scholarly journals Psychics and the ‘other side’

Pragmatics ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-468
Author(s):  
Marianne Mason
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Linguistic Structure ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Large Corpus

This article provides a discourse analysis of a large corpus of televised psychic readings. The goal of this study is to uncover the relationship between the linguistic structure of psychic readings and the psychics’ linguistic agenda. The findings of this study suggest that the psychics’ engage in linguistic tactics that allow them to negotiate and extract specific information from their subjects. The discourse structure of psychic readings facilitates deception, since the subjects, rather than the psychics, are the actual source of subject-specific information in a reading.

scholarly journals Bodies, violence, silencing: The transgenderity discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 297-313
Author(s):  
André Cavalcante
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Production Conditions

By reflecting upon the discourse production conditions, the imagination of/on trans individuals and the temporal landmark of the 2018 elections in Brazil, I aim to analyze the relationship between silencing and resistance of/to the trans body in the virtual space. To this end, I selected two pieces of news posted on digital media, one about the play O Evangelho Segundo Jesus, Rainha do Céu[free translation: The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven], which was interdicted in the Winter Festival of Garanhuns, State of Pernambuco, and the other about a ‘travesti’ murder in Sao Paulo. I analyzed these pieces to understand the dispute of meanings involving the trans corporeality based on the theoretical framework provided by the Materialist Discourse Analysis. Complementarily, I analyzed the comments on the news, as this is a space where the individuals, under the illusion that everything can be said, produce discourses in tune with the trans cause or hate discourses that delegitimize, make silent and displace meanings about such bodies.

Narrative Activity as Perspective Taking: The Role of Emotionals, Negations, and Voice in the Construction of the Story Realm

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bamberg
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interpersonal Context ◽  
Therapeutic Setting ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Function Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

This article develops the argument that narratives are organized along two orienting axes, one of horizontally sequencing the events, the other of vertically and hierarchically relating events to each other. The use of particular linguistic devices (references to emotions, references to negative states, and active/passive alternations) is explained in terms of their particular indexing functions regarding the relationship between these two axes. The suggested type of discourse analysis elaborates on the form-function relationship relevant to reconstruct the textual and interpersonal context bearing on all interpretation or listening processes—especially the therapeutic setting.

scholarly journals To ‘see’ is to break an entanglement: Quantum measurement, trauma and security

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 450-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
K M Fierke ◽  
Nicola Mackay
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Quantum Measurement ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Medical Physics ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

This article seeks to explore the quantum notion that to ‘see’ an entanglement is to break it in the context of an ‘experiment’ regarding the ongoing impact of traumatic political memory on the present. The analysis is a product of collaboration over the past four years between the two authors, one a scholar of international relations, the other a therapeutic practitioner with training in medical physics. Our focus is the conceptual claim that ‘seeing’ breaks an entanglement rather than the experiment itself. The first section explores a broad contrast between classical and quantum measurement, asking what this might mean at the macroscopic level. The second section categorizes Wendt’s claim about language as a form of expressive measurement and explores the relationship to discourse analysis. The third section explores the broad contours of our experiment and the role of a somewhat different form of non-linear expressive measurement. In the final section, we elaborate the relationship between redemptive measurement and breaking an entanglement, which involves a form of ‘seeing’ that witnesses to unacknowledged past trauma.

Grammar and Meaning

2019 ◽  
pp. 522-553
Author(s):  
Ash Asudeh
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Semantics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Linguistic Meaning ◽  
Compositional Semantics ◽  
Linguistic Structure ◽  
Structure Morphology ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics ◽  
The Relationship

This paper discusses three aspects of the study of linguistic meaning—lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics—and their relation to grammar. Lexical semantics concerns the meanings of words and relations between these meanings, and how these meanings are realized morphosyntactically. Compositional semantics concerns how the meanings of larger grammatical units—phrases, sentences, discourses—are computed from the meanings of their parts, given their grammatical arrangement. Pragmatics concerns the relation between context and meaning, given the knowledge of interlocutors. Each of these aspects of meaning is related to grammatical aspects of linguistic structure (morphology, syntax, prosody), although pragmatics displays weaker strictly grammatical effects than the other two aspects of meaning, for which the relationship with grammar is intrinsic.

Perceptual Strategies Used with Flow Diagrams Having Normal and Unanticipated Formats

1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 751-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Winn
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Successful Completion ◽  
Perceptual Strategy ◽  
Flow Diagrams ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

12 adults sought specific information in one of two flow diagrams illustrating the evolution of the dinosaur. One diagram showed the animals evolving from left to right, with a time scale at the top of the page. The other was reversed so that the animals evolved right to left with the time scale at the bottom. Observations of subjects' eye movements over four exposures to the diagrams suggested that those seeing the second diagram quickly developed a “reversed diagram” schema, which improved the accuracy with which they found the information. The successful completion of a three-step perceptual strategy was not affected by the reversal of the diagram. However, the absence of an accurate diagram schema delayed the strategy and led to incorrect responses. These results clarify the relationship among anticipatory schemata, perceptual strategy, and performance when seeking information in diagrams.

scholarly journals Linguistic choices for the identity of “China” in the discourse of Czech Sinologists

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
Melissa Shih-hui Lin
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
The Relationship

This paper utilizes critical discourse analysis (CDA) to disclose the relationship between the lexical or textual device choices of the term “China” in the discourse of Czech Sinologists and how they tried to construct the identity of “China” in interviews collected by Professor Olga Lomová and her student Anna Zádrapová from 2010 to 2011.The analysis will focus on how the Czech Sinologists talk about their “China” and evaluate the term “China” in the discourse, within their experiences, and in the context of the social and cultural situation of the time. On the one hand, this paper will discuss the textual devices which convey the term “China” in the interviews of the Czech Sinologists, in the form of linguistic units, such as nouns, adjectives, noun phrases, verbal phrases and so on, and on the other hand, investigate how their identities of “China” are reflected through their choices of lexical or textual devices.Mongolian Journal of International Affairs Vol.19 2014: 153-165

scholarly journals A Clash of Two Generations: A Comparative Deconstructive Discourse Analysis of Three News Reports on Megawati’s Critique for Indonesian Millennials

k ta ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Bima Iqbal Khadafi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

Written in the spirit of critical tradition, this paper aims to demystify the hegemony induced in the media coverages about the critique of Indonesian former president, Megawati Soekarnoputri, towards its millennials for ‘lacking contribution to the country’. By applying genre, deconstruction and dynamic perspective of ideological tension analyses, this article reveals how three different medias report the phenomenon differently by bringing up different topics to be discussed for their own purposes. While scrutinizing the relationship between the phenomenon and its news reports, this paper sees a need for a transvaluation to the concept of nationalism which in the end negates itself since the conception of nationalism itself has to do with power struggle that has the potential to degenerate the Self and harm the Other.

scholarly journals Voices in a Preservice Teacher Discussion Group

2011 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Sheila Fram-Kulik
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Preservice Teacher ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Discussion Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This discourse analysis study focuses on the dominant voices in a preservice teacher discussion group in a language variation course included in a teacher education program. The voices in the discussion group have what Bakhtin (1981) considers heteroglossic characteristics and what Kristeva (1986) calls intertextuality and what Fairclough (1992) considers interdiscursivity. The analysis of the voices shows textualized voices, that include appropriated voices from mentors or previous teachers that replace the personal voices, at times. The dominant voice of the teacher comes into conflict with the other dominant voices during discussions. Thus, the relationship of these voices structures the discussion group sessions.

The Relationship Between Suicidal Thinking and Dating Violence in a Sample of Adolescent Abortion Patients

Crisis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 246-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretchen E. Ely ◽  
William R. Nugent ◽  
Julie Cerel ◽  
Mholi Vimbba
Keyword(s):  
Unintended Pregnancy ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
Adolescent Dating Violence ◽  
Adolescent Relationships ◽  
Suicidal Thinking ◽  
The Relationship

Background: The relationship between suicidal thinking and adolescent dating violence has not been previously explored in a sample of adolescent abortion patients. Aims: This paper highlights a study where the relationship between dating violence and severity of suicidal thinking was examined in a sample of 120 young women ages 14–21 seeking to terminate an unintended pregnancy. Methods: The Multidimensional Adolescent Assessment Scale and the Conflict in Adolescent Relationships Scale was used to gather information about psychosocial problems and dating violence so that the relationship between the two problems could be examined, while controlling for the other psychosocial problems. Results: The results suggest that dating violence was related to severity of suicidal thinking, and that the magnitude of this relationship was moderated by the severity of problems with aggression. Conclusions: Specifically, as the severity of participant’s general problems with aggression increased, the magnitude of the relationship between dating violence and severity of suicidal thinking increased. Limitations of the study and implications for practice are discussed.

Emotional Impact Feedback Changes How We Remember Negative Autobiographical Experiences

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 354-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie K. T. Takarangi ◽  
Deryn Strange
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Potential Mechanism ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Negative Memory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Negative Memories ◽  
Over Time

When people are told that their negative memories are worse than other people’s, do they later remember those events differently? We asked participants to recall a recent negative memory then, 24 h later, we gave some participants feedback about the emotional impact of their event – stating it was more or less negative compared to other people’s experiences. One week later, participants recalled the event again. We predicted that if feedback affected how participants remembered their negative experiences, their ratings of the memory’s characteristics should change over time. That is, when participants are told that their negative event is extremely negative, their memories should be more vivid, recollected strongly, and remembered from a personal perspective, compared to participants in the other conditions. Our results provide support for this hypothesis. We suggest that external feedback might be a potential mechanism in the relationship between negative memories and psychological well-being.

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