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Chaka, Molelekeng Theresia. "The narrative of abuse in Sesotho." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50503.
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Thesis (MA) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2005.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines data from account-giving in Sesotho. Am account-making process
according to Warren (1989), is more like a "life in motion" in which individual characters
are portrayed as moving through their experiences, dealing with some problem in their
lives and at the same time diligently searching for a resolution. It is then this quest to
understand the major stresses in each individual's mind that is at the core of this study.
The reasons that lead to the result of the daily experiences of destitution, depression,
death, disability etc, are also addressed here.
Narrative accounts form the basis of moral and social events and as such, stories have
two elements through which they are explored. They are explored firstly in the way in
which they are told and secondly, in the way they are lived in the social context. These
stories follow a historically or culturally based format, and to this effect, Gergen (1994)
posited narrative criteria that constitute a historically contingent narrative form. Narrative
forms are linguistic tools that have important social functions to satisfactorily fulfil such
needs as stability narrative, progressive narrative and regressive narrative.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek data oor verslagdoening in Sesotho. 'n Verslagdoeningsproses is
volgens Warren (1989) soos 'lewe in beweging', waarin individuele karakters voorgestel
word as dat hulle beweeg deur ervarings, en een of ander probleem in hulle lewe
aanspreek, en terselfdertyd soek na 'n oplossing. Dit is hierdie soeke om die spanninge te
verstaan in die denke van elke individu wat aan die kern van hierdie studie lê. Die redes
wat lei tot die resultaat van die daaglikse ondervindings van eensaamheid, depressie,
dood, gestremdheid, ens. word ook beklemtoon in hierdie studie met verwysing na
Sesotho verslagdoenings.
Narratiewe verslagdoening vorm die basis van morele en sosiale gebeure, en as sulks,
vorm dit die twee elemente waardeur hulle ondersoek word. Dit word ondersoek, eerstens
deur die wyse waarop dit vertel word en tweedens, deur die wyse waarop dit beleef word
in die sosiale konteks. Hierdie stories volg 'n histories of kultureel-gebaseerde formaat en,
tot hierdie effek, het Gergen (1994) narratiewe kriteria gepostuleer wat 'n histories
afhanklike narratief vorm. Narratiewe vorme is linguistiese gereedskap wat belangrike
sosiale funksies het om behoeftes te vervul aan stabiliteit narratiewe, progressiewe
narratiewe, en regressiewe narratiewe.
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Yau, Wing-kit Vicky, and 邱穎潔. "Representing illness: patients, monsters, andmicrobes." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3786726X.
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Yan, Xiaoping. "A discourse analytical study of TV talk-show therapy." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/863.
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Docherty, Deborah. "The narrative approach to understanding the chronic illness experience /." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33459.
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This small exploratory study considers the use of the narrative approach in eliciting and understanding illness stories. The four participants, (two male and two female) range in age from 29 years to 74 years. They live with a variety of chronic illnesses (heart disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and Pick's disease). Narrative analysis of the four semi-structured transcribed interviews revealed four dominant themes: the emotional reaction to diagnosis; the role of stress in aggravating and coping with chronic illness; a view of death; the meaning attributed to illness.<br>A postmodern perspective is employed to explicate the social construction of the notion of chronic illness. A critique of the medical discourse regarding chronic health challenges is offered.<br>This study invites social workers to consider their position of power and privilege as they learn new ways of listening to illness narratives.
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Hunter, David McMorris. "Time, narrative and liberation discourse : a brief review and assessment of aspects of the recent hermeneutical writings of Paul Ricoeur." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14339.
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Bibliography: leaves 97-101.<br>The aim of this paper is, firstly, to consider a contemporary literary methodology, that of Paul Ricoeur, and secondly, to critique that methodology from the perspective of a sharply contextual approach, in association with a materialist theory of literature, such as that emerging from the South African context. Ricoeur's position is useful as a starting point because of the eclectic make up of his theory. His work includes aspects of the historical critical approach, psychoanalytic theory, structuralism, philosophy and a response to materialist thinking. We are, however, choosing to restrict ourselves to the more recent work of Ricoeur corresponding broadly to the period 1975-1990. In this period Ricoeur's concentration shifts from the hermeneutics of symbol to the hermeneutics of language.
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Mokapela, Sebolelo Agnes. "Account-giving in the narratives of abuse in isiXhosa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50237.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the theoretical work in articulating the motivations and conditions for
account-giving in isiXhosa in relation to image restoration. This emotional and behavioural
rehabilitation is done through accounts. In this context, accounts are similar to narratives
and can be retained at the level of private reflections or written as diary entries or for
others to read and refer to from time to time.
The account-making process according to Warren (1989), is like a "life in motion" in which
individual characters are portrayed as moving through their experiences, dealing with
some conflict or problem in their lives and at the same time searching for a resolution. It is
then this quest to understand the major stresses in each individual's mind that is at the
core of this study. The why questions that are the result of the daily experiences of
destitution, depression, death, disability, etc., are also addressed here.
The importance of the intelligibility of accounts is established with reference to Schank and
Abelson (1977) who contend that people construct accounts based on their knowledge
structure approach, causal reasoning and text comprehension. Thus, for an account to be
hounered, it has to be goal-oriented and coherent. In this study, the social-interactive
aspects of account-giving are investigated and it is discovered that severe reproach forms
involving personality attacks and derogatory aspects, elicit defensive reactions that result
in negative interpersonal and emotional consequences. The mitigation-aggravation
continuum is then examined with regard to the selection of the failure management
strategies.
Narrative accounts based on Mcintyre (1981) form the basis of moral and social events
and as such, stories have two elements through which they are explored. They are
explored firstly in the way in which they are told and secondly, on the way they are lived in
the social context. These stories follow a historically or culturally based format and to this
effect, Gergen (1994) suggested a narrative criteria that constitute a historically contingent
narrative form. Narrative forms are linguistic tools that have important social functions to
satisfactorily fulfil such as stability narrative, progressive narrative and regressive
narrative. According to Gergen (1994), self-narratives are social processes in which
individuals are realized on the personal perspective or experience, and as such their
emotions are viewed as constitutive features of relationship. The self-narratives used and
analysed in this study portray the contemporary culture-based elements or segments of a
well-formed narrative.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die teoretiese werke en die artikulasie van die motiverings en
kondisies vir verslag-making en verslagdoening in isiXhosa m.b.t. beeld-herstel ('image
restoration'). Hierdie emosionele en gedragsrehabilitasie word gedoen deur
verslagdoening. In hierdie konteks is verslae soortgelyk aan narratiewe en kan beskou
word op die vlak van privaatrefleksies of geskryf word as dagboekinskrywings.
Die verslagdoeningsproses, is, volgens Warren (1989) soos 'Iewe-in-beweging', waarin
individuele karakters voorgestel word as dat hulle beweeg deur hulle ondervindings waarin
hulle een of ander konflik of probleem aanspreek, en soek na 'n oplossing. Dit is hierdie
soeke om die hoofspanninge in elke individu se denke te verstaan wat die kern van hierdie
studie is. Die waarom-vrae wat die gevolg is van die daaglikse ondervindinge,
eensaamheid, depressie en gestremdheid, word ook aangespreek in die studie oor
narratiewe in isiXhosa.
Die belangrikheid van die verstaanbaarheid van verslae word ook ondersoek met
verwysing na Schank en Abelson (1977) se siening dat mense verslae konstrueer
gebaseer op hulle kennis, struktuurbenadering, kousale beredenering en teksbegrip. Dus,
vir 'n verslag om gerespekteer te word, moet dit doel-georiënteerd en koherent wees. In
hierdie studie, word die sosiaal-interaktiewe aspekte van verslagdoening ondersoek, en dit
word bevind dat erge verdedigingsvorme persoonlike aanvalle en verkleinerende aspekte
insluit wat verdedigende reaksies uitlok wat negatiewe interpersoonlike en emosionele
gevolge het. Die vermindering-vergroting kontinuum word ondersoek m.b.t. die selektering
van mislukking bestuurstrategieë.
Narratiewe verslae gebaseer op Mcintyre (1981) vorm die basis van morele en sosiale
gebeure, en as sodanig, het stories twee elemente waardeur hulle ondersoek word,
eerstens op die wyse waarop, en tweedens, op die wyse wat hulle beleef word in sosiale konteks. Stories volg In histories- en kultureelgebaseerde formaat. Gergen (1994) het
narratiewe kriteria voorgestel. Narratiewe vorme is linguistiese gereedskap wat belangrike
sosiale funksies het, insluitende stabiliteit narratief, progressiewe narratief en regressiewe
naratief.
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Lively, Beth. "Mediated depictions of child physical abuse : a narrative analysis." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864925.
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In recent years, the media have publicized the social problem of physical child abuse. This study examined three artifacts of physical abuse: the children's book Robin's Story, the popular song "Luka," and the television documentary Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse. Chapter One described each artifact and provided a literature review which detailed the writings about physical child abuse and artifacts discussing this topic. The chapter then posed research questions about how the artifacts viewed abused children and their abusers, the causes of abuse, and the solutions proposed for ending physical abuse.Chapter One finally discussed the narrative framework of rhetorical analysis used to examine the three artifacts. The narrative method used in this analysis employed three steps: 1) An examination of narrative structure, which discussed the plot of the story, the crucial points of the story and the events which supplemented those points, and the steps of breach, crisis, redress, and reintegration in the narrative; 2) An examination of narrative rationality, which talked about the completeness and true to life quality of the story and evaluated the reasons the rhetors gave for following the course of action endorsed by the story; and 3) An examination of narrative standards, including truth standard or how the narrative compares with what the audience believes is true; aesthetic standard or the grammar, setting, and characterization within the story, and ethical standard or the values expressed within the narrative. Chapter Two applied this framework to the children's book Robin's Story. Chapter Three viewed the popular song "Luka" through the narrative framework. Chapter Four discussed the documentary Scared Silent in terms of narrative analysis.Chapter Five then discussed the conclusions of the analysis for each artifact, artifacts discussing physical abuse, and for rhetoric. Some of the conclusions reached were that artifacts discussing physical child abuse should attempt to make their stories universal, that such artifacts need to distinguish between abuse and physical punishment, and that artifacts dealing with this problem must provide concrete courses of action to end physical abuse. This analysis concluded that, while narrative analysis provided the answers to the research questions, this framework needs to be made into a concrete method of rhetorical analysis to ensure that narratives are effectively evaluated. Narrative analysis was positive in this analysis, however, in that it supported the definitions of rhetoric as value, epistemology, motive, drama, meaning, and argument. This analysis found that, to end the problem of physical child abuse, rhetors must work with experts in this field and tailor artifacts from different perspectives to various audiences using different forms of media.<br>Department of Speech Communication
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West, Charles K. "An investigation of second-person narratives: the positioning of "you" in a therapy relationship." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45323.
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The purpose of this project was to study the second-person narrative tools used by one particular therapist-client pair in an on-going therapy relationship. One male therapist and one male client were each individually interviewed on five occasions. The first interview with each of them focused on their views of what it means to be a therapist, client, and in therapy. The next three individual interviews involved reviewing previously recorded therapy sessions, and asking the co-researchers (the therapist and client) to respond as if they were the other person in the therapy relationship. The final interview focused on their views of the research process and all the participants.
Using an instructional account informed by social constructionist language, the metaphor of narrative, and the decentering of the possessive "I" for the more relationally-oriented "you," I organized the data of the interviews into second-person narratives that seemed to be used by the client and therapist. One of the primary narratives the client used to make sense of the therapist was that the therapist was an "augmenter of the client’s processes." The client seemed to primarily position the researcher as someone doing "research, not therapy." Some of the narratives the therapist used to position the client included "someone needing to vent emotions," "carrier of labels and stories," "employer," and "seeker of options." One of the tools the therapist used to position the researcher was as a nontraditional "Supervisor."
Some narratives seemed to fit into broad categories such as "self-as-same" and "self-as-different." However, the more salient understandings that seemed to develop out of this study have been derived from the co-researchers’ perceptions of how this project became a part of the therapy relationship and, therefore, what might be said about how therapy is usually conducted. More specifically, the process of this study invited reflection on how the therapy conversation has been traditionally divided into two conversations, a therapy conversation and a supervision conversation. I propose there are some benefits in viewing these usually separated conversations as parts of one conversation.<br>Ph. D.
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Maxwell, Justin Kennedy. "An exploration of constructions of masculinity : a narrative study of young Zulu men's stories of 'being a man'." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015763.
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Previously understood as a fixed and universal set of behaviours social constructionists are now arguing that masculinity is contextual and fluid, reflecting a multiplicity of different understandings. Within any 'cultural environment' the discourse of masculinity, culturally and historically bound, expresses attitudes and behaviours that shape the understanding of what it means to be a man. Adopting a narrative approach and analysis this research explores the stories of six Zulu men in seeking to elicit the aspects of their masculinity and show how these men negotiate an identity 'position' from the social narratives available to them. It was found that while the ideal Adult (responsible) man contrasts with the Young man's ('isoka' ) position there is a consistently hegemonic and patriarchal notion of masculinity.
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Somlata, Zakhile. "An analysis of account on marriage in isiXhosa." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1596.
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Teixeira, Ana Maria. "Questões sociocientíficas na sala de aula de ciências no ensino fundamental na perspectiva do agir comunicativo." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2016. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/2047.
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Neste trabalho, buscou-se analisar o envolvimento argumentativo de estudantes em sala de aula, com o desenvolvimento de proposta educacional envolvendo questões sociocientíficas. Essa proposta foi composta por atividades educacionais que abordavam dimensões científicas, tecnológicas, políticas, econômicas, sociais e ambientais no processo de geração de energia elétrica, considerando as relações entre Ciência, Tecnologia, Sociedade e Ambiente. Ao longo da pesquisa, procurou-se desenvolver o processo pedagógico considerando as seguintes questões: 1) Quais as características das interações discursivas desenvolvidas pelos alunos com abordagem de questões sociocientíficas em sala de aula? 2) Quais as possibilidades de alfabetização científica, de uma formação para o entendimento e acordo com o envolvimento dos alunos em situações de argumentação e problematização do conhecimento científico? Esta proposta possui fundamentos teóricos na Teoria do Agir Comunicativo de Jürgen Habermas, que concebe na linguagem um potencial para formação e emancipação do sujeito. Envolve também uma concepção de alfabetização científica para o entendimento e acordo e para o exercício da cidadania e questões sociocientíficas, associadas à argumentação. Os sujeitos participantes foram alunos de 9º ano na disciplina de Ciências em um colégio estadual paranaense, em 2015. Os dados foram constituídos por meio de gravações em áudio e vídeo, registros em diário de campo e trabalhos elaborados pelos alunos. Em seguida foram analisadas as interações discursivas por meio de uma abordagem metodológica de análise de conteúdo construída a partir do referencial teórico da Teoria do Agir Comunicativo. A análise desses dados permite destacar possibilidades de alfabetização científica, considerando a apropriação de conhecimentos científicos e o envolvimento em argumentação e proposições de alternativas a questões envolvendo as relações entre Ciência, Tecnologia, Sociedade e Ambiente. Entretanto, os resultados obtidos também apontam dificuldades na prática educacional em Ciências, para abordagem de questões sociocientíficas com o envolvimento comunicativo dos alunos; indicam a necessidade de um planejamento educacional que estimule e potencialize a interação comunicativa, para a formação de discentes e docentes.<br>In this work, sought to analyze the argumentative involvement of studenst in the classroon, with the development of educational proposal involving sócio-scientific issues. This proposal was constituted by educational activities that addressed dimensions of scientific, technological, political, economic, social and environmental in the electricity generation process, considering the relationship between Science, Technology, Society and Environment. During the research, sougth to develop the educational process considering the following questions: 1) What are the characteristics of discursive interactions developed by students with socio-scientific issues approach in the classroom? 2) What are the scientific literacy of possibilities formation for understanding and agreement with the involvement of students in argumentation situations and questioning of scientific knowledge? This proposal has its fundamentals in the assumptions of the Theory of Communicative Action by Jürgen Habermas, which conceives the language a potential for formation and empowerment of the subject. It also involves a concept of the scientific literacy for understanding and agreement and the exercise of citizenship and socio-scientific issues associated with the argument. The subjects in the research were Sciences students in 9º grade in a public school in the state of Paraná in 2015. Data was constituted of audio and video records and written records in a field diary. Then analyzed the discursive interactions through an approach methodological of analysis content built from the theoretical framework of the Theory of Communicative Action. The data analysis allows to highliht opportunities scientific literacy, considering the appropriation of scientific knowledge and involvement alternative proposals to issues involving the relationship between Science, Technology, Society and Environment. However, the results also indicate difficulties in educational practice in Science to approach socio-scientific issues with the involvement communicative of students. Indicate the need for an educational planning that stimulate and leverage the communicative interaction for the formation of students and teachers.
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Lopes, Marcia do Santos. "Os discursos sobre o trabalho em Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas: o honesto tear do romance machadiano." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2017. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/2544.
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Esta tese é uma Análise Dialógica do Discurso (ADD), de perspectiva bakhtiniana, a cerca dos discursos sobre o trabalho, na obra Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, de Machado de Assis, publicada em 1881. A investigação constitui-se como parte integrante do projeto de pesquisa “A formalização discursiva do universo do trabalho e da tecnologia em textos literários” e das discussões do grupo de pesquisa “Discurso sobre Tecnologia, Trabalho e Identidades Nacionais”, inserido na Linha de pesquisa Tecnologia e Trabalho, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia e Sociedade, da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, de viés interdisciplinar. Inicialmente apresentamos alguns discursos sobre o trabalho como atividade assalariada ou não, desde o século XIX: as vozes marxianas, de Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels e Paul Lafargue, seguidos de György Lukács, Herbert Marcuse, André Gorz, Richard Sennett, Christophe Dejours, Zigmund Baumann, Ricardo Antunes e Danièle Linhart, autores contemporâneos. A análise dialógica seguiu a linha teórica de Bakhtin e o Círculo: dialogicidade, alteridade, o signo ideológico, a intersubjetividade, o plurilinguismo, o gênero romanesco e a enunciação. Traçamos um perfil das relações de trabalho no Brasil oitocentista, dialogando sobre a História com autores como Boris Fausto, Sidney Chalhoub, Maria Sylvia C. França, Gilberto Freyre, Sergio B. de Holanda entre outros. Quanto ao horizonte social e cultural do autor fluminense, sua biografia e sua fortuna crítica, dialogaram críticos como Antonio Candido, Roberto Schwarz, entre outros. Objetivou-se trazer para análise, a partir da ideologia do cotidiano formalizada no romance, os diálogos, as contradições e os embates que ocorrem entre os discursos, como também perceber a positividade, a danação ou a negação do trabalho a partir da linguagem, na forma arquitetônica irônica do autor e nos elementos composicionais pertinentes ao romance, como as construções híbridas, a alternância de estilos e tons, a resposta antecipada, o riso reduzido e a sátira menipeia. A perspectiva metodológica da ADD conduziu a um corpus composto por três dimensões discursivas, que compõem a enunciação machadiana sobre o trabalho: o discurso do favor representado pela personagem Dona Plácida; o discurso da escravidão representado pela personagem Prudêncio e o discurso do trabalho imaterial ou do não-trabalho, representado pelas personagens Brás Cubas e Quincas Borba. Chegou-se às seguintes conclusões: a linguagem machadiana discursa veementemente sobre o trabalho no século XIX. Sua enunciação transita entre positivá-lo ou negativá-lo, reforçando a distinção entre trabalho material e trabalho imaterial. As atividades imateriais são vistas como positivas pela elite, porque, além de redundarem em não-trabalho, representam prestígio e ascensão. O escravo exercia a maior parte do trabalho e o agregado cumpria um papel de mediador, já que não pertencia a ninguém, mas precisava encontrar formas de sustentar-se. No discurso machadiano, o trabalho não é ontológico; ele é forma de sobrevivência, inclusive de um discurso, que mantém uma ordem social.<br>This thesis is a Dialogical Discourse Analysis (DDA), from Bakhtin’s perspective, about the discourses on work, in Machado de Assis’ work Posthumous Memories of Brás Cubas, published in 1881. The investigation was an integral part of the research project “The discursive formalization of the universe of work and technology in literary texts” and the discussions of the research group “Discourse on Technology, Work and National Identities”, inserted in the research line Technology and Work, of the Post-Graduate Program in Technology and Society, at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná, of an interdisciplinary bias. Initially we presented some discourses about work as an employed activity or not, since the nineteenth century: Marx’s voices, by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Paul Lafargue, followed by György Lukács, Herbert Marcuse, André Gorz, Richard Sennett, Christophe Dejours, Zigmund Baumann, Ricardo Antunes and Danièle Linhart, contemporary authors. The dialogical analysis followed the theoretical line of Bakhtin and the Circle: dialogicity, alterity, ideological sign, intersubjetivity, plurilingualism, romanesque genre and enunciation. We drew a profile of labor relationships in nineteenth-century Brazil, discussing history with authors such as Boris Fausto, Sidney Chalhoub, Maria Sylvia C. França, Gilberto Freyre, Sergio B. de Holanda, among others. As for the social and cultural horizon of the author from Rio de Janeiro, his biography and his critical fortune, there were dialogues among critics such as Antonio Candido, Roberto Schwarz, among others. The objective was to bring for analysis, from the ideology of everyday life formalized in the novel, the dialogues, the contradictions and the clashes that occur among the discourses, as well as to perceive the positivity, the damnation or the denial of the work from the language, in the author’s ironic architectural form and in the compositional elements pertinent to the novel, such as hybrid constructions, alternating styles and tones, the early response, reduced laughter and the menipeaen satire. The methodological perspective of DDA led to a corpus composed by three discursive dimensions, is composed of Machado de Assis´s enunciation on work: the discourse of ‘favor’ represented by the character Dona Plácida; the discourse of ‘slavery’ represented by the character Prudêncio and the discourse of ‘immaterial work’ or ‘non-work’, represented by the characters Brás Cubas and Quincas Borba. The following conclusions were reached: Machado’s language vehemently discourses on work in the nineteenth century. Its enunciation transits between positivizing it or denying it, reinforcing the distinction between material work and immaterial work. The immaterial activities are seen as positive by the elite, because, besides being redundant in non-work, they represent prestige and ascension. The slave practiced most of the work and the aggregate played the role of mediator, since it belonged to no one, but he needed to find ways to support himself. In Machado’s discourse, work is not ontological; it is a form of survival, including a discourse, which maintains a social order.
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Debiasi, Carlos Alberto. "O caso Santa Maria na TV: narrativa contemporânea como semiose." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2014. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1196.
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Este trabalho investiga elementos da narrativa jornalística contemporânea presentes na programação televisiva e discute o caráter híbrido das tecnologias da comunicação. A partir da análise de programas que retratam a tragédia acontecida na cidade de Santa Maria em janeiro de 2013,são utilizadas bases semióticas e analíticas no intuito de compreender referenciais comuns pelos quais esse tipo de comunicação opera na transmissão de suas mensagens e pontos de vista acerca do real. Traz como resultado a comprovação dos usos dessas estratégias de representação desses dentro do recorte analisado, o que serve como evidência da constante reafirmação de discursos generalistas a respeito dos fenômenos sociais, reeditados em novas bases tecnológicas.<br>This work investigates elements of contemporary journalistic narrative present in television
programming and discusses the hybrid character of communication technologies . From the analysis of programs that depict the tragedy that took place in the city of Santa Maria in January 2013,semiotic and analytical bases are used in order to include common reference by which this type of communication operates in the transmission of messages on reality . It brings as a result the evidences of representation strategies within the analyzed cut. The conclusion serves as evidence of the constant reaffirmation of general discourse about social phenomena, reissued in new technological basis.
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Gibson, Alexandra Farren. "Beyond coming out: lesbians' stories of sexual identity in the context of a historically white university." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002490.
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Substantial contributions have been made by lesbian and gay developmental theorists in understanding the development of lesbian and gay sexual identities, or what has come to be known as the coming out process. “Coming out of the closet” has become a central metaphor, in western contexts, for the recognisable process gay men and lesbians undergo in order to claim a relatively stable and enduring sexual identity, while overcoming obstacles such as heterosexism. Lesbians’ sexual identities are examined in this thesis through a Foucauldian lens which is fused with a narrative-discursive perspective. The aim of this study is not to trace a progressive development of identity, but rather to consider how lesbians in this study are located within a specific context, namely, a historically white university in post-apartheid South Africa, and how their identities are dynamic products of ever-shifting socio-historical spaces. Eight lesbians’ stories are analysed using the narrative-discursive method, which allows for a consideration for how the construction and negotiation of identities is shaped and constrained by social and discursive conditions. The women in this study do utilise the concept of coming out to some extent in their stories, but this narrative does not entirely account for their experiences. Instead, these women’s accounts reflect the way in which they personally experience heterosexism, and how they constantly negotiate their sexual identities within certain social and geographical spaces. When the nuances of lesbians’ contexts are taken into account, it becomes clear that claiming a lesbian identity is more than just about “coming out”, and rather about an on-going process of identity management.
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Costa, Ivonete Ferreira da. "INTERTEXTUALIZAÇÃO NA OBRA DE MARINA COLASANTI: O TEAR E O TECIDO." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2016. http://tede2.pucgoias.edu.br:8080/handle/tede/3563.
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Previous issue date: 2016-03-23<br>The text brings the analysis of aspects of the literary discourse as the processes of
construction of the scenes and the magical universe, in which the narratives of
Marina Colasanti are realized, having as it shows the tales of the works Doze reis e a
moca no labirinto do vento (2006): "The woman ramada", Uma ideia toda azul
(2006): "Beyond the frame", "Between the leaves of green ó" and "Yarn after yarn".
The general and specific objectives are to highlight and distinguish the
encompassing and generic scenes present in the narratives, to identify the nature of
the verbal sign in its relation to the nonverbal sign, and to analyze intertext
resources, paratext, among others, as an artistic procedure. The narrative plans are
approached, in which the characters are realized mimically, starting from the initial
assumption formulated by Dominique Maingueneau. Non-verbal language is an
invitation to read verbal language and vice versa. Both are associated with the signs
that are constructed through the textual writing: loom and fabric. They can be seen
now either explicitly or implicitly, and put in the service of a power that is realized by
the act of reading. Thus, in the narrative text, there are traces of a speech in which
the text is staged.<br>O texto traz a análise de aspectos do discurso literário como os processos de
construção das cenas e o universo mágico, em que se realizam as narrativas de
Marina Colasanti, tendo como mostra os contos das obras Doze reis e a moca no
labirinto do vento (2006): “A mulher ramada”, Uma ideia toda azul (2006): “Além do
bastidor”, “Entre as folhas do verde ó” e “Fio após fio”. Os objetivos geral e
específicos são destacar e distinguir as cenas englobante e genérica presentes nas
narrativas, identificar a natureza do signo verbal na sua relação com o signo não
verbal e analisar recursos de intertexto, paratexto, entre outros, como procedimento
artístico. Abordam-se os planos narrativos, nos quais se dá a realização dos
personagens mimeticamente, partindo do pressuposto inicial formulado por
Dominique Maingueneau. A linguagem não verbal é um convite à leitura da
linguagem verbal e vice-versa. Ambas se associam aos signos que se constroem
por meio da escritura textual: tear e tecido. Elas podem ser vistas ora de modo
explícito, ora implícito, e se colocam a serviço de um poder que se realiza pelo ato
de leitura. Assim, no texto narrativo, há rastros de um discurso em que o texto é
encenado.
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Ivashkevych, E., and Yuliia Chala. "To the problem of studying narrative levels of graphic novels." Thesis, 2019. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/46383.
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Nuckchady, Girish. "Courage in leadership: a narrative study." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21557.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management,
University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Johannesburg, November 2015<br>The purpose of this research is to explore the role of courage in leadership. A review of the relevant literature showed that leadership has been widely studied but is still not well understood while courage has scarcely been studied and is still diversely defined. It has been found that courage rarely has a place in leadership and management frameworks.
Leaders in Mauritius were interviewed on their experiences of courage. As this research is of exploratory nature, a qualitative design was adopted and unstructured interviews were used. A Narrative Analysis of the transcripts was carried out in a two-step process: Stories were extracted from the interview transcripts in a deductive manner using a three-dimensional approach consisting of personal, social and temporal dimensions. The stories were then inductively analysed to derive meaning from them using thematic and performative analysis.
This research has three main contributions. First, the manifestation of courage follows a cycle of four stages, starting from the Trigger Stage, followed by the Barrier Stage, Thoughts & Actions Stage and Ending Stage. Throughout the life of the leader, one cycle feeds the next cycle and so on. Furthermore, the contexts under which courage were displayed were: Change, Pro-Active Vision, Identity Tensions and Response.
Second, the following drivers of courage were identified: the external drivers Greater Cause, Support, and Sacrificing Something, and the internal disposition courage drivers Positive & Forward Looking, Self-Consciousness, Calculated Risk-taking, Values & Beliefs, Emotional Balance & Control, Prior Experience, Perseverance & Focus, and Ownership & Independency. The internal courage drivers activated in the transition between the Trigger and Barrier stages were equivalent to “Courage to Be” while the external courage drivers activated between the Barrier and Thoughts & Actions stages were equivalent to “Courage to Act”. Furthermore, it was found that leadership skills act as mere facilitators of courage and courage drivers need to be present to drive courageous acts. It was also seen that some of the drivers of courage are very close to qualities of authentic leadership.
Third, the research has made a methodological contribution in terms of the development of a systematic approach to the use of narrative analysis in management research.
The implications from the findings are that courage development cannot be excluded from leadership development and can start in schools as well as in organisations as an on-going process, and that the methods of analysis developed in this research can be applied.<br>MB2016
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Jobe, Theodore James. "Challenge sequence tellings: a case-study analysis of storytelling." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1336.
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"Hegemonic formation and public discourse: a case study of democratization in Hong Kong." 2005. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892570.
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Chan Chi Kit.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-213).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>List of figures --- p.vii<br>Forward --- p.viii<br>Chapter 1. --- Introduction: democratization of Hong Kong --- p.1<br>Chapter 2. --- Hegemony: its origins and formation --- p.7<br>Chapter i. --- The origins: Gramsci's ideas of Hegemony --- p.8<br>Chapter ii. --- Hegemonic formation and ideological interpellation --- p.11<br>Chapter iii. --- Discourse analysis and hegemonic formation --- p.14<br>Chapter 3. --- Formation of hegemony and public discourse: Arguments and criticisms --- p.20<br>Chapter i. --- Public discourse and media representation --- p.21<br>Chapter ii. --- Public discourse and social formation --- p.24<br>Chapter iii. --- Social formation and discursive struggles: an analytical model to contemplate hegemonic formation in public discourse --- p.32<br>Chapter iv. --- Criticisms and implication on resistance strategy --- p.40<br>Chapter 4. --- Research questions and methodology --- p.45<br>Chapter i. --- Formation of state hegemony in public discourse: an indicator --- p.47<br>Chapter ii. --- Methodology: textual analysis and documentation --- p.52<br>Chapter iii. --- Sampling of media text --- p.55<br>Chapter 5. --- Democratization of Hong Kong: A brief review --- p.61<br>Chapter i. --- Establishing the state ideological discourse --- p.62<br>Chapter ii. --- Democratization: before and after the handover --- p.63<br>Chapter iii. --- Hegemony and Hong Kong democratization --- p.73<br>Chapter 6. --- Never be a base of subversion': Chinese state discourse toward Hong Kong --- p.75<br>Chapter i. --- Discursive logic of China's state discourse: its background and formation --- p.77<br>Chapter ii. --- Discursive strategy of China's state discourse: building up authoritative and professional image --- p.90<br>Chapter iii. --- Establishment of China's state discourse: social formation and discursive struggle --- p.110<br>Chapter 7. --- Public discourse of Hong Kong: Before and after the handover --- p.128<br>Chapter i. --- Power structure and war of position in public discourse --- p.128<br>Chapter ii. --- Power structure and war of position in Hong Kong: before the handover --- p.130<br>Chapter iii. --- Power structure and war of position in Hong Kong: after the handover --- p.145<br>Chapter iv. --- Retreating resistance against China in public discourse --- p.163<br>Chapter 8. --- Elaboration of findings and extended discussion --- p.168<br>Chapter i. --- Social and discursive formation: application of the analytical model --- p.170<br>Chapter ii. --- Application of hegemony and policy implications --- p.184<br>Chapter iii. --- Professionals and hegemonic formation --- p.187<br>Chapter iv. --- Reflections on this thesis --- p.194<br>Chapter 9. --- Conclusion --- p.201<br>Reference --- p.206
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Lepselter, Susan Claudia. "The flight of the ordinary: narrative, poetics, power and UFOs in the American uncanny." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1611.
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Ledbetter, Forest L. "A narrative analysis of Captain America's new deal." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/30054.
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In response to the events on September the Eleventh, various media attempted to make sense of the seemingly radical altered political landscape. Comic books, though traditionally framed as low brow pulp, were no exception. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm to a specific set of artifacts: John Ney Rieber and John Cassaday's six-part comic series, collectively titled Captain America: The New Deal (2010). The question that is the focus of this thesis is: Does The New Deal, framed as a response to the events surrounding September the Eleventh, form a rhetorically effective narrative? The analysis that follows demonstrates the importance of meeting audience expectations when presenting them with controversial viewpoints.<br>Graduation date: 2012
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Gatonby, Ciara Ann. "Speaking about rape and societal discourses of rape in Johannesburg: a narrative analysis." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21816.
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A report submitted to the University of Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment of the
requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Sociology by Coursework and Research
Report
The Department of Sociology
The Faculty of Humanities
March 2016<br>Rape is an important topic of enquiry in South Africa due to the high incidences of rape and
the underreporting of the crime to legal authorities. This research is exploratory in nature and
is concerned with how the four women interviewed employ specific narratives to aid or
inhibit their ability to speak about their experience of being raped, and the ways in which
rape survivors position themselves within their own stories and societal discourses of rape. A
detailed analysis was done of the research available on hegemonic masculine power, societal
discourses and myths about rape, silencing and personal and public narratives. Through this
analysis rape is placed within a framework of patriarchy and control. Four female rape
survivors living in Johannesburg were found using targeted sampling, and were interviewed
using a recording devise and unstructured, one-on-one interviews. These interviews were
transcribed and coded, and then analysed using Thematic Narrative Analysis. Great care was
taken throughout the research process to ensure that it is ethical and that no harm was done to
any of the interviewees or anyone else. It was found that each of the interviewees came to
represent three distinct narratives, namely the stranger rape narrative, the date/acquaintance
rape narrative and the child rape narrative. These narratives appear to sometimes be in
tension and conflict with one another, creating confusion in the positionality and believability
of the rape survivor. It was also found that narratives are often employed as ways of defining
the experience of rape and challenging rape myths and public narratives of rape. The women
interviewed for the purposes of this paper drew attention to various themes within their
narratives, such as tensions between their own experience of rape and societal discourses of
rape, empowerment, safe spaces to talk about trauma, education, consent and control. Further
research could be conducted to explore this topic in greater detail and expand upon the
knowledge that was gathered and investigated in this research report.<br>MT2017
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"The subaltern public sphere of Hong Kong youth." 2005. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892573.
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Ho Man-sze.<br>Thesis submitted in: December 2004.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves [83]-[86]).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>List of Tables<br>Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1<br>Political versus Apolitical Youth --- p.1<br>Colonial Background of HK --- p.3<br>Political Aspirations of HK Youth --- p.4<br>Youth Studies in Political Participation --- p.7<br>Research Questions --- p.8<br>Significance of the Study --- p.10<br>Outline of the Thesis --- p.14<br>Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.16<br>Habermasian Public Sphere --- p.16<br>Basic Principles of Public Sphere by Jurgen Habermas --- p.17<br>The Potential Public Sphere for HK Youth --- p.19<br>The Subaltern Public Sphere of HK Youth --- p.25<br>Chapter Chapter 3 --- Research Methodology --- p.33<br>Questionnaire Survey: HK Youth Values 2002 --- p.33<br>The Political Attitude of HK Youth --- p.34<br>In-depth Interviews --- p.37<br>Chapter Chapter 4 --- Data Analyses --- p.41<br>Existence of Political Discussions --- p.41<br>A Subaltern Public Sphere of HK Youth? --- p.50<br>Chapter Chapter 5 --- Discussions and Conclusions --- p.73<br>Social and Political Discussions Found --- p.73<br>The Possible Arena of Subaltern Public Sphere --- p.74<br>Domination within a Subaltern Public Sphere --- p.75<br>Co-existence of Dominant and Subaltern Public Sphere --- p.76<br>Interactions with the Wider Publics --- p.77<br>Contributing the Democratic Development of HK --- p.78<br>"Broadening the Definition of ""Subaltern""" --- p.79<br>Summary --- p.81
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Black, Timothy G. "Individual narratives of change in therapeutic enactment." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15067.
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This study investigated the subjectively constructed narratives of individual
change for lead persons in a Therapeutic Enactment (Westwood, Keats & Wilensky, in
press). Narrative investigation of Therapeutic Enactment to date has not been conducted
and, as such, the study is important to the field of counselling psychology and the further
development of Therapeutic Enactment. In terms of both theory and practice the study
expands our understanding of the complexities of the change process in Therapeutic
Enactment. It also provides the unique personal contexts related to change and it
provides concrete examples of what actually changes in the lives of lead persons in
Therapeutic Enactment. In this study, the co-researchers consisted of 4 female lead
persons and 2 male lead persons, who had taken part in their own Therapeutic Enactment
at a residential retreat on the outskirts of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The co-researchers
were interviewed in-depth using person-centred narrative interviewing
techniques, combined with semi-structured interview questions.
Five narratives were written in the first person focusing on the subjective
experience of individual change in Therapeutic Enactment. Each narrative was returned
to the respective co-researcher for editing and validation at which point co-researchers
removed portions of the narratives they did not want included in the study and then added
or amended content that they did want to be included in the study. The principal
researcher made the requested changes and then returned final copies of the narratives to
each of the co-researchers. The final narratives are presented herein.
The co-constructed narratives indicate that lead persons in Therapeutic Enactment
experienced change on six general levels including body sensations, emotions, behaviours, thoughts, relationships and spiritual connection. This study provides an in-depth
examination of the subjective narratives of individual change in Therapeutic
Enactment.
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Horne, Felicity June. "Discourse, disease and displacement : interrogating selected South African textual constructions of AIDS." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3898.
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This thesis explores the theme of displacement in AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome)-related discourse in post-apartheid South Africa in the period 1994−2010. It contends that the subject of AIDS and the AIDS-ill is seldom confronted directly in the discourse, but displaced in various ways. Using the theory of social constructionism and the
discourse theory of the French poststructuralists, particularly Michel Foucault, selected
texts, both literary and non-literary, are subjected to discourse analysis, in which the
interrelationships between linguistic and visual representations of AIDS, practice,
knowledge and power relations are examined. Recognising that all representations are to some extent displaced constructions, the
thesis investigates additional reasons for the particular kinds of displacement of AIDS seen
in AIDS discourse. These include stigma, fear, defensiveness and the enduring power of preexisting
discourses onto which AIDS is grafted. In narratives by and about the AIDS-ill, personal stories are displaced when mythical structures are used to give meaning to what could otherwise be viewed as futile, random suffering. As a result of the different displacement devices employed in AIDS discourse, new meanings of AIDS are constructed,
related to the social, political and cultural context out of which they have arisen. The thesis comprises five chapters, each of which explores a different form of displacement. In Chapter 1, 'Displacing AIDS through Language', the focus is on language as a form and means of displacement; Chapter 2 'Politicising AIDS' explores the way that AIDS discourse is projected onto the larger, well-established discourse of politics, and specifically on the discourse of 'the struggle' against apartheid; while Chapter 3, 'Satirising AIDS', considers the way that satirists displace AIDS through irony, exposing the contradictions and absurdities inherent in the discourse. Chapter 4, 'Gendering AIDS', shows the extent to which AIDS-relared discourse is articulated to gender-related issues such as unequal power relations between men and women and stereotypical views of women's identities and 'proper' roles. The final chapter, Chapter 5, 'Narrating AIDS', deals with the discourse of personal illness narratives, showing how individuals displace the experience of illness through narrative, often using the structures of myth to give meaning to their experience.<br>English Studies<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (English Studies)
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Corry, Wendy-Anne. "Michael's story : love and vulnerability in a close relationship." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/581.
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Being in love in a close relationship is contingent upon biological, intrapsychic, social and cultural
events. Understanding these processes has implications for stability and health in individuals
families and society. Various dimensions of love are considered as converging on a more basic
concept of vulnerability as a part of the human condition where both love and vulnerability are
experiences which shape individual development growth, interdependence and survival or the lack
thereof. The objective of this study is to capture the dilemmas which underlie love and
vulnerability in a qualitative study. The method is a case study of a story using narrative analysis
and the relation of theory to experiences revealed in the story. Analysis included observation of
the major premises, setting, structure, images and voices in the story and theories included Lee's
(1977) theory of love, Sternberg's (1986) triangular theory of love, attachment theory, social
construction, psychobiological theory and phenomenologal theories of love. A summary finds that
most theories infer vulnerability as an underlying dimension in processes of love and that
vulnerability as a characteristic in human mortality may be implicated in love experiences.<br>Psychology<br>M.A. (Psychology)
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Niehaus, Elonya. "Narratives of relationships/marriages." Diss., 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/641.
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Religious and cultural discourses shape relationships/marriages. The constructed
nature of relationships/marriages opens the possibility for alternative relational
realities. Positioning relationships/marriages in alternative discourses assisted the
couples to construct a preferred relationship narrative. Three couples embarked on
this feminist participatory action research journey - a couple from the Jehovah's
Witnesses tradition,' a couple from the Dutch Reformed Church and a couple from a
Gay Refonned Church. Conversations with the participating couples deconstructed
their relationships. It also enabled the couples to co-author alternative, preferred
realities of their relationships/marriages and to provide rich descriptions of these.<br>Practical Theology<br>M. Th. (Pastoral Therapy)
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Ferreira, Kate. "A discursive analysis of the narratives emerging from coverage of rape in South African newspapers." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21997.
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Research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Art (Journalism and Media Studies), Johannesburg, 2016<br>Rape is a predominant crime and a social issue in South Africa today. South Africa’s
incidence of rape is among the highest in the world. Identifying and understanding the
dominant rape narratives in news media is useful in pinpointing how the media represents the
crime of rape. It is understood through agenda-setting theory that news media plays an
important role in how topics come onto the national agenda, giving news media a particular
influence in society. Further, through discourse analysis and narrative theories, research has
shown how what people read and hear can influence their understanding of those matters, and
can drive social change or maintain the stability of social structures. Some theorists take this
further, arguing that narrative fundamentally informs how humans make sense of the world,
that reality is discursively constructed. The research below attempts to access, reveal and
unpack these dominant narratives as they pertain to rape, using a combination of corpusbased
analysis and critical discourse analysis techniques on two corpora of South African
newspaper text from the first quarter of 2013, and tied to a specific case study, the rape and
murder of Anene Booysen. The resultant findings also provide a snapshot of the dominant
ideology and social practices in South Africa over the time period studied, as discourse and
narrative are implicitly tied to power in society<br>GR2017
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Moleba, Eliot Mmantidi. "Marikana youth: (re)telling stories of ourselves and our place." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22238.
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This is a research report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Diversity Studies, in the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.<br>Prior to and immediately following 1994, South African youth literature has largely focused on atypical groups, especially young people’s participation in political protest and violence (Marks 2001; Ntsebeza 1993; Seekings 1993; Straker 1992; Van Kessel 2000). The challenge for new research is to grapple more broadly with the question of how young people construct ordinary lives and identities amid the changing and transforming socio-cultural, economic and political landscape. As such, this study aimed to focus on the ordinary, quotidian narratives of youth in an extraordinary place of Marikana, where the massacre of striking mineworkers took place in 2012.
Face-to-face, individual interviews were conducted with 8 participants (aged between 19 and 31 years) living in Marikana, including people who were born in or had migrated to Marikana. Both structural and thematic analyses were used to analyse the transcribed texts. The structural analysis was used to examine how poverty plays a role in the form of stories told. The thematic analysis focused on the content of the narratives, drawing linkages across participants’ stories to understand how they make meaning of events and experiences in their lives. The themes identified were organised as follows: Marikana (nostalgia about the place of Marikana, and belonging to the place of Marikana), childhood in Marikana and elsewhere (growing up in Marikana, and growing up elsewhere), families and their structure (single-parent headed and transnational families, (grand)mothers as pillars of family, and (inter)generational absence/presence of fathers), education (lack of funds for schooling), and possibilities for the future (dreams and futures deferred, and fantasies of escape).
The findings indicate that the trauma and violence of the Marikana Massacre was remarkably marginal in their narratives. Instead, participants stressed poverty as a systemic problem that is far more pervasive in how they (re)produce(d) their stories. This core finding reveals poverty as a perpetual structural violence, a repeated state of trauma that is inflicted on their lives and reflected in their stories. Further findings show that many biological fathers are absent in the lives of their children, mostly due to migration or death. Consequently, sons follow in their fathers’ footsteps, leaving their new families behind (some becoming transnational parents). This produces a prevalent intergenerational absence of fathers in Marikana. As a result, mothers and grandmothers are the main breadwinners and emotional pillars of the family.<br>MT2017
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Murove, Tapfuma. "Representation and reality : a sociological exposition of ethical issues that arise from how identities of children are constructed using narratives and photographs in humanitarian discourse." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3201.
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A question addressed in this study is; how are identities of children constructed using
narratives and photographs in humanitarian discourse? This study is a sociological
exposition of ethical issues that arise from representations of children within
humanitarian discourse. Humanitarian discourse is treated as a special type of cultural
representation. This discourse entails uses of a special form of language that constructs
represents and portrays stereotypical identities of children. Such cultural representation
illustrates how children’s identities are socially constructed realities. Constructions of
realities of children are shaped, influenced and ‘controlled’ by intentions of humanitarian
professionals as social actors. Humanitarian professionals’ actions as agents are also
located within socio-cultural structures and contexts that give rise to the humanitarian
discourse. This means reality is not ‘unified’ but a product of intentional and conscious
inter-subjective human actions in specific contexts. Such is an assumption of
phenomenological sociological theory that situates this study. This assumption also
influenced qualitative research methods of this study. Qualitative methods emphasise the
significance of individual perceptions and interpretations when analysing social issues.
Identified ethical issues arise from practical program situations causing humanitarian
professionals to collect children’s narratives and photographs in the first instance. Those
situations include; conducting child focused researches, designing children’s programs,
writing child rights advocacy articles and policy briefs, marketing children’s issues,
media publishing, writing project proposals, monitoring and evaluating projects. Ethical
issues that arise from the above include; violations of children’s privacies, lack of
informed consent to collect and use children’s narratives and photographs, uses of
enticements to induce information from children, disclosures of sensitive data,
exaggerations, sensationalising and manipulations of children’s identities. Based on study
findings, knowledge or academic contribution situated within phenomenological
sociology is proposed. The study’s knowledge contribution is that constructions of
children’s identities reveal how perceptions and interpretations of identities create
socially determined realities within humanitarian discourse.<br>Sociology<br>D. Phil. (Sociology)
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Otto, Paul Bernard. "A participatory inquiry into cultural and religious discourses that either silence or promote gay voices." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1257.
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This study is an inquiry into discourses which influence gay people's lives. Foucault's ideas regarding knowledge, power, discipline, discourse and sexuality form the epistemological background enabling a social constructivist-deconstructive analysis of these concepts in relation to the problem of homosexuality. The theological origins of influential discourses form the focus of one chapter. Additional discursive fields - such as psychology, education, the military and legislature - are also investigated.
Besides the research initiator, three other participants shared their experiences of being gay in a conservative religious context. The narrative analysis spawned five themes of discourse ranging from homophobic discourses - which invite oppression into silence - through reverse-discourse, to those discourses which encourage free expression of gayness. The study seems to support a Foucauldian view that there are various influential power-relations which contest for the right to define human sexuality. Judging from the study, homosexuals do not appear to be powerless or completely silenced at all.<br>Practical Theology<br>MTH - SPEC PAST THERAPY
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Pokothoane, Mokhele Wilfred. "Challenging trading traditional disciplining structures in a girl's high school in Lesotho : Exploring alternative ways of doing pastoral care." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4610.
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This research concerns disciplinary practices within a school system in
Lesotho. The school that has been researched is a girl’s high school in
Maseru (the capital of Lesotho). The school belongs to the Anglican Church.
I (the researcher) am a Mosotho man and an English and Religious Studies
teacher in this school. For a while I have been concerned about the way
punishment happens in the school, often leaving girls feeling shamed and
powerless in the face of authority. I have also noticed that these disciplinary
practices are losing their effectiveness, in that girls are showing resistance to
the system. In other words corporal punishment, which has been the
traditional form of discipline, is proving ineffective in today’s world. The
researcher also considers this form of discipline abusive of power. It is in the
light of this that I worked within this system, both with pupils, as well as
teachers, to explore alternative practices that might work with pupils, that
are respectful of all parties concerned. The research is a participative action
research, using collaborative narrative practices in working with both
students and staff at the school.<br>Practical Theology<br>M. Th. (Pastoral Therapy)
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Meiring, Lieze Fredericka. "Renouncing racism in a Dutch Reformed congregation." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17432.
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The Dutch Reformed Church provided the theological justification for Apartheid since 1948 and contributed to discourses of racism and cultural hegemony. In this research narrative conversations were used to confront racism prevalent among many Dutch Reformed congregants. Social discourses, created through language, marginalised and oppressed people of Colour in South Africa. In this project, narrative conversations were used to deconstruct these oppressive racial discourses. Antjie Krog's book on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's work, Country of my skull, confronted the congregants with the painful and dehumanising effects of Apartheid. Externalising conversations assisted congregants to face their guilt and the unjust discourses trapping them. In addition, this deconstruction empowered the congregants to challenge racism and cultural hegemony by living more ethical lives.<br>Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology<br>M. Th. (Practical Theology (Pastoral Therapy))
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Imrie, Jina. "A social constructionist re-conceptualisation of adolescent delinquency." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/656.
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Available literature reveals that most prevalently delinquency has been viewed from a modernist perspective. However, as cybernetic epistemology increased its stronghold within the field of psychology, explanations became increasingly systemic in nature. In this study a literature review is presented which articulates these approaches. This critique is followed by a comprehensive consideration of
delinquency from a social constructionist stance as an alternative to modernist and early cybernetic perspectives. Examples are provided as to possible ways in which the label "delinquency" evolves within an interpersonal context, as well as the ways in which the meaning engendered is linked to broader cultural discourses. It has been acknowledged that this does not constitute the social constructionist perspective on delinquency, but represents some challenging
ideas about how delinquency is co-created between people. Implications for therapy and research are also discussed.<br>Psychology<br>M.A. (Clinical Psychology)
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Fourie, Jerry. "Die stories en storiemoontlikhede van christelike geloofstaal in `n dominant-gereformeerde geloofsgemeenskap." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1005.
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Text in Afrikaans<br>Individuals can be deemed weaklings within the family relations by social discourse that claims that the value of a human being is measured by his productivity and mobility. Parkinson's disease in its turn has a paralysing effect on the mobility of the physical body. The above-mentioned social discourse on the one hand and Parkinson's disease on the other hand become a dominant story that "paralyses" the individual.
During research someone who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, related how she wrote an alternative story. This person, who practices a reformed spirituality, wrote an alternative story by using Christian faith language, which, in the end, halted the marginalising effect of Parkinson's disease.
In this study the concerned participant had the opportunity to share her genuine experiences and her application of Christian language of faith to manage Parkinson's disease.<br>Practical Theology<br>M. Th.
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Viljoen, Hester Josephina Isabella. "Rekindling hope: deconstructing religious power discourses in the lives of Afrikaans women." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1553.
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This qualitative action research was activated at the junction between three
sites of operation of modern power: the site of the woman in the family,
religious and cultural power discourses and the professional discourses of
therapy. Using an action research design for this study focused the research
on reaping benefits in real terms for the research participants. The researcher
applied a postStructuralist, feminist and narrative approach to the
phenomenon of failed personhood as manifested in the lives of two White
Afrikaans women. Narrative therapy methodologiElS, steeped in a religious
studies ethic were valuable guides on the therapy-as-research journeys,
ensuring the exposure and deconstruction of dominant cultural and religious
power discourses.
In the course of the therapeutic and research journeys, various narrative
therapy methodologies were used with positive effect on the life world of the
participants. These methodologies included the externalisation of problems
and the discovery of unique outcomes that constitute alternative, preferred life
stories that contradict problem-saturated life stories of failed personhood. The
research participants engaged in individual and communal conversations, relanguaging
their self-narratives and religious narratives as part of the coconstruction
of their preferred identities of moral agency and hope.
Support networks were created for the research participants, Mara and Grace,
to strengthen their new self- and religious narratives and to dislodge the
power of the normative cultural and religious discourses of rugged
individualism. In one instance, the researcher incorporated the healing power
of South African bush veld, by inviting a group of women on a series of
expeditions into the wilderness as part of Mara's journey. fn Grace's
narrative, we utilised the modern technologies of the internet to connect her
with a virtual response team and the Anti-Anorexia/Anti-Bulimia League.
Storytelling and reflecting conversations formed the basis of the therapy-asresearch
processes. The research participants extended therapy
conversations beyond the therapy room, by actively participating in their
therapy-as-research journeys. In line with narrative approaches, the
researcher encouraged them to honour their skills and knowledges on their
journeys: Mara extended her therapy by making resistance quilts while Grace
assimilated her art, poetry and resistance writing into her healing process.<br>Religious Studies and Arabic<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (Religious Studies)
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Amoore, Neil John. "Deconstructing dominant stepfamily narratives : freeing silent voices." Diss., 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17585.
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Stepfamilies are shown by existing research as having multiple problems unique to this type of
family, some of which include role ambiguity, role strain, role captivity, increased stress and
adjustment problems in children.
Stepparents are portrayed as evil, abusive and wicked in the media, literature or film, while
stepchildren are variously portrayed as victims, naughty and manipulative.
These popular perceptions of stepfamilies appear to be shaped by myths or dominant narratives which
serve to shape stepfamily member's experience of and roles in the reconstituted family.
Drawing on the work of postmodernism, social constructionism and the narrative
theorists this study will expose those dominant narrative or myths which shape the experience of
two stepfamilies.
Using an emergent design, the experiences of these two families is described in an attempt to
highlight some of the implications such an approach holds for both further research and
psychotherapy.<br>Psychology<br>M.A. (Psychology)
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Day, Penelope Joy. "Renegotiating identity : re-authoring narratives post infidelity and divorce." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1586.
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This qualitatively oriented Practical Theology research journey, informed by postmodernism and social constructionism, was based on a narrative enquiry into the healing and renegotiation of identity of five "faithful spouses" post infidelity and divorce. These conversations occurred within a small group context, where narratives were spoken and witnessed (pastoral therapeutic gatherings), and were aimed at enabling the participants to remember and re-author preferred identities and new ways of being. This dissertation attempts to bring together the narratives of the participants, the literature, narrative therapy and pastoral care.
My research curiosity was prompted by my mother's experience of divorce, and by the myriad number of conversations I have had with both "infidels" and "faithful spouses" in my pastoral practice. This research journey examines the process of co-creating, along with my fellow travellers (research participants), a viable model of divorce recovery in the face of infidelity and divorce.<br>Practical Theology<br>M.Th. (Pastoral Theology)
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Bosman, John-Eduard. "Reinterpreting the spiritual relationships of gay men in Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2503.
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This study explores how gay Christian men in the pentecostal/charismatic movement reinterpret their spirituality as a reaction to the discourse about homosexuality in this movement. The spiritual experience of gay men is contextualized within the particular emphasis on individual experience found in pentecostal/charismatic spirituality. Practical theological research is conducted within a postmodern discourse set in context of a Participatory Action Research project. A narrative therapeutical approach served to identify harmful discourses and encourage the continuing deconstruction of such discourses.
The extent to which power/knowledge relationships affect gay Christians' spiritual relationships became apparent. Conflict between the church's discourse about homosexuality and the gay Christian appears to start a process of deconstruction of fundamentalist pentecostal/charismatic hermeneutical approaches to the Bible. The research process facilitated a process of reconstruction of gay spirituality and created opportunities for spiritual and social growth. This research may inspire gay Christian voices in pentecostal/charismatic circles to become heard.<br>Practical Theology<br>M.Th.
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PECOVÁ, Lenka. "Ty jsi Hospodin, jak se ti líbí, tak činíš." Master's thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-52941.
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This paper is concerned with synchronic analysis of the biblical text. The text has been analyzed according to various narrative methods, as presented in the manual by J. L. Ska. The Book of Jonah is an extremely complex and elaborated text. It is basically a narration, determined by a precise Hebrew syntax. In the Book of Jonah, we may find three interlaced plots. This fact makes of the book, one of the shortest books in the Old Testament, a precious literary masterpiece. The most secondary literature affirms that the main theme of the Book consists in God{\crq}s grace and mercy. But the narrative analysis discovers also the importance of the prophet himself, who is a splendid image of the mankind, and his wonderful complexness.
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Robbertse, Ilse. "Deconstructing the myth of HIV/AIDS : one man's story." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3404.
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HIV/Aids is a worldwide pandemic and as South Africans we are at the epicentre of this global health crisis. The harrowing statistics are useful as a means to quantify a horrific situation; however, what these facts do not do is provide connection amidst the uncertainty surrounding the disease. This research aims to bridge the disconnection and break the silence that weaves a net around the illness and those infected by it. This is done by deconstructing one man’s story of his journey with HIV; by looking at his personal epistemology; and by contextualising his story within his family and within the society in which he lives, South Africa. Finally, it is my reflections and interpretations that form the bridge between a construct of HIV/Aids and a life lived with the disease.<br>Psychology<br>M. A. (Clinical Psychology)
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Van, de Laar Deborah Jane. "Insiders or outsiders? Pastoral care with Christian gay women in a Methodist congregation." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1227.
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This qualitatively oriented Practical Theology research project was based on a narrative inquiry into the spiritualities of six gay women who are related to Northfield Methodist Church, which is situated in Benoni, Gauteng. These conversations occurred within a small group context, and were aimed at co-authoring preferred ways of being both gay and Christian. Toward the end of the research journey, I asked each participant to prepare a written text that would summarise their experience of being simultaneously gay and Christian, so that by hearing their own stories of their journey, they would be able to find a voice. As these women are usually marginalised in the Methodist Church, I invited various groups to audience their stories. This research report records the beginning of my journey into working towards the complete acceptance of gay and lesbian Christians into the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.<br>Practical Theology<br>M. Th. (Pastoral Therapy)
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Malherbe, Nick. "Experiences of the resistances to violence using participatory documentary film making." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27489.
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Over the last four centuries, South Africa has been shaped by the twinned, dialectical
histories of violence and resistance to violence. However, because both violence and
resistance encompass myriad formations and are underlain with a plethora of ideologies and
hermeneutics, studying each - particularly from within critical community psychology - is
oftentimes necessarily didactic and reductive. Yet, if this kind of research is to retain
emancipatory potential, I contend, it should be both community-oriented and politically
committed. In an attempt to understand how violence moves through Thembelihle, a low income community in South Africa, an expansive lens for conceptualising violence and
resistance is advanced across this research’s four studies. In Study I, I use discursive
psychology to examine how Thembelihle has been constructed in dominant discourse by
analysing newspaper reporting on the community. Following this, in Study II and Study III, I
draw on multimodal discourse analysis to study representations of quotidian life and political
resistance in a participatory documentary film entitled Thembelihle: Place of Hope, which
was collaboratively produced by residents of Thembelihle, professional filmmakers and
myself. Lastly, in Study IV, I harness the narrative-discursive approach to explore how
residents of Thembelihle build community in response to Thembelihle: Place of Hope. It was
found that within dominant constructions, Thembelihle was personified as a monolithic and
an essentially Other geo-cultural space, made newsworthy principally through its engagement
with a broad, often vaguely-conceived, notion of violence. In response to dominant discursive
constructions of this kind, community members who featured in and produced the
documentary advanced a humanistic conception of Thembelihle which did not accept the
different violences to which the community is subject. Following this, audiences of the
documentary engaged the affective and political dimensions of community-building in order to advance a democratically conceived notion of collective will. These findings present
critical community psychologists and violence scholars with a number of considerations
around representation; the multitudinous nature of violence and resistance; psycho-politics; and radical hope. Ultimately, I argue, if such research is to be meaningful, it must be guided
by and subordinated to the emancipatory requirements articulated by community members.<br>Psychology<br>D. Litt et Phil (Psychology)
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Von, Krosigk Beate Christine. "Facilitating forgiveness: an NLP approach to forgiving." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1480.
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Facilitating forgiveness: an NLP approach to forgiving is an attempt at uncovering features of the blocks that prevent people to forgive. These blocks to forgiveness can be detected in the real life situations of the six individuals who told me their stories. The inner thoughts, feelings and the subsequent behaviour that prevented them from forgiving others is clearly uncovered in their stories. The facilitation process highlights the features that created the blocks in the past thus preventing forgiveness to occur. The blocks with their accompanying features reveal what needs to be clarified or changed in order to eventually enable the hurt individuals to forgive those who have hurt them. The application of discourse analysis to the stories of hurt highlights the links between the real life stories of the individuals within their contexts with regard to unforgiveness to the research findings of the existing body of knowledge, thereby creating a complexly interwoven comprehensive understanding of the individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviours in conjunction with their developmental phases within their socio-cultural contexts.
Neuro-linguistic-programming (NLP) is the instrument with which forgiving is facilitated in the six individuals who expressed their conscious desire to forgive, because they were unable to do so on their own. Their emotions had the habit of keeping them in a place in which they were forced to relive the hurtful event as if it were happening in the present. Arresting the process of reliving negative emotions requires a new way of being in this world. The assumption that this can be learnt is based on the results from a previous study, in which forgiveness was uncovered by means of the grounded theory approach as a cognitive process (Von Krosigk, 2000). The results from the previous research in conjunction with the results and insights from this research study are presented in the form of a grounded theory model of forgiveness.<br>Psychology<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)
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De, Klerk Willem Christian. "Rekonstruksie van lewe na egskeiding." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/582.
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Text in Afrikaans with summaries in Afrikaans and English<br>Despite the fact that many people in South Africa are affected by divorce, not much research is
done on divorce recovery.
This study on divorce recovery is shaped by a feminist theological perspective and a postmodem
social constructionist discourse. As qualitative research, narrative group work was embarked on
over a period of a year with five women who went through divorce. Through therapeutic letters
different themes emerged. These themes formed the focus for each chapter and are enriched by
relevant literature reflections.
In the first chapter the stark reality of divorce in South Africa, the discursive positioning,
epistemology and research methodology are discussed, and the stories of the participants are told.
Divorce is deconstructed by the participants as resistance to patriarchy and not only an interpersonal
crisis. The majority of claimants in divorce cases in South Africa are women.
The dominant oppressive biblical discourse that divorce is always sin is reconstructed. An
alternative religious discourse is co-constructed amongst the participants: that divorce under certain
circumstances is God's will for women who are caught in humiliating and oppressive marriages.
The various spheres of life that women reconstruct after divorce are discussed. These include:
• practical matters such as the legal proceedings, housing and finances
• emotional reconstruction where emotions such as fear. senses of guilt, and rage from a
feminist perspective view are discussed.
• reconstruction of social relations which includes aspects such as the relation with the former
husband, family, new male friends and children
• spiritual reconstruction which includes a feminist perspective on the Bible, sin, the will of
God, and also a divorce ritual
• the reconstruction of identity.
Finally the five participants' reconsructed stories are told.<br>Ten spyte daarvan dat baie mense in Suid-Afrika deur egskeiding geraak word, word daar nie veel
navorsing oor egskeidingsherstel gedoen nie.
Hierdie studie oor egkeidingsherstel word gedoen vanuit 'n feministies teologiese perspektief en 'n
sosiale konstruksieteorie diskoers. Oor 'n tydperk van 'n jaar is deur middel van kwalitatiewe
navorsing saam met vyf vroue wat deur egskeiding geraak is, groepswerk gedoen. Uit die
terapeutiese briewe wat geskryf is het verskillende temas uitgekristalliseer. Hierdie temas het die
grondslag gevorm vir elke hoofstuk wat deur 'n relevante literatuurstudie aangevul is.
In die eerste hoofstukke word die harde werklikhede van egskeiding, die diskoersposionering,
epistemologie en navorsingsmetodiek bespreek. Die verhale van die deelnemers word vertel.
Egskeiding word deur die deelnemers dekonstrueer as weerstand teen patriargie en nie net 'n
interpersoonlike krisis nie. Die meerderheid eisers in egskeidingsgedinge in Suid-Afrika is vroue.
Die onderdrukkend dominante Bybelse diskoers dat egskeiding altyd sonde is word rekonstrueer.
'n Alternatiewe godsdienstige diskoers, dat egskeiding vir vroue wat in vernederende en
onderdrukkend huwelik vasgevang is, onder sekere omstandighede die wil van God kan wees, word
saam met die deelnemers rekonstrueer.
Die verskillende lewensterreine wat vroue na egskeiding rekonstrueer, word bespreek. Dit sluit in:
• praktiese aangeleenthede soos die regsproses, behuising en finansies
• emosionele rekonstruksie wat emosies soos angs, skuldgevoelens en woede word vanuit 'n
feministiese perspektiefbespreek
• spirituele rekonstruksie wat 'n feministiese perspektief op die Bybel, sonde, die wil van God
en 'n egskeidingsritueel insluit
• die rekonstruksie van identiteit
Ten slotte word die vyf deelnemers se nuwe verhale vertel.<br>Practical Theology<br>D.Th. (Pastoral Therapy)
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Bannerman, David Hugh. "The subversion of patriarchy: exploring pastoral care with men in the Church of the Province of South Africa on the East Rand." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1365.
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This dissertation is concerned with pastoral care with men in the Anglican Church. It is grounded in the rapidly changing post-apartheid years in the East Rand region of South Africa.
It seeks to explore through participatory action research the negative effects of patriarchy as a discourse of power and entitlement on the lives of men of differing cultures in South Africa as victims and perpetrators of abuse.
It also seeks to explore ways of pastorally caring with men through the creation of participative care groups that enable personal stories of men to be told, invitations to responsibility for abuse made, and the negative effects of patriarchal cultural and theological discourse deconstructed, and alternate understandings of masculinity constructed and performed.
The work is done from a contextual theology, pro-feminist perspective, and collaborating with postmodern philosophers Derrida and Foucault, the social anthropologist Bruner and the narrative therapists White, Epston and Jenkins.<br>Practical Theology<br>M. Th. (Practical Theology, Specialisation in Pastoral Therapy
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Botha, Carolina Stephanusina. "Reconstructing rainbows in a remarried family : narratives of a diverse group of female adolescents 'doing family' after divorce." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/986.
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This research journey investigated the ways in which (1) the lives of adolescents have been influenced by parental divorce and subsequent remarriage, (2) exploring the relationships participants have with biological, nonresidential fathers and (3) to collaboratively present ways of doing family in alternative.
Four adolescent girls took part in group conversations where they could were empowered to have their voices heard in a society where they are usually marginalized and silenced. As a result of these conversations a family game, FunFam, was developed that aimed to assist families in expanding communication within the family.
Normalizing prescriptive discourses about divorce and remarriage were deconstructed to offer participants the opportunity to re-author their stories about their families. The second part of the research journey explored the problem-saturated stories that these four participants had with their biological, nonresidential fathers. They deconstructed the discourses that influenced this relationship and redefined the relationship to suit their expectations and wishes.<br>Practical Theology<br>M.Th.