0-In contemporary media scholarship, the concept of intertextuality is used to descrihe hoth an interpretive practice of audiences and a stylistic device consciously employed by producers of media. This study examines how the frequent, scholarly conflation of these two conceptions has weakened the theoretical usefolness of hoth perspectives. Turning to the view of intertextuality as s!Jlistic d...

In the spirit of trying something new, we abandoned the traditional interpersonal process recording for an entirely new way to teach students about communication--an interpretive research group. We propose the interpretive research group as a strategy for teaching communication and analysis that encourages active student-faculty participation, provides for more egalitarian student-teacher relat...

The present paper takes the position that social action inherently involves meaning and, thus, cannot be adequately modeled without representing the interpretive process among agents. The development of interpretive models is challenging, however, and quickly raises issues of computational tractability. A strategy is developed based on three assumptions (agent focus, continuity reduction and or...

(2004). Using an interpretive research group to teach communication and understanding in undergraduate psychiatric/mental health nursing students. Abstract: An interpretive research group based in existential phenomenology is used to facilitate student learning about skills central to nursing-communicating, listening, and a genuine understanding of "the other"-in an undergraduate psychiatric-me...

nowadays, the audience plays a key role in the interpretation of cultural products including movies. thus, discovering how the audience make sense of and interpret things can lead us to the social world underlying such interpretations. women are among audience who could have different readings based on their cultural and generational experiences and background. based on the interpretive paradig...

this paper presents a different explanation and perception of essence and function of the “national security strategy document”, based on general framework of practical and interpretive approaches to the philosophy of politics and social science. then based on the already concept, it is explained that, “national security strategizing” , and shaping of an integrated and unitary reading and inter...

This paper discusses how an interpretive theory of action was explored and developed through iterative cycles of grounded theory generation. We establish our motivation for employing the grounded theory method in an area that is overflowing with theories of learning, then move on to the practicalities of generating an interpretive grounded theory by following the "vapor trails" left by online l...