Unity and Fragmentation in Psychology

Unity and Fragmentation in Psychology
Author: Nicolò Gaj
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016-03-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317313488

Psychology has always defined itself as a science and yet it has lacked the theoretical and methodological unity regarded as characteristic of the natural sciences. Nicolò Gaj explores the topical question of unification in psychology, setting out a conceptual framework for considerations of unity and disunity, and exploring the evidence of its fragmentation. He takes a critical look at the history of the most prominent attempts at unification, and at the desirability and feasibility of the whole project. The book represents a unique and valuable attempt to address the issue of unification from a philosophical perspective, and via a combination of theoretical and empirical research.

Meaning, Language, and Time

Meaning, Language, and Time
Author: Kevin J. Porter
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2006-03-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1602359334

Given the history of concepts like meaning, time, language, and discourse, any serious attempt to understand them must be interdisciplinary; so MEANING, LANGUAGE, AND TIME draws on a wide range of important work in the history of philosophy, rhetoric, and composition. In this groundbreaking work, Porter joins these conversations with the aim of breaching the traditional disciplinary walls and opening new areas of inquiry.

Language, Meaning and the Law

Language, Meaning and the Law
Author: Christopher Hutton
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-01-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0748633529

Language, Meaning and the Law offers an accessible, critical guide to debates about linguistic meaning and interpretation in relation to legal language. Law is an ideal domain for considering fundamental questions relating to how we assign meanings to words, understand and comment on texts, and deal with socially and ideologically significant questions of interpretation. The book argues that theoretical issues of concern to linguists, philosophers, literary theorists and others are illuminated by the demands of the legal context, since law is driven by the need for practical solutions and for determinate outcomes based on explicit reasoning. Topics covered include: the relationship of linguistics to legal theory, indeterminacy and statutory interpretation, the theory and practice of using dictionaries in law, defamation and language in the public sphere, and the distinction between perjury and deception. This book does not assume specialist knowledge of the field, and is designed as a self-contained, advanced introduction to a fascinating area of study. The reader will gain an overall insight into issues and debates about meaning and interpretation, as well as an understanding of how these questions are shaped by the legal context.

The Language of Literature and its Meaning

The Language of Literature and its Meaning
Author: Ashima Shrawan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527533565

There is a marked awareness about the language of literature and its meaning both in Indian and Western aesthetic thinking. The aestheticians of both schools hold that the language of literature embodies a significant aspect of human experience, and represents a creative pattern of verbal structure to impart meaning effectively. Modern Western aesthetic thinking, which includes theories like formalism, new criticism, stylistics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, discourse analysis, semiotics and dialogic criticism, in one way or another emphasizes the study of the language of literature in order to understand its meaning. Similarly, there is a distinct focus on the language of literature and its meaning in Indian literary theories which include the theory of rasa (aesthetic experience), alaṁkāra (the poetic figure), rīti (diction), dhvani (suggestion), vakrokti (oblique expression) and aucitya (propriety). This book explores how the language of literature and its meaning have been dealt with in both Indian and Western aesthetic thinking. In doing so, the study concentrates on Kuntaka’s theory of vakrokti and Ānandavardhana’s theory of dhvani in Indian aesthetic thinking and Russian formalism and deconstruction in Western thinking. The book categorically focuses on the intersection between the theory of vakrokti and Russian formalism and the meeting-point between the theory of dhvani and deconstruction.

FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF TRANSLATION

FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF TRANSLATION
Author: PRATIMA DAVE SHASTRI
Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2011-11-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 812034474X

This concise and well-written text provides a deeper insight into the discipline of translation and discusses all the complexities involved in translation. The book discusses in detail the process of translation, different types of translation, and theory and principles of translation. It also deals with different interdisciplinary subjects such as semiotics, linguistics, lexicography and socio-linguistics that contribute to effective translation. Finally, it explains the problems of translation and the techniques for evaluating translation. The book provides plenty of examples to make the concept clear. The book is intended as a text for the undergraduate students of translation studies and postgraduate students of English, Applied Linguistics, and English and Comparative Literature.

Unravelling Trauma and Weaving Resilience with Systemic and Narrative Therapy

Unravelling Trauma and Weaving Resilience with Systemic and Narrative Therapy
Author: Sabine Vermeire
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2022-12-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000787915

Unravelling Trauma and Weaving Resilience with Systemic and Narrative Therapy is an innovative book that details how clinicians can engage children, families and their networks in creative and collaborative relationships to elicit change within the context of trauma and violence. Combining systemic, narrative and dialogical theoretical frameworks with clinical examples, this volume focuses on therapeutic conversations that can help children, and those involved with them, deconstruct their experienced difficulties, and create more hopeful stories and alternative ways of relating to one another through a sense of play. Vermeire advocates for serious playfulness as a way of directly addressing trauma and its effects, as well as along ‘trauma-sensitive’ side paths. Puppetry, artwork, interviews and theatre play are used to weave networks of resilience in ever-widening circles and this approach is informed by the awareness that individual problems are always to be seen as relational, social and political. This book is an important read for therapists and social workers who work with traumatised children and their multi-stressed families.

The Origin and Diversification of Language

The Origin and Diversification of Language
Author: Morris Swadesh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2017-09-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351478028

Morris Swadesh, one of this century's foremost scientific investigators of language, dedicated much of his life to the study of the origin and evolution of language. This volume, left nearly completed at his death and edited posthumously by Joel F. Sherzer, is his last major study of this difficult subject.Swadesh discusses the simple qualities of human speech also present in animal language, and establishes distinctively human techniques of expression by comparing the common features that are found in modern and ancient languages. He treats the diversification of language not only by isolating root words in different languages, but also by dealing with sound systems, with forms of composition, and with sentence structure. In so doing, he demonstrates the evidence for the expansion of all language from a single central area. Swadesh supports his hypothesis by ""exhibits"" that conveniently present the evidence in tabular form. Further clarity is provided by the use of a suggestive practical phonetic system, intelligible to the student as well as to the professional.The book also contains an Appendix, in which the distinguished ethnographer of language, Dell Hymes, gives a valuable account of the prewar linguistic tradition within which Swadesh did some of his most important work.

David Rosenmann-Taub: Poems and Commentaries

David Rosenmann-Taub: Poems and Commentaries
Author: David Rosenmann-Taub
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2023-10-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1469678055

A collection of sixty commented poems of contemporary Chilean poet David Rosenmann-Taub, David Rosenmann-Taub: Poems and Commentaries continues Kenneth Gorfkle's exposition of the Chilean poet's work in English. Except for the poet's explanations in his own books Quince and Glosa, these commentaries are unique in illuminating the poet's work. Of the many topics that the poems treat, consciousness in all its aspects is the poet's primary concern. It comprises a full half of the poems in the book and reverberates in other poems as well.