scholarly journals Is There Pain in Champagne? Semantic Involvement of Words within Words during Sense-making

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 2618-2626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra M. van Alphen ◽  
Jos J. A. van Berkum
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Context ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Lexical Competition ◽  
Sentential Context ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Lexical Activation

In an ERP experiment, we examined whether listeners, when making sense of spoken utterances, take into account the meaning of spurious words that are embedded in longer words, either at their onsets (e.g., pie in pirate) or at their offsets (e.g., pain in champagne). In the experiment, Dutch listeners heard Dutch words with initial or final embeddings presented in a sentence context that did or did not support the meaning of the embedded word, while equally supporting the longer carrier word. The N400 at the carrier words was modulated by the semantic fit of the embedded words, indicating that listeners briefly relate the meaning of initial- and final-embedded words to the sentential context, even though these words were not intended by the speaker. These findings help us understand the dynamics of initial sense-making and its link to lexical activation. In addition, they shed new light on the role of lexical competition and the debate concerning the lexical activation of final-embedded words.

Hegel’s Philosophy of History as the Metaphysics of Agency

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Pinkard
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
The Self ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Human Enterprise

Rather than understanding history as a process guided by an entity (Geist) that is aiming at the goal of coming to a full self-consciousness, this chapter argues that Hegel’s philosophy should be understood against the background of his Aristotelian- and Kantian-inspired metaphysics. Using his Logic as the background, the author argues that his philosophy of history is an examination of the metaphysical contours of subjectivity and how the self-interpreting, self-developing collective human enterprise has moved from one such shape to another in terms of deeper logic of sense-making, and how this has meant that subjectivity itself has reshaped itself over the course of history. The role of the “infinite end” of justice thereby is shown to play an essential role in making sense of history.

scholarly journals Making sense of the COVID-19 pandemic from the Bible – Some perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francois Tolmie ◽  
Rian Venter
Keyword(s):  
Sense Making ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Crisis Discourse ◽  
Walter Brueggemann ◽  
Biblical Scholar

In this article, a brief survey of some of the ways in which biblical scholars try to make sense of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is offered. The views of the following scholars are discussed: Walter Brueggemann, Ying Zhang, John Goldingay and Kathleen Scott Goldingay, N.T. Wright, Philemon M. Chamburuka and Ishanesu S. Gusha, and Peter Lampe. This is followed by the reflections of a biblical scholar and a systematic theologian. From the perspective of a biblical scholar, the following issues are raised: the richness of biblical traditions, the influence of social location on the interpretation of the pandemic in the light of the Bible, the importance of the emphasis on lament, the reluctance to interpret the pandemic as a punishment from God, the importance of the interpreter’s view of God and the emphasis on the way in which the ‘new normal’ should be approached. From the perspective of a systematic theologian the following issues are discussed: The nature of doing theology, the role of the symbol of the Divine, performativity of sense-making, the Trinitarian confession, an emerging new self and the importance of an ethic of responsibility.Contribution: The article is a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and emphasises the critical importance of engaging the Christian scripture. The role accorded to hermeneutics and to an explicit interdisciplinary conversation makes a particular contribution to the emerging crisis discourse.

scholarly journals Wise academic development: learning from the ‘failure’ experiences of retired academic developers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
JA Timmermans ◽  
Kathryn Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Academic Development ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Threshold Concepts ◽  
Constructive Developmental Theory ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Constructive Developmental ◽  
Learning From Failure

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Informed by Constructive Developmental Theory and the Threshold Concepts Framework, we interviewed retired academic developers from four continents and asked them to describe their processes of learning from perceived failures and how they see the role of academic developers in supporting academics through failures. Findings regarding participants’ definitions of failure, ways of making sense of and learning from failure, and recommendations for supporting academic colleagues’ learning from failure are shared through tables, quotations, and poetry. Findings show that ‘wise academic development’ embraces curiosity about failure, integrates the (sometimes) transformative nature of failure, shares the load of sense-making, and cultivates connectedness.

Situation Awareness

Conflict ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 53-75
Author(s):  
Neil D. Shortland ◽  
Laurence J. Alison ◽  
Joseph M. Moran
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Mission Planning ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
Remote Operations

This chapter explores the process of sense-making in combat. It presents cases of sense-making from those involved in offensive operations in the field as well as those involved in more remote operations whose sense-making is solely reliant upon small snippets of the scene that they can observe through the technology they have deployed at that time. The chapter discusses the limitations (cognitive and situational) in trying to gain an accurate picture of what is happening on the ground and the implications of this for the ensuing stages of the decision-making process. Special attention is paid to the role of cultural differences and the difficulties in making sense and “storytelling” in environments that have little in common with one’s own. Finally, with reference to a real case of mission planning in Afghanistan, the fine balance between acting too soon and becoming inert is discussed.

Meaning Reconstruction in the First Two Years of Bereavement: The Role of Sense-Making and Benefit-Finding

2006 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M. Holland ◽  
Joseph M. Currier ◽  
Robert A. Neimeyer
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Benefit Finding ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Current Investigation ◽  
Personal Benefit ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
High Sense

Contemporary grief theories have highlighted the role of meaning-making in adaptation to bereavement, focusing on two major construals of meaning: making sense of the loss and finding benefit in the experience. The current investigation attempted a conceptual replication of the findings of Davis, Nolen-Hoeksema, and Larson (1998) that suggested that sense-making predicts adaptation to loss in the early period of bereavement, whereas benefit-finding primarily plays an ameliorative role as time progresses. To this end, an ethnically diverse sample of 1,022 recently bereaved college students completed the Inventory of Complicated Grief (ICG) as well as questions that assessed sense-making, benefit-finding, and the circumstances surrounding their losses. Results only partially replicated the findings of Davis and his colleagues, demonstrating that: 1) time since loss bore no relation to grief complications; 2) sense-making emerged as the most robust predictor of adjustment to bereavement; and 3) benefit finding interacted with sense making, with the fewest complications predicted when participants reported high sense, but low personal benefit, in the loss.

Collaborative Relationships — The Role of Information Technology

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 1640006
Author(s):  
Pingsheng Tong ◽  
U. N. Umesh ◽  
Jean L. Johnson ◽  
Ruby P. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Task Coordination ◽  
Stable Relationship ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Role Of Information

Drawn from structuration theory, this research investigates the role interfirm relationship (IR) agents play in appropriating technology features and utilizing everyday interactions to formulate and manage IRs. We examine how structurational conditions (i.e. routinization and reflexivity), information technology (IT) embeddedness, IT enactment (i.e. task coordination and relationship management) and sense-making together impact relationship quality. Findings support the central contention that agents’ cognitive efforts were necessary mediating conditions to realize the benefits of IT embeddedness and structurational conditions in relationship quality enhancement. Also interesting is while IT enactment and sense-making both positively contribute to a trusting, committed and stable relationship, greater ability in making sense of everyday interactions appears to mitigate the effect of IT enactment on relationship quality.

scholarly journals Wise academic development: learning from the ‘failure’ experiences of retired academic developers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
JA Timmermans ◽  
Kathryn Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Academic Development ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Threshold Concepts ◽  
Constructive Developmental Theory ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Constructive Developmental ◽  
Learning From Failure

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Informed by Constructive Developmental Theory and the Threshold Concepts Framework, we interviewed retired academic developers from four continents and asked them to describe their processes of learning from perceived failures and how they see the role of academic developers in supporting academics through failures. Findings regarding participants’ definitions of failure, ways of making sense of and learning from failure, and recommendations for supporting academic colleagues’ learning from failure are shared through tables, quotations, and poetry. Findings show that ‘wise academic development’ embraces curiosity about failure, integrates the (sometimes) transformative nature of failure, shares the load of sense-making, and cultivates connectedness.

scholarly journals “And of course our major contribution remains to run a decent business.” Making sense of Shell's sense-making in Nigeria during the 1990s

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Hofferberth
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Collective Goods ◽  
Corporate Social

AbstractThe intellectual engagement with multinational enterprises in International Relations has found a new home within the narratives of global governance and corporate social responsibility. Both narratives seem to agree that the role of business has changed as state capacities to provide governance assumingly have diminished and, based on broader social and political responsibilities, enterprises began to participate more actively in the provision of collective goods. Increased participation alone, however, does not reveal how corporate actors define and make sense of their responsibilities and their roles within global governance. In fact, focusing on corporate responsibilities and corporate governance contributions does not consider enterprises as actorsin their own rightwho actively interpret and respond to changes in their normative environments. To fill this gap, the article proposes a framework that conceptualizes corporate agency as inherently social and creative. This framework, which can be applied to different contexts, is illustrated by reconstructing interpretative frames and self-understandings advanced by Shell in response to its crisis in Nigeria during the 1990s. Based on this reconstruction, Shell failed to develop and communicate a clear understanding of its social responsibilities, and its overall integration into global governance is likely to remain an ambiguous process in which uncertainty and indeterminacy prevail.

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