From Spectres of Marx What is Ideology? Source: Specters of Marx, the state of the debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International, translated by Peggy Kamuf, Routledge 1994 What is ideology? Can one translat Citeste tot ...
ACTIVITY TYPES INTERCULTURAL GATEKEEPING ENCOUNTERS In this teaching unit we shall look at ‘gatekeeping encounters’, more specifically ‘selection interviews’ as activity types. The focus will be practical, starting with the identificati Citeste tot ...
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DEFINING PRAGMATICS
DEFINING PRAGMATICS There are different definitions of pragmatics given by different pragmaticians, but they all share the basic idea that pragmatics is ‘the study of language in use’ (Verschueren, 1999:1), or ‘the science of language in re Citeste tot ...
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SPEECH ACT THEORY
SPEECH ACT THEORY It is important to realize that pragmatics, as mentioned in the introductory section, is a different view on the same linguistic resources as the other components of linguistics look into. To understand the meaning of Citeste tot ...
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ISSUES OF TRANSCRIPTION
ISSUES OF TRANSCRIPTION CA, who place a great emphasis on the use of naturally occurring data, view transcripts as ‘representation’ of the data, while the tape itself is viewed as the ‘reproduction’ of a social event. The transcription Citeste tot ...
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CONVERSATION ANALYSIS PRELIMINARY ISSUES
CONVERSATION ANALYSIS PRELIMINARY ISSUES In its most basic sense, CA is the study of talk. More particularly, it is ‘the systematic analysis of the talk produced in everyday situations of human interaction: talk-in-interaction’ (Hutchby Citeste tot ...
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TALK IN INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS
TALK IN INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS Institutional talk is centrally and actively involved in the accomplishment of the ‘institutional’ nature of institutions themselves. CA has developed a distinctive means of locating participants’ displaye Citeste tot ...
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MICROPRAGMATICS DEIXIS AND IMPLICIT MEANING
MICROPRAGMATICS DEIXIS AND IMPLICIT MEANING The term ‘micropragmatics’ is used by some pragmaticians (e.g. Mey, 1993) to refer to the pragmatics of lesser units of human language use, such as questions of deixis, anaphora, implicature o Citeste tot ...
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REPAIRS AND OVERALL ORGANISATION OF CONVERSATIONS
REPAIRS AND OVERALL ORGANISATION OF CONVERSATIONS Repair is a generic term used in CA to cover a wide range of phenomena, from seeming errors in turn-taking, such as overlapping talk, to any of the forms of what is commonly called ‘corre Citeste tot ...
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PRAGMATICS CONTRASTED WITH SEMANTICS
PRAGMATICS CONTRASTED WITH SEMANTICS Semantics, as we have already seen, is a branch of linguistics devoted to the study of meaning. Since both semantics and pragmatics deal with ‘meaning’, the question that can be raised is then: What is Citeste tot ...
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CONVERSATIONAL PRINCIPLE: COOPERATION
CONVERSATIONAL PRINCIPLE: COOPERATION People are interpreting other people’s language - and expecting other people to interpret their own - all the time, apparently with a surprising degree of accuracy. This happens, as we have seen in Citeste tot ...
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ISSUES OF CO-TEXT AND CONTEXT
ISSUES OF CO-TEXT AND CONTEXT Context as means by which we reach understanding has been widely referred to in the literature, and we have already seen some elements of contexts, such as shared knowledge held by participants, or the physical Citeste tot ...
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The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
Classics in the History of Psychology -- Freud (1914/1917)Classics in the History of PsychologyAn internet resource developed byChristopher D. GreenYork University, Toronto, Ontario(Return to index) The History of the Psychoanalytic MovementSigmund F Citeste tot ...
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Introduction: rationality
Introduction: rationality You ask me, which of the philosophers traits are idiosyncrasies? For example: their lack of historical sense, their hatred of becoming, their Egypticism. They think that they show their respect for a subject when th Citeste tot ...
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Microscopes
Microscopes One fact about medium-size theoretical entities is so compelling an argument for medium-size scientific realism that philosophers blush to discuss it: Microscopes. First we guess there is such and such a gene, say, and then we deve Citeste tot ...
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Building and causing
Building and causing Does the word `real have any use in natural science? Certainly. Some experimental conversations are full of it. Here are two real examples. The cell biologist points to a fibrous network that regularly is found on microgra Citeste tot ...
