The article addresses two central notions, namely social meaning and political correctness. concept of is well known in “third wave” sociolinguistics, which connects patterns language variation with the wider world, metapragmatics after Michael Silverstein, ideology research discourse analysis. analysis line these approaches also reflects back pragmatic interpretation meanings. It presumed that...

Abstract Objective Advancing social purpose in organizations is usually studied from the macro perspective, i.e., how it benefits organizational business goals or society more broadly. In this paper, we focus on perspective of employee and propose that advancing an organization allows individuals to fulfil important human need for meaning work (MW). This study’s objective was assess whether a v...

in this article, author has tried, based on a comparsion between meaning of classification with meaning of inequality, to reach a particular definition of classification which elements such as social ineguality could be recognized within it. although, at the first glance, ineguality could be seen as a natural phnenomenon, or as a genetice one, studies have proved that classification in societie...

Research on meaning in life has generally focused on global meaning judgments. This study examined how people's daily experiences, represented by events that occur in daily life, influence their perceived sense of meaning on a daily basis. One hundred sixty-two college students completed daily reports for 2 weeks. We examined the relationships among daily social and achievement events, daily po...

Social identity, including identification with one's ethnic group, is an important aspect of social development. However, little is known about the subjective meaning associated with social group memberships, particularly during middle childhood. Using second- and fourth-graders responses to an open-ended question, we explored the meaning of ethnic identity with a sample of Chinese, Dominican, ...

as narrative discourses and discursive thematic frame- works on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct dif- ferent presentations of social actors, social events as well as social re- lations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more seri- ous considerations. to this end, the present study was an ...