How listening is silenced: A monolingual Taiwanese elder constructs identity through television viewing

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHUMIN LIN
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Television Viewing ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Linguistic Code ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Participation Frameworks

ABSTRACTDespite a growing literature on the production and reproduction of linguistic inequality in mass media, we know little about how individuals experience such sociolinguistic marginalization. To fill this gap, this study examines a monolingual Taiwanese elderly woman’s experiences of television viewing. In the context of language shift in Taiwan after 40 years of Mandarin-only policy, language hierarchy persists despite the current policy of multilingualism. Although the subject does not understand the referential meaning of most shows because of language barriers, she recognizes socially indexical meanings about the ranking of languages and how she is positioned and excluded. The unequal participant structure in the dynamic interactions between two overlapping communicative events of television viewing and family discussions of the shows doubly marginalizes her. This study demonstrates how the choice of linguistic code in television programming conveys meaning and structures participation frameworks that engage minority monolingual individuals in dialogic processes of identity construction. (Sociolinguistic marginalization, participation framework, Bakhtin, identity, Taiwan, television)*

Recent Progress in the Study of the Effects of Television Viewing on Social Development

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Collins ◽  
N. Korac
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Television Viewing ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Behavioral Effects ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Considerable Evidence ◽  
Television Content ◽  
Inference Techniques

Television viewing is a popular activity for children throughout the Western nations and in many developing countries. Although little is known about the functions of viewing, considerable evidence indicates that televised models of social behavior influences viewers' post-viewing actions. Recent advances in research on behavioral effects include field experiments and panel studies that permit use of nonexperimental causal-inference techniques. In addition, the scope of recent research has expanded to include other types of effects (e.g., children's concepts of social reality) and cognitive processing of televised information. Directions for the future include the need to (1) examine further developmental aspects of response to typical television programming and (2) study the interaction of television content with children's common contexts and experiences.

scholarly journals Nuevos modelos de negocio en la industria televisiva: El caso Netflix / New business models in broadcast television: the Netflix case

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Verónica Heredia Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Television Model ◽  
New Business Models ◽  
The Way

Netflix, a platform with more than 100 million users in the world, has forever changed the way television is produced and consumed. This article analyzes how this new television model convergent with Internet has transformed the concept of programming and teleclairvoyance through intensified viewing or binge watching. A conceptual review identifies the main theoretical displacements on television, programming and audiences generated by the platform, as well as a documentary analysis of news articles on the subject, and the visualization of the Original contents published until May 2017.Netflix, una plataforma con más de 100 millones de usuarios en el mundo, ha cambiado para siempre la forma como se produce y se consume la televisión. Este artículo analiza como este nuevo modelo de televisión convergente con internet ha transformado el concepto de programación y televidencias a través del visionado intensificado o binge watching. A través de una revisión conceptual se identifican los principales desplazamientos teóricos sobre televisión, programación y audiencias generadas por la plataforma, además de un análisis documental de artículos noticiosos sobre el tema, y la visualización de los contenidos originales publicados hasta mayo de 2017.

M. Ishtiaq, Language shifts among the scheduled tribes in India: A geographical study. (MLBD Series in Linguistics.) Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, Pp. xii, 183. Rs 450. $32.00.

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-335
Author(s):  
Roland J.-L. Breton
Keyword(s):  
Language Shift ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Important Process ◽  
Geographical Study ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
Gradual Disappearance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
Local Languages

This book, by a geographer, is a rather complete study of the linguistic behavior of an important population group, the so-called Scheduled Tribes of India, numbering 68 million people in 1991, and more than 90 million today, i.e. as much as the population of Germany – but a population split into distinct units, spread in various patches of territory all over India, where they speak more than 60 indigenous languages. Spatially and culturally divided, they have also long been socially marginalized, and despite many official schemes of development, they are still undergoing a very important process of deculturation. The most noticeable manifestation of this process – the language shift that is the subject of this book – had, at the period of the author's fieldwork, already affected nearly 60% of this population and is leading to the gradual disappearance of local languages in many places.

The Coleman Report, 50 Years On: What Do We Know about the Role of Schools in Academic Inequality?

2017 ◽  
Vol 674 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather C. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Achievement Outcomes ◽  
Coleman Report ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academic Inequality ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Achievement outcomes for U.S. children are overwhelmingly unequal along racial, ethnic, and class lines. Whether and how schools contribute to educational inequality, however, has long been the subject of debate. This article traces the debate to the Coleman Report’s publication in 1966, describing the report’s production and impact on educational research. The article then considers the field’s major findings—that schools equalize along class lines but likely stratify along racial and ethnic lines—in light of current policy debates.

Organizing principles for voluntary movement: extending single-joint rules

1995 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 1374-1381 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Almeida ◽  
D. A. Hong ◽  
D. Corcos ◽  
G. L. Gottlieb
Keyword(s):  
Muscle Activation ◽  
Sagittal Plane ◽  
Movement Control ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Multijoint Movement ◽  
Muscle Activation Patterns ◽  
Antagonist Muscles ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Emg Patterns

1. Four subjects performed fast flexions of the elbow or shoulder over three different distances. Elbow flexions were performed both in a horizontal, single-degree-of-freedom manipulandum and in a sagittal plane with the limb unconstrained. Shoulder flexions were only performed in the sagittal plane by the unconstrained limb. We simultaneously recorded kinematic and electromyographic (EMG) patterns at the “focal” joint, that which the subject intentionally flexed, and at the other, “nonfocal” joint that the subject had been instructed to not flex. 2. Comparisons of the elbow EMG patterns across tasks show that agonist and antagonist muscles were similar in pattern but not size, reflecting the net muscle torque patterns. Comparisons at the shoulder also revealed similar EMG patterns across tasks that reflected net muscle torques. 3. Comparisons of EMG patterns across joints show that elbow and shoulder flexors behaved similarly. This was not true of the extensors. The triceps EMG burst was delayed for longer distances but the posterior deltoid had an early, distance-invariant onset. 4. Similarities in EMG reflect torque demands required at the focal joint to produce flexion and at the nonfocal joint to reduce extension induced by dynamic interactions with the focal, flexing joint. These similarities appear despite very different kinematic intentions and outcomes. This argues against a strong role for length-sensitive reflexes in their generation. 5. These results support the hypothesis that movements are controlled by muscle activation patterns that are planned for the expected torque requirements of the task. This general rule is true whether we are performing single-joint or multiple-joint movements, with or without external constraints. The similarities between single-joint and multijoint movement control may be a consequence of ontogenetic development of multijoint movement strategies that prove useful and are therefore also expressed under the constrained conditions of specialized tasks such as those performed in single-joint manipulanda.

Language revitalization through the media: A case study of Amazigh in Morocco

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (266) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Hassan Belhiah ◽  
Mohamed Majdoubi ◽  
Mouna Safwate
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Language Revitalization ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Public Television ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Economic

AbstractGiven the pivotal role mass media play in effecting political and social change, they can also contribute to the revitalization of an endangered or minoritized language if language policies are effectively implemented. Drawing on official documents regarding Amazigh broadcasting on Moroccan public television and interviews with Amazigh experts and media practitioners, this study scrutinizes the efforts exerted to revitalize Amazigh, the language of pre-Arab populations in North Africa. The results of the study indicate that while the status of Amazigh has changed drastically in the last two decades, its dissemination in public television is hampered by political, economic, and logistic forces. The study has implications for the areas of language revitalization, language shift reversal, language policy, and language planning.

”MARTIAL ARTS” TOURISM” IN THE MASS MEDIA (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE FIGHT QUEST TV PROGRAMME)

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 169-185
Author(s):  
Przemysław Pawelec
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Sports Tourism ◽  
Television Programme ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Tv Show

Purpose. Analysis of the image of "martial arts and fighting sports" tourism in mass media which was created on the basis of selected materials and means of communication used for their presentation. Indication of discourses related to participants` travels in order to gain theoretical and practical knowledge on martial arts and fighting sports (with indication of exposed and potentially marginalised content) on the example of the Fight Quest TV show. Methods. Qualitative analysis of the mass media content of thirteen episodes. The subject of this analysis was audiovisual materials considered in terms of selected content constituting elements of compositional modality (including production, existence and potential reception). The coding of responses (possibly in the most relevant categories) and the presentation of the results were carried out using the Atlas.ti computer programme. Findings. The use of specialist discourse on the subject of martial arts and fighting sports by the creators of the show. The positive attitude of the main characters to learning martial arts and fighting sports as one of the forms of cultural tourism. The marginal occurrence of the subject of practicing sightseeing and religious tourism by the participants. Research and conclusions limitations. Empirical research concerns only one television programme and does not take other types of media productions with similar themes into account. Practical implications. The results of the research may be useful both in terms of analysis of various types of tourism and media discourses about "martial arts and fighting sports" tourism. Originality. Analysis of the subject of "martial arts and fighting sports" tourism in a small number of scientific studies. Type of paper. An article presenting the results of empirical research.

Source marking in represented talk and thought in Vietnamese narratives

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanh thi Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Sequential Organization ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Participation Frameworks ◽  
Vietnamese Speakers

AbstractThis paper uses conversation analysis to examine when Vietnamese speakers explicitly mark the source of represented talk or thought (RT) and when they may omit the RTs source in narratives in dyadic and multiparty family conversations. In Vietnamese, a pro-drop, non-inflectional language, RTs may be introduced by a verb of speaking and its subject, a verb of speaking without the subject, or no verb of speaking and no subject. The analysis focuses on how these three choices are employed in the sequential organization of narrative series, narrative participation frameworks, and narrative dramatization. The findings contribute to current understandings about source marking through linguistic devices as an interactional practice in conversations in addition to other resources such as voicing and embodied actions.

Actantial analysis

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Wang ◽  
Carl W. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Versus Communication ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Formal Procedure ◽  
The Subject

This paper introduces a formal procedure for analyzing narratives that was developed by the French/Lithuanian structuralist, A. J. Greimas. The focus is on demonstrating the utility of Greimas's ideas for analyzing one aspect of personal narratives: identity-construction. Reconstructing the basic actantial structure from self-narratives is shown to provide cues to power differentials among actants as perceived by the narrator. Distinguishing narrated events along conflict versus communication axes helps the analyst determine whether an experiential or a discursive domain is of primacy for the narrator. Moreover, investigation of communicative outcomes can be used to validate (or invalidate) findings on power relations. Analyses of narrative plots may afford insights into how people engage objects with cultural valuations within the various social contexts recounted in narrative data. Finally, Greimas's theory of modalities can be used to differentiate among these plots within narrative trajectories. This approach to narrative analysis differs from more traditional “denarrativization” and “renarrativization” approaches in that it affords the researcher a language (or discursive structure) according to which the narrator's, not the analyst's, understandings of character relations and reality conditions become the subject matter of one's research.

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