A Pragmatic Consideration of the Relation Between Depression and Melancholia

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Brendel
Keyword(s):  
Pragmatic Consideration

The leadership thing – a unique perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
Edward Mazze ◽  
Stanley Davis
Keyword(s):  
Executive Compensation ◽  
Organization Development ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Academic Leadership ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Pragmatic Consideration

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to surface the misdirection of certain accepted organization development and executive compensation practices. Design/methodology/approach Against a backdrop of academic leadership studies, this paper engages the authors’ hands-on expertise drawn from their joint 100 plus years of organization building experience. Findings The pragmatic consideration of leaders’ performance and potential boils down to assessing their attitude, skills, knowledge and impact. Originality/value This paper exposes the inadvertent effect of some common customs and policies on organizations.

Between sexuality and professionalism: Experiences of gay workers at Blued, a Chinese gay social app company

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482092087
Author(s):  
Weishan Miao ◽  
Lik Sam Chan
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Career Prospect ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Pragmatic Consideration

Recent scholarship on gay social apps has largely focused on the experiences of their users. In this article, we take a production-side approach to examine the politics of sexuality and professionalism in Blued, a Chinese gay social app company. Based on ethnography at the company and in-depth interviews with its workers, we found that workers at Blued actively weaved their sexual identity into their professional identity. Also, its CEO made use of workers’ personal memory and collective hope as a motivating rhetoric, transgressing the boundary between the private and the public. Nonetheless, the collapse of the private–public division is not total, because such division was continuously re-established by the company’s corporate external positioning and workers’ pragmatic consideration of their career prospect. The case of Blued reveals a highly dynamic relationship between sexuality and professionalism, which sometimes reinforce and sometimes negate each other.

The Work and Recommendations of the Polish–Israeli Textbooks Committee

2001 ◽  
pp. 306-314
Author(s):  
Shevach Eden
Keyword(s):  
Jewish History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Intellectual Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Centres ◽  
Pragmatic Consideration

This chapter presents discussions conducted by the national committees in Poland and Israel to examine history and geography textbooks and their treatment of the two nations. They were charged with drawing up recommendations for authors of textbooks in each country, with the aim of rectifying mistakes that could lead to the formation or aggravation of prejudices and distortions of the truth. The motives for this initiative varied. The political forces that began the negotiations were motivated by the pragmatic consideration that such a process would bring respectability in the eyes of some parts of the American and Jewish communities. Without a doubt, however, the influence of a group of Polish intellectuals who felt regret for the fate of the Jews in Poland and who understood the importance of the Jews' economic and cultural contributions to the history of Poland was of paramount importance. This led to intellectual interest in any subject connected to Judaism and its culture. The hundreds of books and articles published in recent years reflect this, as does the establishment of research centres and institutes concerned with Jewish history and culture.

A Pragmatic Consideration of Ethical Issues Relating to Personal Genomics

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andro R. Hsu ◽  
Joanna L. Mountain ◽  
Anne Wojcicki ◽  
Linda Avey
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Personal Genomics ◽  
Pragmatic Consideration

DEVELOPING A TOOL FOR UNIFIED COGNITIVE MODELING USING A MODEL OF LEARNING AND UNDERSTANDING IN YOUNG CHILDREN

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 39-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHARLES HANNON ◽  
DIANE J. COOK
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Cognitive Modeling ◽  
Parallel Mechanism ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Discourse Processing ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Language User ◽  
Natural Language Learning ◽  
Pragmatic Consideration

To reduce the complexity of studying a parallel mechanism for natural language learning and understanding which supports both utterance and discourse processing, we propose a computational model demonstrating the performance of a young language user just starting to construct one and two word utterances. This model is constructed using discoveries from both connectionism and symbolic research which guided the construction of our own cognitive modeling system. This system consists of 1) a cognitive theory, 2) a cognitive and a computational architecture, and 3) the support environment necessary to construct concurrent symbolic-based cognitive models using a multi-agent environment. After providing the discourse performance of the resulting model, we also address the pragmatic consideration of building and supporting the resulting modeling system and language model on a cluster of SMP computers.

A Pragmatic Objection to Moral Distinctions: A Comment on The Morality and Law of War

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 701-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuval Shany
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Laws Of War ◽  
Law Of War ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Pragmatic Consideration ◽  
The Way

This comment to Jeff McMahan's thought-provoking contribution does not aim to take issue with the interesting and rather compelling philosophical arguments he raises in support of moral-based norms. In the same vein, the comment does not criticize the way in which McMahan describes the international law doctrines governing war situations—a description which is generally accurate. Instead, I comment on the policy reasons that have led international law-maker to move away from some of the morality-based distinctions and normative choices expounded by McMahan. Hence, my focus in this comment is on the pragmatic constraints that limit the influence of moral ideas on the laws of war. Of course, the resort to pragmatism may be in itself morally justifiable, as the insistence on the application of pragmatic consideration is often linked to the promotion of laudable goals—aversion of war and reduction of casualties and damage. Hopefully, a better understanding of the reasons underlying the rejection of “pure morality” in the context of the regulation of war would contribute to a critical assessment of the desirability of McMahan's ideas and to identification of the institutional conditions that could facilitate their application.

scholarly journals Intertextualidad y coherencia en una crónica de João Ubaldo Ribeiro: abordajes en lectocomprensión / Intertextuality and coherence in a chronicle of João Ubaldo Ribeiro: approaches in reading comprehension

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Carlos Alberto Pasero
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Thematic Unity ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro ◽  
Pragmatic Consideration

RESUMEN: El propósito de este trabajo es discutir, desde un punto de vista didáctico, a partir del análisis de una crónica literaria de carácter argumentativo en lengua portuguesa en su variante brasileña, los parámetros de textualidad (BEAUGRANDE; DRESSLER, 1997) como caminos de acceso al texto y que contribuyen a la construcción de sentido, así como el empleo de algunos mecanismos de textualización (BRONCKART, 1996; DUARTE, 2003). Con escasos organizadores textuales o conectores, la coherencia (temática y pragmática) de la crónica analizada (“Questões gramaticais” de João Ubaldo Ribeiro) está determinada por la forma del texto y por su unidad temática, generada por un discurso crítico basado en marcas intertextuales y de intergéneros que apelan, desde lo pragmático, a la enciclopedia del lector. El objetivo es contribuir, en el ámbito de la enseñanza de la lengua portuguesa en su modalidad de lectocomprensión, a la elaboración de tareas interactivas que permitan un abordaje dinámico y contextualizado del texto desde la perspectiva planteada, basado en los recursos disponibles en los medios electrónicos.PALABRAS CLAVE: coherencia; intertextualidad; lectocomprensión; mecanismos de textualización; tareas.  RESUMO: O objetivo deste artigo é discutir, de um ponto de vista didático, a partir da análise de uma crônica literária de caráter argumentativo em língua portuguesa, na sua variante brasileira, os parâmetros de textualidade (BEAUGRANDE; DRESSLER, 1997), como formas de acesso ao texto e que contribuem para a construção de sentido, assim como o uso de alguns mecanismos de textualização (BRONCKART, 1996, DUARTE, 2003). Com poucos organizadores textuais ou conectores, a coerência (temática e pragmática) da crônica analisada (“Questões gramaticais”, João Ubaldo Ribeiro) é determinada pela forma do texto e por sua unidade temática, gerada por um discurso crítico baseado em marcas intertextuais e de intergêneros que apelam, desde o pragmático, à enciclopédia do leitor. O objetivo é contribuir, no âmbito do ensino da língua portuguesa em sua modalidadeda compreensão da leitura, para o desenvolvimento de tarefas interativas que permitem uma abordagem dinâmica e contextualizada do texto a partir da perspectiva levantada, com base nos recursos disponíveis em meio eletrônico.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: coerência; intertextualidade; compreensão de leitura; mecanismos de textualização; tarefas.ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to discuss, from an educational point of view, taking as a starting point the analysis of a literary chronicle of an argumentative character in the Portuguese language in its Brazilian variant, the parameters of textuality (BEAUGRANDE; DRESSLER, 1997) as access roads into the text that contribute to the construction of meaning, and the use of some mechanisms of textualization (BRONCKART, 1996, DUARTE, 2003). With few textual organizers or connectors, the coherence (thematic and pragmatic) of the chronicle analyzed (“Questões gramaticais”, by João Ubaldo Ribeiro) is determined by the shape of the text and its thematic unity, which is generated by a critical discourse based on intertextual and intergender marks which appeal, from a pragmatic consideration, to the encyclopedia of the reader. The objective is to contribute, in the field of the Portuguese language teaching in its mode of reading comprehension, to the development of interactive tasks that allow a dynamic and contextualized approach to the text from the alluded perspective, based on the resources available in the electronic media.KEYWORDS: coherence; intertextuality; reading comprehension; textualization mechanisms; tasks.

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