scholarly journals Ecological Cognitive Analysis of Chinese Harmonious Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zou Chun-ling
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The One ◽  
Human And Nature ◽  
Ultimate Purpose ◽  
Unconscious State

This study is concerned with cognitively and consciously enacting a new dialectical opposite-unity approach into Chinese harmonious discourse (CHD) analysis in an ecological perspective, which contributed to converting antagonistic thinking between human and nature into an ecological harmonious one cultivated into an unconscious state. The method applied is primarily the theoretical analysis and interpretation, due to the newness of this subject and the lack of corpus data. The motivation of this paper is evoked by the discovery of various cognition dissonances and insufficiencies with the academic development of newly born ecolinguistics. On a micro or specified level, this paper presents a cutting-edge example of an ecologically cognitive approach to the analysis of CHD, based on Chinese dialectical opposite-unity philosophy, to construct a higher-level cognition mechanism into a habitually unconscious thinking state. Such a mechanism has its practical significance in devoting to alleviating the ecological crisis by a change in ways of thinking, mediating cognitive dissonance brought about by the crisis, and improving the one-sided cognition deficiency brought about by ways of antagonistic thinking in order to maintain the ecological harmony. The theoretical significance lies in it demonstrating the cognitive process about how the unconscious ecological harmony cognition is cultivated by the conscious operational opposite-unity cognition procedure, with the ultimate purpose to achieve and maintain a real ecological harmony, under the cross-cultural background.

Relevance-theoretical versus pragmatic and cognitive approaches to coherence

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angeles Ruiz Moneva
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Discourse Coherence ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
Discourse Formation ◽  
The One

Discourse coherence can be approached as one of the variables that allow both the writer and the reader to cope with the meaning of texts. It will be hypothesised that this is possible because coherence integrates both cognitive and textual aspects. In fact, most of contemporary linguistic and pragmatic theories have laid emphasis on the need to go beyond the sentence and enter into the realms of text and discourse so as to grasp meaning. Hence, meaning results from an ongoing process of negotiation among language users. An important consequence of this is the need to approach discourse formation and comprehension as a cognitive process, which in turn entails that the notion of coherence, as the key defining trait of discourse and of texture, must also be cognitively grounded. It is for this reason that a cognitive approach to interpersonal communication, like the one supplied by relevance theory, appears to be in a position to provide suitable proposals for the explanation of the production, processing and interpretation of discourse. This paper will therefore aim to examine critically the proposals on coherence contributed in the framework of relevance theory and assess them in relation with other discourse and cognitive approaches. Its main underlying contention is that these proposals are best understood as complementary rather than mutually excluding.

What being an owner can also mean: A socio-anthropological study on the development of a forgotten relationship to objects

2021 ◽  
pp. 205157072110144
Author(s):  
Isabelle Dabadie ◽  
Philippe Robert-Demontrond
Keyword(s):  
Economic Models ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
Possessive Individualism ◽  
The One

In a context of ecological crisis, new economic models have developed based on the replacement of ownership by access. While they have been studied at length, the very idea of ownership, which is supposed to be abandoned in this process, has rarely been questioned. This is the aim of our research, which investigates the meanings of the concept of ownership for consumers. A socio-anthropological investigation and an ethnographic study on various sharing systems (for houses, boats and clothes) reveals the development of a relationship to ownership, which differs from the one that prevails in the society. In this paradigm, which questions possessive individualism, the owner appears as the ‘custodian’ of his possessions. The identification of his expectations opens managerial and societal perspectives to build the offers that will enable him to fulfil this role.

Chronique d’une écologie décoloniale dans C’est ma terre de Fabrice Bouckat

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Naudillon
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Agent Orange ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The West ◽  
The One

The documentary film C’est ma terre by Fabrice Bouckat screened during the 2019 edition of Terrafestival is one of the first large-scale films produced locally on the crisis of the chlordecone molecule. This article will examine from a decolonial perspective, how its director, a Martinican with Gabonese origins who lives and works in Guadeloupe, develops a synthetic and universal vision of environmental crises, and thus demonstrates that destruction of ecosystems crosses time and space, cultures and lands, languages and peoples by bringing ecological crisis in the West Indies closer to the one experienced by the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange.

scholarly journals Poder e impoder de la muerte: al encuentro del escepticismo y el goce (concurrencias entre Jacques Lacan y G.W.F. Hegel)

2014 ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Lorena Souyris Oportot
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The One ◽  
Psychoanalysis And Philosophy

Poder e impoder de la muerte: al encuentro del escepticismo y el goce (concurrencias entre Jacques Lacan y G.W.F. Hegel).Power and impower of death: to the encounter of skepticism and enjoyment. (concurrences between Jacques Lacan y G.W.F. Hegel).Recibido: 31/07/2013 ∙ Aceptado: 28/08/2013ResumenEl artículo es una tentativa para repensar, a partir de una frontera entre el psicoanálisis y la filosofía, el estatuto de la pulsión de muerte inscribién­dose, a partir de una confrontación entre intuiciones de Jacques Lacan y G.W.F. Hegel. En este diseño, el artículo se consagra como una explo­ración del «sentido» y las «posibilidades» de especulación alrededor de una ex-pulsión de muerte bajo una base escéptica en el significado lógico del término. Para ello, se propone, por una parte, explicar el lugar de la negatividad como aquello que da cuenta de la disolución y desaparición [l’Aufhebung] del sujeto del inconsciente. Y por otra parte, analizar el escepticismo como recurso para pensar la economía del goce lacaniano, en cuanto falta y disolución. Palabras clave: Escepticismo - pulsión de muerte - goce - sujeto barrado del inconsciente - negatividad. AbstractBased on the boarders between psychoanalysis and philosophy, this article is an attempt to re-think the principle of the death drive by confronting the approaches of Jacques Lacan and G.W.F. Hegel. This article explores“sense” and “possibilities” of speculation around and ex- death driveunder a logic-sceptical meaning of these concepts. The article explains,on the one hand, the place of negativity as accounting for the dissolutionand abolition [l’Aufhebung] of the unconscious subject; and on theother hand, it analysis scepticism as a resource to think the economy ofLacanian enjoyment.Keywords: Scepticism - death drive – enjoyment - abolition of the unconscioussubject - negativity

Social Constructionism and the Role of the Unconscious in Hypnotic Responding: A Single Case Experiment

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-163
Author(s):  
David P. Fourie
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Wide Acceptance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Unconscious Mind

AbstractThere seems to be wide acceptance by both professionals and lay people that hypnotic and especially hypnotherapeutic responding is based on the long-standing but still hypothetical dichotomy between the conscious and unconscious minds. In this simplistic view, hypnotic suggestions are considered to bypass consciousness to reach the unconscious mind, there to have the intended effect. This article reports on a single-case experiment investigating the involvement of the unconscious in hypnotherapeutic responding. In this case the subject responded positively to suggestions that could not have reached the unconscious, indicating that the unconscious was not involved in such responding. An alternative view is proposed, namely that hypnotherapeutic responding involves a cognitive process in which a socially constructed new understanding of the problem behaviour and of hypnosis, based on the client's existing attribution of meaning, is followed by action considered appropriate to the new understanding and which then confirms this understanding, leading to behaviour change.

The Subversion of Plato's Quasi-Phenomenology and Mytho-Poetics in the Symposium

Janus Head ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Bert Olivier ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The One

Is there a significant difference between Plato's texts and what is known as 'Platonism', that is, the philosophical tradition that claims Plato as its progenitor? Focusing on the Symposium, an attempt is made here to show that, far from merely fitting neatly into the categories of Platonism—with its neat distinction between the super-sensible and the sensible—Plato's own text is a complex, tension-filled terrain of countervailing forces. In the Symposium this tension obtains between the perceptive insights, on the one hand, into the nature of love and beauty, as well as the bond between them, and the metaphysical leap, on the other hand, from the experiential world to a supposedly accessible, but by definition super-sensible, experience-transcending realm. It is argued that, instead of being content with the philosophical illumination of the ambivalent human condition—something consummately achieved by mytho-poetic and quasi-phenomenohgical means—Plato turns to a putatively attainable, transcendent source of metaphysical reassurance which, moreover, displays all the trappings of an ideological construct. This is demonstrated by mapping Plato's lover's vision of 'absolute beauty' on to what Jacques Lacan has characterized as the unconscious structural quasi-condition of all religious and ideological illusion.

Statement of absorbing Mur boundary conditions of the first order of accuracy for solving problems of electrodynamics by the method of finite differences in the time domain

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 57-68
Author(s):  
R.Yu. Borodulin ◽  
N.O. Lukyanov
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Time Domain ◽  
Correct Choice ◽  
Absorbing Boundary Conditions ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Stable Operation ◽  
Absorbing Boundary ◽  
Spherical Waves ◽  
The One ◽  
The Time Domain

Problem statement. The accuracy and convergence of calculations for solving problems of electrodynamics by the finite difference method in the time domain significantly depends on the correct choice of parameters and the correct setting of the absorbing boundary conditions (ABC). Two main types of absorbing boundary conditions are known: Mur ABC; Beranger ABC. It is believed that the Mur ABC is less effective at absorbing spherical waves than the Beranger ABC, but they do not require the introduction of additional parameters (the so-called "Beranger fields"), which simplifies the implementation of program code and saves computer RAM. Calculations have shown that the efficiency of the Mur ABC will depend on their thickness. On the one hand, an increase in the thickness of the ABC layers will lead to an increase in the accuracy of calculations, on the other hand, to an increase in the size of the calculation area and, as a result, an increase in RAM. The problem arises of determining the criterion for evaluating the efficiency of ABC to determine their optimal thickness. Goal. Identification of new factors that make it possible to use the Mur ABC as efficiently as the Beranger ABC, while significantly saving computer resources. Result. The expressions for the ABC are presented, taking into account the interaction of all components of the electromagnetic field within a single cell of the FDTD. Calculations of the reflection coefficient – a criterion for evaluating the efficiency of the ABC, are presented. Practical significance. Calculations are presented that allow automating the selection of ABC parameters for their stable operation in solving electrodynamic problems.

scholarly journals Optimizing Train-Set Circulation Plan in High-Speed Railway Networks Using Genetic Algorithm

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Wang ◽  
Yu Zhou ◽  
Xuedong Yan
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Railway Transportation ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Utilization Scheme ◽  
The One ◽  
New Research

As a sustainable transportation mode, high-speed railway (HSR) has been developing rapidly during the past decade in China. With the formation of dense HSR network, how to improve the utilization efficiency of train-sets (the carrying tools of HSR) has been a new research hotspot. Moreover, the emergence of railway transportation hubs has brought great challenges to the traditional train-sets’ utilization mode. Thus, in this paper, we address the issue of train-sets’ utilization problem with the consideration of railway transportation hubs, which consists of finding an optimal Train-set Circulation Plan (TCP) to complete trip tasks in a given Train Diagram (TD). An integer programming TCP model is established to optimize the train-set utilization scheme, aiming to obtain the one-to-one correspondence relationship among sets of train-sets, trip tasks, and maintenances. A genetic algorithm (GA) is designed to solve the model. A case study based on Nanjing and Shanghai HSR transportation hubs is made to demonstrate the practical significance of the proposed method. The results show that a more efficient TCP can be formulated by introducing train-sets being dispatched among different stations in the same hub.

Picturing Scripts: A Combined Narrative, Social Semiotic and Cognitive Approach to Visual Narrativity

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindie Maagaard
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Contextual Knowledge ◽  
Combined Approach ◽  
Future Tense ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
Cognitive Perspectives

Abstract This article explores visual narrativity through the case of prospective, or future-tense, narratives realized through visual images. Addressing the challenges of representing narrative elements of temporality, events and experience in a single, static image, it proposes an analytical framework combining social semiotic, contextual and cognitive perspectives. In doing so, it argues that a combined approach enhances our ability to understand the interplay between on the one hand the image-internal visual cues of temporality and modality that activate the viewer’s imagination and narrative inferences, and on the other, the processes by which such inferences are made, including the influence of the viewer’s contextual knowledge and cognitive processes in guiding them. The article uses architectural renderings as material for analysis, because they are exemplary of how visual images invite viewers to imagine the kinds of activities and experiences that can unfold in a future setting and thus make inferences about temporality, event and experience beyond the image’s isolated moment.

Part III Regimes and Doctrines, Ch.38 Theories of Transitional Justice: Cashing in the Blue Chips

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nesiah Vasuki
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Political Society ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The One

This chapter examines the utopias called forth by the marriage of human rights accountability mechanisms on the one hand, and, on the other, arguments about the practical significance of these initiatives as preconditions for development, democracy, and political society. Transitional justice is seen to marry the ethical charge of the human rights field’s march against impunity, with an instrumental potential facilitating transition from the rule of violence into the rule of law. If the normative theories and agendas implicated by this marriage are advanced as being in the interests of justice, the accompanying instrumental theories and agendas are advanced in the interests of transition. Justice and transition operate here as allied and mutually reinforcing aspirations of and rationales for transitional justice institutions. Thus, this chapter identifies and analyses the stakes that attend this marriage of ‘ethics’ and ‘expertise’ in constituting the utopian political imagination of transitional justice.

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