Making Text

Doing Text ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781911325031.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 93-112

Author(s):

Emma Walters

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Self ◽

Space And Time ◽

Cultural Milieu ◽

Equal Importance

This chapter explores the act of making text. It looks at the author's own biography. Understanding one's contribution to both the textual and cultural milieu in which one situates themself provides concrete meaning to their existence in the space and time in which they are historically rooted. Of equal importance are questions on the very nature of how one's textual and cultural footprint impacts on the wider society they are in the process of creating. Making texts is a mode of reinforcing this underlying ideology, a strategy of facilitating, locating, constructing, and ultimately communicating or 'making' one's sense of self and place.

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S78. TIME PREDICTION AND SENSE OF SELF: LACK OF FLEXIBILITY IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA

Schizophrenia Bulletin ◽

10.1093/schbul/sbaa031.144 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 46 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S63-S64

Author(s):

Anne Giersch ◽

Brice Martin ◽

Erik van der Burg

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Self ◽

Previous Trial ◽

Sequential Effects ◽

Minimal Self ◽

Space And Time ◽

Manual Responses ◽

The World ◽

Sense Of Time ◽

Different Order ◽

Healthy Participants

Abstract Background The sense of time continuity appears to be disturbed in pathologies like schizophrenia, associated with a disruption of the sense of self, and of the feeling of being immersed in the world. Prediction mechanisms have been proposed to be involved in the sense of time continuity by helping to relate discontinuous events, and our previous studies have suggested that these mechanisms may occur even at the millisecond level. Such mechanisms would be involved in our ability to interact with the outer world, by helping to follow events accurately in both space and time. We explored prediction mechanisms and attention shifts based on recently experienced sequences of visual information (sequential effects). Methods 26 patients with schizophrenia and 20 matched controls were included in asynchrony discrimination tasks, and assessments of minimal self disorders with the EASE. On each trial, two stimuli are displayed with varying stimulus onset asynchronies (SOA). Subjects decide whether the stimuli are simultaneous or asynchronous and give manual responses. Sequential effects were explored further in several groups of 15 healthy participants. Results The main finding in controls is a strong accuracy advantage for different- as compared to same-order trials, but only when trial t is with an SOA slightly larger than trial t-1 (advantage of 16% in accuracy), or equivalent (advantage of 10% in accuracy). An advantage for same-vs. different-order trials is observed only when the SOA on the previous trial is large and visible. In patients, there is no advantage for same-order trials. There is a clear advantage for different-order trials (advantage of 16% in accuracy), but this effect disappears, contrary to controls, when SOAs are equivalent on successive trials (1% difference in accuracy). The impairment in the trial-to-trial effects in patients correlates with minimal self disorders (the EASE). Discussion Further investigations in healthy participants suggest that the sequential effects can be explained in terms of prediction of stimulus sequences from trial to trial, which are accompanied by an attention shift. The first stimulus triggers the onset of the sequence, and attention is then covertly shifted in space and time according to the previous trial, in order to attend to the second stimulus. This explains the advantage for different-order trials: when order is reversed on the present trial, attention ends up in the location of the first stimulus of the present sequence. This first stimulus is perceived as isolated on the screen if the second stimulus occurs later than on the previous trial, thus facilitating the detection of an asynchrony. The asynchrony is then obvious, explaining the large amplitude of the effect. The fact that the effect extends to the condition in which SOAs are equivalent on successive trials suggests that participants shift their attention in advance, as if anticipating the location of the second stimulus. This is impaired in patients, who replay sequences of events, but do not anticipate the successive events flexibly. This would impair their immersion in the world, where events rarely happen twice at the same time exactly.

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The Church and the Historical Jesus

Scottish Journal of Theology ◽

10.1017/s0036930600006827 ◽

1961 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 15-33

Author(s):

William Nicholls

Keyword(s):

Machine Tools ◽

Historical Jesus ◽

People Of God ◽

Space And Time ◽

Equal Importance ◽

Passion Of Christ ◽

Doctrine Of The Church ◽

The Right ◽

Bear Witness ◽

The Church

The Christological approach to the doctrine of the Church. which is now seen as the most hopeful way forward fot the work of Faith and Order, could mislead us if it were to direct our attention away from the dependence of the Church on the historical Jesus, and to lead us to think instead only in the dogmatic terms of a Chalcedonian analogy. While there is much to be learned about the right way to formulate our doctrines from such theological machine-tools, our first business in thinking about the nature of the Church is to learn to bear witness to the acts of Christ Himself in founding the Church as the new People of God, and in keeping it throughout its history as the instrument of His present work. If the purpose of this paper is to think especially of the dependence of the Church, as a continuous society in history, on its origins in the historical actions of Jesus, in the Incarnation and Passion of Christ as concrete facts in space and time, there is no intention thereby to deny the equal importance of the corresponding dependence of the Church on the present action of its living and ascended Lord.

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Automobility

Geography ◽

10.1093/obo/9780199874002-0206 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Aaron Golub

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Self ◽

Human Beings ◽

Public And Private ◽

Self Identity ◽

Space And Time ◽

Wide Range ◽

Political Forces ◽

Mode Of Being ◽

Class Divisions

Automobility is a conceptual framework developed to understand the personal, social, political, cultural, geographical, and technical systems shaping, and shaped by, the automobile. At its core, the automobility system is the hub of numerous interdependencies and relationships between the larger society and the automobile. The automobility literature synthesizes scholarship from a wide range of fields necessary to understand these diverse but interlocking systems, including history, geography, public policy, planning, behavior, psychology, anthropology, culture and communication, and economics and finance, among many others. Automobility contextualizes the role of the automobile as a powerful and central driver of complex and diverse processes, creating new materialities across space and time. Automobility describes a social arrangement where the automobile system dominates and transforms almost everything in its path—one’s personal sense of self, identity, and mobility; relationships between human beings; the boundaries of public and private; and the broader social, cultural, and political forces at larger scales. Systems affected by the automobililty system become malformed by it, each moment then favoring it even more in a vicious cycle, while rejecting or destroying those systems incompatible with it. Automobility explores a society dispersed across space and time, forcing its subjects into a particular mode of being, seemingly free, but now saddled by the various demands of the automobile. For those not able to participate, automobility excludes, as opportunities become even more inaccessible by anything other than an automobile. These forces of inclusion and exclusion exacerbate existing social processes of discrimination, such as gender, racial and class divisions, and segregation. Furthermore, automobility implicates a vast process of urbanization; land conversion for automobile-related uses; and related environmental impacts like resource consumption, pollution, and climate change across a range of scales from the local to the global, from immediate to long-term.

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Tamar Katriel, Performing the past: A study of Israeli settlement museums. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997. Pp. x, 172. Hb $45.00, pb $24.50.

Language in Society ◽

10.1017/s0047404501253056 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 497-500

Author(s):

Don Handelman

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Place ◽

Emotional Experience ◽

Sense Of Self ◽

The Past ◽

Space And Time ◽

The People ◽

Guided Tours ◽

Primary Medium ◽

Israeli Kibbutz

In this excellent study of guided tours through two Israeli kibbutz museums, Tamar Katriel comments that for her, “tracing the construction of Israeli culture is as much an act of recognition as it is one of deconstruction” (p. 116). Katriel, a native Israeli Jew, is telling us that for her, moving through these museums, looking at the exhibits, and listening to the guides is an emotional experience. The recognition of which Katriel writes is, one may say, that moment of connectivity in which one orients oneself to person, space, and time in ways that evoke (perhaps suddenly) an awareness that is related to one's very sense of self. The intersection of person, space, and time creates place and the emotions associated with it. When these moments of intersection occur in museums, the practice of taking objects out of their native contexts and infusing them with the purpose of presence within exhibits is successful. The purpose of guides in these museums is to create this sense of place within the people who visit these sites, to engender recognition within these visitors, even if they know little or nothing of the representations that constitute exhibits. Creating the feeling-tones of place is at the heart of guiding in these museums; and the narration of representations is the primary medium through which recognition is evoked.

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Homeward Journey through Poetry: Wallace Stevens’s The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica ◽

10.1515/ausp-2015-0035 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 55-63

Author(s):

Boróka Prohászka-Rád

Keyword(s):

Complex System ◽

Sense Of Self ◽

Space And Time ◽

The World

Abstract Analyzing Stevens’s 1952 The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain I trace the laborious journey the persona of the poem undertakes - an external as well as an internal adventure - transforming thus the world into a possible home. I show how the poem - through its self-reflexive nature and complex system of interwoven external and internal images and circular movements - may offer the persona a sense of self and home in space and time among the fragments of the broken universe.

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Lessons Learned From Coaching Postsecondary Students With Traumatic Brain Injury

Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups ◽

10.1044/2019_persp-19-00092 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 88-96

Author(s):

Mary R. T. Kennedy

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Traumatic Brain Injury ◽

Brain Injury ◽

Sense Of Self ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

Sudden Onset ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Speech Language Pathologists ◽

The Brain ◽

Exhaustive List

Purpose The purpose of this clinical focus article is to provide speech-language pathologists with a brief update of the evidence that provides possible explanations for our experiences while coaching college students with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Method The narrative text provides readers with lessons we learned as speech-language pathologists functioning as cognitive coaches to college students with TBI. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but rather to consider the recent scientific evidence that will help our understanding of how best to coach these college students. Conclusion Four lessons are described. Lesson 1 focuses on the value of self-reported responses to surveys, questionnaires, and interviews. Lesson 2 addresses the use of immediate/proximal goals as leverage for students to update their sense of self and how their abilities and disabilities may alter their more distal goals. Lesson 3 reminds us that teamwork is necessary to address the complex issues facing these students, which include their developmental stage, the sudden onset of trauma to the brain, and having to navigate going to college with a TBI. Lesson 4 focuses on the need for college students with TBI to learn how to self-advocate with instructors, family, and peers.

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