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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Shared meaning"”.
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Voices in discourse : re-thinking shared meaning in academic writing
… course to English I. The focus is on meaning exchange in context (discourse). The second involves biographical interviews with 13 students on the same course. Here the focus is on the transitions in their lives, and on their views on academic writing and identity. The emphasis is on …
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Voices in discourse: Re-thinking shared meaning in academic writing
… course to English I. The focus is on meaning exchange in context (discourse). The second involves biographical interviews with 13 students on the same course. Here the focus is on the transitions in their lives, and on their views on academic writing and identity. The emphasis is on …
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Creating shared meaning: Narratives of youth violence, mindfulness, and counselling psychology
This qualitative research study used a narrative inquiry approach to explore how young people who have engaged in violent and antisocial acts understand and make sense of this behaviour, and how these understandings relate to their views of self and the worlds they live in. Narrative interviews …
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The Role of Enviromental Education in Sustaining a 'Shared 'Meaning of the Lwiindi Gonde Ceremony
… The purpose of the study was to investigate the shared meaning of the Lwiindi Gonde ceremony and to establish the contribution that environmental education could make towards the sustainability of such a ‘shared’ meaning of the ceremony. The objectives of the study were to: describe the Lwiindi …
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The Role of Enviromental Education in Sustaining a 'Shared 'Meaning of the Lwiindi Gonde Ceremony
… The purpose of the study was to investigate the shared meaning of the Lwiindi Gonde ceremony and to establish the contribution that environmental education could make towards the sustainability of such a ‘shared’ meaning of the ceremony. The objectives of the study were to: describe the Lwiindi …
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Key elements of a quality literature program
… -- Comparison charts, study groups, journals -- Shared meaning.
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Social Integration in Agile User Experience: Building Social Capital in Agile User Experience Software Teams
… (QCA) were that: a combination of trust and shared meaning are associated with the impediment of knowledge construction and dissemination; a combination of lead governance, trust, and shared meaning are associated with knowledge dissemination; and a combination of lead governance and shared …
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If Words Could Speak: a Discourse Analysis of Emails from Global Virtual Teams
… to answer the questions how do GVTs construct shared meaning, understanding and a team culture through email interaction? How do members of GVT talk about work-related expectations? What are the cultural patterns at play in the discourse of GVTs? Results indicated that share meaning was …
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Investigation of the dynamic relationship between communication and shared interpretations: A networks approach
… of the relationship between social influence and shared meaning in organizations examined the dynamic implications of social influence theory and the theory of contagion to investigate how organizational members influence each others' interpretations about work-related issues. A dynamic …
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The digital self: A qualitative approach to studying female college students' use of social-networking platforms
… existing relationships;<br />• Construction of shared meaning through virtual symbols; <br />• Shapes self-value/self-worth; <br />• Evokes feelings, both good and bad;<br />• And wanting to be heard and understood.</p> <p>The essence of social-networking connection for these female participants …
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Personalized compassionate care : an appreciative inquiry exploring the positive core of Canadian health care
… of their stories and how the collectively shared meaning can be used to identify core values fundamental to sustaining a flourishing Canadian health care system. This study considers health care to be a complex system with inherent unpredictability where ideas for values-based …
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An empirical study of the fidelity of organziational accounting communication and the impact of organizational culture
… and evaluate behavior and to ascribe common meanings to events and symbols encountered in the organization. Organizations confine the experience and interaction of its members into structured and recurring patterns. As organization members interact, shared meaning for issues of common …
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Monstrosities, Money, & Machines: A Metaphoric Analysis of Fantasy Football as a Social World
… the premises needed to employ these terms and meanings. Finally, by analyzing these premises, terms, and meanings, 15 rules for communicative conduct emerged from the data and were found to be integral for shared meaning and understanding within the fantasy football speech community. The …
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Determining change in managerial practices implementation readiness in a gold mine
… performance management. It investigates if shared meaning exists between the views of the organisation's managers and the views of the organisation as set apart in a System for People handbook to be used by managers in the organisation. Managerial competencies are discussed and compared with …
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Voices from the margins
… for mental health services to restore personal meaning to their mental health. Open Dialogue is an approach to mental health services that facilitates shared meaning-making among service users and professionals. Aims: This study investigated how individuals currently engaged in an Open Dialogue …
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SEXUAL SCRIPTS AND AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF STEPHENS AND PHILLIPS’ (2003) HIP-HOP SEXUAL SCRIPTING MODEL WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE WOMEN
… women. In addition, it seemed that there was shared meaning among groups of participants regarding the important features of each script. It is suggested that the results have significant implications for theory and practice. Finally, this study provides important support for the use of Q …
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Performing the encounter; a practice-led inquiry
… interviewee, performer and audience, generates meaning and challenges pre-existing assumptions. The research situates verbatim theatre within broader discussions on ethics, presence, and relationality, considering how the form can resist simplification, create spaces for dialogue, and foster …
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Strangers in strange lands: a hermeneutic inquiry into becoming a journalist.
… mediated pursuit of researcher-researched shared meaning. A Reflective Hermeneutic Model was designed for this purpose. It sought to examine my relationship with journalistic tradition in relation to that of the former journalism students who now work in journalism. Indeed, I aspired to …
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Emotional Intimacy in Transition: Interpersonal Processes in Transgender-Cisgender Romantic Relationships
… intimacy influence how each partner assigns meaning to their experiences with transitioning? and (2) How do partners communicate about their emotional experiences during their transition process? Constructivist grounded theory was used to analyze individual interviews with 20 transgender and …
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Migration to new destinations: local migrant experiences in a globalised world
… shows how integration is a concept with no shared meaning. This is evidenced through state and civil society responses that place limits on migrants to apply their capabilities and fulfil their aspirations. Social reality does not match policy rhetoric of integration as a mutual two-way …
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