scholarly journals Language and Context in Inter-Cultural Communication

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 414-418
Author(s):  
Dr. Ibrahim Abushihab
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Real World ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
International Effort ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Text Context

The text is considered as a final product which exists in the mind as the result of a mental activity. It is a unit of human action, interaction, communication and cognition which are based on the context. Background knowledge of the social context and its cultural norms and the power of contextual inference help in finding the particular meaning of the text. Context is an idealized abstraction of the required meaning from the communicative situation whereas contextualization, as defined by Brelsford and Rogers (2008:1) is international effort to extend learning beyond the classroom into relevant contexts in the real world, and it also entails bringing realities of those extra academic comments into the classroom. Students who belong to a different culture often find themselves out of touch with the content of the topic being taught. Context and contextualization are essential in solving such issues.

Why Thomas Reid Matters to the Epistemology of the Social Sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (279) ◽  
pp. 282-301
Author(s):  
Laurent Jaffro ◽  
Vinícius França Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Action ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Reasoning ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Mind

Abstract Little attention has been paid to the fact that Thomas Reid's epistemology applies to ‘political reasoning’ as well as to various operations of the mind. Reid was interested in identifying the ‘first principles’ of political science as he did with other domains of human knowledge. This raises the question of the extent to which the study of human action falls within the competence of ‘common sense’. Our aim is to reconstruct and assess Reid's epistemology of the sciences of social action and to determine how it connects with the fundamental tenets of his general epistemology. In the first part, we portray Reid as a methodological individualist and focus on the status of the first principles of political reasoning. The second part examines Reid's views on the explanatory power of the principles of human action. Finally, we draw a parallel between Reid's epistemology and the methodology of Weberian sociology.

Recurrent gestures

Gesture ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-244
Author(s):  
David McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
Inside View ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Social Deixis ◽  
Interior View ◽  
Gesture Production

Abstract Using recurrent gestures as the model, this essay considers how an inside-looking-out view of speech-gesture production reflects the interactive-social exterior. The inside view may appear to ignore the social context of speaking and gesture, but this is far from the truth. What an exterior view sees as important appears in the interior but in a different way. The difference leads to misunderstandings of the interior view and what it does. It is not a substitute for the exterior. It is the interior reflecting the social exterior and shaping it to fit its own demands. Topics are: recurrent gestures; gesture-speech co-expressivity; expunged real-world goals; “in-betweenness”; phenomenological “inhabitance” and material carriers; metaphoricity and imagery; social deixis and social relations; realizations of the self; world-views; and lastly the want of mutual outside and inside intellectual perceptions and what can be done about it.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI IDEOLOGI DAN KEKUASAAN DALAM BAHASA: KAJIAN TEKS MEDIA

HUMANIKA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Suharyo Suharyo ◽  
Surono Surono ◽  
Mujid F Amin
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Text Context

This article is based on the assumption that language is not in a social vacuum. Language is more than a set of words that merely linguistic, but also social. Therefore, the current linguistic research should take into account the social dimension in the analysis are critical, such as van Dijk’s critical discourse analysis (CDA) research model. The critical discourse analysis research  considering the text, context, social cognition, and analysis/social context. Research steps include: exposing the macro structure (thematic), superstructure (schematic), and microstructure consisting of semantics, syntax, stylistic, and rhetoric. Accordingly, this study uses the method read and record while research data has been collected from Suara Merdeka and Kompas newspaper. Finally concluded that the language represents the ideology and power (symbolic) both individual and communal.

Ontological Assumptions in Information Modeling

2005 ◽  
pp. 433-437
Author(s):  
John M. Artz
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Shared Meanings ◽  
Modeling Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Object Classes ◽  
The Mind

Information modeling is a technique by which a database designer develops a conceptual model of a database depicting the entity classes that will be represented in the database. There are three competing ontological assumptions that guide the modeling process. The broadest characterization of these assumptions is realism vs. conceptualism, with social realism occupying a middle ground. The realist believes that object classes exist in the real world, waiting to be discovered. The conceptualist believes that object classes are constructed in the mind of the modeler, based on observations about the application domain and the objectives of the information model. The social realist believes that classes exist as shared meanings among stakeholders in an application domain. This article explores these assumptions and then reviews selected literature in information modeling to determine which assumptions are held by key authors. It concludes that most authors hold inconsistent views, and this inconsistency provides some important insights into information modeling while presenting serious problems for practitioners and students of information modeling.

Punishing Bodies: British Prison Film and the Spectacle of Masculinity

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Llinares
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Male Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
British Cinema ◽  
Sociology Of Punishment ◽  
The One

Prison films are beset by a fundamental paradox. Because mainstream film is reliant on a combination of the pleasure of the visual and the dramatic structuring of narrative, institutionalised incarceration based on the loss of liberty, extended temporal control and physical spatial restriction would seem to be fundamentally at odds with ‘the cinematic’. Prison as depicted on-screen is therefore a space in which visibly enacted retribution is foregrounded in a mode much more akin to what Foucault calls the pre-modern ‘theatres of torture’. The routinised banality of day-to-day life behind bars is eschewed in favour of the spectacle of the masculine body punishing or being violently punished. British cinema is replete with films set in prison, however, as the first part of this article explores, and academic analyses of such films are formulated around three discursive strands: debates around the constitution of the prison film as a genre, discussions of the potential relationship between cinematic representations and the ‘real-world’ sociology of punishment, and assertions about how national identity is reflected. The second part of this article deploys a comparative analysis of Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson (2008) and Steve McQueen's Hunger (2008), examining what is often taken for granted in previous work, namely how the environment of incarceration is produced as an aesthetic, social and even ontological space that contextualises and materialises a link between masculinity, violence and spectacle. I argue that the microcosm of the prison, on the one hand, reasserts the male body as the root of physical ‘being-ness’, yet on the other, reveals masculinity as a constructed performance determined by the social context of incarceration and amplified through cinematic aesthetics.

scholarly journals The e-lang Project: Towards a Socio-Interactional Approach for Language Teaching and Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 154-169
Author(s):  
Catherine Jeanneau ◽  
Christian Ollivier
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Real World ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type ◽  
Theoretical Paper

In this theoretical paper, we present an innovative pedagogical approach to language learning and teaching. This approach is based on a dialogical conception of communication and the principle that any human action and communication is determined by the social interactions within which it takes place. On the strength of this approach, we propose an extension of the usual typology of tasks in order to include what we call real-world tasks. The characteristics of this new type of tasks are then specified. Finally, we give a concrete example of a real-world task.

scholarly journals The Effect of Social Context on the Mind Perception of Robots

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 230-234
Author(s):  
Rebecca Butler ◽  
Zoe Pruitt ◽  
Eva Wiese
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Mind Perception ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Perception Of Robots ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Impact

As social robots are increasingly introduced into our everyday lives, an emphasis on improving the human-robot interaction (HRI), particularly through increased mind perception, is necessary. Substantial research has been conducted that demonstrates how manipulations to a robot’s physical appearance or behavior increases mind perception, yet little has been done to examine the effects of the social environment. This study aims to identify the impact of social context on mind perception by comparing mind perception ratings assigned to robots viewed in a human context with those assigned to robots viewed in a robot context. Participants were assigned to one of the two contexts in which they viewed images of 5 control robots with either 15 humans or 15 robots and answered questions that measured the degree to which they ascribed mind to the agents. A t-test comparing the overall average mind ratings of the control robots between contexts showed a significant difference between the two, with the robots in the robot context having a higher average rating than those in the human context. This result demonstrates a need to consider the social context in which the HRI will take place when designing for the best interaction. Considering that most robots in the foreseeable future will be viewed in a human context, this result also calls for additional research on ways to further increase mind perception to combat the negative effect of the most likely social environment.

Social-affective origins of mindreading and metacognition

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Rochat
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Central Piece ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mind

AbstractThe engineer's look at how the mind works omits a central piece of the puzzle. It ignores the dynamic of motivations and the social context in which mindreading and metacognition evolved and developed in the first place. Mindreading and metacognition derive from a primacy of affective mindreading and meta-affectivity (e.g., secondary emotions such as shame or pride), both co-emerging in early development.

scholarly journals Integrating Social Constructivism and Personal Construct Psychology Approaches: A Discourse Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Fella Yorlanda
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Construct Psychology ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Construct Psychology

This paper outlines the key features of discourse and psychological construct Psychology (PCP) in the past decades. This library research constructs its 59 related studies have been downloaded from the Google Scholar databases. The analysis in this study sees the crossroads between social constructivism and personal construct psychology (PCP) are increasingly being employs during the past decades. This convention is not only appropriate but seems to need each other. When construction sees cognition not as a person by any means leading to "behind" behaviour, but the configuration of the mind and sense that occur in action, the social context of the act that arises as an interest. At the same time, how cultural ideas or practices or "discourses" manifested in individuals and their actions, is very important. Therefore this study jump into conclusions that the discourse of psychology offers an opportunity to develop a coherent mix of social constituent ideas around the discourse, with PCP

scholarly journals Integrating Discourse and Personal Construct Approaches: Psychological Perspective

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
fella yorlanda ◽  
Wendy Pandapotan Sahat Martua Simangunsong
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Personal Construct Psychology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Construct Psychology

The crossroads between social constructivism and personal construct psychology (PCP) are increasingly being explored . This tradition is not only appropriate, but need each other. When construction sees cognition not as a personal by any means leading to "behind" behavior, but the configuration of the mind and sense that occur in action, the social context of the act that arises as an interest . At the same time , how cultural ideas or practices or "discourses" manifested in individuals and their actions, is very important. The discourse of psychology offers an opportunity to develop a coherent mix of social constituent ideas around the discourse , with PCP. This paper outlines the key features of such an endeavor. Accounts of the psychological discourse approach are provided, and these are then used to establish connections with PCP.

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