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A Study on the Discourse of Family and Family Policy in the Legislative Process of Strong Family Act (건강가정기본법 제정과정에 나타난 가족 및 가족정책 담론)

  • Kim, In-Sook
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.59 no.3
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    • pp.253-280
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    • 2007
  • This study explores the discoures of family and family policy in the legislative process of Strong Family Act. Critical discourse analysis was used. The results are follows. The Strong Family Act made family issue as a political agenda in spite of much critics. The characteristics of the family discourse in "strong family camp": 1) The emphasis on the moral principle in family 2) denial of deinstitutionalization of family 3) regarding the family problem as a moral and individual problem 4) regarding the state as managing and controling the family. The characteristics of the family discourse in "critical camp": 1) strong family discourse is related to "the family" ideology 2) regarding the family problem as a social, structural problem 3) regarding the state as subsiding, supplementing families. The characteristics of the family policy discourse in "strong family camp": 1) casual efficiency as justifying logics 2) family policy as means to recover family values 3) deunifying the family policy. On the one hand, the characteristics of the family policy discourse in "critical camp": 1) social consensus and academic discussion as justifying logics 2) regarding the family policy as a means of gender equality and strategical point of welfare state expansion. The discourse of family and family policy, especially 'Strong Family Discourse" resulted in conjugation of nationalism and neoliberalism.

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Discourse Analysis for Robust Spoken Dialogue System (강건한 음성 대화 시스템을 위한 담화분석 기술)

  • Lee, Chung-Hee;Jang, Myung-Gil;Oh, Hyo-Jung;Seo, Young-Hoon
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.1005-1009
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    • 2010
  • Elliptical and anaphoric utterances occur frequently during spoken dialogue. Because discourse analysis rests on the basic premise that linguistic items cannot be understood without reference to the context, ellipsis and anaphora resolution plays an important role in discourse analysis. In this paper, we present a spoken dialogue system improving the robustness at dialogue level based on discourse analysis, such as anaphora and ellipsis resolution. The applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated in the TV domain.

The Influence Relation of People on Meme Theory Based Observation of Discourse Texts in Space Magazine (밈 이론의 관점으로 관찰한 공간지 담론계 텍스트의 인물 간 영향관계)

  • Yang, Wan-Seok;Seo, Eu-gene
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.59-68
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to measure and observe Memes of people in Korean modern architectural discourse. After extracting Memes from the text of 'SPACE' magazines, network analysis was used with the Memes which were obtained. The results of this study were as follows; 1. Korean modern architectural discourse field was influenced by people in order of American, French and Korean. 2. Korean modern architectural discourse field was influenced by people in order of Le Corbuiser, Mies Van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Kim Soogeun and Gilles Deleuze.

Investigating Science-Policy Interfaces in Japanese Politics through Climate Change Discourse Coalitions of an Environmental Policy Actor Network

  • Hartwig, Manuela G.
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.90-117
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    • 2019
  • How is science advice integrated in environmental policymaking? This is an increasingly pertinent question that is being raised since the nuclear catastrophe of Fukushima, Japan, in 2011. Global re-evaluation of energy policies and climate mitigation measures include discussions on how to better integrate science advice in policymaking, and at the same time keeping science independent from political influence. This paper addressed the policy discourse of setting up a national CO2 reduction target in Japanese policymaking between 2009 and 2012. The target proposed by the former DPJ government was turned down, and Japan lacked a clear strategy for long-term climate mitigation. The analysis provides explanations from a quantitative actor-network perspective. Centrality measures from social network analysis for policy actors in an environmental policy network of Japan were calculated to identify those actors that control the discourse. Data used for analysis comes from the Global Environmental Policy Actor Network 2 (GEPON 2) survey conducted in Japan (2012-13). Science advice in Japan was kept independent from political influence and was mostly excluded from policymaking. One of the two largest discourse coalitions in the environmental policy network promoted a higher CO2 reduction target for international negotiations but favored lowering the target after a new international agreement would have been set. This may explain why Japan struggled to commit to long-term mitigation strategies. Applying social network analysis to quantitatively calculate discourse coalitions was a feasible methodology for investigating "discursive power." But limited in discussing the "practice" (e.g. meetings, telephone, or email conversations) among the actors in discourse coalitions.

Recent Research Trends in Dementia Discourse : Tasks, Transcription and Measures (치매환자 담화분석의 최근 연구동향 : 과제, 전사 및 측정요인)

  • Kim, Bo Seon;Kim, HyangHee
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.9
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    • pp.351-363
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    • 2015
  • Discourse analysis is useful for examining discourse characteristics of dementia patients and differentiating them from normal adults. However, inconsistent tasks, transcription methods and measures have been utilized, thus analyses were inevitably unsystematic. The purpose of this study was to investigate tasks, transcription methods and measures of discourse studies in dementia. Studies on dementia discourses written in English were collected via Scopus database containing abstracts and citations from 2005 to 2014, and were analyzed in detail. From the results, the most frequently used task was 'storytelling-topic'. It was observed that use of consistent transcription conventions rendered more reliable transcription data. Measures could be categorized into coherence, cohesion, productivity, propositional syntactic lexical analysis, and fluency, and each category belonged to discourse processing levels (i.e., processing of conceptual networks, propositions, and natural language units). In conclusion, future research warrants not only utilization of discourse tasks depending on dementia types and features, but also application of consistent transcription conventions. Additionally, measures based on the discourse processing theory would enable us to systematically interpret discourse studies.

Social Discourse Analysis on Title and Role of Library: Focusing on Controversy over 'The Forest of Wisdom', Paju Bookcity (도서관 명칭과 역할에 대한 사회적 담론 분석 - 파주출판도시 '지혜의숲'에 대한 논란을 중심으로 -)

  • Cho, Su-Yeon;Park, Sung-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.171-198
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    • 2015
  • This study used social discourse analysis and analyzed social discourse on library reflected in media, social media, interview and diary of persons concerned, particularly focusing on controversy over whether 'The Forest of Wisdom' should be called a 'library'. The study analyzed a three-dimensional framework, including media report that eventually developed a social 'discourse event', social media surrounding this issue, and interview with persons in the library community and publishing industry regarding discourse. This study draws a conclusion that 'The Forest of Wisdom' rather led social discourse over the role of library especially when traditional library is faced with new demands for discourse and changes. It is meaningful in that this issue provided an opportunity for library and the publishing industry to think over and develop ways for autonomous discourse that seeks their true value.

An Analysis of Social Discourse on the Enactment of School Sport Promotion Law Produced in the Media (미디어에 나타난 학교체육(진흥)법 제정 관련 사회적 담론 분석)

  • Park, Jae-Woo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.9
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    • pp.434-446
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this paper was to analyze a social discourse on the enactment of School Sport Promotion Law produced in the media. For this purpose, 73 articles related to the law collected from portal sites such as 'Daum', 'Naver' and 'Yahoo' as well as 'KINDS' were utilized for data analysis. Therefore, it was concluded that a social discourse's feature related to the enactment of the law is a social 'support' discourse calling for the enactment of the law, a 'denunciation' discourse after the rejection at the regular session of the National Assembly, a 'opposition' discourse concerned about the regression of elite sport and a 'wish' discourse expecting the leap and vitalization of school sport. From the holistic point of view, a dominant discourse is the appropriateness and necessity of the enactment of the law. However, smaller but stronger voices of dissent concerning about the decline in the development of elite sport (especially elite sporting success) were raised.

Trends or Praxis? - Discourse Analysis and Reflection of Multicultural Families in Family Studies - (유행인가? 실행(Praxis)인가? - 가족연구에서의 다문화가족 담론분석과 성찰 -)

  • Choi, Youn-Shil
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.171-187
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to identify and illustrate academic trends that can be gleaned from family studies on multicultural families in Korea, and to gain a suggestion of the relatedness between discourse and practice by reviewing research in that field. The results of discourse analysis are as follows: First, research on multicultural families in family studies set limited focal subjects. Second, the research accepts assimilationism as a primary multicultural policy set forward by the Korean Government. Third, the research reflects a more or less conservative consciousness of family maintenance. Fourth, there have been some changes in perspectives from the perception of immigrant women in multicultural families as passive minorities to more active agents. Lastly, the research perceives family life in multicultural families as a project for practice.

Automatic Summarization of French Scientific Articles by a Discourse Annotation Method using the EXCOM System

  • Antoine, Blais
    • Language and Information
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2009
  • Summarization is a complex cognitive task and its simulation is very difficult for machines. This paper presents an automatic summarization strategy that is based on a discourse categorization of the textual information. This categorization is carried out by the automatic identification of discourse markers in texts. We defend here the use of discourse methods in automatic summarization. Two evaluations of the summarization strategy are presented. The summaries produced by our strategy are evaluated with summaries produced by humans and other applications. These two evaluations display well the capacity of our application, based on EXCOM, to produce summaries comparable to the summaries of other applications.

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A Study on Medical Discourse of Oriental Medicine and Health Functional Foods - Focusing on the Consumption Discourse Analysis of Homegrown Agricultural Products - (한약과 건강기능식품의 의료담론 분석 - 농촌생산물의 소비담론을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Seong-O
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.465-479
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to explains consumers' medical discourse embedded in the consumption of oriental medicine and health functional foods. Despite the fact that both of oriental medicine and western medicine is legally accepted, people tend to recognize that accurate diagnosis is possible only in the latter. As the discourse that oriental medicine, compared with western medicine, has an auxiliary position is widely spreaded, the rivalry between herbal medicine and health functional foods come to be formed. And it led to a close correlation between the decrease of herbal medicine consumption and the growth of health supplement market. Herbal medicine is compared to red ginseng, one of the representative health supplement. Negative notion such as using an Asian herb from China and side effect of hepatotoxicity influences herbal medicine consumption. This study argues two conclusion. First, the correlation between the consumption of herbal medicine and that of health functional foods results from the discourse of scientific reconstruction, standardization, and commercialization all of which come from globalization discourse. Second, medical discourse embedded in these commodity, in the end, has impact on agricultural production.