Meaning Multiplicity Across Communication Subfields: Bridging the Gaps

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-423
Author(s):  
Lillian Boxman-Shabtai
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Strategic Ambiguity ◽  
Selective Perception ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Joint Contribution ◽  
Theories Of Meaning

Abstract Subdisciplines in communication studies have developed competing and self-contained theories of meaning multiplicity. Arguing that this fragmented scholarship falls short of grasping the full scope of the phenomenon, this article offers Decoding Convergence–Divergence (DCD) as an interdisciplinary analytical and conceptual framework. Synthesizing principles from cognitive, cultural, and speaker-centered approaches to meaning multiplicity, this framework was applied in a study that examined news coverage of a CEO’s initiative to address income inequality and its reception by different segments of the American audience. The study’s results provide a novel demonstration of the joint contribution of opposing theories to the understanding of meaning multiplicity. Specifically, it found that textual polysemy, partisan selective perception, and the use of strategic ambiguity coalesced in the interpretive dynamics of this story. Based on these results, the article discusses the contribution of DCD to bridging competing approaches and the potential applications of the framework.

Translation of strategic ambiguity: A relevance-theoretic analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasheed S. Al-Jarrah ◽  
Ahmad M. Abu-Dalu ◽  
Hisham Obiedat
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Ambiguity Resolution ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Theoretic Analysis ◽  
Strategic Ambiguity ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure

AbstractThe purpose of our current research is to see how Relevance Theory can handle one specific translation problem, namely strategic ambiguous structures. Concisely, we aim to provide a conceptual framework as to how the translator should cope with a pervasive ambiguity problem at the discoursal level. The point of departure from probably all previous models of analysis is that a relevance-theoretic analysis would, we believe, require that a “good” translation benotthe one that representsan interpretationof the text, but the one which leaves the door open for all interpretations which the original text provides evidence for. Hence,the role of translator is not to ‘interpret’ but to ‘translate’. If this is true, ambiguity resolution should not be a viable alternative. In other words, what the translator should do is empower the audience with all it takes to let them work out all the explicatures (linguistically inferred meanings) and entertain themselves with the implicatures (contextually inferred meanings) of the original. Direct Translation, along the lines laid down by Gutt (1991/2000), is the method of translation which can, we believe, bring about the desired results because “it tries to provide readers with contextual information that enables them to draw their own inferences” (Smith 2000: 92).

scholarly journals Models of Coupled Settlement and Habitat Networks for Biodiversity Conservation: Conceptual Framework, Implementation and Potential Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten J. van Strien ◽  
Kay W. Axhausen ◽  
Ilka Dubernet ◽  
Antoine Guisan ◽  
Adrienne Grêt-Regamey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Habitat Networks

scholarly journals Need, demand, supply in health care: working definitions, and their implications for defining access

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Idaira Rodriguez Santana ◽  
Anne Mason ◽  
Nils Gutacker ◽  
Panagiotis Kasteridis ◽  
Rita Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Care ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Venn Diagram ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Care Systems

Abstract Effective policymaking in health care systems begins with a clear typology of the terminology – need, demand, supply and access to care – and their interrelationships. However, the terms are contested and their meaning is rarely stated explicitly. This paper offers working definitions of need, demand and supply. We draw on the international literature and use a Venn diagram to explain the terms. We then define access to care, reviewing alternative and competing definitions from the literature. We conclude by discussing potential applications of our conceptual framework to help to understand the interrelationships and trade-offs between need, demand, supply and access in health care.

Presidential Leadership, the News Media, and Income Inequality

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha ◽  
Ronald J. McGauvran
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
News Media ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Websites

Most research on media in the post-broadcast age of politics focuses on how media affect the public, not on the interinstitutional relationships between the presidency and news media. This study tackles this important topic by studying news coverage of and presidential attention to the issue of income inequality. We use web scraping and text analysis software to build a dataset of weekly news coverage from 1999 through 2013, across traditional and nontraditional media, including newspapers, broadcast and cable television transcripts, and online news websites. The data show that presidential attention to income inequality influences the income inequality news agenda across all sources except network television and affects the tone of newspaper coverage. Presidential influence of tone is especially pronounced on income inequality issues that have an international focus. The implications of this paper are significant not only for understanding how media and the presidency interact in the post-broadcast age but also for the prospects for federal policies that may combat income inequality.

Management and Income Inequality: A Review and Conceptual Framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent D. Beal ◽  
Marina Astakhova
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Conceptual Framework

scholarly journals UNIFIED TOPOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR RETRIEVING 2D AND 3D MULTI-SCALE SPATIAL INFORMATION

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W9 ◽  
pp. 265-272
Author(s):  
H. Karim ◽  
A. Abdul Rah ◽  
A. Jamali
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Topological Graph ◽  
Single View ◽  
Level Of Details ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
And Performance ◽  
2D And 3D

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Different applications or users need different model (differ requirement on level of details; geometry and information), less focuses in topological element. Improper manage geometry, attribute and topology elements in multi-scape environment will cause data repetition/redundancy, storage capacity and performance issues. This research focuses on utilizing topological graph which is important for various Geographical Information Science applications such as 3D indoor, network analysis, and sharing information/attribute from multiple level of details (LoD). A conceptual framework towards a unified data structure/model for representing several levels of details (LoDs) which integrates 2D and 3D topological and geometrical spaces in a single view is presented. The proposed framework has a potential of adopting into the CityGML/IndoorGML standards with representing different CityGML LoDs in a single view representation. Potential applications of the proposed conceptual framework including solar energy and utility mapping are discussed.</p>

Macroeconomic, Income Inequality, and Poverty Relationship: A Review of Research Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-146
Author(s):  
Redouan Ainous
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Survey Article ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Major Section ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to review a major section of the literature on macroeconomics and poverty to achieve better perspectives on emerging macroeconomic research streams. The article examines the research on macroeconomics and poverty relationship and presents a conceptual framework. This article discusses the studies published on gross domestic product (GDP) growth, income distribution, inequality, inflation, unemployment, and poverty. An international journal and different articles related to the relatioship between macroeconomics and poverty are examined. The study contributes to the macroeconomic literature by identifying key areas of research on the relationship between macroeconomics and poverty. This survey article is special in that it examines the macroeconomics and poverty literature and summarizes the results to gain a proper understanding of macroeconomics and poverty and also provides perspectives for future research.

An in situ and ex situ TEM study of the formation of thin cobalt silicide films by molecular beam epitaxy on the silicon (100) surface

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 884-885
Author(s):  
D. Loretto ◽  
J. M. Gibson ◽  
S. M. Yalisove ◽  
R. T. Tung
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Beam Epitaxy ◽  
Molecular Beam ◽  
Defect Density ◽  
High Vacuum ◽  
Ultra High Vacuum ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Metal Base ◽  
In Situ Experiments ◽  
Potential Applications

The cobalt disilicide/silicon system has potential applications as a metal-base and as a permeable-base transistor. Although thin, low defect density, films of CoSi2 on Si(111) have been successfully grown, there are reasons to believe that Si(100)/CoSi2 may be better suited to the transmission of electrons at the silicon/silicide interface than Si(111)/CoSi2. A TEM study of the formation of CoSi2 on Si(100) is therefore being conducted. We have previously reported TEM observations on Si(111)/CoSi2 grown both in situ, in an ultra high vacuum (UHV) TEM and ex situ, in a conventional Molecular Beam Epitaxy system.The procedures used for the MBE growth have been described elsewhere. In situ experiments were performed in a JEOL 200CX electron microscope, extensively modified to give a vacuum of better than 10-9 T in the specimen region and the capacity to do in situ sample heating and deposition. Cobalt was deposited onto clean Si(100) samples by thermal evaporation from cobalt-coated Ta filaments.

Microstructure of laser-irradiated, conducting Kapton polyimide

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 502-503
Author(s):  
D. L. Callahan ◽  
Z. Ball ◽  
H. M. Phillips ◽  
R. Sauerbrey
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Phase Transition ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Film Surface ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
General Utility ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
Potential Applications

Ultraviolet laser-irradiation can be used to induce an insulator-to-conductor phase transition on the surface of Kapton polyimide. Such structures have potential applications as resistors or conductors for VLSI applications as well as general utility electrodes. Although the percolative nature of the phase transformation has been well-established, there has been little definitive work on the mechanism or extent of transformation. In particular, there has been considerable debate about whether or not the transition is primarily photothermal in nature, as we propose, or photochemical. In this study, cross-sectional optical microscopy and transmission electron microscopy are utilized to characterize the nature of microstructural changes associated with the laser-induced pyrolysis of polyimide.Laser-modified polyimide samples initially 12 μm thick were prepared in cross-section by standard ultramicrotomy. Resulting contraction in parallel to the film surface has led to distortions in apparent magnification. The scale bars shown are calibrated for the direction normal to the film surface only.

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