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This essay offers a reorientation of our views on the interrelationships of language and thought as a field of constantly reprogrammable energy, and provides an argument as to why we believe this new metaphor (i.e., language as a field of energy) matters in language pedagogy, in classrooms at all levels, as well as within teacher education and teacher professional development. We define language as a field of energy in the following way: as language operating as a "region" in which a force (in this case, words and their rhetorical functions) operates to bring about some influence resulting in an effect or having an impact on one's own behaviors, on the behaviors of others, as well as having the capacity to influence emotions, and/or the course of events. Following a brief introduction in which we state our purpose, we present the case for the above argument in the context of current language and literacy education. In doing so, we delineate language-thought-perceived reality relationships through a synthesis of a selective representation of the primary thinkers in mainstream language scholarship, as well as other fields, such as philosophy, social anthropology, linguistics, discourse analysis, and to coin a new field, "linguistic metaphysics." While we focus our discussion on language, we are mindful of its obviously intimate, symbiotic relationship with thought. We conclude with suggestions as to how this concept, "language as a field of energy," can be pursued in educational settings.

This article discusses Volume 17 (1) where the editors (Garrido and Sabaté-Dalmau) push for a sociolinguistic, discourse-analytic and linguistic anthropological agenda in the study of transnational trajectories of multilingual workers and emergent entrepreneurial selves. I review this lens as suitable to document how language both mediates and becomes object of explicit attention/talk in institutionalised arrangements and subject-formation processes that enable such arrangements. In doing so, I focus on the alignments of market rationality, sovereignty, and citizenship that emerge across the articles in the volume, with focus on how they mutually constitute distinctive milieus of labour and life at the edge of emergence. I propose to think of these alignments via Ong's (2006. "Neoliberalism as exception: Mutations in citizenship and sovereignty". Durham: Duke University Press.) analysis of variegated modes of neoliberal governmentality to articulate the set of paradoxes and contradictions identified by the authors of such articles. This, I argue, necessitates a kaleidoscopic framing of neoliberalism whereby the analysis of semiosis goes hand-in-hand with attention to dynamics of mutations in citizenship and sovereignty. I also suggest that such an exploration may also benefit from in-depth engagement with developments stemming from the spatial turn, for they help us map specific trajectories onto the patterns of global circulation of professionals, ideas about language, and resources.

This linguistic anthropological case study demonstrates the ways in which a heterogeneous lab group of adolescents in a ninth-grade physics classroom constructed "raciolinguistic ideologies" that intersected with their locally constructed notions of science expertise. Using ethnography and discourse analysis this study unpacks how students in one lab group, guided by their teacher's instruction, constructed a model of personhood for science expertise that largely excluded female and Latinx students. Mock Spanish emerged as a central practice through which this marginalization was achieved. Implications for promoting equity for multilingual youth in heterogeneous classrooms are discussed.

As the discipline of language documentation and description evolves, so do the expectations placed on researchers. Current trends emphasize collaborative efforts that prioritize tangible contributions to the community, such as a pedagogical grammar, dictionary, or collection of texts. Some argue that for unwritten languages orthography development is imperative so that materials prepared by the researcher (perhaps in collaboration with the community) are accessible to speakers. In light of the current discussions of methodology and ethical issues related to endeavors to document and describe the world's languages, this paper explores the challenges faced by a single researcher (the author) working on a single language (Darma) within a multilingual setting (in India). This project emphasizes ethnographic and discourse-centered research methodologies which reveal language ideologies that are discussed here to demonstrate that while orthography development is a reasonable objective in many cases, one must be sensitive to a variety of interconnecting issues including history, social relationships, language ideology, and local politics associated with writing and education. While orthography development has not been a viable option in the "Darma Documentation and Description Project," it is nevertheless a matter that needs to be addressed for the benefit of the community as well as ongoing discussions of methodology and best practices in linguistic and anthropological research.

Saussurean and Chomskyan "conduit" views of meaning in communication, dominant in much of expert and lay linguistic semantics, presuppose a simple, closed and linear system in which outcomes can be predicted and explained in terms of finite sets of rules. Summarizing critical traditions of scholarship, notably those driven by Bateson's view of systems infused with more recent linguistic-anthropological insights into the ideologically mediated and indexically organized "total linguistic fact," this paper argues for a view of meaning in terms of complex open systems in which complex units of analysis invite more precise distinctions within "meaning." Using online viral memes and the metapragmatic qualifier of "cool" as cases in point, we see that the meaning of such memes is better described as a range of "effects," most of them nonlinear and not predictable on the basis of the features of the sign itself. Such effects suggest a revised and broader notion of nonlinear "perlocution."

This paper offers a sustained philosophical meditation on contrasting interpretations of the emotion of shame within four academic discourses--social psychology, psychological anthropology, educational psychology and Aristotelian scholarship--in order to elicit their implications for moral education. It turns out that within each of these discourses there is a mainstream interpretation which emphasises shame's expendability or moral ugliness (and where shame is typically described as guilt's ugly sister), but also a heterodox interpretation which seeks to retrieve and defend shame. As the heterodox interpretation seems to offer a more realistic picture of shame's role in moral education, the provenance of the mainstream interpretation merits scrutiny. I argue that social scientific studies of the concept of shame, based on its supposed phenomenology, incorporate biases in favour of excessive, rather than medial, forms of the emotion. I suggest ways forward for more balanced analyses of the nature, moral justification and educative role of shame.

Prompted by calls for research on technology-focused professional development, this ethnographic case study investigates how teachers' participation in learning communities may influence technology integration within the secondary English curriculum. In this article, I draw on educational psychology, cognitive anthropology, and sociolinguistics to build a theory of teacher learning. I then take a microethnographic approach to discourse analysis to show how teachers' use of language and contextualization cues within a learning community reflects their cultural models, or everyday beliefs, about technology. This study addresses two gaps in the literature. First, it explores the role of situated language in constructing English teachers' cultural models related to technology. Second, it examines micro-level interactions within a professional learning community to understand how teacher learning occurs in social and cultural contexts. The analysis suggests that the implementation of educational reforms, including reforms associated with technology integration and literacy education, is often dependent upon teachers' skills, values, and cultural models.

This paper suggests the term "paradoxical" to understand how health education (HE) is carried out and experienced as contradictory and inconsistent by student-teachers who learn about health in Kenyan teacher training colleges (TTC). The claim is that students, apart from formal HE lessons, also learn about health in non-curricular HE, which influences their actions in tangible ways. Bourdieu, medical anthropology and critical educational theory were used to understand processes of cultural negotiation, the production of HE discourses and how learning appears to be a mix of moralities and action competence. This long-term fieldwork used ethnographic methods, including participant observation, interviews and focus-group discussions conducted in three TTCs in Central and Eastern Kenya. The study concludes that regardless of institutional HE norms, student-teachers develop critical awareness and action competencies, learning to deal with health in more active, concrete and practical ways than those conveyed in HE lessons.

The goal of this article is to differentiate initiation from indoctrination, and to return a positive significance to the notion of initiation, as a pedagogy that contributes not only to the perpetuation of a particular form of life or community, but that provides the next generation with means to advance that knowledge beyond its existing boundaries. When we conflate the terms "initiation" and "indoctrination" or only mark a minor difference between the two, we lose meaning. The explanatory and predictive power of our statements is weakened by this failure to take seriously the difference between these two terms. By ignoring the progressive potential in initiation, and condemning that pedagogy as uncritical, educational theorists fail to recognize the intermediate steps that need to be taken in educating a student to be a creative and responsive thinker within a cultural, i.e. symbolic, context. Within the pedagogy of initiation crucial methods for teaching students to engage existing representations of truth, rules of practice, and principles of meaning-making are employed. This article draws upon case studies and theorists in anthropology to offer a description of initiation that holds progressive potential, and explains the possible relevance of initiatory pedagogy for multicultural education.

The study of policy in comparative education has been approached using methods associated with the principal social science disciplines that have informed the field since its inception. In particular, the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, and anthropology have had a significant influence on determining the acceptable methods for comparative educational policy analysis, as evident by studies of policy published since the mid-1990s in "Comparative Education Review." Given the multidisciplinary orientation of comparative education, it is curious that the discipline of linguistics remains virtually absent from the pages of the field's flagship journal. This dearth is particularly anomalous today when one considers the interest in critical inquiry as a framework for interpreting the discursive aspects of knowledge production. Such interest makes it an opportune time to consider how one type of linguistic analysis--critical discourse analysis (CDA)--could enhance the comparative study of educational policy. In this article, the authors engage in a twofold analysis to "make transparent" an opaque element in contemporary international development discourse: "partnership." They use CDA as both framework and methodology to scrutinize the claims of partnership in the poverty reduction policies of the United Republic of Tanzania. (Contains 7 tables, 1 figure and 8 footnotes.)

This paper focuses on a little known Bernstein concept of "gender codes" developed in the study of schooling, suggesting that schools transmit hidden gender messages though a range of semiotic devices. Initially, the paper shows how Bernstein's 1970s' research provided a novel way of looking at some critical issues current in educational sociology, to address knowledge transmission and socialization across generational and class differences. Bernstein's focus on the ways argumentation shapes class differentiated social relationships gave a new direction that later became part of language socialization research. His work incorporated several disciplinary traditions, social psychology, social anthropology and structural functional linguistics, to answer sociological questions. The study reported here follows in Bernstein's footsteps by focusing on a rarely studied group, that of mature women students who are the first in their families to go to college, and who combine family life, paid work with their academic studies. Using an analysis that focuses on differences in rhetorical style, the paper examines the different ways in which women construct their narrative selves in describing their differing life trajectories. The research suggests that Bernstein's concept of gender codes does not allow for a more changing and dynamic view of gender and intergenerational relations that any current socialization research requires.

Few concepts in the German tradition of human studies--the so-called "Geisteswissenschaften"--have had the capacity to birth such intense expectations and hopes as the concept of "Bildung". There is general agreement that the concept of "Bildung" includes both an objective and a subjective component. The first refers to "culture" in its broadest sense (philosophical, scientific, esthetic, moral etc.; in short, rational interpretations of the world), whereas the latter refers to the specific and individual appropriation of the objective substance of culture. Despite its complexity, ambiguity and vulnerability, the classic concept of "Bildung" was never totally abandoned in educational and philosophical discourse, nor was its transformation into different constructs and surrogates successful. The multifaceted use of the term, only illustrates its crucial place in social discourses. The author contends that people have to acknowledge with Posner that "Bildung", while it is a central concept for many philosophical, anthropological and pedagogical thinkers, is, at the same time, one of the most "vague" concepts. In this article, the author discusses the twofold subversion of "Bildung". (Contains 4 notes.)

Presents a critical discourse analysis of two Committee on Special Education meetings for one middle school girl. Drawing on 2 years of ethnographic data, the study demonstrates that the second-year meeting was wrought with contradictions. Suggests the need to look to institutional discourses and cases of subjective experiences in order to understand the process of social reproduction in the anthropology of disability. (Contains references.) (SM)

In April 2023, the Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Italy launched the Italia. Open to Meraviglia (Italy. Open to Wonder) campaign with the intention of promoting the beauty of Italy abroad. The Ministry introduced Botticelli’s Venus as a virtual and modern influencer at Lake Como, in front of the Colosseum, and on St. Mark’s Square in Venice. The first advertisements sparked controversy in Italian society, and Eco characterized such phenomena as divisions between apocalyptic thinkers and integrated intellectuals as early as 1964. The aim of this work is to uncover the reasons for such polarization through the content analysis of more than 3000 public comments on the Ministry’s Instagram profile’s most popular posts/images. The study establishes connections between audience reactions and the posts, as well as between the audience and the Ministry (as the senders of this advertising campaign). The analysis also includes a study of the news discourse of the campaign author’s responses in Corriere della Sera, the most circulated daily newspaper in Italy. The harshest criticisms tend to lean towards Eco’s apocalyptic view of popular culture and Hall’s (2017) oppositional reading. On the other side, the authors responded that there was no such thing as bad publicity and pointed to Italian identity as a global phenomenon.

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and the travelling restrictions put in place by governments had an unprecedented effect on tourism in South Tyrol, with stays from the main markets experiencing a loss ranging from -36.3% to -73.4%. The present study explores the English-language social media communication of tourist destinations in South Tyrol during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. To do so, a combined methodological approach is adopted, based on ethnographic interviews with practitioners of the tourism sector and corpusassisted discourse analysis. The findings reveal that the deployment of futureoriented and corrective linguistic approaches to envision a post-crisis scenario is crucial in conveying hope and possibility. These findings not only enhance our understanding of tourism discourse in the context of communication crisis management but also have implications for the resilience of tourism industry during challenging periods.

This article proposes a critical, constructivist and anthropological analysis of power dynamics in social media and the Brazilian judiciary during the 2022 Brazilian elections. Through two case studies, it aims to explore the links between power dynamics in these environments and their practical implications for knowledge, ideas, norms, judicial acts, and values. With this in mind, the first case study analyzes speeches given by the extreme right on the Telegram social platform, while the second case study examines the judicial conflict between the same platform and the Superior Electoral Court. The methodology used in this analysis is mixed, combining computational data analysis with critical discourse analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Anthropology is primarily a field science, as a field provides the basic platform for critical scrutiny of ideas and theories of the discipline. Fieldwork is also an extremely indispensable tool to understand the culture of the "observed." Magnificent outcomes of fieldwork in the hands of Malinowski, Mead, Evans-Pritchard, Barth, Firth, Bohannan, Levi-Strauss, Powdermaker, and others have been instrumental in the development of various discourses in anthropology and allied disciplines. Contributions of Indian anthropologists in field studies are also no less significant, as these reflect renewed interest in empiricism and the reflexive understanding of the culture of the "others." But nowadays, fieldwork is getting less importance in western as well as in Indian academics. In this article, the author has tried to critically examine various issues in connection with the present days' fieldwork enterprise, which is getting a diminishing importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines legal communication in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) discourse and investigates the rhetorical strategies implemented at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, the paper focuses on a dataset of legal provisions introduced as emergency legislation – measures adopted to tackle unprecedented circumstances – in Italy and the US, in order to identify commonalities and differences when informing the general public of the measures laid down particularly to protect workers in the workplace. This paper is intended to contribute to research in discourse analysis in OHS, an area of expertise which has been given fresh momentum since the onset of the pandemic. The decision to examine Italian and US emergency legislation was made in consideration of the cultural and legal differences between the two countries, which give rise to a number of discursive approaches to emergency management.

Among the indirect consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children and adolescents, most studies, both nationally and internationally, have found an increase in anxious-depressive symptoms, sometimes associated with suicide attempts. Institutions and public health professionals therefore developed textual documents and multimedia products to provide guidelines to set up, among other things, a narrative of the event capable of responding to the psycho-physical distress of children and adolescents and ultimately reducing symptoms. At the same time, individual educators, writers, and YouTubers offered alternative products (accessed through the web) to respond to the same needs. This paper intends to analyse and compare the narrative suggested and packaged by both types of producers mentioned to detect the linguistic-textual and pragmatic choices and their effect.

The global rise of populism and concomitant polarizations across disenfranchised and marginalized groups has been magnified by so-called echo chambers, and a major public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic has only served to fuel these intergroup tensions. Media institutions disseminating information on ways to prevent the propagation of the virus have reactivated a specific discursive phenomenon previously observed in many epidemics: the construction of a defiled 'Other'. With anthropological lenses, discourse on defilement is an interesting path to understand the continuous emergence of pseudo-scientific forms of racism. In this paper, the authors focus on 'borderline racism', that is the use of an institutionally 'impartial' discourse to reaffirm the inferiority of another race. The authors employed inductive thematic analysis of 1200 social media comments reacting to articles and videos published by six media in three different countries (France, United States and India). Results delineate four major themes structuring defilement discourses: food (and the relationship to animals), religion, nationalism and gender. Media articles and videos portrayed Western and Eastern countries through contrasting images and elicited a range of reaction in readers and viewers. The discussion reflects on how borderline racism can be an appropriate concept to understand the appearance of hygienic othering of specific subgroups on social media. Theoretical implications and recommendations on a more culturally sensitive approach of media coverage of epidemics and pandemics are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the discourse of folk medicine concepts in contexts of historicity, the social environment, and scientificity category interfaces. One of the essential features of folk medicine is its intra-disciplinary nature, necessitating basing the already-mentioned categories on a context analysis of theoretical and practical approaches to folk medicine. The article consists of four parts, which correspond to the approaches of discourse analysis on the concept of folk medicine. The first part presents the anthropological evaluation of folk medicine approaches to the social environment, historicity and scientificity. The second part highlights the context of the historicity of folk medicine, which raises the question whether folk medicine is an endangered legacy or a changing tradition? The third part analyses the expression of folk medicine in approaches to the coverage of the social environment: from village to city, from nation to humanity. The fourth part leads to an evaluation of the interfaces between folk medicine and scientificity as a problem of rationality/irrationality. In conclusion, it is emphasised that by presenting the discourse of folk medicine concepts in the already- mentioned segments (social environment, historicity, scientificity), folk medicine’s theoretical and practical expression is evaluated in contexts of today’s and past experiences [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I present the hegemonic concept of childhood in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries among the Polish community of West Prussia. The subject of the analyses was the content of articles dealing with children's issues, published in the local Polish press. The essential feature of the hegemonic discourse of childhood for the Polish community in the analysed region was that it was clearly based on the Catholic religion and national ideas, as well as on a strong relationship with the conservative and post-feudal image of family relations. The conducted research made possible the identification of seven basic categories of the hegemonic understanding of childhood in the Polish environment of West Prussia, which are: Polish and Catholic childhood, childhood sensitive to the needs of others, heroic childhood, tidy and pupil childhood, neat and orderly childhood, childhood based on obedience and subordination, sexual purity childhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the historical context of the implementation of the Peace Agreement, signed in 2016 between Colombian State and the FARC-EP guerrilla, a case of verbal aggression is analyzed in a public debate with radicalized positions in favor of and against the signed Agreement. Using ELAN 5.0 software, selected sections of the radio debate between an academic and a lawyer which took place in July 2018 were transcribed, focusing on acts of verbal aggression. The categories emerging from the inductive analysis of the transcription are contrasted and related to explanatory precategories from ethological studies on aggression. The case is approached from an interpretive and interdisciplinary perspective of discourse analysis, whose main technique consists of dismantling discursive mechanisms that produce meaning. The results show that accusations and challenges can be interpreted as verbal mechanisms that lead to violence during public disputes. The conclusions emphasize that both the accusations and the verbal challenges have political implications in relation to the difficulty of overcoming the Colombian armed conflict. The ethology of human aggression contributes to the field of anthropological and linguistic reflection on the use of language in hostile interactions within specific sociocultural, historical and situational environments. This reflection is one that leads us to wonder about the influence, the explanatory character, and the limits of sociobiological dispositions in the development of hostile interactions, although this interpretation does not necessarily imply the adoption of a deterministic view of social behavior.

Despite the promise to save every life, the COVID‐19 pandemic has exposed social and racial inequalities, precarious living conditions, and engendered an exponential increase in overdose deaths. Although some lives are considered sacred, others are deliberately sacrificed. This article draws on the theoretical work of Foucault and scholars who further developed his concept of biopolitics. While biopolitics aims to ameliorate the health of populations, Foucault never systematically accounted for the unequal value of lives. In the name of saving the biological lives of people who use drugs (PWUD) during the pandemic, the harm reduction movement has emphasized the need for safe supply, decriminalization, and housing; governments have started implementing these measures, which were previously rejected as utopian and unrealistic. Paradoxically, the use of drugs itself, and therefore the increased risk of death from overdose or other medical sequelae, is the only way PWUD can achieve enough visibility to be recognized as a life worth saving. The humanitarian rationale of harm reduction concerns itself with the biological life and stipulates social and political rights in the name of its sacredness. This is what anthropologist Fassin and others called biolegitimacy—the recognition of life reduced to its physiological, biological essence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the eve of the bicentenary of Brazil’s Independence from Portugal (1822- 2022), Jair Messias Bolsonaro’s rise to the Presidency of the Republic challenges the Brazilian people to witness the return of Christian ideology, from the XVI and XVII, as the orientation of the Brazilian Government in the XXI century. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE), the body responsible for promoting and defending Brazil’s interests abroad, the appointment of Ambassador Ernesto Araújo as Chancellor brought the Christian ideology to the epicentre of the orientation of Brazil’s foreign policy. In this same context, the number of assassinations of indigenous leaders in Brazil has configured a state of war, fuelled, among other reasons, by the absence of the demarcation of indigenous lands provided for in the 1988 Federal Constitution. In 2019, the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) held the “Indigenous Blood: not one drop more” in several countries on the European continent to denounce the genocidal practice of the Brazilian government. It is not common to establish a direct relationship between foreign policy and indigenous peoples. This article is part of a theoretical study, still preliminary, that aims to contribute to the expansion of the field of empirical observation in foreign policy analysis (APE) and points to the need to build an indigenist paradigm to the Brazilian foreign policy in light of the paradigmatic model proposed by Professor Amado Luiz Cervo. This involves the inclusion of the indigenous component in the formulation of national interest after the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988, as well as the validity of Convention 169, of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), concerning indigenous and tribal peoples. It is hoped that the inclusion of the indigenous component can contribute to other analyses of the formulation of national interest, not only in Brazil, but also in the other national states that are signatories of Convention 169/OIT.

My objective in this article is to identify what types of identities are constructed and claimed in the context of sociological interviews taken from parents who have decided not to vaccinate at least one of their children. Analyzing the interviews taken, I managed to show that one of the most prominent identities displayed and claimed in the interviews was that of the loving, responsible and rational parent. This constructive identity was based on several interpretative sub-repertoires such as: the transition from the ignorant and credulous parent to the knowing parent repertoire, the responsible and loving parent repertoire, the balanced medical decisions repertoire, the proper documentation repertoire, disclaimer of any anti vaccine militancy repertoire, rejecting any risk out of love repertoire. I concluded that this type of identity construction constitutes a restorative repertoire through which the parents try to regain the identity of the rational, responsible and loving parent and consequently reclaiming the uncontestable right of decision regarding their own children.

ObjectiveTo characterize how providers respond to patient mentions of complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) during routine oncology visits.MethodsEthnographic methods were used over a two and a half year period with 82 advanced cancer patients and their providers across four oncology clinics. Participant observation fieldnotes were analyzed using Discourse Analysis.ResultsCIM was mentioned in 78/229 (34%) of the total observed visits. Patients initiated talk about CIM (76%) more than providers (24%). Patients mentioning CIM may indicate a preference for or interest in non-pharmacological adjunctive treatment options. Providers' responses inhibited further talk in 44% of observations and promoted talk in 56% of observations.ConclusionHow providers respond may indicate their willingness to discuss a range of treatment options and to collaboratively engage in treatment decision-making. Provider responses that inhibited CIM conversation passed on the opportunity to discuss patient preferences, and responses that promoted further conversation helped counsel patients about appropriate CIM use. Promoting discussion did not require additional time or extensive knowledge about CIM.Practice implicationsProviders can facilitate high quality communication without endorsing CIM to help patients make treatment decisions and to evaluate CIM appropriateness in response to patient values and preferences.

Anthropology has rejected religiously based thought in its analysis from its inception. Now, due to developments in the anthropology of Christianity, 'theologically engaged anthropology' is inviting mutually productive interdisciplinary dialogue between anthropology and theology. What might anthropology look like, going forward, if the religious views of ethnographers were to be included in the production of ethnographies? Those in reflexive ethnography have already acknowledged that ethnographers' cultural backgrounds enter into representations of other cultures, and those in 'the ontological turn' are challenging anthropology's ontological assumptions through the serious consideration of their interlocutors' views. I suggest that there is value for the discipline in permitting discourses of ethnography and analysis that reflect the multiple, sometimes religiously-based, ontologies of ethnographers as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Post-Foucauldian discourse and dispositif analysis, a methodological approach inspired by the work of Michel Foucault and developed in Western Europe, over the last decade has gained an increasing amount of attention from Eastern European researchers. Yet, this interest has not been accompanied by sufficient reflection on the post-Foucauldian perspective's adequacy for studying power, governance, and subjectification in post-socialist societies. In particular, there is little criticism that would take into account the current discussion on Foucault's ambivalent attitude towards neoliberalism. The goal of this article is to examine this line of criticism of Foucault's late works and to point to its importance for dispositif analysis carried out in Eastern and Central European societies (e.g., Poland) in comparison to analyses carried out in Western Europe (e.g., Germany). I propose a number of methodological recommendations that aim at adapting post-Foucauldian research instruments to facilitate analyzing power relations in the post-socialist context; these include: an interdisciplinary combination of discourse analysis and an analysis of macroeconomic and macrosocial factors; an analysis of the practices of normalization in post-socialist societies with reference to the Center-Periphery relationship; introducing elements of semiology, anthropology of the contemporary and cultural identity analysis to dispositif analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study takes testimonies from hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) as data, to perform a discourse analysis of 1) the structure of testimonies and 2) how speakers' identities and viewpoints are presented therein. The testimonies examined proved to be compatible with Labov's framework of Abstract, Orientation, Complication, Internal Evaluation, and External Evaluation. Abstract and Orientation mainly appeared at the beginning, whereas External Evaluation was seen at the end, in closing. Moreover, narrators reinterpret the meaning of their experiences in their own ways, including their own value judgments from their own social and personal points of view. We expand Labov's framework by relating this aspect of value judgment to anthropological, psychological, and sociological frameworks of identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the Stamina case, one of the most controversial mediatic incidents of the last years in Italy, from an applied linguistic perspective. Through the analysis of a small corpus of texts published on the online version of Nature (Nature.com) between 2013 and 2014, it investigates how scientists, political and health institutions, the media, the patients and the public interact when faced with (pseudo)scientific news that may be relevant from a public health perspective. Based on selected sociological models of science communication (Bucchi 1998; Bucchi and Neresini 2008; Trench 2008; Hetland 2014; Metcalfe 2014; Neresini 2015), combined with methodological tools from critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 1995, 2003; Eisenhart and Johnstone 2008; Wodak 2013), argumentation theory (van Eemeren et al. 2004), and making reference to science popularisation studies (Calsamiglia 2003; Garzone 2006), the qualitative analysis shows how the communication pattern of scientific news with public health relevance is changing. Power relations are on the move and so are the aims, the communicative strategies and the genres employed. These are in fact influenced by a growing interaction between bottom-up pressures (patients, families, the public, the media) and a topdown diffusion of information (scientists, political and healthcare institutions, the media) with the latter prevailing over the former. From the data collected, it seems crucial that the dissemination and popularisation of scientific issues should be further spread. Scientists must counter propaganda and hysteria on (social) media, as well as engage more directly with people (Hunter 2016) in order to oppose pseudoscience.

In the last ten years, studies on cultural production have dramatically increased in number and in the variety of issues embraced. The focus on production instead of consumption gives more opportunities to study the intertwined processes involving institutions, discourses, media, social agents, material culture and practices. This editorial introduces briefly the essays presented in this issue, which includes contributions analysing the cultural construction of a neighbourhood and the relative feeling of belonging, the cultural construction of the category of ‘music festival’ and the relative practices, a study on Italian radio dramas, and two essays focusing on as many specific fields of cultural production – literature and the arts. The distinctive quality of this monographic issue of LCM lies in its multidisciplinary approach and in the complementarity of the articles it features.

Based on fieldwork (2016-2018), this paper provides the discourse analysis of the interviews with people of Bosniak ethnicity originating from Serbia and Bosnia, currently living in Berlin. The paper investigates the role of personal networks - meaning primary and extended family, friends, co-ethnics, etc. - in supporting the Bosniak migrants in the period from the Bosnian war 1992-1995 until today. By using content analysis, the thematic inventory embedded in the transcribed utterances is extracted and commented upon. It is argued that these utterances and the themes around which discourse was built shed new light on the role of personal networks in migration. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 178010: Jezik, folklor, migracije na Balkanu]

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Objective/context: In recent years, the paradigms that historically justified anthropological exhibitions have been the subject of in-depth review, related, among other factors, to a re-linking of the discipline with museums and the active presence of communities demanding the exercise of a right over heritage. At the same time, within the framework of the most participatory trends, audience studies have become an area of research with a major impact on institutional management. In this article, we intend to contribute to enriching a field of reflection that brings anthropological heritage in museums and the theory of social representations into dialogue, through a particular experience regarding exhibitions of human remains (HR), based on the case of Museo de La Plata (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina). With nineteenth-century characteristics, for some years this institution has been developing new policies around bio anthropological collections of American origin, which were withdrawn from exhibition. Methodology: This is an ethnographic-qualitative study that seeks to understand and analyze the set of social representations, and their dispersion and articulation, which appear in the discourse of visitors. The interviews were subjected to discourse analysis, based on the semiotics of statements. From a constructivist perspective, a relational model was configured that articulates the components of argumentation to define semiotic worlds, preserving their dispersion and identifying trends or patterns. Conclusions: The results made it possible to model the relational system that underpins the arguments and to identify trends in visitors' discourse: according to the recognition of the subject of the claim, the status given to HR and the conception of the museum. Originality: Reflections on a subject of political, ethical and anthropological transcendence, such as the exhibition of human remains and mummified bodies, find in audience studies one of the knowledge strategies that most contribute to the construction of a dialogical model, leaving room for controversy, contradiction and the multiplicity of glances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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