The chronological I

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Blomberg ◽  
Mats Börjesson
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Socially Situated ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Analytical Dimension

The aim of the article is to problematise and discuss the usefulness of the chronological I as a new analytical approach for studying the doing of identity in storytelling. The chronological I can be both a rhetorical resource for narrators and a new analytical tool for studying the process of doing identity. The article suggests that the chronological I adds a new analytical dimension to different types of narrative analysis. The article takes its point of departure in the understanding of the narrator as using time as a rhetorical resource for telling or doing identity in ongoing interactions. In this discursive narrative approach, narratives are viewed as socially situated actions in a context in which the narrator has to relate to culturally accepted agreements about responsibility and agency. The data for this article is based on interviews with twelve individuals exposed to workplace bullying. As this topic is sensitive, there is a need for narrators to manage their accountability when asked to account for their agency or non agency in the reported events.

scholarly journals The Transformative Dragon - The Construction of Social Identity and the Use of Metaphors during the Nordic Iron Age.

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-102
Author(s):  
Birgitta Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
Stone Walls ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article deals with how people during the Iron Age constructed their social identity, how they matured and became men and women —a process connected with the ownership and cultivation of landed property. Three different types of ancient monuments - stone walls, hillforts and runestones - are discussed in this context. The theoretical point of departure is that monuments have visual messages of their own, not necessarily identical with how they have been used, and that the metaphor is a useful analytical tool.

scholarly journals Sonic and Parametrical Entities in Tetras: An Analytical Approach to the Music of Iannis Xenakis

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Harley
Keyword(s):  
String Quartet ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Iannis Xenakis ◽  
Temporal Succession ◽  
Point Of Departure

From his earliest works, Xenakis has conceived his music in terms of textures and sound masses. The analytical approach introduced here for a study of the recent string quartet, Tetras, takes such sonic entities as its point of departure. The inside-time structure is described in terms of the temporal succession of these entities and the outside-time relationships established between them by means of a whole range of parametrical entities. While the sonic and parametrical entities need to be specified for each piece, it is shown that this approach can be profitably applied to the complete Xenakis oeuvre.

Holding Secrets While Living With Life-Threatening Illness: Normalizing Patients’ Decisions to Reveal or Conceal

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 655-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Bruce ◽  
Rosanne Beuthin ◽  
Laurene Sheilds ◽  
Anita Molzahn ◽  
Kara Schick-Makaroff
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Normative Practice

Communicating openly and directly about illness comes easily for some patients, whereas for others fear of disclosure keeps them silent. In this article, we discuss findings about the role of keeping secrets regarding health and illness. These findings were part of a larger project on how people with life-threatening illnesses re-story their lives. A narrative approach drawing on Frank’s dialogical narrative analysis and Riesman’s inductive approach was used. Interviews were conducted with 32 participants from three populations: chronic kidney disease, HIV/AIDS, and cancer. Findings include case exemplars which suggest keeping secrets is a social practice that acts along continuums of connecting–isolating, protecting–harming, and empowering–imprisoning. Keeping secrets about illness is a normative practice that is negotiated with each encounter. Findings call health-care providers to rethink the role of secrets for patients by considering patient privilege, a person’s right to take the lead in revealing or concealing their health and illness experience.

scholarly journals Novelty, Complexity, and Importance as Causal Determinants of Industrial Buyer Behavior

1989 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel H. McQuiston
Keyword(s):  
Past Research ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Purchase Decision ◽  
Buyer Behavior ◽  
Industrial Marketing ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Purchase Situation ◽  
Structural Equations Model ◽  
Point Of Departure

To successfully market their products, industrial vendors must determine who participates in an organizational purchase decision and what their influence is. Previous research has shown that participation and influence can vary across products and purchase situations. Though industrial marketing researchers would agree that there are different types of purchase situations, they would disagree on a taxonomy for describing them. The author uses past research as a point of departure and proposes a structural equations model that suggests the purchase situation attributes of novelty, complexity, and importance are causal determinants of participation and influence in an industrial purchase decision. The results indicate that these constructs, especially novelty and importance, provide a plausible typology for describing participation and influence in industrial purchase situations.

Generativity as a Positive Mental Health Outcome: The Long-term Impacts of Better Beginnings, Better Futures on Youth at Ages 18–19

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norah Love ◽  
Geoffrey Nelson ◽  
S. Mark Pancer ◽  
Colleen Loomis ◽  
Julian Hasford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Outcome ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Positive Mental Health ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Quasi Experimental

This study examined the long-term impacts of the Better Beginnings, Better Futures project, a universal, community-based prevention program. Generativity was studied as an indicator of positive mental health, using a narrative analysis of youths’ stories about turning points in their lives. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare youths aged 18–19 who participated in Better Beginnings when they were 4–8 (n = 62) and with youths from comparison communities who did not participate in Better Beginnings (n = 34). Significant differences between the 2 groups were found on 2 measures of generativity. The findings suggest the utility of adopting a narrative approach to evaluate the long-term outcomes of prevention programs for children and youth.

scholarly journals CLASSIFYING OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SURFACE- AND BULK-SCATTERING BIOLOGICAL LAYERS WITH POLARIZATION SINGULAR STATES

2013 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 1350018 ◽  
Author(s):  
YU. A. USHENKO ◽  
G. B. BODNAR ◽  
G. D. KOVAL
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Surface Scattering ◽  
Stokes Vector ◽  
Vector Parameter ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Orthogonal Components ◽  
Bulk Scattering ◽  
Characteristic Values

The results of singular approach usage in the tasks of description and classification of appearance of optical anisotropy of different types of phase-inhomogeneous biological layers (surface-scattering, optically thin and optically thick) have been presented. The characteristic values of the fourth Stokes vector parameter (S4= 0 — linear polarization — (L-state); S4= ±1 — circular polarization — (±C-state)) have been chosen as the main analytical tool describing polarization-singular states. The value of S4has been determined by the value of phase shift between the orthogonal components of amplitude in the point of biological layer laser image and therefore is azimuthally stable. Hence, statistic moments of the first to the fourth orders characterizing the distribution of the amount of characteristic values S4= 0; S4= ±1 have been used for definition and differentiation of optical properties of different types of biological layers — surface scattering, optically thin and optically thick human skin.

scholarly journals PROACTIVE HRM FOR REDUCING KNOWLEDGE RISKS — EVALUATING COMMITMENT AND TRUSTWORTHINESS

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (06) ◽  
pp. 1540011 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEIDI OLANDER ◽  
PIA HURMELINNA-LAUKKANEN
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Employee Recruitment ◽  
Knowledge Protection ◽  
Different Types

Although the first look might suggest otherwise, knowledge protection is a complex phenomenon that does not lend itself to easy classification. Discussion easily turns to intellectual property rights (IPRs) such as patents or secrecy, while other aspects such as human resource management (HRM) for knowledge protection is neglected. Yet, innovative firms depend on their knowledgeable employees to generate new innovation, to assist in profiting from them, and maintain the capabilities for later innovative activities. Therefore both reactive and proactive action is needed to mitigate problems with knowledge leaving and leaking. This study addresses the ways in which companies can prepare for knowledge-related risks as early as during employee recruitment. The findings from our case study suggest that somewhat different issues are considered in relation to different types of risks (leaving and leaking), and that while intuition plays a notable role in proactive assessment, a more analytical approach can also be taken.

scholarly journals A language-driven reverse-engineering tool for the analysis of architectural precedents: A Palladian case study

Spatium ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Buthayna Eilouti
Keyword(s):  
Reverse Engineering ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Language Design ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Visual Tool ◽  
Compositional Language ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Significant Point

The analysis of precedents represents a significant point of departure for design processing. By applying a language/ design analogy, this research introduces a reverse-engineering tool that helps guide the systematic analysis of architectural precedents. The visual tool consists of four main layers: the morphological, the semantic, the semiotic, and the pragmatic. To test the tool?s applicability, a prominent precedent from the Palladian designs is analyzed as a case study. By developing the tool and demonstrating its applicability for the analysis of the underlying regulatory and formative principles of the Palladian design, this paper aims to contribute to the knowledge of architectural design by introducing an analytical tool for decoding and externalizing the design language. This tool can be added to the existing toolbox of designers, and it can help reveal new insights into the multi-layered compositional language of precedents and their underlying architectonics. The findings related to the tool?s applicability and the compositional language of the Palladian design and its associative meanings and connotations are explained, discussed and illustrated by diagrams.

scholarly journals Whistleblowing as Employee’s Freedom of Speech. Günther Wallraff’s authorship as an illustrative case

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Alm ◽  
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Whistle Blowing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Active Choice ◽  
Personal Motivation ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Point Of Departure

In this paper, we use Günther Wallraff’s authorship as an illustrative case in order to discuss whistleblowing understood as employees’ freedom of speech. We define the phenomenon according to significant democratic values; the public, fallible search for a deeper truth. When it comes to the sources, our point of departure is based on several of the most significant books published by Wallraff during a period from the end of the 1960-ties to the end of the 1980-ties. We trace some of the personal motivation behind his whistleblowing-project in Marxism and focus that he applies the undercover methods of journalism on the profession of journalists themselves. We argue that the Wallraff-case deals with three important issues; 1) investigative journalism linked to the discussion of the legitimacy of lying, 2) freedom of speech as an active choice of publically disclosing unethical behavior and different types of repression in organizations, and 3) Wallraff’s whistle-blowing in organizations as related to analogues modern types of freedom of speech. In the end, we use different social theories to explain why the type of whistleblowing Wallraff is famous for was necessary.

scholarly journals A Pragmatic Analysis of Oxymoron in Poetry: Tennyson’s “Lancelot and Elaine” as an Example

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
M.A.Amani M. Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Figure Of Speech ◽  
Implied Meaning ◽  
Point Of Departure

This paper purports to explore aspects of implied meaning carried out through the vehicle of oxymoron, which is a figure of speech that juxtaposes two contradictory words (or strings of words) in order to point to a curious fact or a beguiling statement. The different types of oxymoron are studied in this paper in accordance with a pragmatic approach that, though taking into consideration the theoretical implications of oxymoron, is primarily interested in practical aspects of the investigation. Grice’s maxims are taken as a point of departure to guide the discussion of both generalized implicature and particularized implicature. The paper analyzes the different instances of oxymoron present in Alfred Tennyson's “Lancelot and Elaine.” After the meaning and significance of each instance are explored, the paper studies the ways in which Tennyson used oxymoron in order to create and maintain a figurative framework for his poem. The paper shows that Tennyson’s elaborate use of oxymoron allowed him to deploy further figures of speech in order to relay the dramatic atmosphere of the poem. Finally, the paper concludes that Tennyson’s disobeying of Grice’s maxims led to the production of new implicated meaning.

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