Minding the Gap: Creating Meaning from Missing and Anomalous Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-216
Author(s):  
Ciaran B. Trace ◽  
Yan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Anomalous Data ◽  
Creating Meaning

Creating Meaning in the Present by Reviewing the Past: Communal Memory in the Psalms of Solomon

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-392
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Gordley
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Communal Memory ◽  
Psalms Of Solomon ◽  
Creating Meaning

This article examines Psalms of Solomon with an eye toward how these compositions may have functioned within the setting of a first-century B. C. E. Jewish community in Jerusalem. Several of these psalms should be understood as didactic hymns providing instruction to their audience through the medium of psalmody. Attention to the temporal register of Pss. Sol. 8, 9, and 17 shows how the poet’s use of historical review and historical allusion contributed to a vision of present reality and future hope, which the audience was invited to embrace. Issues relating to the place of these psalms in the tradition of Solomonic discourse are also addressed insofar as they contribute to the didactic function of this psalm collection.

Opera and the South African Political

2019 ◽  
pp. 289-311
Author(s):  
Christopher Ballantine
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Singing Voice ◽  
The South ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
Creating Meaning ◽  
Empirical Means

Christopher Ballantine’s focus is on timbre, in particular the timbre of the singing voice, and how this combines with the imagination to create meaning. His investigation is largely philosophical; but the growth in popularity of opera in post-apartheid South Africa provides empirical means for Ballantine to indicate this powerful but analytically neglected way of creating meaning in the performance of music. His case study shows how timbre can produce musical experiences that have a particular, and often surprising, resonance. Through interviews with leading figures in South African opera, Ballantine demonstrates that timbre is a vital wellspring of imagined meaning; it should especially be seen thus if we seek to understand the singing voice in a sociopolitical context such as that of South Africa during and after apartheid.

Creating Meaning at Work through Transformational Leadership

2017 ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lee Whittington ◽  
Simone Meskelis ◽  
Enoch Asare ◽  
Sri Beldona
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Creating Meaning

“Nobody Noticed”: Leadership and Issues of Workplace Loss and Grief

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Human Services ◽  
Positive Culture ◽  
Job Security ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Loss And Grief ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Creating Meaning

Modern commentators are demonstrating how the workplace is changing radically, with a long-hours culture and increasing uncertainty over job security and prospects. With people spending more time in work, they need to find the sort of meaning there that many people looked for in home and leisure. Many people's private lives are sacrificed to the demands of employers and, therefore, when instances of crisis and loss arise, these can be more devastating if the workplace is unsupportive or rejecting. Leadership is an essential attribute in promoting an ethos of meaning and humanity in workplace situations. This paper considers the nature of the current working environment; the role of leadership in creating meaning and learning; and the importance of organizational culture—a positive culture that encapsulates the whole person, not simply a false notion of including just “the part of the person” who is a worker in the organization. Examples from the author's work in human services in the United Kingdom illustrate the points made.

scholarly journals The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedy: Titus Andronicus − Criticism, Stage History, and Contemporary Readings

Dramaturgias ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipe Dos Santos Avila
Keyword(s):  
Direct Function ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
Creating Meaning

This essay foregrounds William Shakespeare’s early tragedy Titus Andronicus, overviews the critical debate concerning the play’s controversial authorship, takes into account the play’s reception and life on stage, and presents germane contemporary readings of the playtextdrawn from differenttheoretical standpoints. The essay concludes that the text is not supreme in creating meaning or establishing authority and that these are a direct function of performance and criticism.

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