scholarly journals An Integrated Approach to Pragmatic Competence: Its Framework and Properties

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110114
Author(s):  
Tiaoyuan Mao ◽  
Shanhua He
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Theoretic Model ◽  
Communicative Ability ◽  
Discourse Model ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Empirical Significance

The exploration of pragmatic competence has been endowed with theoretical and empirical significance for half a century, yet a common framework is still under investigation from different perspectives. First, this article conducts a critical review of the investigation of pragmatic competence in communicative ability theory, the function-discourse model, the componential and meaning-driven model, and the relevance-theoretic model. Based on the merits and demerits of these proposals and their relation with Chomsky’s dichotomy of grammatical and pragmatic competences, an integrated model of pragmatic competence (IMPC) is reformulated for thought and communication, focusing on the interactions among various organism-internal submodules under the current minimalist framework and their interactions with outside sociocultural factors. Finally, a comparison is made between the integrated proposal and the theory and models.

Redefining pragmatic competence among modular interactions and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 605-631
Author(s):  
Tiaoyuan Mao
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Model ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Computational Results ◽  
The Core ◽  
Perfect System ◽  
Sociocultural Contexts ◽  
External Part ◽  
Pragmatic Knowledge ◽  
Intentional System

AbstractLanguage is a perfect system that satisfies the conditions imposed by the external performance/interpretive systems, but how the external systems interact with the core syntax is partially understood. With reference to Chomsky’s dichotomy of grammatical and pragmatic competences, this paper tentatively reformulates an integrated model of pragmatic competence, consisting of an internal and an external part. The former originates from the interaction of the internal syntactic submodule with external but organism-internal submodules, such as semantic, pragmatic and phonological-phonetic modules, and among three external submodules, thus creating thinking activities. The latter refers to the interaction between all organism-internal submodules and organism-external sociocultural factors, namely, mapping the computational results of the organism-internal submodules into the specific sociocultural contexts in communication. Meanwhile, this paper assumes an organism-internal pragmatic module in the Conceptual-Intentional system, providing linguistic and socio-cultural pragmatic knowledge in the operation of the internal and the external pragmatic competences, facilitating both pure thought and sociocultural communications.

Supply Chain Design of Manufacturing Processes with Blending Technologies

2017 ◽  
Vol 261 ◽  
pp. 509-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ágota Bányainé Tóth ◽  
Béla Illés ◽  
Fabian Schenk
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Linear Programming ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Linear Programming Problem ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Supply Chain Design ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Proposed Model

Blending technologies play an important role in manufacturing. The design and operation of manufacturing processes using blending technologies represent a special range of manufacturing related logistics because the integrated approach of technological and logistic parameters is very significant. This research proposes an integrated model of supply of manufacturing processes using blending technologies. After a careful literature review, this paper introduces a mathematical model to formulate the problem of supply chain design for blending technologies. The integrated model includes the optimal purchasing strategy depending on the characteristics of components to be mixed in the desired proportion and the costs of supply. The integrated model will be described as a linear programming problem. Numerical results with different datasets demonstrate how the proposed model takes technological and logistic aspects into consideration.

Psychodynamic Factors and Drug Addiction: Some Theoretical and Research Perspectives

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold J. Vetter
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

The two major theoretical approaches to nonmedical drug use have been identified as the disturbed personality and sociocultural views. The present paper provides a review of psychodynamic contributions to the disturbed personality perspective. Following a brief discussion of earlier psychoanalytic views of substance use and its determinants, attention is devoted to contemporary psychodynamic formulations. It is noted that despite increasing interest shown by psychoanalytic writers to the importance of sociocultural factors, the psychodynamic emphasis continues to be placed on the role of psychopathology, i.e., disturbed personality. One possible direction that further research might take involves an attempt to provide an integrative framework for reconciling these conflicting theoretical approaches. A model which meets many of the criteria for an integrated approach has already been formulated by Dembo and Shern (1982).

scholarly journals Educational media psychology: Methodological foundations of an integrated model

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 120-140
Author(s):  
Larisa Vladimirovna Skorova ◽  
◽  
Irina Mikhailovna Kyshtymova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Educational Media ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Education And Development

Introduction. The article presents a model of educational media psychology. It is considered as a branch of educational psychology which focuses on processes of education and development within media environments. The research problem is determined by the controversy between new tasks of educational psychology associated with the transformation of the modern educational environment into a media environment and the lack of an integrated approach to fulfill them. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the new branch of educational psychology, to identify its problems, clarify its notions, and to describe its concepts and methodological foundations. Materials and Methods. The research employs methods of theoretical analysis and modeling. Results. The study suggests that educational media environment as an object of psychology is characterized by distinctive features which require systematic integration of disciplinary, methodological and instrumental approaches to research. At the disciplinary level, research investigations in the field of educational media psychology involve the integration of basic concepts of educational psychology and media psychology. At the interdisciplinary level, studies on educational media psychology deal with integration of approaches and methods of psychology, philosophy, linguistics, text theory, sociology and cultural studies, which are significant for conducting a psychological analysis of the media text as a mediator of educational processes. The study reveals the need for a multidisciplinary paradigm of integration of (1) activity theory, which is traditional for educational psychology, with ideas of discursive psychology, psychosemiotics, narrative psychology and psychoanalysis; (2) explanatory and complex approaches to the analysis of research objects; (3) quantitative and qualitative research methods. Conclusions. Educational media psychology is presented as an integrated model, which comprises objects and interconnected approaches (paradigmatic and disciplinary).

An integrated approach to organizational resilience: a quality perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farshad Madani ◽  
Mahour Mellat Parast
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Engineering Theory ◽  
Resilience Management ◽  
Main Components

PurposeThe main components of resiliency, including resilience capacities, resilience activities and resilience measures, are identified, extracted and redefined by designing their ontologies. The integrated model is developed by adapting the PDCA (plan, do, check and act) model to resilience management and implementing the developed concepts in the model.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses systems theory to define the main concepts discussed in the literature on resilience. This study then uses systems engineering theory and a resource-based view of the firm to develop an integrated framework to demonstrate how a resilient firm operates.FindingsThe revised terminologies and the integrated model address the current theoretical issues in the literature, and they also provide a reference model for practical implementation of resilience management at the firm level. Also, the integrated model addresses the role of innovation in resilience management.Originality/valueThe study examines the concept of resilience form a quality perspective and also examines how resilience and innovation are related.

scholarly journals An Integrated Approach for Modeling Ontology-Based Task Knowledge on an Incident Command System

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwoting Fang ◽  
Shuoche Lin
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Petri Net ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Knowledge Engineer ◽  
Task Knowledge ◽  
Incident Command System ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Task Ontology

This paper presents the TTIPP methodology, an integration of task analysis, task ontology, integration definition function modeling (IDEF0), Petri net, and Petri net mark language (PNML), to organize and model the task knowledge in the form of natural language expressions acquired during the knowledge-acquisition process. The goal of the methodology is to make the tasks more useful, accessible, and sharable through the web for a variety of stakeholders interested in solving a problem which is expressed mostly in linguistic form, and to shed light on the nature of problem-solving knowledge. This study provides a core epistemology for the knowledge engineer while developing the task ontology for a generic task. The proposed model overcomes the drawbacks of IDEF0, which are its static nature and Petri net which has no concept of hierarchy. A good number of countries lie on the typhoon and earthquake belts, which make them vulnerable to natural calamities. However, a practical incident command system (ICS) that provides a common framework to allow emergency responders of different backgrounds to work together effectively for standardized, on-the-scene, incident management has yet to be developed. There is a strong need to explicitly share, copy, and reuse the existing problem-solving knowledge in a complex ICS. As an example, the TTIPP model is applied to the task of emergency response for debris-flow during a typhoon as a part of an ICS.

Sustainable evaluation and selection of potential third-party logistics (3PL) providers

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Raut ◽  
Manoj Kharat ◽  
Sheetal Kamble ◽  
Chandra Shekhar Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Third Party Logistics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to efficiently assist the decision makers in evaluating and selecting the most appropriate third-party logistics (3PL) provider from environmental sustainability perspective using a two-phase model based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) and analytic network process (ANP). Design/methodology/approach The study uses an integrated approach of DEA and ANP as an evaluation and selection methodology to select an efficient and requisite 3PL. The integrated model is a sound technique for 3PL evaluation and selection. DEA effectively screens the maximally efficient 3PLs, whereas ANP easily performs the cumbersome process of weighting diverse criteria and ranks various alternatives according to their performance on the basis of these criteria. This study lists the prominent evaluation and selection criteria taking into consideration the environmental sustainability. Finally, a real-life industrial application is presented to demonstrate the proposed method. Findings The current research work is devoted to the emerging research topic of environmental sustainability in logistics industry and supply chain management. The results of study indicate that eco-efficient transportation and 3PLs lead better transportation planning, better inventory and warehouse management, lower inventory cost and sustainable supply chain operations. Also, the applied approach enables the decision makers to better understand the complex relationships of the relevant criteria in the decision-making process. Research limitations/implications This study does not investigate the relationships between environmental performances and differentiation advantage from the perspective of 3PLs. Also, sensitivity analysis is not performed. Practical implications The developed integrated model enables decision analysts to better understand the complete evaluation process of 3PL evaluation and selection considering environmental sustainability perspective. Furthermore, the developed approach provides a more flexible, simple, accurate, effective, and systematic decision support tool for 3PL evaluation and selection. Originality/value The current study is first of its kind to use the integrated approach in evaluation and selection of 3PLs from environmental sustainability perspective considering the inter-dependencies among the evaluation and selection criteria.

scholarly journals Characterizing environmental geographic inequalities using an integrated exposure assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien CAUDEVILLE ◽  
Corentin REGRAIN ◽  
Frederic TOGNET ◽  
Roseline BONNARD ◽  
Mohammed GUEDDA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Exposure Assessment ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Continental Scale ◽  
Disease Patterns ◽  
Human Dose ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
The Face ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Remedial Actions

Abstract Background At a regional or continental scale, the characterization of environmental health inequities (EHI) expresses the idea that populations are not equal in the face of pollution. It implies an analysis be conducted in order to identify and manage the areas at risk of overexposure where an increasing risk to human health is suspected. The development of methods is a prerequisite for implementing public health activities aimed at protecting populations. Methods This paper presents the methodological framework developed by INERIS (French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks) to identify a common framework for a structured and operationalized assessment of human exposure. An integrated exposure assessment approach has been developed to integrate the multiplicity of exposure pathways from various sources, through a series of models enabling the final exposure of a population to be defined. Results Measured data from environmental networks reflecting the actual contamination of the environment are used to gauge the population’s exposure. Sophisticated methods of spatial analysis are applied to include additional information and take benefit of spatial and inter-variable correlation to improve data representativeness and characterize the associated uncertainty. Integrated approaches bring together all the information available for assessing the source-to-human-dose continuum using a Geographic Information System, multimedia exposure and toxicokinetic model. Discussion One of the objectives of the integrated approach was to demonstrate the feasibility of building complex realistic exposure scenarios satisfying the needs of stakeholders and the accuracy of the modelling predictions at a fine spatial-temporal resolution. A case study is presented to provide a specific application of the proposed framework and how the results could be used to identify an overexposed population. Conclusion This framework could be used for many purposes, such as mapping EHI, identifying vulnerable populations and providing determinants of exposure to manage and plan remedial actions and to assess the spatial relationships between health and the environment to identify factors that influence the variability of disease patterns.

Bayesian Environment Representation, Prediction, and Criticality Assessment for Driver Assistance Systems

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Schreiner
Keyword(s):  
Free Space ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Collision Probability ◽  
Driver Assistance ◽  
Driver Assistance Systems ◽  
Environment Model ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Criticality Assessment ◽  
Vehicle Automation

This work deals with the questions i) how to represent the driving environment in an environment model, ii) how to obtain such a representation, and iii) how to predict the traffic scene for critica­lity assessment. Bayesian inference provides the common framework of all designed methods. First, Parametric Free Space (PFS) maps are introduced, which compactly represent the vehicle environment in form of relevant, drivable free space while suppressing irrelevant details of ­common occupancy grids. They are obtained by a novel method for grid mapping and tracking in dynamic environments. In addition, a maneuver-based, long-term trajectory prediction and criticality assessment system is introduced together with the Time-To-Critical-Collision-Probability (TTCCP) metric for uncertain, multi-object driving situations. Finally, the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) PRORETA 3 is described, which constitutes an integrated approach to collision avoidance and vehicle automation. ...

Masculinity, emotion regulation, and psychopathology: A critical review and integrated model

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 106-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle S. Berke ◽  
Dennis Reidy ◽  
Amos Zeichner
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Integrated Model
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