Special Issue on COVID-19 and Novel Mixed Methods Methodological Approaches During Catastrophic Social Changes

While the growing ubiquitousness of translation and interpreting has established these activities more firmly in the public consciousness, the extent of the translators’ and interpreters’ contribution to the continued functioning of cosmopolitan and participatory postmodern societies remains largely misunderstood. This paper argues that the theorisation of translation and interpretation as social phenomena and of translators/interpreters as agents contributing to the stability or subversion of social structures through their capacity to re-define the context in which they mediate constitutes a recent development in the evolution of the discipline. The consequentiality of the mediators’ agency, one of the most significant insights to come out of this new body of research, is particularly evident in situations of social, political and cultural confrontation. It is contended that this conceptualisation of agency opens up the possibility of translation being used not only to resolve conflict and tension, but also to promote them. Through a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, the contributing authors to this special issue explore a number of sites of linguistic and cultural mediation across a range of institutional settings and textual/interactional genres, with particular emphasis on the contribution of translation and interpreting to the genealogy of conflict. The papers presented here address a number of overlapping themes, including the dialectics of governmental policy-making and translation, the interface between translation, politics and the media, the impact of the narrative affiliation of translators and interpreters as agents of mediation, the frictional dynamics of interpreter-mediated institutional encounters and the dynamics of identity negotiation.

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Formal and Methodological Approaches to Applied Linguistics (Languages Special Issue)

Languages ◽

10.3390/languages4040094 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 94

Author(s):

Sonja Mujcinovic ◽

Eduardo Gómez Garzarán

Keyword(s):

Applied Linguistics ◽

Special Issue ◽

Spanish Society ◽

Methodological Approaches

This Special Issue, entitled Formal and Methodological Approaches to Applied Linguistics, brings together recently published papers on various aspects of applied linguistics presented at the AESLA37 (Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics) conference in Valladolid held on 27–29 March 2019 [...]

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What Is Electoral Psychology?—Scope, Concepts, and Methodological Challenges for Studying Conscious and Subconscious Patterns of Electoral Behavior, Experience, and Ergonomics

Societies ◽

10.3390/soc10010020 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 20

Author(s):

Sarah Harrison

Keyword(s):

Electoral Behavior ◽

Aggregate Level ◽

Special Issue ◽

Methodological Challenges ◽

Introductory Article ◽

Electoral Studies ◽

Psychological Models ◽

Methodological Approaches ◽

Electoral Psychology ◽

The Individual

Electoral psychology is defined as any model based on human psychology that is used to explain any electoral experience or outcome at the individual or aggregate level. Electoral psychology can also be an interface with other crucial aspects of the vote. For example, the interface between electoral psychology and electoral organization constitutes electoral ergonomics. The very nature of the models tested in electoral psychology has also led scholars in the field to complement mainstream social science methodologies with their own specific methodological approaches in order to capture the subconscious component of the vote and the subtle nature of the psychological processes determining the electoral experience and the way in which it permeates citizens’ thoughts and lives. After defining electoral psychology, this introductory article scopes its analytical roots and contemporary relevance, focuses on the importance of switching from “institution-centric” to “people-centric” conceptions of electoral behavior, and notably how it redefines key concepts such as electoral identity and consistency, and approaches questions of personality, morality, memory, identity, and emotions in electoral psychological models. Then, it discusses some of the unique methodological challenges that the field faces, notably when it comes to analyzing largely subconscious phenomena, and addresses them, before explaining how the various contributions to this Special Issue give a flavor of the scope and approaches of electoral psychology contributions to electoral studies.

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Hybridity and the news: Blending genres and interaction patterns in new forms of journalism

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884916657520 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 3-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Jelle Mast ◽

Roel Coesemans ◽

Martina Temmerman

Keyword(s):

Interaction Patterns ◽

Special Issue ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Individual Contributions ◽

Multiple Issues ◽

The Subject ◽

Methodological Approaches ◽

The Individual ◽

Different Levels ◽

Careful Assessment

This paper introduces the Special Issue’s central theme of ‘hybridity and the news’, defining the scope and setting the scene for the multiple issues and debates covered by the individual contributions in this collection. Opposing both relativist positions that discard hybridity as an analytically useless concept, and preconceived notions that construe hybridity as intrinsically negative or positive, it is argued to move beyond binary thinking and to approach hybridity as a particularly rich site for the analysis of forms and processes of experimentation, innovation, deviation and transition in contemporary journalism. In order to profoundly understand these developments, which come in many forms, manifest themselves on different levels, and serve multiple purposes, a comprehensive, multi- and interdisciplinary perspective is needed. The Special Issue aims to contribute to this research agenda by looking closely into blending categories and interaction patterns in journalistic forms, genres, and practices, encompassing theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches from various disciplinary backgrounds including political and communication sciences, sociology, linguistics, cultural studies, and history. While taking different angles on the subject and being variously located on the macro and micro levels of analysis, the articles assembled here all engage in a careful assessment of ‘hybridity and the news’ through profound conceptualizations and empirical analyses, connecting with and shedding new light on long-standing debates about the nature and meaning of journalism.

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Introduction: Just Say No? New Insights About Change Versus Constancy in Substance Use Behavioral Decisions in Youth With and Without ADHD

Journal of Attention Disorders ◽

10.1177/1087054718763729 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 22 (9_suppl) ◽

pp. 3S-9S

Author(s):

Peter S. Jensen ◽

Thomas Weisner ◽

Stephen P. Hinshaw

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Mixed Methods ◽

Research Strategy ◽

Economic Consequences ◽

Special Issue ◽

Social Psychological ◽

Effective Interventions ◽

Youth And Young Adults ◽

Quantitative Analyses ◽

And Control

Despite enormous social-psychological and economic consequences of substance abuse in youth and young adults, too little is known about effective interventions among substance users, both with and without ADHD. This special issue reports on four linked investigations that employed a novel research strategy when the Multimodal Treatment Children with ADHD Study (MTA) participants were between ages 21.7 and 27.3 years old (14-16 years after initial assessments). Using combination of in-depth qualitative narrative interviews and quantitative analyses (“mixed methods”) of 183 participants from four to six original MTA sites, investigators sought to obtain a more complete understanding of factors contributing to youths’ substance use (SU) initiation, maintenance, and desistence, (both among youth with ADHD and control participants). The articles in this special issue illuminate important new insights about possible influences contributing to SU, particularly persistent use/abuse. Findings also illustrate the benefits of mixed-methods studies, not only to better understand the linkages between ADHD and SU, but also to understand other areas of child/adult psychopathology.

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Virtual Special Issue on “Paradigms in Mixed Methods Research”

Journal of Mixed Methods Research ◽

10.1177/1558689819894741 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 6-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

José F. Molina-Azorin ◽

Michael D. Fetters

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Special Issue

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Social Emotions: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Emotions History Culture Society ◽

10.1163/2208522x-02010056 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 187-201

Author(s):

Jordan McKenzie ◽

Rebecca Olson ◽

Roger Patulny ◽

Michelle Peterie

Keyword(s):

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Sociological Perspective ◽

Social Dimensions ◽

Special Issue ◽

Social Emotions ◽

The Social ◽

Methodological Approaches

Abstract Current research on emotions represents a broad church of methodological approaches. The essays in this special issue will investigate how social emotions inform research across numerous disciplinary fields and methodological approaches. This introduction will set out the social dimensions of emotions like shame, anger, anxiety, empathy and pity from a specifically sociological perspective. In sum, this will work to counter tendencies that individualise emotions as purely subjective or cognitive phenomena, and to demonstrate how the significance of social emotions is not restricted to any singular discipline.

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