourse-historical Approach method of Critical Discourse Analysis, this paper selects the School Profile and the Director’s Message in the official websites of the School of Chinese medicine of the University of Hong Kong, the School of Chinese medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the School of Chinese medicine of the Hong Kong Baptist University as cases to analyze the characteristics and strategies of the discourse mode adopted by the college in constructing its organizational identity and disseminating traditional Chinese medicine culture. It is found that the introductions use a variety of discourse means, such as diversified attitude evaluation, effective naming structure , predicate structure, and “Bi-literacy and Tri-lingualism” discourse mode, and construct a positive and rich image of the school: It has a long history of development and orderly inheritance; It has sound teaching courses and complete system; It has a wide range of influence and fruitful results in the dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine culture; It has made fruitful achievements in cultivating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) talents with international vision, and a large number of elites have emerged.

Modal normativism on semantic rules

ABSTRACT According to Amie Thomasson's modal normativism, the function of modal discourse is to convey semantic rules. But what is a “semantic rule”? I raise three worries according to which there is no conception of a semantic rule that can serve the needs of a modal normativist. The first worry focuses on de re and a posteriori necessities. The second worry concerns Thomasson's inferential specification of the meaning of modal terms. The third worry asks about the normative status of semantic rules.

Superhero Storytelling: the Law, Sovereignty and Time

In both Comics Studies and Cultural Legal Studies, questions about the relationship between superheroes and the law have most commonly been treated in terms of vigilantism or in relation to the concept of sovereignty. With regard to sovereignty, though, the tendency has been to explore the concept in relation to its fundamental spatial organisation. In this article, however, I would like to consider law and sovereignty in relation to time. In particular how they are linked to the regulation and control of stories that recount histories and with that determine how identities and the legal and normative frameworks that support them are imagined in the future. To do this the article firstly introduces the work of Robert Cover and his definition on nomos as a normative universe in which we dwell. To this I add the work of Scott Richard Lyons to talk about expressions of ‘rhetorical sovereignty’ in two superhero comics: Captain America: Truth: Red, White and Black, and Blue Marvel. These are read as examples of legal storytelling that seek to change the mode of public discourse; challenge dominant (racist) representations, and reset the debate in the search for and application of justice.

Kajian Linguistik Forensik dalam Penyidikan Kasus Pembunuhan Engeline

This study discusses the study of forensic linguistics in the investigative stage. The purpose of this study is to provide a general understanding of the role of linguistics in legal investigations. This study uses a Forensic Linguistics approach which is supported by three theories, namely the context of the situation, the cooperation principle, and the meaning of ideology. The context of the situation in the discourse includes three dimensions, namely the field of discourse, the tenor of discourse, and mode of discourse. The field of discourse in the text discusses the details of the chronology of events in which there are a witness, suspect, and investigators as tenor in the discourse. Mode of disourse has an oral form. In the principle of cooperation, the witness and suspect violate the maxim of quantity and quality due to doubts in disclosing facts. The meaning of ideology contained in the police reports is that the final decision is determined by the police because of the ideology of power they have.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Modality and Irony in Political Discourse

Modality and Irony in Political Discourse

Hearing Durational Process in A Huli Song

Hearing Durational Process in A Huli Song

The English Language of Theology and Its Specific Features

The article deals with the specific features of the English theological discourse and various interpretations of this term. The first part of the article emphasizes lexical peculiarities of theological texts and semantic-structural peculiarities of theological texts. In the second part of the article the authors draw a distinction between the terms “modality of theological discourse” and “mode of theological discourse”, sharing the viewpoint of T.V. Shmelyova in favour of the term “mode of theological discourse”. The definition of the concept of "mode of theological discourse" and the classification of modes are based on the works of the British theologian John Macquarie. By describing in detail, the characteristics of some of the modes, the authors draw the reader’s attention to the use of empirical mode not only as a specifically theological mode, but also for the description of acute global problems that came to the attention of theologians, such as the destruction of the environment as a result of anthropogenic factors. The theme of ecology in theology – eco-theology – is a new direction in the study of the English language of theology.

Multimodal Transduction and Translanguaging in Deaf Pedagogy

Multimodal transduction is an interaction of teaching and learning. It traverses changes in epistemology and ontology through judgements about axiology. Using multimodal transduction (MT), students and teachers transcend languages and employ nonlanguage and quasi-language modes (e.g., drawing, color, line, math, infographics, and even sculptures). This study uses qualitative empirical data via grounded theory and case study designs to make theoretical claims about MT in a deaf higher-educational context. The data for this multi-year project were sourced through interviews, document analysis, observations, and stimulated recall with six university professors who are deaf. My analysis shows that these deaf faculty-members employ MT to convert inaccessible modes to become accessible for deaf learners. By changing modalities through MT, deaf faculty enhance comprehensibility and equity for deaf learners. This theoretical account of MT contends, extends, and clarifies aspects of translanguaging theory. As I argue, both operations transform power relations in the classroom by addressing ethics through deaf-centric aesthetics. In deaf education, MT is equally important for faculty in teaching and students’ learning. MT is widely and creatively used, owing to its flexibility and adaptivity. MT is useful for all deaf agents, regardless of additional disabilities, language competencies, or language deprivation. The MT process is inexplicit and undertheorized in the literature about deaf pedagogy and in translanguaging research. My study provides empirical support for theoretical claims about underlying mechanisms of translanguaging. One focus is to explore how MT and translanguaging (and similar theories) align or diverge. I argue that MT is a core mechanism that supports changes between all modes of discourse that enable information exchange, including but surpassing languages and translanguaging. In sum, MT is an interaction whereby deaf agents change the forms of knowledge; meanwhile, new realities and new power relations are manifested.

Transitivity and Social Context in Balinese Folklores: A Systemic Functional Perspective

Mesatua “storytelling” is a tradition that is usually done by parents or grandparents in Bali. Storytelling uses Balinese folklore, which is rich in moral value. It is an effort to preserve the language and culture and develop Balinese cultural values. This study aims to determine Balinese folklore’s transitivity and social context by applying a systemic functional analysis theory. The result of the analysis showed that transitivity elements consist of process, participant, and circumstances. The situational context consists of the field of discourse, tenor of discourse, and mode of discourse. The cultural context involves mesatua “storytelling” traditions, the level of Balinese language used in the text, and religious symbolic meaning.

“Maybe nothing is an elegy”

Abstract This article investigates two central aspects of contemporary elegy: (1) the plausible and tempting assumption of it being disentangled from formal constraints, something that might have generated a major historical shift from poetry as a poetic form to an elegiac mode of discourse (Bardazzi, Giusti, and Tandello 2022); (2) the formal glitch it creates and, at times, reconciles via the lyric and its generative tension between personal and collective, narrative and non-narrative dimensions, linear and non-linear temporalities. This study does so by focusing on two authors who have weaved together a poetics of mourning the paternal figure: OBIT (2020) by the Asian American poet Victoria Chang and Geologia di una padre [Geology of a father] (2013) by the Italian poet Valerio Magrelli.

Investigating the Impacts of YouTube's Content Policies on Journalism and Political Discourse

Social media has become a primary mode of journalism and political discourse as evidenced by recent online political movements. Platforms like YouTube, by monetizing content through advertising revenue, have fostered a new group of online political professionals, including journalists and commentators. Recently, to limit the spread of misinformation and hateful content, these platforms have begun revising their content monetization, recommendation, and removal policies. To explore the impact on creators, we present an interview based study of journalists and political commentators on YouTube. Our participants report that these policies' implementations are inadequate technically and impacting their ability to survive financially. In their view, these policies may result in the suppression of legitimate reporting and discourse that dissents from mainstream consensus. We identify potential systemic effects of these polices and develop implications for the future design of online media.

Fostering the Global Common Good: The Relevance of Catholic Social Teaching to Public Health Debates

Given the scope and intensity of its impact, the COVID-19 pandemic proves instructive as an example of the shortfall in regnant legal and policy approaches to global health issues. Secular discussions of such issues tend to rely on a perspective best described as “policy realism”, with current international arrangements and institutions viewed as the acceptable context for future reform. Much of recent Catholic social teaching (hereinafter, CST) has challenged such realism in fundamental ways. While CST is often dismissed as merely prophetic in its tone, I defend its salience by assessing several aspects of its distinctive perspective: (1) the broad theological and anthropological vision reflected in the Catholic framework of basic norms, especially the norm of solidarity; (2) issues that arise in identifying different modes of moral discourse in modern CST; and (3) an effort to resolve such apparent tensions that unifies a distinctively Catholic approach to global health even as it suggests a series of “talking points” between the Catholic theological vision and various secular philosophical and political perspectives.

City of Fury: Urban Violence, Dystopia and Anti-Utopia in Nuevo orden and Era Uma Vez Brasília

Abstract In the twenty-first century Latin America has become the most urbanized region on the planet and, at the same time, the one that has the highest level of inequality. This article discusses how this tension is expressed in cinema, an eminently urban art, through two case studies: the Mexican Nuevo orden (dir. by Michel Franco, 2020) and the Brazilian film Era uma vez Brasília (dir. by Adirley Queirós, 2017). Both works are independent films that deal with issues of urban violence and authoritarianism through a distinct style that combines the techniques of realist representation with fictional elements borrowed from dystopian and science fiction genres. While the two show a preoccupation with the economic and racialized inequality that characterizes urban space in the capital cities of Mexico and Brazil, they ultimately evoke two modes of utopian discourse. Whereas the first film can be considered anti-utopian, criticizing the impulse to seek social change, the second one, though pessimistic, retains a utopian call for political action.