‘I Don’t Want to Sweep Alone’: Paranoia and Anomalous Experiences

Paranoia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Freeman ◽  
Jason Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Personal Gain ◽  
Crucial Element ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
The Subject

Thus George Costanza, nebbish anti-hero of hit sitcom Seinfeld. George is desperate to know why his girlfriend Gwen has dumped him. (‘It’s not you—it’s me’ is her somewhat unhelpful—and utterly implausible—offering on the subject.) But all is not lost. Jerry, George’s best friend, has just started dating Laura, who is deaf. And what better way to discover what people are saying about you than have a friend read their lips? It’s a scheme that appeals to the paranoid in all of us. As George tells Jerry: ‘If we could just harness this power and use it for our own personal gain there’d be no stopping us.’ Well, Laura does indeed lip-read Gwen’s conversation with Todd, the host of the party, and she duly provides George with a running commentary in sign language. So far, so good. But George doesn’t understand sign language; it has to be translated for him by ‘hipster doofus’ Kramer: . . . KRAMER ‘Hi Gwen, hi tide.’ JERRY Hi tide? KRAMER Hi Todd. ‘You’ve got something between your teeth.’ GEORGE What? KRAMER No that’s what he said. That’s interesting. ‘I love carrots, but I hate carrot soup. And I hate peas, but I love pea soup.’ So do I. GWEN I don’t envy you, Todd. The place is going to be a mess. TODD Maybe you can stick around after everybody leaves and we can sweep together. KRAMER ‘Why don’t you stick around and we can sleep together.’ GEORGE What?!? KRAMER ‘You want me to sleep with you?’ TODD I don’t want to sweep alone. KRAMER He says ‘I don’t want to sleep alone.’ She says, oh boy, ‘love to.’ . . . You can guess the rest. This sad tale points up a crucial element in paranoia. Because, although by definition paranoid thoughts are unjustified and exaggerated, they aren’t completely irrational. Life is full of confusing or unsettling experiences and paranoid thoughts supply an explanation (albeit not an especially useful or accurate one) for these ambiguous experiences. They are acts of interpretation gone awry.

scholarly journals The Impact of Transitional Movements and Non-Manual Markings on the Disambiguation of Locally Ambiguous Argument Structures in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 652-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Krebs ◽  
Ronnie B. Wilbur ◽  
Phillip M. Alday ◽  
Dietmar Roehm
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Argument Structure ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Hand Movement ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Time Points ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

Previous studies of Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) word-order variations have demonstrated the human processing system’s tendency to interpret a sentence-initial (case-) ambiguous argument as the subject of the clause (“subject preference”). The electroencephalogram study motivating the current report revealed earlier reanalysis effects for object-subject compared to subject-object sentences, in particular, before the start of the movement of the agreement marking sign. The effects were bound to time points prior to when both arguments were referenced in space and/or the transitional hand movement prior to producing the disambiguating sign. Due to the temporal proximity of these time points, it was not clear which visual cues led to disambiguation; that is, whether non-manual markings (body/shoulder/head shift towards the subject position) or the transitional hand movement resolved ambiguity. The present gating study further supports that disambiguation in ÖGS is triggered by cues occurring before the movement of the disambiguating sign. Further, the present study also confirms the presence of the subject preference in ÖGS, showing again that signers and speakers draw on similar strategies during language processing independent of language modality. Although the ultimate role of the visual cues leading to disambiguation (i.e., non-manual markings and transitional movements) requires further investigation, the present study shows that they contribute crucial information about argument structure during online processing. This finding provides strong support for granting these cues some degree of linguistic status (at least in ÖGS).

scholarly journals An Extended Native RDF for Provenance-Enabled Queries in Linked Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2414-2417
Keyword(s):  
Linked Data ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Provenance Information ◽  
Crucial Element ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Field Database

Various thoughts of provenance for database inquiries have been proposed and examined in the previous couple of years. In this article, we detail three primary thoughts of database provenance, portion of their applications, and investigate among them. In particular, we audit why, how, and where provenance, depict the connections among these ideas of provenance, and portray a portion of their applications in certainty calculation, see upkeep and update, troubleshooting, and explanation spread. Provenance in Databases audits explore in course of recent years on why, how, and where provenance, explains connections among these ideas of provenance, and depicts portion of their applications in certainty calculation, see upkeep and update, troubleshooting, and comment engendering. This paper is to give review distributed writing dedicated to the subject of putting away, following, and questioning provenance in connected information It might be utilized as guide for discovering further articles, in any field of study, moderately rapidly. Provenance in Databases is planned for designers and specialists who might want to acclimate themselves with the establishments, just as the numerous difficulties in the field database provenance. Specifically, ability to store, track, and inquiry provenance information is turning into crucial element present day triple stores. We present strategies stretching out local RDF store to proficiently deal with the capacity, following, and questioning of provenance in RDF information. We depict solid and justifiable detail manner in which results were gotten from the information and how specific bits information were joined to answer question. In this manner, we present systems to tailor inquiries with provenance information.

scholarly journals DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE AS AWARE RECIPIENTS AND CREATORS OF THE CULTURAL OFFER

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 140-145
Author(s):  
Lucyna Kościelniak
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
History Of ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Communication Methods ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

The article attempts to approach the subject of making culture accessible for people with hearing impairment from the perspective including social, cultural and linguistic issues. The most important matters discussed in the first part of the article are: history of the sign language and the Deaf culture in Poland as well as ambiguities related to communication methods, i.e. differentiating between the sign language and the manual code for spoken language. Based upon the considerations above, the following issues are presented: the role of a sign language interpreter in the process of making culture accessible, and the role of Polish language as an uncertain medium of conveying information to people with hearing impairment. In the article, theoretical considerations alternate with practical guidelines and solutions, which might facilitate the process of creating an offer for this particular type of museum visitor. The concluding part contains a list of the most interesting projects being conducted in Poland, which might be valuable as an inspiration for beginners in organising events dedicated to the deaf and hard of hearing people.

scholarly journals Humanistic and Existential Psychology in the Practice of Psychotherapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Aureliano Pacciolla
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Intervention ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Existential Psychology ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Existential Approach ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Transcendence

In contemporary psychology, the humanistic-existential approach places its center on the sense of life but it should be distinguished from the meaning of life. In this article, after distinguishing the sense form the meaning of life, two specific tools will be considered: Purpose In Life Scale and the Self-Transcendence Scale. Then, other two useful tools will be presented for a clinical intervention: the metacognition functioning (MSAS) and the personality functioning (LPFS). A new proposal to clinicians will be to apply these last two tools in the self-administered form and for the best friend (BF) of the subject; so we can have the self-perception and the perception of others about both, metacognition and personality functioning. Mach more than single items on metacognition and personality functioning, the most relevant to present the basics of the humanistic-existential approach.

scholarly journals Person and number agreement in American Sign Language

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun-Jong Hahm
Keyword(s):  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Number Agreement ◽  
The Subject

American Sign Language (ASL) has a group of verbs showing agreement with the subject or/and object argument. There has not been analysis on especially number agreement. This paper analyzes person and number agreement within the HPSG framework. I discuss person and number hierarchy in ASL. The argument of agreement verbs can be omitted as in languages like Italian. The constraints on the type agreement-verb have the information on argument optionality.

Word order in Croatian Sign Language

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 169-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Milković ◽  
Sandra Bradarić-Jončić ◽  
Ronnie B. Wilbur
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Basic Word ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Head Positions

This paper focuses on the basic word order of Croatian Sign Language (HZJ) and factors that permit alternative word orders to occur in sentences and in context. Although they are unrelated languages, the basic word order in HZJ is the same as in spoken Croatian: SVO. One of the factors allowing alternative word orders in context is information status (old or new), which influences constituent placement, as in other languages. HZJ has a tendency to omit old, previously mentioned information, usually the Subject, and the part that is expressed is the new information (Rheme). When old information is expressed, it appears at the beginning of the sentence, preceding the Rheme. Like other languages, HZJ word order can be influenced by the nature of the arguments (Subject, Object) as well as the type of Verb. Sentences with ‘reversible’ arguments (i.e. both are animate and could be agents) tend to use the basic word order, whereas those with nonreversible arguments allow more variable word order. Basic word order also occurs more often with plain verbs (those that do not agree with their arguments). Agreeing and spatial verbs use other word orders in addition to SVO, including the tendency to position Verbs at the end of sentences. Investigation on the interaction of word order and the grammatical usage of facial expressions and head positions (nonmanual marking) indicates that nonmanual markings have pragmatic roles, and could have syntactic functions which await further research.

See-in: A case of lexically-governed, non-clausal predication

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 501-514
Author(s):  
ILAN HAZOUT
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Relation ◽  
Clausal Structure ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Syntactic Context

The see-in construction, exemplified in sentences like John sees/finds in Mary his best friend involves a relation of predication between the DPs Mary and his best friend. It provides evidence against the hypothesis that predication relations are established uniformly within the syntactic context of clausal structure. The empirical facts show that [in Mary] and [his best friend] in this example are both complements of see/find. It follows that Mary and his best friend could not possibly be syntactically related as the subject and predicate of a clause, despite the fact that they are engaged in a semantic relation of predication.

MORALITIES ARE A SIGN-LANGUAGE OF THE AFFECTS

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 237-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Leiter
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Affective Response ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Sign Languages ◽  
The Subject

AbstractThis essay offers an interpretation and partial defense of Nietzsche's idea that moralities and moral judgments are “sign-languages” or “symptoms” of our affects, that is, of our emotions or feelings. According to Nietzsche, as I reconstruct his view, moral judgments result from the interaction of two kinds of affective responses: first, a “basic affect” of inclination toward or aversion from certain acts, and then a further affective response (the “meta-affect”) to that basic affect (that is, sometimes we can be either inclined towards or averted from our basic affects). I argue that Nietzsche views basic affects as noncognitive, that is, as identifiable solely by how they feel to the subject who experiences the affect. By contrast, I suggest that meta-affects (I focus on guilt and shame) sometimes incorporate a cognitive component like belief. After showing how this account of moral judgment comports with a reading of Nietzsche's moral philosophy that I have offered in previous work, I conclude by adducing philosophical and empirical psychological reasons for thinking that Nietzsche's account of moral judgment is correct.

Interpreting omissions

Interpreting ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jemina Napier
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Perspective

This paper discusses findings of a study conducted on Australian Sign Language (Auslan)/English interpreters in a university lecture, with consideration given to factors that influenced the interpreters’ omissions. The hypothesis of the study was that interpreters would make recourse to omissions both consciously and unconsciously, depending on their familiarity with the discourse environment and the subject matter. Through exploration of theoretical perspectives of interpreting and discourse studies, it is argued that interpreters use omissions as linguistic strategies for coping with the discourse environment. The findings of the study present interpreters with a new perspective on omissions in interpreting, which can be applied to both signed- and spoken-language interpreting.

scholarly journals Rez Rebel by M. Florence

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Quaiattini
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Healer ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Meaningful Change ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Florence, Melanie. Rez Rebel. James Lorimer & Company, 2017.Narrated by Floyd Twofeathers, a young Cree teenager living on the fictional Bitter Lake Reserve, Rez Rebel sheds important and much-needed light onto the suicide crisis faced by Indigenous communities across Canada.Suicides on Bitter Lake Reserve are rampant. Though Floyd occupies a position of status in his community, with his father being the hereditary chief and his mother a traditional healer, he is not immune from the tragedy—his best friend Aaron had committed suicide. However, after a suicide pact leaves four young girls dead, Floyd’s father struggles to find a solution to help his community and its young people find opportunities and support. Floyd and his friends believe that by sharing their own talents and skills (writing, drawing, sports) with their peers, and giving kids the opportunity to learn their traditional knowledge and practices from the Elders, that this will help turn their community around. When Floyd tries to bring these ideas to his father, he is ignored. It is only with a bold act, and another suicide threat that brings about meaningful change on Bitter Lake Reserve.Given the timeliness of the subject matter, and the lack of books on this topic, this is a much-needed novel. However, the overall story itself is a bit uneven. The book opens with the suicide crisis, and the reader can feel the tension and urgency of the situation. There is a lengthy description of Aaron’s suicide, as well as a crisis in Floyd’s family that may be upsetting or triggering to some readers. The middle of the book loses a bit of its focus, with chapters showing Floyd and his friends being teenagers—hanging out, fishing, falling in love—with little connection to the broader plot. The final quarter of the story reconnects the reader with the suicide crisis and Floyd’s solution for his community. The prose and tone are realistic—teenagers will see themselves in the characters, and the language is simple and accessible.This book would do well in the young adult section of public libraries, as well as in junior high and high school libraries. Recommended: 3 out of 4 starsReviewer: Andrea QuaiattiniAndrea Quaiattini is a Public Services Librarian at the University of Alberta’s JW Scott Health Sciences Library.  While working as a camp counsellor, she memorized Mortimer and The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch as bedtime stories for the kids. She can still do all the voices.

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