(Meta-)communicative work in a counselling centre for refugees: reiteration, erasure and agency

We have no apartments is a phrase repeated over and over again at the counselling centre for refugees on housing matters based in Vienna, Austria, where I conducted ethnographic fieldwork. Based on an analysis of processes of entextualisation, de- and recontextualisation in the reiterative, discursive chain, this paper traces the emergence of an institutional regime of communication and the ways institutional actors – counsellors and volunteers – produce, navigate and reproduce this regime by engaging in (meta-)communicative work. The analysis shows how individual agency is both contingent and co-productive of institutional order and social order more generally. With this contribution, I propose Judith Butler’s concept of the postsovereign subject as a way to understand the relations between “local” practices and wider processes of trans-situational meaning-making.

Meaning-Making of Motherhood Among Mothers With Substance Abuse Problems

Previous literature has documented the unique challenges encountered by mothers with substance abuse problems, which may hinder the ability to fulfill parenting responsibilities. Since there is evidence suggesting the engagement in meaning-making processes can help individuals reinterpret their transitions into parenthood and cope with parental stress, this study examined the meaning-making processes of motherhood among mothers with substance abuse problems. Sixteen Hong Kong Chinese mothers with a history of substance abuse were purposively selected and invited to narrate their life and maternal experiences in individual interviews. Based on the meaning-making model in the context of stress and coping, whereby global meaning refers to orienting system of an individual and situational meaning refers to the meaning one attributes to a particular situation, the global and situational meanings of participants related to motherhood and substance use, and their reappraised meanings in response to the discrepancies between global and situational meanings were analyzed. Using thematic analysis, the results showed that when faced with an internal conflict between global and situational meanings induced by substance abuse, most participants engaged in the meaning-making process of assimilation. Rather than changing their inherent parental beliefs and values, most participants adjusted their appraisals toward the situation, and hence made changes in their cognitions or behaviors such as making efforts to quit substance use or reprioritizing their parenting responsibilities. The analysis further revealed that being a mother provided a significant source of meaning to the participants in confronting highly stressful mothering experiences induced by substance abuse. Altogether, the findings suggest that a meaning-making approach may have benefits and implications for helping this population reorganize their self-perceptions, gain a clearer sense of future direction in motherhood, and achieve more positive life and parenting outcomes.

THE ROLE OF PHRASEOLOGICAL CONSTITUENTS IN REPLENISHING THE TERMINOSYSTEM “MOBILE COMMUNICATION”

The article analyzes the role of phraseological constituents in the process of replenishment in the mobile communication terminology. It is noted that phraseological units carry much more information than a single word and should be studied and taken into account in various aspects: cognitive, linguistic and cultural, functional, etc. It is argued that cognitive phraseological units as constituents of the language system are used by native speakers to describe semantic processes and states. It is proved that the deep semantic nature of phraseology has been emerged under the influence of socio-domestic, political and other social phenomena. Some constituents in the professional language through time acquire additional, situational meaning, i.e. new semantic content of constant expressions giving it a special text format. It is suggested that the semantic structure of the phraseological component in professional speech is formed by a set of its semantic elements, which are closely correlated with each other. It is stressed that the components of phraseological semantics, in turn, are divided into semantic components, semantic features that act not only as constituents of the main semantic components of phraseology, but also as a close link between them. Thus, such characteristic features of phraseological constituents as internal form, motivation, imagery, idiomaticity and stability, enable the phraseological units to create semantic transformation. It is argued that the professional language of mobile communication is filled with phraseological constituents, in which the value of the whole combination is not accurate, and sometimes not deduced from the sum of its components, or dominates the value of its components. It is concluded that phraseology is one of the inexhaustible sources of richness and expressiveness of speech, which nourishes the professional subtext of mobile communication, gives it an artistic sounding, filled with components of lexical and syntactic sophistication and completeness. We may sum up that the phraseological constituent is a productive semantic and stylistic means, so metaphor and metonymy are used in various spheres of language, the terminology of mobile communication in particular.Key words: phraseological constituents, internal form, meanings, sences, concept, idiomaticity, metaphor, metonymy. У статті проаналізовано роль фразеологічних конституентів у процесі поповнення терміносистеми мобільний зв’язок. Зазначено, що фразеологізми мають набагато більше інформації в порівнянні з окремим словом та їх слід вивчати й враховувати в різних аспектах: когнітивному, лінгвокультурологічному, функціональному тощо. Стверджується, що когнітивно фразеологічні одиниці як конституенти мовної системи використовуються носіями мови для опису смислових процесів і станів. Доведено, що глибинна семантична природа фразеологізмів полягає в тому, що під впливом соціально-побутових, політичних та інших суспільних явищ деякі конституанти у фаховій мові із часом набувають додаткового, ситуативного смислу, тобто нового смислового наповнення сталим висловам надає спеціальний текстовий форматив. Висунуто припущення, що семан-тичну структуру фразеологічного компонента у фаховому мовленні формує сукупність його семантичних елементів, що знаходяться між собою в тісних кореляціях. Розвинуто думку, що складові частини фразеологічної семантики своєю чергою розчленовуються на семантичні компоненти, семантичні ознаки, що виступають не тільки як конституенти основних семантичних складових частин фразеологізму, але і як тісна сполучна ланка між ними. Таким чином, такі характерні риси фразеологічних конституентів, як внутрішня форма, мотивованість, образність, ідіоматичність і стійкість уможливлюють здатність фразеологізмів до семантичної трансформації. Аргументовано, що фахова мова мобільного зв’язку наповнена фразеологічними конституентами, в яких значення цілого сполучення не точне, а іноді й зовсім не виводиться із суми складових компонентів або домінує над значенням складових частин. Зроблено висновок, що фразеологізми є одним із невичерпних джерел багатства й виразності мовлення, які живлять фахову підмову мобільного зв’язку, надають їй художнього зву-чання, наповнюють компонентами лексичної та синтаксичної витонченості й завершеності. Підсумовано, що фразеологічний конституент є продуктивним семантико-стилістичним засобом, так само як і метафора, метонімія, які використовується в різних сферах мови, зокрема терміносистеми мобільного зв’язку.Ключові слова:фразеологічні значення, внутрішня форма, значення, смисли, концепт, ідіоматичність, метафора, метонімія.

CULTURAL ASPECTS OF MODERN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: FROM A PROFESSIONAL TO A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPECIALIST

The article substantiates the response of modern professional education to the training of a multidimensional specialist who is able to work with multiple aspects, ready to generate situational meaning and discursive knowledge. His key character feature is the ability to communicate: both to an open dialogue in multidisciplinary teams, and to a reflexive perception of one's own flexible professional identity. The education system responds to this request with the creation of communication ability. It is concluded that the educational space is reoriented to the generation of common meaning, as the principles and goals of communicative didactics become a support for the disclosure of the pedagogy of meaning, understanding, and co-creation.

Methods and Tools of American Folklore and Folklife Studies

This article provides an overview of the analytical and fieldwork methodologies that are employed in the study of American folklore and folklife. It considers the history of method in folkloristics, as well as the historical tension between textual and ethnographic methods. It describes contemporary methods and tools, as they have taken shape since the discipline’s last major reorientation in the 1970s. The discussion of methodology includes different forms of ethnography, field collection, repertoire collecting, and analysis. Tools considered include indexes and archives, audio and video recording, photography, field notes, drawing and measurements, and mapping. Finally, the article covers emerging and potential methods and tools. This section gives particular attention to the integration of digital technologies into folkloristic research. It discusses ways that folklorists are working in digital settings, using powerful digital tools for data collection and analysis of both digital and nondigital folklore, and methods for collaborative work with participants. Informed by practice theory, this article makes the case that the study of aggregated performances and everyday practices of folklore is not only easier with the advent of digital tools, but it could also represent an important new way of linking the concerns for situational meaning-making of performance studies to practice-oriented scholars’ concerns with social structure.

Theodicy or Not? Spiritual Struggles of Evangelical Cancer Survivors

Using Park’s meaning-making model to inform our understanding of distress in suffering, we conducted a qualitative investigation of the discrepancies experienced by evangelical Christian cancer patients between their religious global meaning and their situational meaning, and the religious beliefs invoked to resolve the discrepancy. Three primary research questions were addressed: (a) What kinds of tensions do evangelical Christians with a diagnosis of cancer experience between their religious global meaning system (i.e., beliefs) and their situational meaning, if any?; (b) Why may some experience tension while others may not?; and (c) How are tensions resolved if they arise? Twenty-nine evangelical Christians with cancer diagnoses were interviewed. Post hoc thematic analysis, informed by grounded theory was used to analyze the interviews. Roughly two-thirds of our sample denied experiencing any tension between their faith and their cancer experience. Protective factors included confidence in God and a spiritual kind of intellectual humility. Roughly one-third did indicate experiencing tension, which took the form of doubting God’s justice, love, existence, or answering of prayer. When these tensions were resolved, this resolution appeared to involve a kind of spiritual surrender, including acknowledgement of God’s control, humility before God, and relinquishing the assumption of a just world.

PECULIARITIES OF THE NOUN USAGE IN THE EASTERN ARMENIAN ARTISTIC DOCUMENTARY LITERATURE

In the texts of artistic documentary literature one ofthe important preliminary conditions of the language basis composition is the right way oftying words and linguistic units in the chain of mind flows. In the semantic field the noun, being distinguished for its non-situational meaning, has interesting manifestations in the aspect of its use as a proper name. Place-names suppose a determined base of memories and they are tied with a determined place. Historical place-names, as the names of monasteries, mausoleums and fortresses, have a noticeable use in memoirs. The author cites the etymology of these names, trying to present their origin. This phenomenon is among the structural characters of the memoirs literature. Proper names in their diverse stylistic manifestations also appear in sayings, expressions, proverbs and so on.

PENGGUNAAN JARGON OLEH KOMUNITAS WARIA DI JEJARING SOSIAL ‘FACEBOOK’

Jargon that used by transgender community in social networking ‘facebook’ is really interesting to understand because the jargon has a form and meaning itself in its disclosure. The research discusses of using of transgender community in social networking ‘facebook’ by using semantic parameter. The research aims to describe the jargon forms that used by transgender community in social networking ‘facebook’ and discusses the type of semantics and changes of meaning generated from the jargons. The method used of this research is qualitative descriptive by using noting and scrutinizing technique. The result shows that there are fifty-three of jargons used by transgender community in social networking ‘facebook’. Those jargons are ate, eke/eike, yey, ses, astajim, mengondek, menyabong, res/ress, le/lek/leee, mawar, ono, seljes/seljong, bo, kulo, lekes, mehong, cuccok, ce, nekk, sindang, ceu, libra, chinese, centes, peges-peges, mekong, tinta, bae, kentilas, heywanat, cacamarica, ojo, polo/polonia, mursid/mursida, bosnia, megang, kereles, kempinsky, endes, sahaja, bue, perez, dese, merongin, malides, mojang, priwi, kinyis-kinyis, cuss, eim/em, say, andbye. The jargons are formed based on the type of semantic, namely lexical meaning, grammatical meaning, denotative meaning, connotative meaning, contextual meaning, situational meaning, and thematic meaning. Furthermore, the jargons have also a relation of meaning and aspect of meaning. The relation of meaning is synonym and antonym, while, the aspect of meaning is feeling, tone, and intention. Then, there are some of jargons that undergo change the meaning, that is total meaning, broad meaning, and using diachronic parameter, such, bosnia, mursid, polo astajim, mawar, and bye. ABSTRAK Jargon yang digunakan oleh komunitas waria di jejaring sosial “‘facebook’” sangat menarik untuk dipahami karena jargon tersebut memiliki bentuk dan makna tersendiri dalam pengungkapannya. Bagi orang awam jargon tersebut susah untuk dipahami, hanya komunitas merekalah yang mampu memahami maksud dari jargon yang digunakannya tersebut. Tulisan ini membincangkan tentang penggunaan jargon bahasa waria di jejaring sosial ‘facebook’ dan perubahan makna yang ditimbulkan dari jargon tersebut. Tujuan tulisan ini adalah mendeskripsikan bentuk-bentuk jargon yang digunakan oleh komunitas waria di jejaring sosial ‘facebook’ dan menjelaskan kata-kata apa saja yang mengalami perubahan makna. Metode yang digunakan dalam tulisan ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan menggunakan teknik catat dan simak. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat lima puluh dua bentuk jargon yang digunakan oleh komunitas waria di jejaring sosial ‘facebook’, yakni ate, eke/eike, yey, ses, astajim, mengondek, menyabong, res/ress, le/lek/leee, mawar, ono, seljes/seljong, bo, kulo, lekes, mehong, cuccok, ce, nekk, sindang, ceu, libra, chinese, centes, peges-peges, mekong, tinta, bae, kentilas, heywanat, cacamarica, ojo, polo/polonia, mursid/mursida, bosnia, megang, kereles, kempinsky, endes, sahaja, bue, perez, dese, merongin, malides, mojang, priwi, kinyis-kinyis, cuss, eim/em, say, dan bye. Jargon-jargon tersebut dibentuk berdasarkan makna leksikal dan gramatikal. Selanjutnya, jargon yang mengalami perubahan makna adalah astajim, mawar, dan bye.

Intuitive Cognition

In the naturalistic decision-making literature, intuitive cognition is at the heart of a pattern recognition–based decision model called the recognition-primed decision model. Given the importance of intuitive cognition in naturalistic decision-making theory, we explore the question of what makes intuitive cognition effective for decision making and, in so doing, present an extended empirical and theoretical foundation for the intuitive component in naturalistic decision making. We theorize that intuitive cognition is effective because it (1) possesses a capability for grounded, situational meaning making (sign interpretation); (2) is operative over extended work intervals involving interruptions; and (3) is instrumental in handling situated complexities of everyday living. Other characteristics of intuitive cognition and its foundations are discussed. We propose that intuitive cognition represents the core of cognition—grounded, situational meaning making—whereas analytical cognition represents a form of an intellectual exoskeleton that provides added capabilities (e.g., working memory).