The Discourse Of Well Being In Late Modern Ireland

Author : Davide Mazzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : English letters
ISBN : 1527502147

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The Discourse of Well-Being in Late-Modern Ireland by Davide Mazzi Pdf

What makes individuals happy? What contributes to happy societies? What issues are perceived as critical to collective well-being? Psychologists, social and political scientists, and increasing numbers of economists have been preoccupied with questions like these for some time now. Rather than adding to available research from these areas, this book explores the concept of well-being through a different angle. It analyses people's discourse of well-being on the basis of a collection of letters to the editor from three national newspapers from late-modern Ireland. In this vein, the study provides empirical evidence of major themes of well-being from letter writers' viewpoint, and it sheds light on recognisable patterns of text structure and language use. In particular, the following research questions are addressed: What dimensions of social well-being can be isolated as the most important to readers-e.g., social justice, public health?; How does letter writers' discourse tend to unfold in relation to each of them? Overall, the overview of voices from opinionated contemporary readers presented in the volume is meant to serve as a benchmark for an integrated approach to the Irish public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Davide Mazzi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527502154

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The Discourse of Well-Being in Late-Modern Ireland by Davide Mazzi Pdf

What makes individuals happy? What contributes to happy societies? What issues are perceived as critical to collective well-being? Psychologists, social and political scientists, and increasing numbers of economists have been preoccupied with questions like these for some time now. Rather than adding to available research from these areas, this book explores the concept of well-being through a different angle. It analyses people’s discourse of well-being on the basis of a collection of letters to the editor from three national newspapers from late-modern Ireland. In this vein, the study provides empirical evidence of major themes of well-being from letter writers’ viewpoint, and it sheds light on recognisable patterns of text structure and language use. In particular, the following research questions are addressed: What dimensions of social well-being can be isolated as the most important to readers–e.g., social justice, public health?; How does letter writers’ discourse tend to unfold in relation to each of them? Overall, the overview of voices from opinionated contemporary readers presented in the volume is meant to serve as a benchmark for an integrated approach to the Irish public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Kieran Keohane,Anders Petersen,Bert van den Bergh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315447193

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Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents by Kieran Keohane,Anders Petersen,Bert van den Bergh Pdf

This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book addresses questions of how these conditions are manifest at both the individual and collective levels in relation to hegemonic biomedical and psychologistic understandings. Rejecting such reductive diagnoses, the authors argue that anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as other contemporary epidemics, are to be analysed in the light of individual and collective experiences of profound and radical changes in our civilization. A diagnosis of our times, Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents will appeal to a broad range of scholars with interests in health and illness, the sociology of medicine and contemporary life.

Author : Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192889492

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Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health by Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston Pdf

Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health explores the politicized role of sexual health as a concept, discourse, and subject of debate within Irish literary culture from 1880 to 1960. Combining perspectives from Irish Studies, Modernist Studies, and the Social History of Medicine, it traces the ways in which authors, politicians, and activists in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland harnessed debates over sexual hygiene, venereal disease, birth control, fertility, and eugenics to envisage competing models of Irish identity, culture, and political community. Analyzing the work of canonical authors (Yeats, Synge, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien) and less often discussed figures (George Moore, Oliver Gogarty, Signe Toksvig, Kate O'Brien) in conversation with medical, scientific, and legal writing on sexual health, it charts how the medicalization and politicization of sex informed the emergence and development of modernism in Ireland. At the same time, by reading this literary material alongside the polemical and journalistic writing of figures such as Arthur Griffith, Maud Gonne, and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, it also reveals the ways in which key events in Irish cultural and political history - the Parnell Split, the Limerick Pogrom, the Playboy riots, the passage of the Censorship of Publications Act - were shaped by ongoing debates and dilemmas in the field of sexual health. This book will benefit students, researchers, and readers interested in the history of sex and its regulation in modern Ireland, the impact of sex and medicine on Irish political history, and the nature of modernism's engagement with sex, health, and the body.

Author : Dorothy Porter
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0415200369

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Health, Civilization, and the State by Dorothy Porter Pdf

This book examines the problems of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain from the ancient world, through the medieval and early modern periods to the modern state.

Author : Audrey McNamara,Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030421137

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Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland by Audrey McNamara,Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel Pdf

This book is an anthology focused on Shaw’s efforts, literary and political, that worked toward a modernizing Ireland. Following Declan Kiberd’s Foreword and the editor’s Introduction, the contributing chapters, in their order of appearance, are from President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins, Anthony Roche, David Clare, Elizabeth Mannion, Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel, Aisling Smith, Susanne Colleary, Audrey McNamara, Aileen R. Ruane, Peter Gahan, and Gustavo A. Rodriguez Martin. The essays establish that Shaw’s Irishness was inherent and manifested itself in his work, demonstrating that Ireland was a recurring feature in his considerations. Locating Shaw within the march towards modernizing Ireland furthers the recent efforts to secure Shaw’s place within the Irish spheres of literature and politics.

Author : Sirpa Leppanen,Elina Westinen,Samu Kytola
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317230144

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Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities by Sirpa Leppanen,Elina Westinen,Samu Kytola Pdf

This volume serves as an in-depth investigation of the diversity of means and practices that constitute (dis)identification and identity construction in social media. Given the increasing prevalence of social media in everyday life and the subsequent growing diversity in the types of participants and forms of participation, the book makes the case for a rigorous analysis of social media discourses and digital literacy practices to demonstrate the range of semiotic resources used in online communication that form the foundation of (dis)identification processes. Divided into two major sections, delineating between the (dis)identification of the self across various social categories and the (dis)identification of the self in relation to the "other", the book employs a discourse-ethnographic approach to highlight the value of this type of theoretical framework in providing nuanced descriptions of identity construction in social media and illuminating their larger, long-term societal and cultural implications. This volume is a key resource for researchers, and students in sociolinguistics, discourse studies, computer-mediated communication, and cultural studies.

Author : James Riley
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785787904

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Well Beings by James Riley Pdf

James Riley, author of the cult hit The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, returns with another incisive and thought-provoking cultural history, turning his trenchant eye to the wellness industry that emerged in the 1970s. Concepts such as wellness and self-care may feel like distinctly twenty-first century ideas, but they first gained traction as part of the New Age health movements that began to flourish in the wake of the 1960s. Riley dives into this strange and hypnotic world of panoramic coastal retreats and darkened floatation tanks, blending a page-turning narrative with illuminating explorations of the era's music, film, art and literature. Well Beings delves deep into the mind of the seventies - its popular culture, its radical philosophies, its approach to health and its sense of social crisis. It tells the story of what was sought, what was found and how these explorations helped the 'Me Decade' find itself. In so doing, it questions what good health means today and reveals what the seventies can teach us about the strange art of being well.

Author : Alvin Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199549344

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History by Alvin Jackson Pdf

Draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring together 36 leading scholars writing about 400 years of modern Irish history

Author : Liam Harte
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198754893

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction by Liam Harte Pdf

Presents essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction that provide authoritative assessments of the breadth and achievement of Irish novelists and short story writers.

Author : Lauren Fonteyn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190917586

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Categoriality in Language Change by Lauren Fonteyn Pdf

This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes noun/nominal and verb/clause. In English, speakers have different options to refer to an event, ranging from that-clauses (That he had guessed her size) over infinitives (For him to guess her size) and verbal gerunds (Him guessing her size) to nominal gerunds (His guessing of her size) and deverbal nouns (His guess of her size). Interestingly, not only do these strategies each resemble "prototypical" nominals to varying extents, but also some of these strategies increasingly resemble clauses and decreasingly resemble prototypical nominals over time, as if they are gradually shifting categories. Thus far, the literature that has dealt with such cases of diachronic categorial shift has mainly described the processes by focusing on form, leaving us with a clear picture of what and how changes have occurred. Yet, the question of why these formal changes have occurred is still shrouded in mystery. In this book, Lauren Fonteyn tackles this mystery by showing that the diachronic processes of nominalization and verbalization can also involve functional-semantic changes in two steps. First, building on functionalist and cognitive models of grammar, she offers a theoretical model of categoriality that allows us to study diachronic nominalization and verbalization not just as morphosyntactic but also as functional-semantic processes. Second, she offers more concrete, "workable" definitions of the abstract functional-semantic properties of the nominal and verbal/clausal class, which are subsequently applied to one of the most intriguing deverbal nominalization systems in the history of English: the English gerund.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780198856153

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The Oxford Handbook of Irish English by Raymond Hickey Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland, featuring information on their historical background, structural features, and sociolinguistic considerations. The first part of the volume explores English and Irish in their historical framework as well as current issues of contact and bilingualism. Chapters in Part II and Part III investigate the structures and use of Irish English today, from pronunciation and grammar to discourse-pragmatic markers and politeness strategies, alongside studies of specific varieties such as Urban English in Northern Ireland and the Irish English spoken in Dublin, Galway, and Cork. Part IV focuses on the Irish diaspora, with chapters covering topics including Newfoundland Irish English and Irish influence on Australian English, while the final part looks at the wider context, such as the language of Irish Travellers and Irish Sign Language. The handbook also features a detailed glossary of key terms, and will be of interest to a wide range of readers interested in varieties of English, Irish studies, sociolinguistics, and social and cultural history.

Author : Malcolm Payne,Steven Shardlow
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781846423116

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Social Work in the British Isles by Malcolm Payne,Steven Shardlow Pdf

This ground-breaking book provides invaluable insight into the diverse nature of social work practice within the British Isles. It is written at a time of significant change, when there is devolution within the United Kingdom and also development of closer cross-border governmental structures with Ireland. It also comes at a time when national identity is a key issue. Far from presenting a unified picture of social work in these regions, the contributors show how varied practice provision can be, reflecting the importance of lessons that can be learnt from within and without national boundaries, promoting a more subtle understanding of the interweaving of culture, history and social care. The contributors explore key differences in social work's role and character, and the legal systems and organisational structures in which it operates in the different regions. This fascinating and important book is essential reading for social workers in the British Isles and all over the world. The focus and main value of this text is the comparison of how history, culture and national identity affect the provision of social care and social work practice in the different countries. The book is clearly written, with writers keeping to a similar structure for their chapters.

Author : Seamus Deane,Andrew Carpenter,Angela Bourke,Jonathan Williams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : English literature
ISBN : 081479906X

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The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing by Seamus Deane,Andrew Carpenter,Angela Bourke,Jonathan Williams Pdf

Author : Brian Graham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134749188

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In Search of Ireland by Brian Graham Pdf

In Search of Ireland examines the nature of the political economy and the exercise of power within the context of contemporary cultural geography.