Bad Space

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-42
Author(s):  
Alena Kavka
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Installation Space ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The Way

Gregor Schneider’s domestic installation space Haus u r is space gone bad, space rendered alien. The processual installation, which defies easy categorization as an artwork, has since 1985 involved the obsessive deconstruction and reconstruction of the interiors of Schneider’s family home in Germany. Anchored by an interrogation of space as a form of mediated materiality, this article pursues the ways in which space can be languaged. By first arguing that conventional understandings of space reify a spatial anthropocentrism, it then explores the way in which Haus u r makes evident the potential for an autonomous spatial languaging beyond culturally imposed presuppositions relating to space. Through the symbolic disembodiment of its viewers and the repudiation of their perceptual agency, Schneider’s piece deposes the supremacy of the human as a perceiving and meaning-making subject, allowing for the conceptualization of other linguistic and spatial agencies outside of human paradigms of interpretation.

scholarly journals Toddlers Watching TV - A study on the role of electronic media in the everyday-lives of one to three year old children

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (Kinderfernsehen) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Stine Liv Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Children's Media ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Watching Tv ◽  
The Way

In recent studies on children and electronic media, children are acknowledged as active users, interpreting TV-texts in various meaningful ways, according to their previously constructed knowledge of narratives and relating the texts to their everyday lives. Still, there is a tendency that toddlers' (ages 1 to 3) viewing is neglected, and seen as mere fascinations of patterns, bright colours and movements without focusing on the social uses or uses in which television narratives come to play an important part in small children's experimenting with building identity and self-image. This article focuses on the meaning-making processes that take place when toddlers watch television and DVD, and the way in which they broaden the reception-situation to different arenas, for instance through play and different uses of merchandise connected to the television programs. Also, it studies the context of children's media use, the way both parents, media and market set up the frames of children's reception.

scholarly journals Dewey and Political Communication in the Age of Mediation

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-102
Author(s):  
Lance E Mason
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Sociopolitical Environment ◽  
The Way

The present sociopolitical environment in the United States is perpetually mediated and beset with information from innumerable sources. This paper argues that Dewey’s conception of communication as a mutual act of meaning-making holds insights for explaining the connections between pervasive mediation and political polarization, in addition to understanding why political discourse has become more degrading in recent years. It also points the way toward viable solutions by arguing for the reorientation of schools toward valuable living experiences that are becoming less pronounced in the broader culture, such as sustained face to face engagement on matters of social import.

Co-constructing referential space in multimodal narratives

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kashmiri Stec ◽  
Mike Huiskes
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Multimodal Process ◽  
Spatial Locations ◽  
The Way

Abstract Meaning-making is a situated, multimodal process. Although most research has focused on conceptualization in individuals, recent work points to the way dynamic processes can affect both conceptualization and expression in multiple individuals (e.g. Özyürek 2002; Fusaroli and Tylén 2012; Narayan 2012). In light of this, we investigate the co-construction of referential space in dyadic multimodal communication. Referential space is the association of a referent with a particular spatial location (McNeill and Pedelty 1995). We focus on the multimodal means by which dyads collaboratively co-construct or co-use referential space, and use it to answer questions related to its use and stability in communication. Whereas previous work has focused on an individual's use of referential space (So et al. 2009), our data suggest that spatial locations are salient to both speakers and addressees: referents assigned to particular spatial locations can be mutually accessible to both participants, as well as stable across longer stretches of discourse.

scholarly journals Narrative meaning making and integration: Toward a better understanding of the way falling ill influences quality of life

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 738-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Hartog ◽  
Michael Scherer-Rath ◽  
Renske Kruizinga ◽  
Justine Netjes ◽  
José Henriques ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Self ◽  
Life Goals ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Seriously Ill ◽  
The Way

Falling seriously ill is often experienced as a life event that causes conflict with people’s personal goals and expectations in life and evokes existential questions. This article presents a new humanities approach to the way people make meaning of such events and how this influences their quality of life. Incorporating theories on contingency, narrative identity, and quality of life, we developed a theoretical model entailing the concepts life event, worldview, ultimate life goals, experience of contingency, narrative meaning making, narrative integration, and quality of life. We formulate testable hypotheses and describe the self-report questionnaire that was developed based on the model.

scholarly journals Discourse Intonation and Systemic Functional Phonology

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Miriam P. Germani ◽  
Lucia Rivas
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Language System ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Discourse Intonation ◽  
University Level ◽  
Natural Result ◽  
The Way

This paper is a reflection on praxis which addresses the phonological stratum as an integral part of the language system. As EFL teachertrainers, we often find that students isolate the different meaning-creating components of language as a natural result of the way courses areorganized at university level. It is in the spirit of helping students integrate the various aspects of language and context that we have set outto compare David Brazil, Malcolm Coulthard and Catherine Johns’s Discourse Intonation model –which we have been working with for morethan ten years– with the intonation approach in Systemic Functional Linguistics, by M.A.K. Halliday and William Greaves. We observe thetheoretical similarities between the two approaches in order to see how they may supplement one another. Then, we analyse a conversationtaken from a film following both theoretical approaches, and draw conclusions in the light of the comparison. Our preliminary results show thatthe two approaches explain the meanings conveyed with reference to different meaning-making resources. Brazil et al. explain the meaningsat risk in the interaction according to the phonological systems they describe (prominence, tone, key and termination). Halliday and Greavesdo so by referring to the phonological and lexico-grammatical strata in combination.

scholarly journals Running Between Catastrophe and Faith

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-158
Author(s):  
Lynne Holdem
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Case Vignettes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Near Death Experiences ◽  
The Way

This paper offers reflection on the impact of near death experiences on consciousness, meaning making, identity, and our capacity to experience wholeness and aliveness. It suggests near death experiences may be opportunities for psychic growth and raises some possibilities about how this may occur. The author’s own story of terror and survival whilst running from a tsunami, the impact on her mental state and relations with others, and the way this experience was symbolised and integrated is described. The subsequent expansion of emotional freedom and agency in her clinical work is illustrated with two case vignettes.

scholarly journals Face masks as layers of meaning in times of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2095754
Author(s):  
Luca Tateo
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Face Mask ◽  
The Other ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Way

The pandemic of COVID-19 has brought to the front a particular object: the face mask. I have explored the way people make-meaning of an object generally associated with the medical context that, under exceptional circumstances, can become a presence in everyday life. Understanding how people make meaning of their use is important. Using cultural psychology, I analyse preferences toward different types of face masks people would wear in public. The study involved 2 groups, 44 Norwegian university students and 60 international academics. In particular, I have focused on the role of the mask in regulating people affective experience. The mask evokes safety and fear, it mediates in the auto-dialogue between “I” and “Me” through the “Other”, and in the hetero-dialogue between “I” and the “Other” through “Me” The dialogue is characterized by a certain ambivalence, as expected. Meaning-making is indeed the way to deal with the ambivalence of human existence.

Disordered collarettes and uncovered tables: Negative polarity as a stylistic device in Joyce's “Two Gallants”

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Nørgaard
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Salient Feature ◽  
Negative Polarity ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms ◽  
Stylistic Device ◽  
Theoretical Overview ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article examines the use of negative polarity as a stylistic device in James Joyce's short story, “Two Gallants” (1992 [1914]). The article begins with a brief account of various approaches to negative polarity, focusing in particular on theoretical paradigms that favour the pragmatic functions of negative constructions in context. After this theoretical overview, the various approaches are applied to an analysis of Joyce's story, in the course of which it is demonstrated that although negatives are not a salient feature of the text they are nevertheless a significant meaning-making resource worth considering in analyses of literature. In particular the article aims to demonstrate how the linguistic theory of polyphony known as ScaPoLine would be a useful tool for those who wish to understand and describe the various voices that are coded by negatives and the way negative polarity is, accordingly, at times intimately connected to focalisation and narrative perspective.

3. Equity and the management of property

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pearce ◽  
Warren Barr
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Tax Planning ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Family ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Unit Trust ◽  
The Way

This chapter provides some examples of the use of trust in everyday life. The way in which trusts underpin much of the modern law of property is often unnoticed or under-appreciated. For instance, the family home is, in most cases, held on trust. While trusts first emerged in an entirely different social environment, they have proved extremely adaptable to modern family and commercial contexts, and they play a key role in the modern law of charities. Those who invest in a pension or a unit trust are likely to find that the underlying assets behind their investment are held under a trust. Persons with considerable wealth may utilize trusts to help in tax planning.

Reading the Prophets as Meaning-making Literature for Communities under Siege

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-175
Author(s):  
Louis Stulman
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Oral Performance ◽  
Prophetic Literature ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe "literarization" of prophecy, that is, the shift from oral prophecy to writing, involves massive shifts in meaning and social worlds. The oral performance of the prophetic word departs from a safe homeland for a tapestry of textual constructions in dangerous diaspora. Along the way it traffics in symbolic transformations for communities under siege. More specifically, written prophecy attends to survivors of war and as such functions as a resilient counter script, a meaning-making map of hope, for disoriented and dislocated people. As a sidebar, this essay considers the implications of this reading for contemporary Christian communions aligned with the state. Such an alignment creates a hermeneutical divide that may make the prophetic literature indecipherable.

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