Historicity in metapragmatics – a study on ‘discernment’ in Italian metadiscourse

The present paper contributes to meta pragmatics, by examining the question of how historicity influences the validity of certain modern meta terms that are accepted as ‘neutral’ and ‘scientific’ in pragmatics. We argue that it is fundamental to explore the history and development of such meta terms, and also to study their historically situated meanings, in order to increase the self-reflexivity and rigour of analyses. We analyse the notion of ‘discernment’ as a case study, and we will show that the way in which the Italian equivalent of this term (discernere) – which supposedly influenced historical English understandings of ‘discernment’ as well – is used in historical Italian meta discourses contradicts the modern application of this meta term.

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AAC Collaboration Using the Self-Anchored Rating Scales (SARS): An Aphasia Case Study

Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication ◽

10.1044/aac21.4.136 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 136-143

Author(s):

Lynn E. Fox

Keyword(s):

Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽

Rating Scales ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Therapeutic Process ◽

Family Counseling ◽

The Self ◽

Alternative Communication ◽

Her Family ◽

Solution Focused

Abstract The self-anchored rating scale (SARS) is a technique that augments collaboration between Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) interventionists, their clients, and their clients' support networks. SARS is a technique used in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, a branch of systemic family counseling. It has been applied to treating speech and language disorders across the life span, and recent case studies show it has promise for promoting adoption and long-term use of high and low tech AAC. I will describe 2 key principles of solution-focused therapy and present 7 steps in the SARS process that illustrate how clinicians can use the SARS to involve a person with aphasia and his or her family in all aspects of the therapeutic process. I will use a case study to illustrate the SARS process and present outcomes for one individual living with aphasia.

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Why the self is empty: Toward a historically situated psychology.

American Psychologist ◽

10.1037/0003-066x.45.5.599 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 45 (5) ◽

pp. 599-611 ◽

Cited By ~ 421

Author(s):

Philip Cushman

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

Historically Situated

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Development and regional planning within the decentralized administrative frame: case study (the Jordanian Experiment)

Journal of Advanced Sciences and Engineering Technologies ◽

10.32441/jaset.v1i2.121 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 60-72

Author(s):

Mansour Safran

Keyword(s):

Regional Planning ◽

The Other ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Administrative Procedures ◽

The Way

This aims to review and analyze the Jordanian experiment in the developmental regional planning field within the decentralized managerial methods, which is considered one of the primary basic provisions for applying and success of this kind of planning. The study shoed that Jordan has passed important steps in the way for implanting the decentralized administration, but these steps are still not enough to established the effective and active regional planning. The study reveled that there are many problems facing the decentralized regional planning in Jordan, despite of the clear goals that this planning is trying to achieve. These problems have resulted from the existing relationship between the decentralized administration process’ dimensions from one side, and between its levels which ranged from weak to medium decentralization from the other side, In spite of the official trends aiming at applying more of the decentralized administrative policies, still high portion of these procedures are theoretical, did not yet find a way to reality. Because any progress or success at the level of applying the decentralized administrative policies doubtless means greater effectiveness and influence on the development regional planning in life of the residents in the kingdom’s different regions. So, it is important to go a head in applying more steps and decentralized administrative procedures, gradually and continuously to guarantee the control over any negative effects that might result from Appling this kind of systems. © 2018 JASET, International Scholars and Researchers Association

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Vérités et Mensonges

Classical Antiquity ◽

10.1525/ca.2020.39.2.188 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 188-224

Author(s):

Erik Gunderson

Keyword(s):

Theory And Practice ◽

The Self ◽

Faithful Representation ◽

Political Subject ◽

Concrete Reality ◽

Hermeneutic Process ◽

The Way

This is a survey of some of the problems surrounding imperial panegyric. It includes discussions of both the theory and practice of imperial praise. The evidence is derived from readings of Cicero, Quintilian, Pliny, the Panegyrici Latini, Menander Rhetor, and Julian the Apostate. Of particular interest is insincere speech that would be appreciated as insincere. What sort of hermeneutic process is best suited to texts that are politically consequential and yet relatively disconnected from any obligation to offer a faithful representation of concrete reality? We first look at epideictic as a genre. The next topic is imperial praise and its situation “beyond belief” as well as the self-positioning of a political subject who delivers such praise. This leads to a meditation on the exculpatory fictions that these speakers might tell themselves about their act. A cynical philosophy of Caesarism, its arbitrariness, and its constructedness abets these fictions. Julian the Apostate receives the most attention: he wrote about Caesars, he delivered extant panegyrics, and he is also the man addressed by still another panegyric. And in the end we find ourselves to be in a position to appreciate the way that power feeds off of insincerity and grows stronger in its presence.

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Investigating English Teacher Candidate’s Use of Instructional Media During the Teaching Practicum: A Case Study

Pancaran Pendidikan ◽

10.25037/pancaran.v9i2.287 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Rachel Ratih Ayu T ◽

Zakiyah Tasnim ◽

Annur Rofiq

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Qualitative Case Study ◽

Teacher Candidate ◽

Visual Media ◽

English Teacher ◽

Instructional Media ◽

Teaching Practicum ◽

Case Study Design ◽

The Way

This study analyzes the English teacher candidate’s use of instructional media in the teaching practicum. The English teacher candidate who became the participant in this study was doing their teaching practicum in MTsN 5 Jember. This study applied the qualitative case study design. Interview and observation were done one time to select the participant. The four-times classroom observations and questionnaires were used in order to collect the data. This study employed the model of Creswell in analyzing the data. The findings of this study showed that the English teacher candidate applied one type of instructional media namely Visual Media. Those were Picture and Whiteboard. The way the teacher candidate implemented the instructional media was almost the same in each meeting of the teaching and learning process. However, the students’ participation and response were not always the same in every meeting. It depended on the way the teacher candidate managed the class activity.

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A Case Study on the Change of God Representation from the Self-psychological point of view

The Gospel and Praxis ◽

10.25309/kept.2019.8.15.199 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 199-231

Author(s):

Kyoung Sun Chae ◽

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

The Self ◽

Psychological Point ◽

God Representation

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Case study 3

10.1093/oso/9780198777212.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ewan Ferlie ◽

Sue Dopson ◽

Chris Bennett ◽

Michael D. Fischer ◽

Jean Ledger ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Public Services ◽

Management Consulting ◽

Organizational Redesign ◽

Management Consultants ◽

Management Knowledge ◽

Problems And Solutions ◽

Financial Interests ◽

The Way

The chapter discusses management consultants and consulting knowledge in health care, highlighting significant expenditure on consultancy and how consultants have shaped thinking in public services, which some critics suggest has served consultants’ own (financial) interests. The chapter then discusses the way consultants mobilize management knowledge and frame clients’ problems and solutions. It discusses an empirical case study of a consultancy project to redesign NHS organizations to make substantial ‘efficiency savings’. Here, consultants framed the NHS’s problem and solution, and then imposed an organizational redesign. Local NHS managers and clinicians framed the NHS’s problem differently, doubting the consultants’ framing and proposing redesign, but feeling unable to engage in dialogue about these concerns. Consequently, they engaged with the project in a calculated and defensive way, superficially accepting the redesign while waiting for its implementation to fail. Thus, the chapter demonstrates framing politics surrounding management consulting knowledge.

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Why Phenomenology?

10.1093/oso/9780198813507.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

George Pattison

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Subject Matter ◽

Alternative Model ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Human Existence ◽

Present Approach ◽

The Self ◽

Existence Of God ◽

Pure Intuition ◽

The Way

This chapter sets out the rationale for adopting a phenomenological approach to the devout life literature. Distinguishing the present approach from versions of the phenomenology of religion dominant in mid-twentieth-century approaches to religion, an alternative model is found in Heidegger’s early lectures on Paul. These illustrate that alongside its striving to achieve a maximally pure intuition of its subject matter, phenomenology will also be necessarily interpretative and existential. Although phenomenology is limited to what shows itself and therefore cannot pass judgement on the existence of God, it can deal with God insofar as God appears within the activity and passivity of human existence. From Hegel onward, it has also shown itself open to seeing the self as twofold and thus more than a simple subjective agent, opening the way to an understanding of the self as essentially spiritual.

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The Well-Mannered Auditor

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.12 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

James Deaville

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

English Language ◽

The Self ◽

Modern World ◽

Music Making ◽

Social Events ◽

Drawing Room ◽

The Way

The chapter explores the way English-language etiquette books from the nineteenth century prescribe accepted behavior for upwardly mobile members of the bourgeoisie. This advice extended to social events known today as “salons” that were conducted in the domestic drawing room or parlor, where guests would perform musical selections for the enjoyment of other guests. The audience for such informal music making was expected to listen attentively, in keeping with the (self-) disciplining of the bourgeois body that such regulations represented in the nineteenth century. Yet even as the modern world became noisier and aurally more confusing, so, too, did contemporary social events, which led authors to become stricter in their disciplining of the audience at these drawing room performances. Nevertheless, hosts and guests could not avoid the growing “crisis of attention” pervading this mode of entertainment, which would lead to the modern habit of inattentive listening.

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