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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Pragmatic theory"”.
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Reconstructing a pragmatic theory of knowledge: A transactional perspective
… of this thesis is threefold. First, to analyze a pragmatic theory of knowledge, as articulated by philosopher John Dewey. Second, to reconstruct a pragmatic theory of knowledge by focusing on a transactional perspective, where knower and known are viewed on the same plane of inquiry, each actively …
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Interpretive experimentalism: A pragmatic theory of moral norms and judgment
… is tantamount to the rejection of normative theory. Resisting that conclusion, this dissertation develops a theory of moral norms and judgment that accounts for the primacy of the interpretive nature of moral judgment and the mutability of moral norms. The core idea of the theory is that we …
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The Pragmatic Theory of Meaning as a Potential Resource for Educational Theory
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Pragmatic theory applied to Christian mission in Africa: with special reference to Luo responses to ‘bad’ in Gem, Kenya
… hermeneutics are, in failing to account for pragmatic linguistics, found seriously wanting. Forces and powers being spiritually based in a monistic worldview amongst the Luo render clear cross-cultural communication with a rationalist and monotheist West impossible. Theological education …
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Det vardagliga och det vetenskapliga : Om sociologins begrepp
… ideal typological models: (1) The rationalist theory of an epistemological break between everyday life and social science, here represented by the scholarships of Émile Durkheim, Louis Althusser and Pierre Bourdieu; (2) the everyday-life-oriented theory of continuity between everyday life and …
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Case Not Closed: Whiteness and the Rhetorical Genres of Freedom Summer
… films and literature. Drawing upon Walter Beales pragmatic theory of rhetoric and Krista Ratcliffe's concept of rhetorical listening, it analyzes five perspectives on the hundreds of volunteers, most of whom were white college students, who traveled to black communities across Mississippi that …
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Ignorance and grammar
In this thesis, I propose a new theory of implicature. I argue that the two main theories available so far - the (Neo-)Gricean pragmatic theory on the one hand (e.g., Sauerland (2004)), and the hybrid grammatical theory of scalar implicatures on the other hand (e.g., Fox (2007)) - cannot provide a …
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Astrology and truth: a context in contemporary epistemology
… These are: the correspondence, coherence, and pragmatic theories. Some alternatives are discussed in the process of evaluating the adequacy of the three theories. No estimation of astrology’s truth-status was found which could not be articulated by reference to the three. From this follows the …
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Integrating dual-process and pragmatic theories for the processing of verbal and numerical food quantifiers
… independent theoretical frameworks, dual-process theory and pragmatic theory, to explain the differences in people’s processing of verbal and numerical quantifiers, with a specific focus on quantifiers used to convey food information. Chapter 1 gives a brief overview of the theoretical and applied …
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H.P. Blavatsky, theosophy, and nineteenth-century comparative religion
… range of theoretical resources - Richard Rorty's pragmatic theory of knowledge, Alun Munslow's analysis of narrative in history, Thomas Gieryn's critique of boundary-making in science, and Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's history of objectivity - to argue for the inclusion of H. P. Blavatsky in …
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From Orr to Zacharias and Beyond: An Approach Toward Christian Apologetics from the Purview of Worldview Truth-Testing
… the claims of various worldviews. The coherence theory tests the logical consistency of worldviews, the correspondence theory tests the empirical adequacy of a worldview, and the pragmatic theory tests the livability or of a worldview claim. Chapter 5 considers the four life questions (of origin, …
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The interplay of pragmatic inference, face and emotion
… thesis is concerned with the interplay of pragmatic inference, face and emotion. Pragmatic inference refers to inferences that hearers or observers make when attempting to arrive at speaker meaning, a process during which they presumably operate according to the Maxims postulated by Grice …
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Percieved linguistic and communicative competence of bi/multilingual autistic children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… their academic performance? The study leaned on Theory of Mind (ToM) (including its embedded or expanded form—Explicit and spontaneous implicit ToM in ASD), Disruptive Connectivity Hypothesis (DCH), some psycholinguistic theories (Imitation, Nativism or Behaviourism Theory, Nativist or Innateness …