scholarly journals Temporality in the context of subjective interpretation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. V. Popov ◽  
O. A. Muzyka
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Interpretation

scholarly journals When ‘You’ Means ‘I’: The German 2Nd Ps.Sg. Pronoun Du between Genericity and Subjectivity

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 280-309
Author(s):  
Peter Auer ◽  
Anja Stukenbrock
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Data Capturing ◽  
The One

Abstract In this paper, we first present a close analysis of conversational data, capturing the variety of non-addressee deictic usages of du in contemporary German. From its beginnings, it has been possible to use non-addressee deictic du not only for generic statements, but also for subjective utterances by a speaker who mainly refers to his or her own experiences. We will present some thoughts on the specific inferences leading to this interpretation, making reference to Buhler’s deixis at the phantasm. In the second part of the paper, we show that non-addressee deictic du (‘thou’) as found in present-day German is not an innovation but goes back at least to the 18th century. However, there is some evidence that this usage has been spreading over the last 50 years or so. We will link non-addressee deictic du back historically to the two types of “person-shift” for du discussed by Jakob Grimm in his 1856 article “Uber den Personenwechsel in der Rede” [On person shift in discourse]. Grimm distinguishes between person shift in formulations of “rules and law” on the one hand, and person shift in what he calls “thou-monologue” on the other. The subjective interpretation of non-addressee-deictic du in present-day German may have originated from these “thou-monologues”

scholarly journals School climate as the determinant of the relationship between the level of students’ resilience and school satisfaction

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viola Tamášová ◽  
Silvia Barnová
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
School Environment ◽  
School Satisfaction ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractResilience is an individual’s capacity to recover, adapt, and keep mental balance and normal functioning when exposed to significant adversity. This competence plays an important role in one’s life because it increases the probability of achieving success in various spheres of life. Schools can foster students’ resilience by providing a positive school environment and a sufficient number of protective factors, but it is the subjective interpretation of conditions and experiences rather than the exposure to them that is significant. The main objective of this research was to study to what extent school satisfaction, i.e. subjective interpretation of the school climate, influenced the level of students’ resilience. Not all our findings are compatible with the results of other studies. Despite the limits of our research, its results can serve as a basis for further work as not much has been done in the field of resilience research in Slovakia.

The subjective interpretation of probability

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Gary Koop ◽  
Dale J. Poirier ◽  
Justin L. Tobias
Keyword(s):  
Interpretation Of Probability ◽  
Subjective Interpretation

Polygraphology, profiling, eyetracking and other parascientific methods of psychiatric diagnostics

2021 ◽  
Vol LII (3) ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Vladimir D. Mendelevich
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Behavioral Disorders ◽  
Clinical Syndrome ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
Polygraph Examination ◽  
Absence Of Evidence ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Psychopathological Disorders ◽  
Mental And Behavioral Disorders ◽  
Expert Practice

The article analyzes the problem of scientific groundlessness, inexpediency and unethical use of instrumental paraclinical methods for diagnosing mental and behavioral disorders. An opinion is expressed about the discrepancy between instrumental diagnostics and the criteria set out in international classifications. The use of polygraph examination, profiling and eye tracking in forensic psychiatric expert practice is criticized. It is concluded that in the context of a subjective interpretation of the results obtained and the absence of evidence of correlations between the clinical syndrome and psychophysiological parameters, the conclusion about the presence of psychopathological disorders based on the proposed methods should be recognized as dangerous for the fate of patients and discrediting psychiatric diagnostics.

Isomorphic mapping in fictional interpretation

2021 ◽  
pp. 277-296
Author(s):  
Matthias Bauer ◽  
Sigrid Beck
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
Structure Preserving ◽  
Semantic Framework ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
Real Objects

This chapter investigates how readers/hearers come to assign a subjective interpretation to a fictional text. It argues that fictional texts use a speech act operator that involves an inference from the text worlds to the reader’s reality (Bauer and Beck 2014). The inference is based on a mapping from concepts in the text to real objects, properties, and relations which has isomorphic features, i.e., it is a structure-preserving mapping. We illustrate the workings of our semantic framework by applying it to two poems by Emily Dickinson and offer some generalizations regarding plausible vs. implausible mappings and what governs their choice.

Elizabeth Gaskell

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-145
Author(s):  
Andrew Mangham
Keyword(s):  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
Demographic Theory ◽  
North And South

This chapter focuses on Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848), North and South (1854–5), and Sylvia’s Lovers (1863). These works confirm Kingsley’s suspicion that a material view of starvation—and poverty more generally—offers a reasonable and reasoning interpretation of the Condition-of-England question. Starvation, or ‘clemming’, as it was known among the industrial working classes, refuses to be integrated, in Gaskell’s fictional world, into a catch-all economic or demographic theory. Instead, it is a phenomenon that paradoxically demands confrontation while evading perception through the anatomies of the workers and their surroundings. In line with the interlinking findings of biological scientists and Unitarian thinkers, Gaskell broaches the intricate questions of reform by recasting them as flesh-and-blood issues experienced through the eyes of her heroines; her novels thus ask for the sort of careful consideration advocated by science, whereby the strengths and weaknesses of subjective interpretation are tested and interpreted through the material.

The grammaticalization of Dutch klinken

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 190-212
Author(s):  
Marjolein Poortvliet
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Intransitive Verb ◽  
Middle Dutch ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
Perception Verbs ◽  
History Of ◽  
Verb Meaning ◽  
Diachronic Development

Abstract This article demonstrates the diachronic development of present-day Dutch klinken as an evidential copular verb meaning ‘to seem, based on (auditory) evidence’ from the Middle Dutch intransitive verb klinken meaning ‘to give off a clear sound’. I identify four semantic stages in the history of klinken, which are divided by processes of semantic bleaching (14th–16th century, 16th–17th century) and subjectification and copularization (during the 16th century). I claim that the process of copularization is the trigger of both the evidential meaning and the subjective interpretation that copular constructions with klinken receive. Furthermore, I show that, unlike the development of eruitzien ‘look’ and voelen ‘feel’ from cognitive perception verbs, klinken has developed much like the Dutch copular verbs schijnen ‘seem’ and blijken ‘turn out’: from an intransitive verb with a sensory-related meaning.

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