scholarly journals Languaging evolved

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Cowley
Keyword(s):  
Human Ecology ◽  
Chinese Character ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Unified View ◽  
Human Practices ◽  
Language And Cognition ◽  
Linguistic Models

Abstract Taking a unified view of life, language, and cognition, the Special Issue contests linguistic (or enactivist) models that grant “reality” to symbolic entities. Rather than focus on texts, utterances, or communication, language is traced to living in the extended human ecology. On a distributed view, languaging arises as, alone or together, people act while orienting to denotata and (physical) wordings. Languaging requires, not linguistic bodies, but skills based in common ways of understanding. While verbal entities are of immense value, they draw on a history of reflecting on languaging from a language stance; people need only imagine “symbols.” Accordingly, languaging is part of acting, observing and imagining. Using a language stance suffices for reflecting on human practices and written marks as if linguistic entities were “real.” The deflationary view extends to semiotics. As Ho and Li (2019) document, languaging-and-action enables a learner to grasp a Chinese character as a sign. While, in principle, semiosis might draw from physics or life, signs are also likely to derive from human practice. Coming to read Chinese may require not a semiotic ontology, but a human ability to self-fabricate new powers. By deflating linguistic models one can avoid appeal to observer-independent signs.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Gavin Flood
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Practices

The Introduction presents a survey of the history of Hindu practice with particular emphasis on the medieval period and places this history in the context of interest in human practice, particularly ritual practice and the institutions that are also forms of practice. The emphasis on the study of human practices in the social sciences, particularly in the field of religion, has been intended as a counterbalance or antidote to viewing religion as belief and faith in a transcendent or putative theistic reality. It is not so much faith that characterizes religion but kinds of practice. This move from the study of thinking to the study of doing was not so much a harking back to behaviourism in Psychology but rather reflected a shift from Theology, which was traditionally understood as faith seeking understanding, to studying religion through Anthropology and paying attention to what human beings do. The history of Hindu practice needs to be understood in the context of these concerns.

Reframing the Sciences of the Long Eighteenth Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Giuliano Pancaldi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
Past Half

Here I survey a sample of the essays and reviews on the sciences of the long eighteenth century published in this journal since it was founded in 1969. The connecting thread is some historiographic reflections on the role that disciplines—in both the sciences we study and the fields we practice—have played in the development of the history of science over the past half century. I argue that, as far as disciplines are concerned, we now find ourselves a bit closer to a situation described in our studies of the long eighteenth century than we were fifty years ago. This should both favor our understanding of that period and, hopefully, make the historical studies that explore it more relevant to present-day developments and science policy. This essay is part of a special issue entitled “Looking Backward, Looking Forward: HSNS at 50,” edited by Erika Lorraine Milam.

scholarly journals Introduction

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl F. Kaestle
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
History Of

The History of Education Quarterly has done it again. Despite many scholars' previous attempts to summarize the state of the art in historical studies of literacy, this special issue will now be the best, up-to-date place for a novice to start. It should be required reading for everyone interested in this subfield. The editors have enlisted an impressive roster of prominent scholars in the field, and these authors have provided us with an excellent array of synthetic reviews, methodological and theoretical discussions, and exemplary research papers.

scholarly journals Missions and Missionaries in the Americas:A Special Teaching and Research Collection of The Americas

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (S2) ◽  
pp. S4-S13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Woolley
Keyword(s):  
General Trend ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Research Collection ◽  
History Of

For more than 70 years,The Americas, a publication of the Academy of American Franciscan History, has been a leading forum for scholars studying the history of Spanish America's colonial missions. As the articles collected from the journal for this special issue show, the general trend has been to move beyond the hagiographic treatment of missionaries and towards a more complex understanding of the historical roles played by the colonial missions in rural life.

A history of Albertosaurus discoveries in Alberta, CanadaThis article is one of a series of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme Albertosaurus.

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 1197-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren H. Tanke ◽  
Philip J. Currie
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
Considerable Confusion ◽  
Taxonomic Uncertainty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Information Politics ◽  
Horseshoe Canyon Formation

After many years of taxonomic uncertainty, Albertosaurus was established as a new genus in 1905, the year Alberta became a province of Canada. Gorgosaurus is a closely related tyrannosaurid from the Judithian beds of southern Alberta that was subsequently synonymized with Albertosaurus. Although most researchers consider the genera as distinct, there has been considerable confusion over the temporal and geographic range of Albertosaurus. Albertosaurus sarcophagus is only known from 13 skulls and (or) skeletons of varying completeness, and one (possibly two) bonebeds, all from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Campanian–Maastrichtian) of Alberta. Many of the major Albertosaurus specimens are scientifically compromised due to poor collection techniques, incomplete locality and stratigraphic information, politics, vandalism, accidents, gunplay, and landowner issues. The background of each specimen is discussed to eliminate some of the sources of confusion and to document how much of each specimen is preserved.

Afterword

Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mimi Sheller
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Methodological Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
International Comparative

The articles in this special issue show how a theoretical approach informed by the mobilities turn can reveal new facets of the history of dangerous mobility. This afterword draws together some of these lessons concerning materialities, bodily sensations, and performativity, and then considers how we might study these aspects of danger and mobility from an international, comparative, and historical methodological perspective.

scholarly journals A brief history of A-MOST Special Issue containing selected papers from A-MOST 2008

2009 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 417-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Frantzen ◽  
Mercedes G. Merayo ◽  
Manuel Núñez
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
History Of

An Episode in the History of PreCrime

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 637-647
Author(s):  
Rebecca Lemov
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Behavioral Data ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Predictive Policing ◽  
The Core ◽  
Current Spread ◽  
History Of

This article traces the rise of “predictive” attitudes to crime prevention. After a brief summary of the current spread of predictive policing based on person-centered and place-centered mathematical models, an episode in the scientific study of future crime is examined. At UCLA between 1969 and 1973, a well-funded “violence center” occasioned great hopes that the quotient of human “dangerousness”—potential violence against other humans—could be quantified and thereby controlled. At the core of the center, under the direction of interrogation expert and psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West, was a project to gather unprecedented amounts of behavioral data and centrally store it to identify emergent crime. Protesters correctly seized on the violence center as a potential site of racially targeted experimentation in psychosurgery and an example of iatrogenic science. Yet the eventual spectacular failure of the center belies an ultimate success: its data-driven vision itself predicted the Philip K. Dick–style PreCrime policing now emerging. The UCLA violence center thus offers an alternative genealogy to predictive policing. This essay is part of a special issue entitled Histories of Data and the Database edited by Soraya de Chadarevian and Theodore M. Porter.

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