scholarly journals Language as an Object of Empirical Study in the Dutch Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-305
Author(s):  
Els Stronks
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
Dutch Books ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Short Time

This article takes a dictionary by Joos Lambrecht, dating from 1546, as its point of departure. It argues that this dictionary, as well as other dictionaries and treatises produced in the wake of Lambrecht’s, did more than teach their young audience in the Dutch Republic the meaning of existing words and thus transfer cultural and linguistic knowledge as was already understood. They also taught youngsters how to obtain (new) knowledge from their own empirical observations. The Dutch books on morphology, orthography, phonology, and grammar – produced in large numbers – offered their readers the opportunity to use their own language as an object for empirical study. By charting the dynamics of language, knowledge, and empirical training, it is argued that the Dutch language was, for a short time, treated by writers not merely as a means to express and share knowledge, but also as an object of study in itself. What might have formed an accessible training ground for the development of skills in empirical observation and especially self-reflexive practice, was, however, soon snuffed out by a second wave of tutorial books which emphasised the prescriptive over the explorative.

Transformation of Teaching Pedagogical Practices in Higher Education in the Situation of Covid-19 (Based on the example of transforming academic practices in the Pedagogical Faculty of the Thracian University)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Rumyana Neminska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Teaching Models ◽  
Academic Practices ◽  
Learning Management ◽  
Short Time

When COVID-19 pandemic hit Bulgarian education was in the middle of its reform. Health requirements, the long lockdown, have expelled a huge surge of the need not only for a survival but also for the preservation and transformation of education. Education on all levels including higher academic education took quick steps to reorient to online learning. In a short time, university electronic platforms became the daily place for learning. This online reorientation has led to a number of changes in teaching models, online learning management and more. Practically all methodologies and methodologies that the pedagogical students get acquainted with have been rewritten. It is in this direction that the article traces the challenges facing higher education and examines an empirical study of the attitudes of student educators trained in an online environment.

Organizing practices of reflection: A practice-based study

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Keevers ◽  
Lesley Treleaven
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Collective Mindfulness ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
Reflection In Action ◽  
Relational Qualities ◽  
The Impact

This article extends debates of how organizing practices of reflexivity and collective mindfulness are encouraged and sustained for learning, critique and change. We present, in a practice-based study, a fourfold framework of anticipatory, deliberative, organizing and critically reflexive practices. Our empirical study illustrates how these multiple forms of reflexive practice can support and co-shape one another so that knowing what to do next emerges in the midst of practice. Our analysis demonstrates the value of going beyond the optical metaphor of reflection to that of critical reflexivity and the metaphor of diffraction. This approach extends understandings of reflective practice in ways that foreground entanglement, co-production and the relational qualities of practice. Diffraction encourages managers and practitioners to not only reflect on what has been done but to also map the effects of their practices and interventions. This orientation assists them to notice the impact of their actions and better understand the complexities of organized reflection-in-action.

scholarly journals Speculation, segregation and (absence of) conflicts: In the production of the urban space of Palmas / TO

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Carla de Lira Bottura
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Western World ◽  
New Town ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Space Production ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The City

This article introduces partial discussions from a doctoral research in progress that has as object of study the tendency to paci cation and concealment of con icts veri ed in the production process of contemporary urban space - particularly in the most recent Brazil- ian cities - as well as its strategies and mechanisms of control. As a eld of study, it is proposed the city of Palmas, capital of Tocantins, last planned capital of the twentieth century, founded on May 20, 1989, a year that symbolizes the opening of the Western world to the neoliberal economic policy. Based on the observation of the absence of signi cant movements of resistance to the urban space production process at Palmas and interpreting it as a re ection of pacifying tendency of consensus and appeasement / masking of con icts as a feature of neoliberal city, we propose the hypothesis of physical and territorial con guration of the city as a laboratory of the neoliberal model of urban management, in which socio-spa- tial dynamics gradually developed in other contemporary cities through processes historically constructed, get explicit and take place, immediately or in a very short time. Through a historical ap- proach to the context of its creation and occupation, we propose an urban space production reading based on the recognition of char- acteristics relating to its conditions of New Town and neoliberal city as well as the incipient action of the social movements dedicated to the struggles for housing as social agents in this process. 

Experimenting Through Mobile ‘Apps’ and ‘App Stores’

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Coulton ◽  
Will Bamford
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Value Added ◽  
App Store ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Experimental Process ◽  
Continued Use

Utilizing App Stores as part of an ‘in-the-large’ methodology requires researchers to have a good understanding of the effects the platform has in the overall experimental process if they are to utilize it effectively. This paper presents an empirical study of effects of the operation an App Store has on an App lifecycle through the design, implementation and distribution of three games on the WidSets platform which arguably pioneered many of the features now seen as conventional for an App Store. Although these games achieved in excess of 1.5 million users it was evident through their App lifecycle that very large numbers of downloads are required to attract even a small number of active users and suggests such Apps need to be developed using more commercial practices than would be necessary for traditional lab testing. Further, the evidence shows that ‘value added’ features such as chat increase not only the popularity of an App but also increase the likelihood of continued use and provide a means of direct interaction with users.

Linguistic structure and information organisation

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 183-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane von Stutterheim
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Formal System ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Advanced Learners ◽  
Event Time ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Time Structures

This paper addresses the factors that distinguish very advanced learners from native speakers, investigating the difficulties which arise in overcoming the final thresholds in the learning process. Firstly, it compares different linguistic systems with respect to specific grammaticised categories, showing how these categories relate to patterns of information organisation at text level, with the assumption that the principles underlying these patterns form part of the learner’s linguistic knowledge. Secondly, it demonstrates that L2-learners who master the formal system of the target language to a near-perfect degree still have problems in applying forms in context in accordance with the principles of information organisation which grammaticised forms entail in the target language. The domains investigated are event-time structures. The languages investigated in the empirical study are Algerian Arabic, English, German, Spanish, and Norwegian, and advanced learner languages (English and German).

scholarly journals Five loaves and two fishes: An empirical study in psychological type and biblical hermeneutics among Anglican preachers

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Type Theory ◽  
Psychological Type ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation ◽  
Liturgical Preaching

The sensing, intuition, feeling and thinking (SIFT) method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching has its roots in three fields: a theology of individual differences situated within the doctrine of creation, an application of Jungian psychological-type theory and empirical observation. The present study tested the empirical foundations for this method by examining the psychological-type profile of two groups of Anglican preachers (24 licensed readers in England and 22 licensed clergy in Northern Ireland) and by examining the content of their preaching according to their dominant psychological-type preferences. These data provided further support for the psychological principles underpinning the SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching.

Flight Activity and Displacement in the Rutherglen Bug Nysius Vinitor (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae).

1973 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 413 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Kehat ◽  
M Wyndham
Keyword(s):  
Host Plants ◽  
Population Studies ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Flight Activity ◽  
Migratory Behavior ◽  
Seasonal Fluctuations ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Seasonal Migrations ◽  
Population Source ◽  
Short Time

Population studies for determining seasonal fluctuations of N. vinitor indicated that the appearance or disappearance of populations within a short time can be attributed mainly to its highly migratory behavior. N. vinitor always migrated when host plants dried up, and sometimes also when they were still green. Continuous quantitative records of flight activity, made near the population source, showed that the seasonal migrations of N. vintor closely reflected its population curve. As populations increased and declined throughout the season, migrants were produced continuously, resulting in a fairly smooth succession of departing individuals which became particularly obvious when large numbers suddenly discharged which occurred when special weather conditions caused sudden excessive flights.

A cognitive framework for understanding genre

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Vergaro
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Cognitive Framework ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
Level I ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Conventional Behavior

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to apply the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model (EC-Model hereafter; see Schmid 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018; Schmid & Mantlik 2015) of language knowledge to genre, with the aim of showing how a unified theory of the relation between usage and linguistic knowledge and convention can shed light on the way genre knowledge becomes entrenched in the individual and shared conventional behavior in communities. The EC-Model is a usage-based and emergentist model of language knowledge and convention rooted in cognitive linguistics and usage-based approaches. It sees knowledge as emerging from language usage, and explains the processes underlying the intertwining of social practice and cognition. However, so far, no suggestion has been advanced on how to extend the model to account for entrenchment and conventionalization at the supra-sentential level. In the area of genre studies various attempts have been made by scholars to develop or apply theories belonging to different scientific domains to understand the nature of genre. However, so far, there has been no research that applies a unified model in the attempt to link entrenchment of genres in individuals to their conventionalization at the societal level. I largely focus on the long tradition of rhetorical studies of genre, one among the different approaches that, over time, have regarded genre as their main topic of investigation. I concentrate on this tradition as it opens up the entire field of enquiry that defines contemporary genre research. To these I add by showing how the explanations provided so far can be cognitively clarified and unified under the EC-Model. The paper, then, argues that the EC-Model is theoretically apt to address questions about the nature of genre, capturing in an elegant way the interplay between cognition and social interaction in genre emergence, evolution, stabilization and variation.

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