scholarly journals The World and the Limits of Language: The Philosopher’s Concern with Language and Communication of Meaning

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Ndianaefoo
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
Communication Of Meaning

Why Technical Writers? A Case for Training Technologists to Speak for Themselves

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol J. Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Real World ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Technical Writers ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Technology Practice ◽  
Language And Communication

Why are technical writers needed to “translate” the work of technologists into accessible communication? This article looks briefly at the situation that creates the need for technical writers and then argues for a change in that situation so technologists can communicate for themselves. The argument is based on Martin Heidegger's philosophy of meaning, language, and communication. It recommends greater, active involvement of technologists with the “real world” in which their technology will be used, including involvement with people with whom and for whom the technology is being developed. Key concepts presented are that meaning lies in socially-agreed relations among things in the world, not in words or in the relations between words and things; that language actually manifests rather than represents reality; and that technical writers are incapable of fully appreciating and communicating the meaning of what technologists do because they come from a different discipline which constructs meaning differently. It argues that a change in technology practice will engender a new attitude and approach to technical communication that can make technical writers unnecessary except as communication teachers who help develop the communication skills of technologists.

Leonard Peltier Writes about His Years in a US Prison: My Life Is My Sun Dance as a Literary Text

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Márgara Averbach
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Sun Dance ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="p1">This article analyzes Leonard Peltier’s book about his years in prison as a literary work from my perspective as a nonindigenous scholar in Argentina who studies the US racial order. It tracks the author’s concept of prison in the book, a concept which Peltier attributes to his worldview as a Lakota. The concept and the worldview are omnipresent in <em>My Life Is My Sun Dance</em>, not only in the ideas but also in the structure, the mixture of genres, the idea of political struggle and its consequences, the relationship depicted between the author-character and the world inside and outside prison, the idea of language and communication, and also the relationship with nature and the need and building of community inside and outside prison. From the title onward, the “Indian Way” is presented as the center of life for Leonard Peltier, a tool to survive in a panoptic prison and to use in writing—another weapon in the fight for freedom, understanding, and survival. The book itself is one way to not disappear from the world, one way to struggle against the invisibility of prisoners in general and Native American prisoners in particular.</p>

Scripturalectics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent L. Wimbush
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
The World ◽  
Politics Of Language ◽  
Language And Communication

This book is about the work we make texts do for us, a transdisciplinary theoretical essay in the politics of language and communication. The author engages such politics by problematizing and excavating “scriptures,” a word first used to refer simply to “things written” and then by the nineteenth century associated almost exclusively with the center-holding and power-defining (“sacred”) texts of the “world religions.”

The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
World Health ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Organization Model ◽  
Rehabilitation Outcomes ◽  
The World ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
Communication Impairments ◽  
Health Organization

The language and communication impairments that individuals experience following damage to the cerebral cortex vary widely, depending on the extent of involvement and location in the left or right hemisphere. Historically, numerous aphasia syndromes have been described, typically following left hemisphere damage, each with unique characteristics. Other subtle aspects of communication are disrupted in right hemisphere disorders as well. Clinicians who work with individuals with communication disorders recognize patterns of symptoms, administer appropriate assessments, and develop interventions to address the language and communication impairments. Recognized authors from around the world review the extensive literature on the varied aphasia syndromes, acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia, and right hemisphere communication disorders. Starting with a rich historical overview, the book turns to broad perspectives from the World Health Organization model applied in clinical assessment of aphasia. A series of chapters expands on the aphasia syndromes, dyslexia and dysgraphia, and right hemisphere disorders, weaving theoretical perspectives and building neurological foundations that lead to sound clinical approaches to assessment and intervention intended to maximize recovery of language and communication following acquired brain injury. The book ends with a focus on rehabilitation, including prognostic factors at play in aphasia recovery, and principles of neuroplasticity intended to maximize rehabilitation outcomes. Readers will leave with a breadth of information deriving from an extensive overview of the literature on aphasia and related communication disorders.

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2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Expressive Arts ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Circle Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
School Books

Osons ôter les masques ! Un théâtre, une visée immédiate, une visée suggérée – qu’est-ce qui nous trouble ?

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Georgiana Lungu-Badea
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
The World ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
Fundamental Cause ◽  
The Creation

Abstract Our aim is to examine the extinction of humanity as predicted by Matei Visniec and the borderline situations where he envisages the death of the human being ; and, then, to see how he (the writer) imagines the creation of the chance of success. To this end, we question his conception about the world, about life, his capacity of showing - through an inter-subjectivity which regularly lacks - one’s complete lack of experience, this hypothetically being the fundamental cause of identity annihilation, of failure of comprehension and acceptance and ultimately the fundamental cause of the death of language and communication. We will examine Matei Visniec’s way of creating hybrid genres, characters, behaviours in order to suggest a possible end of this action.

scholarly journals Autism, Art and the World Behind the World: Adventures in Neurodiverse Communication.

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent White ◽  
Sonia Boue
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
The World ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Interpersonal Level

<p>Pioneering autistic, neurodiverse language and communication styles the author&rsquo;s explore the poetic potency of non-linear and non-verbal phenomena in neurodiverse interpersonal relationships. In doing so, they allow the linear thinker to experience challenge in reading, for which equivalencies can be sought in the challenges of social pragmatics for autistics. Within this experience of challenge the authors suggest the possibility of new empathic encounters with autistic and neurodiverse minds for a neurotypical readership. The authors further allow for autistic and neurodiverse readers to find reflections of difference with the potential to enable and empower. The use of social media comment facilities to provide meeting points, which may not be possible in real time, are also posited as access. Equivalences are sought across neurological difference which invite the reader to engage with a &lsquo;stepping into&rsquo; of new cognitive and sensory spaces. These spaces exist on the borders of neurotypical experience and are here termed liminal - their character is fully investigated, and the authors determine that in their own excavations into these joint territories. &nbsp;They find evidence for the requirements for true engagement and connection with neurological difference, including technological access (meaning the absence of real time obstacles), a willingness to step into new and challenging spaces on the part of others, and egalitarian values at an interpersonal level.</p> <p>&nbsp;Object art, the absence of real time contact and mutual respect in this very particular case are seen to open up a World Behind the World.</p>

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Behavioral Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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