Search results for " dialog"

Understanding illnesses through a film festival: an observational study

2019

Abstract Audio-visual materials play a fundamental role in the context of education, care and clinical treatment, as they seem to have a high impact on public awareness. This study aims to describe what messages are perceived by the society at an International Festival of Short Films and Art on Diseases that may help to understand difficult topics, such as illness, dying and suffering. Through an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study, using full participant observation and an open, self-administered questionnaire, 32 short films were analysed during a healthcare art festival. Categories were developed using inductive content analysis. The message perceived by the participants, a…

Being a good neighbour: developing intercultural understanding through critical dialogue between an Australian and Finnish cross-case study

2020

Language educators in Australia and Finland are expected to foster intercultural understanding within foreign language education. This paper presents findings from a qualitative case study focusing on theoretical and practical intercultural understanding in secondary school language education. The data for this study includes lesson observations as well as student and teachers interviews collected in two secondary schools in Australia and Finland. The findings demonstrate the complex resources teachers and students draw on to develop and share intercultural understanding. The discussion addresses the value of different perspectives and the need for a new metaphor to conceptualise intercultu…

How do people talk decades later about their crisis that we call psychosis? : A qualitative study of the personal meaning-making process

2019

Psychosis refers to a severe mental state that often significantly affects the individual’s life course. However, it remains unclear how people with the lived experiences themselves view these phenomena, as part of their life story. In order to evaluate this personal meaning-making process, we conducted in-depth life-story interviews with 20 people who had been diagnosed with non-affective psychosis 10 to 23 years previously in one catchment area. 35% of them were still receiving mental health treatment, and 55% of them were diagnosed with schizophrenia. Only a minority named their experiences as psychosis. On the basis of narrative analysis, two types of stories appeared to encompass how m…

(Im)Politeness and interactions in Dialogic Literary Gatherings

2016

Abstract This article examines the interactions that occur in Dialogic Literary Gatherings (DLG), a cultural activity in which low literate adults read and debate classic literature. To respect the principle of egalitarian dialogue, participants agree on how to communicate and reflect on their communicative patterns. We analyse the actual interactional behaviour of participants and the pragmatic traits that evidence how this principle is implemented by identifying dialogic and power interactions in connection to (Im)politeness. This study shows the influence of the situated genre (DLG) over status in the prevalence of politeness and how the participants use polite mitigation strategies that…

Interfaith Dialogue in Christian Norway: Enactment of Inclusive Religiosity as Civilized Behavior

2017

Despite sparse scholarly attention from non-activists, Scandinavian interfaith fora are gaining momentum as a response to societal transformations of increased migration, world conflicts, and politically motivated violence. Combining theories of interaction, ritual performance, and civilizing processes, the article conducts a case study of public interfaith meetings held by a local interfaith forum in Kristiansand in Norway. Analyzing the meetings as organized cultural encounters, the study explores the transformative aspects of the events and it points to how the enactment of civilized forms of cross-cultural religiosity created within and by these public interfaith meetings is interlinked…

Noslēdzies projekts Eiropas Dialogi

2003

Paroda Johann Christoph Brotze “Johano Kristofo Brocės (1742-1823) Livonijos piešinių ir aprašų kolekcija Latvijos universiteto Akademinėje bibliotek…

2018

The Center of Intercultural Dialogue of Academic Library of University of Latvia as a tool for developing Latvian-Georgian relations

2019

Ethnicity, 2009/1 : Politics of Recognition

2009

"Ethnicity" publishes original research papers on the problems of social sciences (sociology, political sciences, linguistics, social psychology, law, history), as well as review articles, information on conferences and scientific life.

Inserti metrici nel «De eodem et diverso» di Adelardo di Bath

2010

La prima parte del saggio è dedicata alla figura e all’opera di Adelardo di Bath, importante maestro, filosofo e letterato inglese del XII secolo. Alla luce dell’ampia bibliografia, viene ripercorsa la vita e l’attività dello scrittore, soffermandocisi, in particolare, su alcune delle sue opere più significative, quali le «Questiones naturales», il «De avibus tractatus» e gli scritti scientifici e astronomici. Nella seconda parte si indugia invece sul «De eodem et diverso», dialogo d’impostazione “boeziana”. Dell’opera vengono presentati trama e contenuti, viene brevemente analizzata la dedica a Guglielmo vescovo di Siracusa e, nell’ultima sezione del saggio, viene fornita un’ampia e attent…