scholarly journals ‘Please could you stop the noise’: The grammar of multimodal meaning-making in Radiohead’s ‘Paranoid Android’

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Clara Neary
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
The Core ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
Language And Music ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Multimodal Text ◽  
Cognitive Knowledge ◽  
Ok Computer

This article uses Zbikowski’s theory of ‘musical grammar’ to analyse Radiohead’s song ‘Paranoid Android’ from their 1997 album OK Computer. Invoking the close structural and compositional parallels between language and music, Zbikowski’s approach appropriates some of the core elements of cognitive linguistics to provide a means of ‘translating’ music into meaning-bearing conceptual structures via the construction of ‘sonic analogues’, which are a type of conceptual construct formed when incoming perceptual information is compared to existing cognitive knowledge stored as image schemas. The result is an analysis of the interactions between the linguistic and aural constructions of a multimodal text that not only sheds new light on the text’s meaning-making devices, but also endeavours to unlock the strategies through which such distinctive semiotic modes act and interact within texts to create meaning potential.

The Embodiment of Language

2018 ◽  
pp. 622-640
Author(s):  
Mark Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Body Part ◽  
The Body ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Affective Processes ◽  
Semantics And Pragmatics

Analytic philosophy of language was originally based on a fundamentally disembodied view of meaning and language. In contrast, research in cognitive linguistics and neuroscience emphasizes the central role of the body and brain in shaping meaning, concepts, and thought. Meaning is not, in the first instance, linguistic. Instead, language depends on and recruits prior sensory, motor, and affective processes. This article surveys some of the more important embodied structures and processes of meaning-making that give rise to the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of natural languages. This includes body-part projections, perceptual concepts, image schemas, emotions, body-based grammatical constructions, and conceptual metaphors, as those are understood from the perspective of simulation semantics, embodied construction grammar, and the neural theory of language. In addition to the four Es of cognition—embodied, embedded, enactive, extended—we need to add three more Es—emotional, evolutionary, and exaptative.

scholarly journals Designing and delivering facilitated storytelling interventions for chronic disease self-management: a scoping review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enza Gucciardi ◽  
Nicole Jean-Pierre ◽  
Grace Karam ◽  
Souraya Sidani
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Self Management ◽  
The Core ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Similar Disease ◽  
Core Elements

Background Little is known about how to develop and deliver storytelling as an intervention to support those managing chronic illnesses. This scoping review aims to describe the core elements of storytelling interventions in order to help facilitate its implementation. Methods A scoping review was conducted in seven databases for articles published up to May 2014 to identify interventions that describe in detail how storytelling was used to support people in disease self-management interventions. Results Ten articles met all inclusion criteria. Core elements consistently observed across the storytelling interventions were: reflection and interactive meaning-making of experiences; principles of informality and spontaneity; non-directional and non-hierarchical facilitation; development of group norms and conduct to create a community among participants; and both an individual and collective role for participants. Differences were also observed across interventions, such as: the conceptual frameworks that directed the design of the intervention; the type and training of facilitators; intervention duration; and how session topics were selected and stories delivered. Furthermore, evaluation of the intervention and outcome assessment varied greatly across studies. Conclusion The use of storytelling can be a novel intervention to enhance chronic disease self-management. The core elements identified in the review inform the development of the intervention to be more patient-centred by guiding participants to take ownership of and lead the intervention, which differs significantly from traditional support groups. Storytelling has the potential to provide patients with a more active role in their health care by identifying their specific needs as well as gaps in knowledge and skills, while allowing them to form strong bonds with peers who share similar disease-related experiences. However, measures of impact differed across interventions given the variation in chronic conditions. Our findings can guide future development and implementations of storytelling interventions.

Bodily experience as both source and target of meaning making

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Tay
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Metaphor Use ◽  
Programmatic Statement

Bodily experiences (BE) are often theorized by cognitive linguists as sources of meaning making, encoded and projected at the levels of grammar, semantics, and discourse. For example, Conceptual Metaphor Theory regards embodied image schemas (Johnson 1987) and, more recently, live simulations of embodied experiences (Gibbs 2013) as vital to the emergence and understanding of conceptual metaphors. Interestingly however, BE also feature as targets or topics in certain discourse contexts, which leads to underexplored scenarios where BE is simultaneously a source and a target of meaning making. This paper presents examples of metaphors in psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a case in point. In psychotherapy, experientially concrete sources are often used to conceptualize abstract issues such as emotions and subjective experiences. In the case of PTSD, however, bodily experiences turn out to be both potential source concepts as well as target topics of therapeutic discussion, a phenomenon seldom discussed in cognitive linguistics. I examine psychotherapy transcripts involving victims of the 2010–12 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, discuss how this source-target simultaneity of BE is exploited for therapeutic ends, and highlight three strands of implications pertaining to cognitive, discursive, and strategic aspects of metaphor use in psychotherapy. I conclude with a more programmatic statement about psychotherapeutic discourse as a productive site of inquiry for applied cognitive linguistics and applied metaphor research.

scholarly journals Designing and delivering facilitated storytelling interventions for chronic disease self-management: a scoping review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enza Gucciardi ◽  
Nicole Jean-Pierre ◽  
Grace Karam ◽  
Souraya Sidani
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Self Management ◽  
The Core ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Similar Disease ◽  
Core Elements

Background Little is known about how to develop and deliver storytelling as an intervention to support those managing chronic illnesses. This scoping review aims to describe the core elements of storytelling interventions in order to help facilitate its implementation. Methods A scoping review was conducted in seven databases for articles published up to May 2014 to identify interventions that describe in detail how storytelling was used to support people in disease self-management interventions. Results Ten articles met all inclusion criteria. Core elements consistently observed across the storytelling interventions were: reflection and interactive meaning-making of experiences; principles of informality and spontaneity; non-directional and non-hierarchical facilitation; development of group norms and conduct to create a community among participants; and both an individual and collective role for participants. Differences were also observed across interventions, such as: the conceptual frameworks that directed the design of the intervention; the type and training of facilitators; intervention duration; and how session topics were selected and stories delivered. Furthermore, evaluation of the intervention and outcome assessment varied greatly across studies. Conclusion The use of storytelling can be a novel intervention to enhance chronic disease self-management. The core elements identified in the review inform the development of the intervention to be more patient-centred by guiding participants to take ownership of and lead the intervention, which differs significantly from traditional support groups. Storytelling has the potential to provide patients with a more active role in their health care by identifying their specific needs as well as gaps in knowledge and skills, while allowing them to form strong bonds with peers who share similar disease-related experiences. However, measures of impact differed across interventions given the variation in chronic conditions. Our findings can guide future development and implementations of storytelling interventions.

What is the Core Elements of Social Innovation?

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 83-109
Author(s):  
SangMi Cho ◽  
JongSerl Chun ◽  
SoYoung An ◽  
JiYeon Jung
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Elements

Duoethnography: A Polytheoretical Approach to (Re)Storing, (Re)Storying the Meanings That One Gives

2020 ◽  
pp. 396-423
Author(s):  
John Joseph Norris ◽  
Richard D. Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Third Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Feminist Inquiry

This chapter summarizes the advancement of duoethnography throughout its fifteen-year history, employing examples from a variety of topics in education and social justice to provide a wide range of approaches that one may take when conducting a duoethnography. A checklist articulates what its cofounders consider the core elements of duoethnographies, additional features that may or may not be employed and how some studies purporting to be duoethnographies may not be so. The chapter indicates connections between duoethnography and a number of methodological concepts including the third space, the problematics of representation, feminist inquiry, and critical theory using published examples by several duoethnographers.

scholarly journals 178. Implementation of the Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship in Nursing Homes – National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), 2016–2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S96-S96
Author(s):  
Katryna A Gouin ◽  
Sarah Kabbani; Angela Anttila ◽  
Josephine Mak ◽  
Elisabeth Mungai ◽  
Ti Tanissha McCray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Antibiotic Stewardship ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Long Term Care Facility ◽  
The Core ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Core Elements

Abstract Background Since 2016, nursing homes (NHs) enrolled in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s NHSN Long-term Care Facility (LTCF) Component have reported on their implementation of the core elements of antibiotic stewardship. In 2016, 42% of NHs reported implementing all seven core elements. Recent regulations require antibiotic stewardship programs in NHs. The objectives of this analysis were to track national progress in implementation of the core elements and evaluate how time dedicated to infection prevention and control (IPC) is associated with the implementation of the core elements. Methods We used the NHSN LTCF 2016–2018 Annual Surveys to assess NH characteristics and implementation of the core elements, defined as self-reported implementation of at least one corresponding stewardship activity. We reported absolute differences in percent implementation. We used log-binomial regression models to estimate the association between weekly IPC hours and the implementation of all seven core elements, while controlling for confounding by facility characteristics. Results We included 7,506 surveys from 2016–2018. In 2018, 71% of NHs reported implementation of all seven core elements, a 28% increase from 2016 (Fig. 1). The greatest increases in implementation from 2016–2018 were in Education (+19%), Reporting (+18%) and Drug Expertise (+15%) (Fig. 2). Ninety-eight percent of NHs had an individual responsible for antibiotic stewardship activities (Accountability), with 30% indicating that the role was fulfilled by an infection preventionist. Furthermore, 71% of NHs reported pharmacist involvement in improving antibiotic use, an increase of 27% since 2016. NHs that reported at least 20 hours of IPC activity per week were 14% more likely to implement all seven core elements, when controlling for facility ownership and affiliation, 95% CI: (1.07, 1.20). Conclusion NHs reported substantial progress in antibiotic stewardship implementation from 2016–2018. Improvements in accessing drug expertise, providing education and reporting antibiotic use may reflect increased stewardship awareness and use of resources among NH providers under new regulatory requirements. NHs with at least 20 hours dedicated to IPC per week may have greater capacity to implement all core elements. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures

Webside manner: maskless communication

Diagnosis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankit Mehta ◽  
Benji K. Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Virtual Visits ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
Structured Approach

Abstract Telemedicine has seen a rapid expansion lately, with virtual visits ushering in telediagnosis. Given the shift in the interpersonal and technical aspects of communications in a virtual visit, it is prudent to understand its effect on the patient-provider relationships. A range of interpersonal and communication skills can be utilized during telemedicine consultations in establishing relationships, and reaching a diagnosis. We propose a construct of “webside manner,” a structured approach to ensure the core elements of bedside etiquette are translated into the virtual encounter. This approach entails the totality of any interpersonal exchange on a virtual platform, to ensure a clinician’s presence, empathy and compassion is translated through this medium.

Wrapping Blocks: A Fun Way to Teach Job Design

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-162
Author(s):  
Regina Yanson ◽  
Melissa J. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Experiential Teaching ◽  
The Core ◽  
Job Characteristics Model ◽  
Core Elements

This article provides an overview of job design and offers an experiential teaching exercise to help students develop a better comprehension of job design and redesign, as well as learn the importance and challenges of such undertakings. Understanding the core elements of job design is especially important because job design serves as the foundational block for a deeper understanding and application of other organizational phenomenon such as the job characteristics model. This exercise is intended for the introductory undergraduate and graduate-level human resource management course as well as any courses covering “staffing.” Additionally, this activity may be used in the undergraduate Principles of Management or associated introductory management class.

scholarly journals Introducing Gamification in the AR-Enhanced Order Picking Process: A Proposed Approach

Logistics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Athina G. Bright ◽  
Stavros T. Ponis
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Cyber Physical Systems ◽  
Order Picking ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
The Core ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Game Elements ◽  
Innovative Industry

In the last decade, the Industry 4.0 concept has introduced automation and cyber-physical systems as the core elements of future logistics, supported by an array of technologies, such as augmented reality (AR) providing the necessary support for the digital transformation of manufacturing and logistics and the smartification and digital refinement of traditional pre-Industry 4.0 processes. This paper studies the influence and the potential of gamification techniques in supporting innovative Industry 4.0-enhanced processes in the contemporary warehouse work ecosystem. Gamification in the workplace aims to motivate the employees and increase their involvement in an activity, while at the same time creating a sense of an everyday different experience rather than a set of repetitive and monotonous tasks. Since the design of such a system is a complex process, the most widespread design frameworks are studied, and the emphasis is on the principal game elements and their connection to mobilization mechanisms. Finally, an initial proposal of a gamification framework to support the AR-enhanced order picking process in contemporary logistics centers is provided with an emphasis on the mechanics of a fair and functional reward system. The proposed approach aims to showcase the potential alignment of business processes to human motivation, respecting the differences between tasks and the workers’ cognitive workload.

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