Subject Discourse Research Articles

Evocative content-slice of mediadiscourse in forecasting of sustainable development events

The article is devoted to the use of an evocative content-slice in the mediadiscourse for forecasting of sustainable development events. This research toolkit was developed on the basis of evocative representation and is a matrix of collective consciousness, systematizing the relationship of cognitive categories and types of intellectual concept. Cognitive categories and types of intellectual concept were identified in the course of media discourse studies preceding this work in order to identify discursive topics. The matrix of collective consciousness was successfully applied in the development of environmental issues in the media discourse, which provided a theoretical and practical basis for further application on the empirical material of mediatexts on the issues of sustainable development. The study analyzed about five hundred mediatexts for the period from 2020 to 2021. The analyzed empirical material provided an opportunity to study the issue of creating a basis for predicting the events of sustainable development, represented in the mediatexts of electronic media, according to the selected topics of the media discourse, to distribute them into cognitive categories and types of intellectual concept.

Indeterminacy in architecture - case study of the Miseluk project

In the absence of an established city planning strategy, the initial post-war urban development of the SFRY was founded on the principles of CIAM?s ?Functional City?, which soon proved inadequate in responding to individual user needs and in reflecting the collective interests of the young socialist state. This paper positions the search for a new spatial expression of the young socialist state within the global architectural discourse of the second half of the twentieth century, which shifted towards more variable, open and indeterminate architectural models employing various forms of user participation. The characteristics of a new approach in Yugoslav architectural and urban planning practice are examined through the case study of an unrealised project for the Miseluk zone in Novi Sad developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The aim of this paper is to analyse the socialist response to a dominant theme of architectural discourse that is once again gaining traction in the theory and practice of contemporary architects, in order to establish a basis for the further development of these ideas in the contemporary post-socialist context. The research reveals a direction for urban planning practice based on user participation, which enables a higher level of versatility or multivariance of the design concept as a response to the individual and changing needs of users, but also as a way of achieving the resilience, i.e., adaptability of architecture in the face of unpredictable social trends.

Обучение профессионально ориентированному искусствоведческому дискурсу на занятиях по русскому языку как иностранном

At the current level of development of the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language for special purposes, insufficient attention is paid to the professionally oriented teaching, which allows modeling imaginary professional situations of communication and forming the skills necessary for real professional communication. The problem is especially noticeable in teaching creative disciplines (including art criticism) where thematic discourse plays an important role. The paper describes an experiment of teaching art history discourse to Uzbek students in the Russian language classes. A model for studying art history discourse was experimentally introduced into practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language at the level of professional communication. The purpose of the study was to develop a technology for teaching art history discourse based on professionally oriented authentic texts in classes of Russian as a foreign language for future specialists in art. The experiment was described in detail with the allocation of experimental and control groups. The experimental group studied the language for professional purposes with the use of the teaching materials developed by the university professors. Most of the tasks of the training package are based on the information from the website of the Belgorod State Art Museum, which updates the educational material and implements the principle of professional orientation of education. The control group followed the traditional program of Russian as a foreign language for future artists. Upon completion of the experimental training, both groups had to do a creative task. Further assessment of the task demonstrated the effectiveness of the use of authentic art history texts and creative tasks in teaching the Russian language for professional purposes to Uzbek students. The study revealed that the students of the experimental group made greater progress compared to the control group in developing such a professional skill as “following art history strategies when creating a text”.

Food discourse: ethics and aesthetics on Instagram

PurposeThe aim of the study is threefold: understanding the interconnections amongst visual and verbal multimodal communication strategies used in food discourse; identifying the themes of celebrity chef's food discourse with respect to pro-environmental behaviour; and providing a methodological framework to visually analyse food-themed videos.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses mise-en-scène and critical discourse and multimodal analyses to gain insights on food discourse from 20 videos shared by a Michelin starred chef on social media platforms.FindingsResults show that a pro-environmental cooking philosophy challenges the normative discourse on food and educates general audiences and foodies alike. Mise-en-scène and discourse analyses of Instagram visual content reveal that leftovers are central to the ethical message and are intertwined – through the aesthetic of the videos-with concepts of inclusivity, diversity and nourishment.Practical implicationsChefs, and restaurants, are encouraged to recognise their responsibility as role models, thus able to influence the societal production of food discourse.Originality/valueThe findings provide new insights into the role of a celebrity chef in promoting sustainable food preparation and consumption.

Цифровые сообщества как актор социальных трансформаций в мегаполисе (на примере соседских, районных и городских групп в социальных сетях и мессенджерах)

Local online communities are becoming increasingly influential and are gradually replacing traditional forms of neighbourhood communication. Based on the analysis of the local Internet communities in four Russian cities, differing in population and social and economic development, the authors determined the priority topics of the online discourse. Through a sociological survey of the members of 62 such communities with a total number of 5,192,106 participants, the authors identified the people’s reasons to join social media communities, the extent and frequency of their communication, forms of activity in neighbourhood online communities. The surveyed citizens assessed the ability to raise issues before the authorities through internet communication, identified the real-life activities initiated via online communication in neighbourhood communities. The study explored the personal, professional, value characteristics of moderators of local social media communities through in-depth interview. The results of the study can be considered by municipal authorities to build effective communication with civil society. Digital communities may become a tool of participation in solving urgent problems of local development.

Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter.

Critical to managing a crisis such as COVID-19 is the propagation of information to all vulnerable populations. Despite guidelines regarding communicating with people with differing accessibility needs during crises, some often find their needs unmet. Following a lack of assisted communications for d/Deaf people during the COVID-19 pandemic, a Twitter hashtag campaign, #WhereIsTheInterpreter, was launched in the UK, protesting the lack of accessibility during official press briefings around the epidemic. The campaign received support from across the globe. This study analyzes the discourse around the campaign in tweets published from March 1st, 2020 and September 30th, 2021 (N = 27,021) and analyzed the corpus using the Analysis of Topic Model Network (ANTMN) approach. We identified four major themes of discourse: discrimination, accessibility challenges, communication gaps and barriers, and Deaf rights. We analyze the discourse through the perspective of Critical Disability Theory (CDT) and hashtag activism, and discuss practical and theoretical implications.

Methodological discourse in mediоlogy: Meaning and significance in the context of journalistic education

Introduction. The article discusses a discourse on the methodological foundations of mediоlogy, a characteristic feature of which is a wide variety of proposed approaches.The existing pluralism creates problems for choosing an educational strategy.Purpose setting. The objective of the study is to analyze whether the whole range of proposed approaches should be presented in the process of teaching methodological disciplines, or should we follow the path of choosing the most effective media methodology.Methodology and methods of the study The elements of discourse analysis and a systematic approach, in particular, the concepts of the systemic unity of logical and psychological and interdisciplinary synthesis, are used as methodological foundations. Results. The opinion is expressed that methodological pluralism has a serious consequence: it feeds epistemic skepticism, which manifests itself in the denial of the qualitative uniqueness of various ways of representing reality: reflection and imagination. It causes the misunderstanding of the specifics of journalistic creativity; the difference between fact and opinion is lost, as well as between, on the one hand, mythological and artistic, and between scientific and journalistic types of texts and discourses, on the other hand. As one of the means of counteracting this trend, it is proposed to clarify the meaning of the concept of «methodology». The importance of using the cognitive psychology concepts to describe the functionality of the methodology is pointed out. The article presents arguments that the methodological level has an immanent quality of polysemy, which contains a dual message: on the one hand, it gives a sense of intellectual support, on the other, the interpretation freedom and the possibility of creating an author’s version of mediоlogy. It is suggested that the methodological function has a non-verbalized cognitive complex, manifested in the motivation of research activities, cognitive style, predisposition of objectivity, etc.Conclusion. The analysis carried out in the article allows us to make the following generalizations: the main theme of methodological discourse in mediology is the distinction between two types of texts – imagination and display; as one of the means of conducting methodological discourse, the potential of cognitive psychology can be used; the appeal in the educational process to the methodological possibilities of cognitive psychology contributes to overcoming epistemological uncertainty.

The Science of Emotion: Mind, Body, and Culture

In this paper, I give readers an idea of what some scholars are interested in, what I found interesting, and what may be of future interest in the philosophy of emotion. I begin with a brief overview of the general topics of interests in the philosophy of emotion. I then discuss what I believe to be some of the most interesting topics in the contemporary discourse, including questions about how philosophy can inform the science of emotion, responses to aspects of the mind–body problem, and concerns about perception, cognition, and emotion, along with questions about the place of 4E approaches and meta-semantic pluraliste approaches in the embodied cognitive tradition. I also discuss the natural kind–social construction debate in the philosophy of emotion, the emerging field of cultural evolution, the import of a dual-inheritance theory in this emerging field, and I propose a possible way to integrate the frameworks of dual-inheritance theory and meta-semantic pluralisme to demonstrate at least one way in which the philosophy of emotion can contribute to the emerging field of cultural evolution. I conclude with a brief summary of this paper and note at least one significant implication of my proposal for the natural kind–social construction debate in the philosophy of emotion.

The Resistance against Racism: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Anti-Asian Racism Relating to Covid-19 Outbreak

This study is aimed to find out (1) the discourse topics and (2) the discourse strategies from the utterances produced by Asian-Americans as the victim of the racist attack during the Covid-19 outbreak to reveal how they voice their ideologies in defending themselves and maintaining their existence in society. The researcher employs a qualitative method considering the data are in the form of written-text and also analyse the humanities and social sciences. Specifically, the researcher analysed the discourses presented in several videos from YouTube that being transcribed into written discourses. This study focuses on how Asian-Americans portray themselves and others in their discourses based on their beliefs. From seven videos being analysed, the researcher has collected 80 data that consist of the Positive-Self and Negative-Others presentation. By utilizing Van Djik’s Ideological Square, the researcher found out there are 16 discourse topics implied in Asian-Americans’ utterances, such as ‘We are also Americans’, ‘Anti-Asian-Americans is terrifying’, etc. Furthermore, there are 22 discourse strategies used by Asian-Americans in defending themselves. The study reveals Asian-Americans as the racist-victim attempt to emphasize the Anti-racism movement. Moreover, the researcher has found that several discourses consist of negative-attitude towards majorities or Americans society.

Influence of parents’ views about science on parent–child science talk at home

ABSTRACT This study explores parents’ views of science as a family sociocultural background that influences how parents support children’s science talk as they engage in a science activity together at home. We focus on Indonesian families as they have distinct sociocultural characteristics that may yield different parent–child interactions than their Western counterparts in informal science learning settings. A microethnography approach and thematic discourse analysis are employed to capture the parent–child science talk and interactions. Findings show that Indonesian parent–child interactions are directive and collectivist in nature. Parents tend to lead learning at home, and the other family members voluntarily participate. Through their science talks, Indonesian parents engaged children in the science activity using explanatory talk, corrective feedback, and real-world connections. Throughout the interactions, the parents emphasized particular science knowledge and practices based on their views of science. We present three cases where the parents viewed science as a hypothesis-testing practice, as knowledge related to everyday phenomena, and as an inference-making process. Their talks and support for children’s learning varied due to these different views of science. The study adds to the limited literature on parent–child interactions in informal science learning in non-Western contexts.

Health Services Utilization Barriers for Rural Elderly Women in Bangladesh: Narratives of Clinicians, Pharmacists and Public Health Assistants.

Bangladesh has the third largest population of poor older adults in the world and 73% of them live in rural areas. Disparity in the country's health services is evident that creates a substantial pressure, especially on rural elderly women who live in a compromised socio-cultural atmosphere. This is true that we know about rural elderly women's self-reported health and service use barriers, but no studies captured the views of health staff. This study presents a qualitative exploration of the views held by rural health staff whose role is to provide care to local elderly women. We conducted 11 interviews with clinicians, pharmacists and public health assistants in Sylhet district, Bangladesh. A critical thematic discourse analysis, using the critical social constructs of Habermas and Honneth, of the data informed the women's inadequate healthcare access and associated barriers that were complex and overlapping but had explicit institutional, subjective and material consequences. Five major themes emerged including: unequal distribution of health services; marginalization in patient-staff relationships; living with poverty; social relegation; and mistrust of clinical treatment. Rural areas were viewed with inequitably distributed health services and traditionally a large proportion of elderly women living in poverty who lacked social support and demonstrated a mistrust towards healthcare system. No recognition of the women and power differences were underpinned by economic factors and cultural societal values. The findings suggest a need for health policy solutions and education of healthcare staff and elderly women regarding accessing healthcare.

Foodscapes, finance, and faith: Multi-sectoral stakeholder perspectives on the local population health and wellbeing in an urbanizing area in Kenya.

Rapid urbanization (growth of cities) can upset the local population's health and wellbeing by creating obesogenic environments which increase the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It is important to understand how stakeholders perceive the impact of urbanizing interventions (such as the construction of a new hypermarket) on the health and wellbeing of local populations. Because low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) lack the reliable infrastructure to mitigate the effects of obesogenic environments, so engaging stakeholders who influence dietary habits is one population-level strategy for reducing the burden of NCDs caused by newly built developments. We conducted key informant interviews with 36 stakeholders (25 regulatory and 11 local community stakeholders) from Kisumu and Homa Bay Counties of Western Kenya in June 2019. We collected stakeholders' perspectives on the impacts of a new Mall and supermarket in Kisumu, and existing supermarkets in Homa Bay on the health and wellbeing of local populations. Through thematic discourse analysis, we noted that some stakeholders thought supermarkets enabled access to unhealthy food items despite these outlets being also reliable food sources for discerning shoppers. Others linked the changing physical environment to both an increase in pollution and different types of diseases. Stakeholders were unsure if the pricing and convenience of supermarkets would stop local populations from buying from their usual small-scale food vendors. The key finding of this study was that engaging relevant stakeholders as part of population health impact assessments of new developments in cities are important as it directs focus on health equity and prevention in instances of resource constraints. The findings highlight, also, that community members have a strong awareness of the potential for interventions that would improve the health and wellbeing of local populations.

Közösségi megközelítések gyermekvédelmi gyakorlatban való érvényesítése

Child protection has changed in important ways on international level in recent years. Child protection as social institution adapts to and follows social change. Global competitions, mobilityof capital and workforce, acceleration of economic processes and interdependence of nationaleconomies, and the economic crises of 2007 has their impact on the operation and workings ofwelfare systems. This study examines the trends and tendencies in international child protection practice since the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, what type of child protectionorientations can be distinguished, what kind of characteristics can be described and which wayseems to emerge—as a common challenge—in general in the field of the state’s child protectionactivities. The study draws attention to the importance of some topics in international discourse, such as complex needs of the clients, importance of partnerships, support of parenthood and arange of professional skills and competences to achieve these goals.

Ethical reference systems in political discourses: A comparison between the messages to the population of the heads of state of France, Germany and Romania at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic

The global Covid-19 pandemic has caused a number of unprecedented actions at the political level. In order to argue the need for the extraordinary measures that restricted social life, the heads of state addressed the population through explanatory, justifying, but also mobilizing speeches. This paper analyses the speeches given to the nation in March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, by the heads of state of three countries in the European Union: France, Germany and Romania. The main objective of the study was to identify the ethical reference systems to which the speakers appealed, and the method used was thematic discourse analysis. The study shows that the three heads of state used in their messages to the population, in a distinct way, ethical systems and frames of reference such as history, homeland, nation, European Union, humanity, democracy. The paper discusses in detail the ways in which these reference systems appear in the speeches, what aspects emphasized and eluded the speakers, as well as the similarities and differences revealed by the thematic analysis between the three discourses.

'Advocacy groups are the connectors': Experiences and contributions of rare disease patient organization leaders in advanced neurotherapeutics.

Biomedical progress has facilitated breakthrough advanced neurotherapeutic interventions, whose potential to improve outcomes in rare neurological diseases has increased hope among people with lived experiences and their carers. Nevertheless, gene, somatic celland other advanced neurotherapeutic interventions carry significant risks. Rare disease patient organizations (RDPOs) may enhance patient experiences, inform expectationsand promote health literacy. However, their perspectives are understudied in paediatric neurology. If advanced neurotherapeutics is to optimize RDPO contributions, it demands further insights into their roles, interactionsand support needs. We used a mixed-methodology approach, interviewing 20 RDPO leaders representing paediatric rare neurological diseasesand following them up with two online surveys featuring closed and open-ended questions on advanced neurotherapeutics (19/20) and negative mood states (17/20). Qualitative and quantitative data were analysed using thematic discourse analysis and basic descriptive statistics, respectively. Leaders perceived their roles to be targeted at educational provision (20/20), community preparation for advanced neurotherapeutic clinical trials (19/20), information simplification (19/20)and focused research pursuits (20/20). Although most leaders perceived the benefits of collaboration between stakeholders, some cited challenges around collaborative engagement under the following subthemes: conflicts of interest, competitionand logistical difficulties. Regarding neurotherapeutics, RDPO leaders identified support needs centred on information provision, valuing access to clinician experts and highlighting a demand for co-developed, centralized, high-leveland understandable, resources that may improve information exchange. Leaders perceived a need for psychosocial support within themselves and their communities, proposing that this would facilitate informed decision-making, reduce associated psychological vulnerabilitiesand maintain hope throughout neurotherapeutic development. This study provides insights into RDPO research activities, interactionsand resource needs. It reveals a demand for collaboration guidelines, central information resourcesand psychosocial supports that may address unmet needs and assist RDPOs in their advocacy. In this study, RDPO leaders were interviewed and surveyed to examine their perspectives and roles in advanced neurotherapeutic development. Some participants sent researchers postinterview clarification emails regarding their responses to questions.

Analysing metaphorical pebbles in English RE

This paper is a critical analysis of the use of metaphors in English Religious Education (RE). It is grounded in the educational theory of Anna Sfard (a professor of Mathematics) who has written about learning metaphors, before considering some of the metaphoric language used in English education generally and RE specifically. It will examine carefully at how the metaphors implicit within the Commission on RE Report might help us interpret it, considering particularly the National Entitlement and note the changes to these metaphors in the newly adapted national entitlement in the REC Worldviews’ Project Draft Handbook. It will then turn (metaphorically) to the Research Review into RE from Ofsted and examine some aspects of that through metaphorical lenses. It will consider the metaphors inherent in Ofsted’s Deep Dive methodology, the work of Fordham, Counsell and the Early Career Framework and Core Content framework materials. The paper will conclude with some thoughts about RE as a subject discourse, suggesting that RE continues to have an identity crisis, which is not helped by a disciplinary, or a worldview, approach.

Key Political Topic in News Discourse: Analysis of Language Transformation in A Corpus-Based Critical Linguistic Perspective

This study aims to describe and explain key political topics in news discourse. The focus of this study is lexical and grammatical transformations in news discourse. In this study, a qualitative approach was used within the framework of a critical linguistic approach. In this study, we used korpora on the Corpora Leipzig online page. It aims to find out what words are related and often appear in the results of the concordance of political keywords. The data used is in the form of words, phrases, and sentences as representations of news titles from various Indonesian media sources in 2022. The analysis used in this study is only a two-level analysis, namely micro analysis and macro analysis. The findings of this study show that in lexical transformation using the words orthodoxy, failed coups, religious politicians, rinks, identities, money, officials, political parties, hoaxes, elections, dynasties, powers, elites, nationalities, and bureaucracies. For grammatical transformations use clauses or sentences that deal with how to organize subjects and predicates, including also objects, and complements.

Do Android Detectives Dream of Electric Cowboys? Western Retrofuturity in Blade Runner 2049

ABSTRACT This article proposes that although Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is, like the 1982 Ridley Scott film to which it is a sequel, most obviously located within the genres of science fiction and neo-noir, it in fact engages extensively with the history of the Western genre. Villeneuve’s film, I argue, is a crypto-Western, recuperating Western conventions within the aesthetic superstructure of other genres. Blade Runner 2049 thus exemplifies how even our most future-facing popular culture can exhibit ghostly traces of nostalgia for popular frontier mythologies. The film engages with the debt that the figure of the fictive detective owes to the dime novel cowboys of earlier literature, locating its central thematic discourses about the nature of (post)humanity in a long American tradition of narrative art that glorifies the ‘rugged individualist’. Meanwhile, in the film’s world, human over-exploitation of the environment has, ironically, made the wilderness conditions of the mythologised Western past possible once more. This does not, however, render Blade Runner 2049 a film incapable of imagining the future. Rather, I suggest, the film’s future is plausible precisely because it reckons with the adhesiveness of the past, and little in the American past looms larger than the real-and-imagined old West.

Speech and social cues combine at discourse boundaries to promote word learning

Social cues, such as eye gaze and referential gestures, have been shown to promote word learning in children, usually by exposing children to a label-object association with vs. without a social cue. However, social cues are not always so cleanly linked to referents in the world. Instead, label-object associations occur imperfectly across time in a discourse. We conducted an experiment to examine how labels and eye gaze interactively support 4- and 5-year-olds’ word learning during exposures to a series of brief discourse topics. We found that children learned novel words better when social cues and word labels jointly marked the beginning or end of a discourse topic, but not when they were misaligned. The findings indicate that young learners can use social cues to inform their understanding of word meanings across successive utterances, not just within single labeling events. We discuss how social cues may support children’s ability to find where discourse topics begin and end within their ongoing speech input.

Review: The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups, by LaGina Gause

Review: <i>The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups</i>, by LaGina Gause