scholarly journals THE CONCEPT OF “POST-SECULAR DISCOURSE” IN THE CONTEXT OF CLASSICAL AND NON-CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS OF DISCOURSE INTERPRETATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Martynenko
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Interpretation

scholarly journals VAGUENESS AND DISSOCIATION IN ENGLISH POLITICAL NEWS DISCOURSE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Katarina Damjanić
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
English Language ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Discourse Interpretation ◽  
Newspaper Articles

The main goal of this paper is to indicate the importance of the issues of vagueness and dissociation in discourse interpretation. The discourse that is taken into consideration is the discourse of political news written in the English language. This particular discourse is widely available to readers and deals with important political issues, which is why the choice of words and phrases should ideally be unbiased and accurate. If not, the readers may misinterpret the discourse and have a wrong impression of the political issue. In this research, newspaper articles are taken as an example of political news discourse. All articles analyzed were written in online British and American broadsheet and tabloid newspapers and they all dealt with the migrant crisis and 2019 Hong Kong protests. By taking into consideration the political context and the theoretical framework used in this research, 44 instances considered to be examples of vagueness and dissociation were identified, which were found in 14 newspaper articles.

Cognitive hermeneutics: The better alternative

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 601-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Tepe
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Discourse Interpretation

This article critically assesses Bell’s attempt at transforming discourse analysis into discourse interpretation by means of hermeneutics as developed by Paul Ricoeur. If a hermeneutic turn is to take place in a discipline that proceeds according to the principles of empirical research, cognitive hermeneutics is the better option compared to Ricoeur’s hermeneutics. Part I presents a short introduction to cognitive hermeneutics as developed by Tepe. Against this background, some central theses of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics, on which Bell’s approach is based, are discussed in part II.

INTERDISCOURSE SWITCHING IN DRAMA TEXT. GAZE PATTERNS AND COMPREHENSION CHECK RESULTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
M.I. Kiose ◽  
◽  
A.A. Rzheshevskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Event Type ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Gaze Patterns ◽  
Discourse Interpretation ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
Interpretation Patterns ◽  
Event Construal

The study explores the cognitive process of interdiscourse switching which occurs in reading drama plays with the author’s discourse fragments incorporated (Areas of Interest). The oculographic experiment reveals the gaze patterns and the discourse interpretation patterns, more and less typical of the process. The experiment is preceded by the parametric and annotation analysis of interdiscourse switching construal. Interestingly, there exist several construal parameter groups contingent with eye movement load redistribution, among them are Participant construal, Event construal, and Perspective construal. The results sufficed to show that construal effects also affect mentioning Areas of Interest in the subjects’ responses, the most significant influence is displayed by Participant Agentivity and Complexity parameters as well as by Event Type parameters.

MOSQUES IN POST-SOVIET KAZAKHSTAN: DISCOURSE INTERPRETATION AND REGULATORY PRACTICES

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 126-139
Author(s):  
Meiram KIKIMBAYEV ◽  
Kulshat MEDEUOVA ◽  
Adiya RAMAZANOVA
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Religious Associations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Discourse Interpretation ◽  
The Law ◽  
Traditional Islam

The authors have analyzed the dynamics of the growth of number of mosques built by religious associations in post-Soviet Kazakhstan and noted a transition from their unregulated and chaotic construction (proliferation) to their precise association with specific maddhabs, and their construction norms conceptualized by religious institutions represented by the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Kazakhstan (DUMK). The types of cultic facilities and the actors are discussed and ranked according to the type of their involvement and partnership. We should note that the participation of various actors adds weight to the status of mosques as important public facilities. The authors have paid particular attention to the religious communities’ revised registration realized under the Law of the RK on Religious Activities and Religious Associations of 2011, which optimized the religious space, consolidated the positions of traditional Islam and, hence, standardized the rules related to mosque construction. Keywords: mosque, public space, post-Soviet realities, re-Islamization, re-appropriation, “mosque diplomacy,” religious communities, traditional Islam, DUMK.

Second positions

2021 ◽  
pp. 297-328
Author(s):  
Ian Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Head Movement ◽  
Position Effects ◽  
The Third ◽  
Discourse Interpretation ◽  
Edge Features ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
Formal Features

This paper is based on three central analytical ideas. First, following Roberts (2010), I assume that narrow-syntactic head-movement is a reflex of the Agree relation where the Goal is defective in relation to the Probe, in the sense that the Goal’s features are a subset of those of the Probe. Second, following Chomsky (2008), I assume that phase heads drive all narrow-syntactic operations in virtue of their uninterpretable formal features and their Edge Features (EF). Third, owing to the nature of head-movement as a purely Agree-based operation, head-movement to a phase head PH cannot satisfy PH’s EF. The third assumption has the important consequence that second-position (P2) effects arise where C’s uninterpretable formal features attract the verb or clitic under Agree/head-movement, and so C’s EF must attract some XP to its edge, subject to a discourse interpretation. The paper applies these ideas to the analysis of various cases of second-position effects across languages, mainly Romance and Germanic.

Discourse connectives across languages

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Zufferey
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Implicit Communication ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Coherence Relations ◽  
Discourse Relations ◽  
Discourse Interpretation ◽  
Target Languages ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Discourse Connectives

Coherence relations linking discourse segments can be communicated explicitly by the use of connectives but also implicitly through juxtaposition. Some discourse relations appear, however, to be more coherent than others when conveyed implicitly. This difference is explained in the literature by the existence of default expectations guiding discourse interpretation. In this paper, we assess the factors influencing implicitation by comparing the number of implicit and explicit translations of three polysemous French connectives in translated texts across three target languages: German, English and Spanish. Each connective can convey two discourse relations: one that can easily be conveyed implicitly and one that cannot be easily conveyed implicitly in monolingual data. Results indicate that relations that can easily be conveyed implicitly are also those that are most often left implicit in translation in all target languages. We discuss these results in view of the cognitive factors influencing the explicit or implicit communication of discourse relations.

On responsiveness: Interfacing hermeneutics and discourse interpretation

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 645-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Bell
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Discourse Interpretation ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
Old Testament Studies

The nine responses to my focus article ‘Re-constructing Babel: Discourse analysis, hermeneutics and the Interpretive Arc’ are cross-disciplinary, as is the article itself. They come from discourse studies (Van Dijk, Billig, Wodak), cognitive science (Tepe, Yeari and Van den Broek, Van Dijk), Old Testament studies (Billig), hermeneutics (Pellauer, Scott-Baumann), history (Gardner) and literature (Pratt). I identify and address five main issues which I see these responses raising for discourse interpretation: the role of author intent and the original sociocultural context in interpretation; principles of translation, particularly in relation to the Babel story; issues of certainty and subjectivism in interpretation, again including the Babel story; the role and limitations of cognitive approaches, and the potential of images like ‘unfolding the matter of the text’ to be realized in teaching hands-on discourse work; and finally a call to new listening in the encounter with hermeneutics, as a route to freshening the field I like to call Discourse Interpretation.

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