scholarly journals Portraits of Veganism: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of a Second-Order Subculture

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Christopher ◽  
John Bartkowski ◽  
Timothy Haverda
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Arguments ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Veganism has enjoyed increasing popularity and more sustained scholarly attention during the past several years. Using insights from cultural theory, this study conducts a qualitative discourse analysis of two vegan-promoting documentary films: Forks over Knives (2011) and Vegucated (2010). Each of these popular vegan-promoting films renders a different portrait of vegans and advances distinct motivations for the adoption of a vegan lifestyle. Forks over Knives promotes health veganism rooted in scientific arguments about the dietary benefits of veganism. By contrast, Vegucated promotes holistic veganism that, while encompassing personal health benefits, also promotes animal rights advocacy and environmental consciousness. These competing portrayals reveal an important fissure line within veganism, one that may have implications for the growth of this movement. Veganism is a distinctive second-order subculture situated within the broader vegetarian subculture. However, veganism maintains cultural relevance by drawing on quintessentially American discourses of individualism, science, healthy living, and environmental awareness.

Discourse Analysis: Contextualism and Reductionism

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-447
Author(s):  
Setareh Majidi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Language Interpretation

For the past twenty to thirty years, a good part of the domain of linguistics has been occupied by what has been called discourse analysis. Whereas syntax and semantics are concerned by the sentence and the units from which the sentence is built, discourse analysis claims that interpretation cannot accounted for at the level of the sentence and that a bigger unit, such as discourse should be used to account for language interpretation. We want to show here that discourse is not, in any sense, a well defined object and that, though it is certainly necessary to analyze how a given sequence of sentences is processed and understood, the notion of discourse,  A and related notions such as coherence does not have much to say about it. We rely on epistemological considerations about the necessity of a moderate reductionism and sketch on account of linguistic interpretation which accounts for contextual factors in linguistic interpretation through the notion of utterance (vs. sentence) and a development of Sperber & Wilsons Relevance Theory.

scholarly journals Crisis discourse and framework transition in Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 664-680
Author(s):  
Omer Michaelis
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Legal Code ◽  
The Past ◽  
Moses Maimonides ◽  
Crisis Discourse

AbstractIn his works from the past decade, Menachem Fisch offered an analysis of a crucial distinction between two modes of rationalized transformation: an intra-framework transformation and an inter-framework one, the latter entailing a revolutionary shift of the framework itself. In this article, I analyze the attempt to produce such a framework transition in the tradition of Jewish Halakha (i.e., Jewish Law) by one of the key figures in its history, Moses Maimonides (1135–1204), and to explore how this transition was rationalized and promoted by the utilization of crisis discourse. Using discourse analysis, I analyze the introduction to Maimonides’ great legal code, Mishneh Torah, and explore the modes by which he sought to establish, install and stabilize a homogenous and centralistic legal order at the center of which will lie one – that is, his own – Halakhic book.

A bibliometric study of news discourse analysis (1988‒2020)

2021 ◽  
pp. 175048132110437
Author(s):  
Guofeng Wang ◽  
Xiuzhen Wu ◽  
Qiao Li
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Chinese Mainland ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Upward Trend ◽  
The West ◽  
News Values ◽  
The Past ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Scopus Database

This study conducts a bibliometric analysis of news discourse analysis using CiteSpace to sketch its scientific landscape based on journal articles in English in the Scopus database from 1988 through 2020. The statistical analysis provides evidence for the interdisciplinarity of this area, and shows an upward trend in general over these years as well as an accelerating growth rate in the past decade. Findings also indicate that the problem-oriented CDA has gained the most popularity in this area since its emergence, and the appraisal framework, multimodality analysis, and discursive news values have become three hotspots of news discourse analysis. In addition, the authors in the West have contributed most in this area, but those from Chinese Mainland, Malaysia, South Africa, and Indonesia have gradually been an emerging powerhouse, which has added diversity in topics and will enhance equality and promote dialogue between different communities, ethnics, and races across the globe.

“Unfortunately I’m a Massively Heavy Sleeper”: An Analysis of Fathers’ Constructions of Parenting

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 680-701
Author(s):  
Ashlee Borgkvist ◽  
Jaklin Eliott ◽  
Shona Crabb ◽  
Vivienne Moore
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Involved Fathers

Expectations for fathers have changed over the past few decades—research has shown that many men express more egalitarian views toward fatherhood and being more involved in parenting, particularly in the caretaking and emotional aspects of parenting. However, despite intentions expressed before parenthood, parenting will often play out along more traditional, gendered lines. In this research, we demonstrate how discourses used by fathers might work to maintain gendered divisions in relation to parenting and work. Data were collected through semistructured interviews that covered men’s experiences of work and parenting. Discourse analysis was employed to analyze the data. We identified that while participants expressed a desire to be involved fathers, often this did not transpire. Participants’ inability to, or decisions not to be, actively involved was accounted for in various ways, and suggested a tension between what fathers recognize they should be doing, and what they are doing, as parents.

scholarly journals The Anaphora of Mar Theodore

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Pittappillil Francis
Keyword(s):  
Structural Organization ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sacred Scripture ◽  
Eucharistic Prayer

In this article, Fr. Francis Pittappillil critically analyses the structure, content and theology of the Qudasha (Anaphora) of Mar Theodore. According to the East Syrian tradition, the Second Qudasha is celebrated from the first Sunday of the period of Annunciation to the Palm Sunday. Although the theological thoughts of Mar Theodore were viewed with suspicion in the past, the opinion of modern theologians is that they are orthodox in theology and doctrine. The Second Order Qudasha is notable for its Semitic character, biblical usages, and developed theological ideas. Since this Qudasha contains typical East Syrian theological and liturgical elements, we can conclude that Qudasha of Mar Theodore is an East Syrian in origin and content. The special characteristic of this Qudasha is its developed theological reflection and structural organization. The Christological, ecclesiological, pneumatological and Eucharistic ideas in the Qudasha of Mar Theodore are very faithful to the teachings of the Sacred Scripture. Fr. Francis Pittappillil affirms that the Second Qudasha, being a theologically well developed Eucharistic prayer, is very helpful for the proclamation of the faith.

scholarly journals AT VENDE TILBAGE TIL UKENDTE STEDER - POSTHUKOMMELSE OG STED HOS JACOB DAMMAS, JACOB KOFLER OG MAJA MAGDALENA SWIDERSKA

1970 ◽  
Vol 42 (117) ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Anna Estera Mrozewicz
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Personal Approach ◽  
Personal Trauma ◽  
Related Identity ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

RETURNING TO UNFAMILIAR PLACES. PLACE AND POSTMEMORY IN THE WORKS OF JACOB DAMMAS, JACOB KOFLER, AND MAJA MAGDALENA SWI-DERSKA | The emigration of three thousand Polish-Jewish citizens to Denmark as a result of the events in March 1968 in Poland has only recently attracted attention from filmmakers and writers in Denmark. Two documentary films and a novel, created within a relatively short period of time, deal with the topic: Jacob Kofler’s Statsløs (Stateless), 2004, Jacob Dammas’ Kredens (Dresser), 2007, and Maja Magdalena Swiderska’s The Border Breaking Bunch, 2008. The authors are all children of refugees and represent second generation in relation to the cultural trauma of exile. The article examines aesthetic approaches developed by the authors as they (re)tell personal stories, which are mediated through various strategies of postmemory (Hirsch 1997). Postmemory is distinguished from memory by a non-indexical relation to the past and a generational distance, and from history by a highly personal approach. However, it is not addressed here as a psychological category. On the contrary, I argue that postmemory can be viewed as both an analytical and a narrative and aesthetic tool. Questions of place and place-related identity are relevant and inseparable from the three authors’ creative reimaginings of the cultural and personal trauma. Thus, the article focuses on the concepts of place and postmemory, and their interdependencies in the analysed works. Close readings are combined with theoretical reflection, which allows the objects and theories to illuminate each other.

Another Tale of Two Cities: Lviv and Łódź

2018 ◽  
pp. 114-145
Author(s):  
Maurizio Cinquegrani
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Films ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Jewish Schools

This chapter explores the cinematic image of Lviv and Łódź in wide range of documentary films. It also offers comparisons between fictional and factual films of these places. The chapter also explores physical remnants of the past in the form of buildings which were occupied by Jewish schools, hospitals or homes, and on the role played by these places and ruins in the processes of memorialisation enacted in film.

Personal Health Records Systems Go Mobile

2011 ◽  
pp. 750-772
Author(s):  
Phillip Olla ◽  
Joseph Tan
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Personal Health Record ◽  
Personal Health Records ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Secure Environment

This chapter provides an overview of mobile personal health record (MPHR) systems. A Mobile personal health record is an eclectic application through which patients can access, manage, and share their health information from a mobile device in a private, confidential, and secure environment. Personal health records have evolved over the past three decades from a small card or booklet with immunizations recorded into fully functional mobile accessible portals, and it is the PHR evolution outside of the secure healthcare environment that is causing some concerns regarding privacy. Specifically, the chapter reviews the extant literature on critical evaluative components to be considered when assessing MPHR systems.

Ghosts, tigers and landmines in the nursery: Attachment narratives of loss in Tamil refugee children with dead or missing fathers

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lux Ratnamohan ◽  
Sarah Mares ◽  
Derrick Silove
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Parent Attachment ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
Protective Strategies

Objective: To build an account of how bereaved Tamil refugee and asylum seeker children, resettled in Australia, had processed the loss of their dead or missing fathers. Method: Phenomenological and discourse analysis was applied to attachment narratives of nine children (aged 11–17 years) and their surviving mothers in families that lost fathers in war-related circumstances. The narratives were analysed through the lens of Crittenden’s Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation (DMM) and Klass’ cross-cultural model of grief. Results: Two divergent pathways — ‘burying the past’ and ‘reifying the past’ — emerged, encompassing the children’s contrasting patterns of information processing regarding loss and trauma (dismissing or preoccupying) and representation of the past (distant-buried or rich-reconstructed). Each pathway reflected a strategic compromise between the constraints and resources presented to the child by the circumstances of the loss (ambiguous or confirmed), the response of their surviving parent (stricken or stoic) and the collective narrative surrounding the loss (silenced or valorised). Conclusion: The DMM’s conceptualisation of attachment as self-protective strategies for navigating danger was helpful in explaining the contrasting adaptations of refugee children to loss and trauma. However, to understand the multivalent meanings of these adaptations, there was a need to situate child–parent attachment relationships within the wider sociocultural reconfigurations arising from contexts of political violence.

Postmodern Body Techniques: Some Anthropological Considerations on Natural and Postnatural Bodies

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (s1) ◽  
pp. S95-S106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Steroid Use ◽  
Body Building ◽  
The Past ◽  
Body Techniques ◽  
A Site

Debates concerning “the body,” embodiment, and corporeality have become increasingly central to cultural theory in the past decade. This article addresses the question of the “natural body” from the point of view of both traditional social theory (Marcel Mauss) and more recent arguments about the body as a site of enculturation. Why is the natural body preserved as a moral value within the realm of sport, while its limits are also pushed to “unnatural” extremes? By contrasting body building as sport (where anabolic steroid use is condemned) with reproductive body building (pregnancy, where steroid use is increasingly central), the paradoxical dimensions of the “(post)natural” body in sport are examined.

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