scholarly journals Sound Biting Conspiracy: From India with “Love Jihad”

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1064
Author(s):  
Kathinka Frøystad
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Logical Operations ◽  
Hindu Woman ◽  
Muslim Men ◽  
Hindu Women ◽  
Point Of Departure

Since 2013, India has seen a remarkable growth of a conspiracy theory known as “love jihad”, which holds that Muslim men conspire to lure Hindu women for marriage to alter India’s religious demography as part of a political takeover strategy. While earlier scholarship on “love jihad” emphasizes the Hindu nationalist propagation of this conspiracy theory, this article pays equal attention to its appeal among conservative Hindus. Making its point of departure in the generative effects of speech, it argues that the “love jihad” neologism performs two logical operations simultaneously. Firstly, it fuses the long-standing Hindu anxiety about daughters marrying against their parents’ will, with the equally long-standing anxiety about unfavorable religious demographic trends. Secondly, it attributes a sinister political takeover intent to every Muslim man who casts his eyes on a young Hindu woman. To bring out these points, this article pays equal empirical attention to marriage and kinship practices as to the genealogy of, and forerunners to, the “love jihad” neologism, and develops the concept of “sound biting” to bring out its meaning-making effect.

scholarly journals Multimodal emergens via musik - Eksemplificeret ved en reklamefilm og en dokumentarfilm [Emergent forms of meaning-making using music in multimodal compositions - Exemplified through a television commercial and a television documentary]

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (48) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Anders Bonde
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Television Commercials ◽  
Television Commercial ◽  
Dmitri Shostakovich ◽  
Television Documentary ◽  
Multimodal Compositions ◽  
Point Of Departure

In this article I will demonstrate an analytic-hermeneutic approach regarding multimodal semiosis in audio-visual media products, such as television commercials and documentaries in which several modalities or semiotic resources co-operate and interact. As a theoretical framework I will exploit the concept of emergence. Although usually associated with philosophy, systems theory and the sciences, this concept can prove instructive in evaluating intermodal correlation in perceptive-aesthetic phenomena as well, seeing that multimodal semiosis is not merely a summation of images plus words plus music. Taking as a point of departure the expressive and semantic potential of music as one component in a coherent multimodal whole, I will discuss a number of profound contributions to the field of music’s semiotic potential in multimedia in relation to a comprehensive analytical framework, which take into consideration the established criteria for emergence. I shall illustrate my approach by analysing a television commercial for “SkandiaBanken”, named Killarna (“The Guys”), and two scenes from a Danish documentary, Fogh bag facaden (“Fogh behind the façade”). All three audio-visual clips include the same musical composition (“Waltz No. 2” by Dmitri Shostakovich), but compared to each other, the music takes on different roles and positions against the other modalities/resources, and consequently, different types of meaning emergence are shaped.

scholarly journals The role of the imagination in museum visits

1970 ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Achiam
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Museum Interpretation ◽  
Museum Practice ◽  
Point Of Departure

The imagination plays an important role in museums, today more than ever. Visitors use their repositories of imagination or repertoires to make sense of their encounters with objects and exhibits. In this article, I argue that this initial meaning making, rather than being the end goal of museum interpretation, should be thought of as the point of departure for further, more scientific meaning making. I present a framework developed by Colette Dufresne-Tassé et al. (2006) and show how it can be used to identify the variety of visitor repertoires at work in their imagination processes. I argue that becoming familiar with commonly occurring repertoires is necessary for exhibition designers in order for museums to continue to take their interpretive responsibility seriously, and I discuss how such a familiarisation may affect museum practice. I conclude with some perspectives on the implications of the framework for museum research. 

scholarly journals Analyzing Hindu Women’s Right to Property in Bangladesh: Absolute Interest versus Limited Interest

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
Ferdousi Begum
Keyword(s):  
Hindu Woman ◽  
Hindu Women ◽  
The Way

Hindu women living in Bangladesh are deprived of inheritance in comparison to their male counterparts. They exercise a limited interest in the property while their male counterparts have an absolute interest in the property except in case of Stridhan. This feature gives a scenario of male dominating society in Bangladesh. If alienation is possible in case of Stridhan property, it ought to be applicable in case of getting properties through the way of inheritance as well; but it is not clear at all. There is no reason behind having such kind of discrimination. Therefore, this paper argues that as a Hindu woman can handle her property like a man in case of Stridhan property, she should, absolutely instead of enjoying it limitedly, enjoy all of her properties including the properties which she gets by way of inheritance as well.

Affect as a hinge

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Hokkanen ◽  
Kaisa Koskinen
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Embodied Meaning ◽  
Narrative Practice ◽  
Point Of Departure

Affect, understood here as embodied meaning-making, offers one useful point of departure in studying translation as an activity that involves both cognitive and social processes, because it functions as a hinge between subjective understandings and social environments. We approach affects related to translating with the theoretical framework of the translator’s experiencing self, defined here as the perception that translators have of themselves, based on lived and embodied experience. In other words, we suggest that the study of affect in relation to translating should pay attention to translators’ own processes of meaning-making. Since the processes of human meaning-making, including self-construction, have been argued to rest upon narrative practice, we furthermore argue for a narrative approach to studying affects. We illustrate the methodological opportunities provided by a narrative approach to affect with three cases deriving from three different research projects.

scholarly journals Eliciting Concepts in the Field of Extended Education – A Swedish Provoke

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2-2018) ◽  
pp. 122-131
Author(s):  
Anna Klerfelt ◽  
Anna-Lena Ljusberg
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
International Research ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Extended Education ◽  
Point Of Departure

The aim of this article is to contribute to the discussion concerning the concepts used in the field of extended education by scrutinising different concepts that can contribute to research and guard the specific educational attitude of extended education as viewed from a Swedish perspective. The discussion will be based on a review of concepts used in both national and international research, as well as those formulated in Swedish policy documents and traditionally used in Swedish schoolage educare activity. Defining extended education as a social practice that aims at meaning making based on experiences from everyday life will be an important theoretical starting point to which the discussed concepts will be related. The significance of taking a point of departure in children’s perspectives is central in the article. Finally, some newly created concepts will be suggested as significant for the development of extended education.

scholarly journals Using Reading to Learn for EFL students’ reading of explanations

ELT Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-246
Author(s):  
Tatiana Becerra ◽  
José Herazo ◽  
Paula García ◽  
Anamaría Sagre ◽  
Luisa Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Ninth Graders ◽  
State School ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Reading To Learn ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Secondary State

Abstract Reading to Learn (R2L) is an instructional approach that leads students from aided to independent creation of meaning in reading and writing. The approach uses whole texts as the point of departure for instruction. This case study explored how R2L promoted ninth graders’ comprehension of explanation texts in EFL during six lessons and students’ perceptions about R2L. The study involved a group of ninth graders from a secondary state school in Colombia whose results in national standardized tests had been traditionally low, particularly in EFL reading. Results revealed that students became better readers of explanation texts and perceived R2L as a useful approach to develop their ability to understand written texts in EFL. The study highlights the benefits of R2L for enhancing L2 students’ meaning-making potential.

scholarly journals I magen på en häst

Budkavlen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 34-62
Author(s):  
Jenny Ingridsdotter ◽  
Kim Silow Kallenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Walking Dead ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Interspecies Relations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Walking Dead

In a horse’s belly: Interspecies relations as a critique of civilization   Jenny Ingridsdotter & Kim Silow Kallenberg   Keywords: natureculture, animals, popular culture, masculinity   In this article, we analyse how the relationship between humans and other species is portrayed in contemporary films and series that have the rise and fall of civilization as their theme: Into the Wild (2007), The Revenant (2015), Into the Forest (2015) and The Walking Dead (2010-). The purpose is to understand how relationships between humans, animals and non-humans are portrayed. The films/series have been chosen on the basis of their portrayal of social downfall or social dissatisfaction and on the grounds that they are also widely recognised and popular portrayals. The analysis focuses on two male characters (The Revenant, Into the Wild) and two female characters (Into the Forest and The Walking Dead) to investigate relationships between humans and other species (animals and zombies) when it comes to survival, and how these relationships are possibly conditioned by gender. Methodologically, we approach these popular cultural depictions as ethnographers, with human meaning-making as the primary point of departure. Theoretically, we use concepts developed in the field of human-animal studies.   The analysis shows that there are differences between the representations of different species and that these representations are also conditioned by gender in the human characters. Where men are alone in their struggle against nature, women are part of social relationships where they, together with others (human and non-human), struggle to survive. The analysis further shows how animals and other species constantly condition and enable human existence. However, lacking human language, the animals – who are absolutely vital for the actions and survival of the human characters – are rendered unimportant.

Taking the World by Hand

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Cuffari ◽  
Jürgen Streeck
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Hand Gestures ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Initial Basis ◽  
Embodied Meaning ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Point Of Departure

Pairing interpretation of philosophical texts with microanalysis of video data, this essay examines some particular ways that hand gestures enable embodied meaning making and sharing. The point of departure is Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s statement that gesture is the initial basis by which a subject lives and signifies. Intercorporeality and interpretive effort then become the basis of interactive meaning making. Meaning emerges when hand gestures, as intercorporeal acts, reflect and reflexively alter the constituting norms, perspectives, and possibilities found in a given space. This double movement is appropriative and disclosive—hand gestures must fit to a given world of meaning even as they take hold of and form it. Explaining this common feature of distinct gesture ecologies leads to a number of conclusions for the study of language.

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