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Music and Mandala: A Self-Reflective Method to Identify a Helping Professional’s Needs for Self-Care, Supervision, and Personal Therapy
No full textIt is recommended that music therapists engage in self-care, supervision, and personal therapy to cope with professional stressors. As a result, it is important that they can determine when one or more are needed. The purpose of this paper is to describe a self-administered, seven-step music and mandala method that can be used to determine those needs. Music therapists’ understanding of the purpose of each step will support successful use of the method. Therefore, the description of each step is accompanied by an explanation of the key concept(s) related to it, and a case example. The desired outcome of participation is for music therapists to increase self-awareness and identify their needs for self-care, supervision, and/or personal therapy
Tuo Dolphins
No full textTuo Dolphins takes place in both Aarhus, Denmark and in the Reef islands, the Solomon Islands. Moffat Bonunga, visits the Danish anthropologists Jens Pinholt and Peter I. Crawford in Aarhus to help them with their work on the film project. This included talking about a special event when dolphins ran ashore at Tuo village. The people of Tuo have a mythical relationship with dolphins, covered by a traditional so-called kastom story, the incident confirming the fascinating relationship between the dolphins landing on the beach and the kinship relationships. The phenomenon had allegedly been triggered when a member of a specific family line, Pelewe, passed away a few weeks before. The villagers decided to re-enact part of their Dolphin story to capture it on film, thereby using the film, and its crew, to both present and confirm the truthfulness of the legend and myth.
Jon Fosse på den globale scenen: En dataanalyse
Get PDFDuring the 1990s Jon Fosse went from being a prose writer with a limited Norwegian audience to becoming a playwright with an ever-expanding global distribution. His current international standing is closely connected to the fact that he began to write dramatic texts. With a point of departure in the recently acquired Jon Fosse Archive, the National Library of Norway has established a dataset of information about all documented stage productions of Fosse’s works worldwide in collaboration with the Sceneweb Archive. This paper conducts an analysis of this dataset from three angles: geography, social structure, and organizational factors.
It is no denying that Fosse has become a world dramatist, but the study shows that his distribution has a strong European bias, where three nations stand out, Norway, France, and Germany. Using social network analysis, the study identifies the major hubs in the global network of stage artists involved in producing Fosse and reveals that most of them are Norwegian or Swedish. However, these artists have engaged in transnational, artistic collaborations that over time have created a form of distributed ownership to his works. Additionally, Fosse has fared well in the system of international festivals which has further strengthened his global standing. 
Characteristics of Music Therapy With Beneficial Impacts on Agitation in Dementia
No full textSeveral reviews in recent years have reported evidence of the effect of music on the serious problem of agitation in dementia. Some reviews draw different conclusions, however, which actualizes the need for studies that examine characteristics of music therapy with beneficial impacts on agitation. In an instrumental case study, documented through qualitative interviews, recordings of group meetings, and patient record excerpts, we examine how music was used intensively in interaction with a man in his 70s at a unit for persons with dementia. Music therapy was often able to ease his agitation and was especially valuable in a period when he needed to be isolated due to a suspected coronavirus infection. However, the interventions did not work every time, and his responses differed considerably. The case illustrates that music therapy can address agitation in dementia for some clients, but the claim must be qualified. Potential characteristics of music therapy with such an ability might be i) situated use of the most favored music, ii) careful adjustment to signs of pain and discomfort, iii) sustained effort to build trustful relationships, iv) transferable interaction patterns of health musicking, and v) sufficient access to attention and support for the client(s) during the musical interventions
Music Therapists’ Thoughts about their Future and the Direction of the Profession: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Method Study
No full textThis research examines the responses of music therapists in the United States to two open-ended statements regarding their future plans (795 responses) and the direction of the profession (782 responses), along with responses to 12 Likert-type statements focused on participants’ perceptions of the American Music Therapy Association. As part of a larger, multi-step survey, this mixed methods analysis provided a framework through which to investigate responses to each open-ended statement, which were further categorized by levels of work satisfaction (Meadows et al., 2022b) and then connected to response trends to the 12 Likert-type statements regarding the American Music Therapy Association. Analysis of these data suggest the vast majority of music therapists intend to stay in the field and undertake professional activities that support their growth and expanding their knowledge and work beyond music therapy. Future plans were, however, significantly impacted by the music therapist’s level of work satisfaction, suggesting some systemic issues in the profession. Responses related to the direction of the field were far more mixed, inextricably connected to work satisfaction levels, and reflected in responses related to the American Music Therapy Association. Taken together, these findings suggest that while the majority of music therapists are focused on growing professionally, they have mixed perceptions about the direction of the field and faith in the American Music Therapy Association
Analyzing Donald Trump’s global warming communication: a polyphonic reading of tweets
No full textTrump\u27s tweets were part of a mediated public space, seeking to shape public narratives, shout down opponents, and signal the opposition’s non-suitability to carry out the task of governing. He tweeted the phrase “Global Warming” (GW) 100 times from March 2012 to February 2019. Many studies in the fields of communication and political sciences have pointed out Trump’s negative campaigning strategy. His GW communication encapsulates this strategy. Thanks to the linguistic polyphony method, through the ScaPoLine theory, this paper analyzes how Trump positions himself on GW and how he uses it to attempt to damage the reputation of his political opponents in selected tweets
Détournement humoristique d’un double patron syntaxique dans Le Chat de Philippe Geluck
No full textFrom a case of Le Chat au Congo (Geluck 1993) and a comic strip page of Le Chat a encore frappé (Geluck 2005), which seems to be an expansion of the previous, this paper focuses on a double fairy tales’ syntactic pattern « Once upon a time… » and subsequent intensive construction « SO… THAT… » that often caracterize characters. The genre of humorous comics is thus related to the genres of the classic French fairy tale and to the sounds (woofing, screaming) studied by William Labov and transformed, in Europe, into funny stories (Yo momma’s so fat…).
Résumé
À partir d’une case tirée du Chat au Congo (Geluck 1993) et d’une planche complète du Chat a encore frappé (Geluck 2005) qui semble être une expansion de la précédente, cet article s’intéresse au détournement humoristique d’un double patron syntaxique formulaire des contes : « Il était une fois… » et les constructions consécutives intensives en « Si… QUE… » qui caractérisent souvent les personnages. Le genre de la BD humoristique est ainsi mis en relation avec les genres du conte merveilleux classique français et des vannes en Ta mère… étudiées par William Labov et transformées par la suite, en Europe, en histoires drôles (Yo momma’s so fat…)
Les subordonnants relatifs qui et que en français langue étrangère
No full textNotre article présente une analyse comparative de deux études menées sur l’acquisition des relatives par les apprenants norvégiens (Stenkløv, Helland, Larrivée 2023a/b) et d’un travail sur le même thème auprès d’apprenants suédophones et germanophones (Thomas 2021). Considérant l’impact de la L1, voire de la L2 (l’anglais) sur l’acquisition d’une L3, nous nous concentrerons sur la capacité des apprenants du français L3 des trois pays concernés – la Norvège, la Suède et la Suisse allemande – à relever les défis que constituent la fonction syntaxique du subordonnant et le trait animé / non-animé de l’antécédent dans l’acquisition des subordonnants relatifs qui et que. Nous chercherons à déceler d’éventuelles divergences entre les emplois de ces apprenants selon qu’ils ont affaire à des structures relatives françaises proches ou non de celles de leur langue maternelle
Experts médiatiques et aphorisations politiques
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Cette contribution s’intéresse aux commentaires produits dans les medias par des experts à propos des « écarts discursif » d’acteurs politiques majeurs. L’étude s’appuie sur deux phrases de présidents français (N. Sarkozy et E. Macron) qui ont été perçues comme transgressives : Mais l’attention se porte surtout sur la phrase de Macron (« Les non-vaccinés, j’ai très envie de les emmerder »), qui a envahi pendant quelques jours l’espace médiatique français. Le problème n’est pas de déterminer son « vrai » sens, mais de réfléchir sur ce qu’elle nous révèle à propos du dispositif d’interprétation des experts médiatiques quand ils commentent de telles phrases. Pour approfondir la réflexion, une comparaison est établie avec un événement de nature légèrement différente qui impliquait Melania Trump, quand elle était « First Lady ».
Abstract
This contribution focuses on the comments produced in the media by experts about the "discursive lapses" of major political actors. The study is based on two sentences of French presidents (N. Sarkozy and E. Macron) that have been perceived as transgressive. But the focus is on Macron\u27s sentence (Les non-vaccinés, j\u27ai très envie de les emmerder” = "The non-vaccinated, I really want to piss them off”), which invaded the French media space for a few days. The problem is not to determine its "true" meaning, but to reflect on what it reveals about the interpretation device of media experts when they comment on such sentences. To deepen the reflection, a comparison is made with an event of a slightly different nature that involved Melania Trump, when she was "First Lady"
Lone male loser? Effects of spatial isolation on male pairing success in the Ortolan Bunting (Emberiza hortulana)
Get PDFCover photo: Male Ortolan Bunting. Photo: Frode Falkenberg.
In small, isolated or fragmented bird populations, past studies have shown that there can be a high proportion of unpaired males. Low male pairing success is suggested to be the result of female-biased natal dispersal and low female recruitment. Indirect evidence indicates that such an effect operates among populations with different degrees of isolation, but little is known of how isolation affects male pairing success within populations. The Norwegian population of Ortolan Buntings (Emberiza hortulana) is distributed in about 50 discrete patches in an area of nearly 500 km2. In this study, we examined whether patch isolation and individual male isolation affected male pairing success. The population has a strongly male-biased sex ratio, with almost half of all males being unpaired. We found that male pairing successs was negatively related to isolation of patches and isolation of individual males in most analyses, and with significant effects in particular in some analyses of individual isolation. Patch population size was measured as the total number of males observed in a particular patch in a specific year and did not have an effect on male pairing success, and was not related to patch isolation. Even though some tests were statistically significant, the magnitude of effects were small and there was large variance in male pairing success. Variance in success suggests that other factors than isolation such as male age or experience may be just as important for male fitness within our study population. Furthermore, we suggest that small effects of isolation were due to the ability of Ortolan Buntings to move large distances within the breeding season, and that isolation effects on small spatial scales are more likely for species with restricted dispersal, such as resident species or species with high population density