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No Common Ground: Competing Worldviews at Mato Tipila
<p>This project analyzes a legal conflict (Bear Lodge Multiple Use Assn v Babbitt 2 F. Supp. 2d 1448) at Mato Tipila, a significant place for the Lakota (Sioux) community and with which they have a historical and longstanding relationship. Commercial and recreational rock-climbing enthusiasts who …
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How extra-linguistic goals affect common ground formation
The formation of common ground between interlocutors relies on their linguistic cooperation, manifesting as shortened references produced during a given conversation. However, people have goals for their conversations, and these extra-linguistic goals can influence a variety of linguistic choices. …
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Common Ground: Uniting Archaeology and Secondary Social Studies Curricula
<p>Archaeologists have been attempting to establish stronger connections with communities for several decades. Concepts such as stewardship can be presented to a larger audience, and archaeology can be a valuable tool for public education. Public schools across the nation are struggling to improve …
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An Experimental Investigation of Common Ground in Oral Communication
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:03:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6503658.pdf: 10518442 bytes, checksum: 48a7bd452a59701a3526eca7aed4bb67 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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Mechanical constraints as common ground between people and computers
This thesis presents a new type of human-computer interface based on mechanical constraints that combines some of the tactile feedback and affordances of mechanical systems with the abstract computational power of modern computers. The interface is based on a tabletop interaction surface that can …
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Common ground : a place for worship with supporting workshops
… represent differing Christian denominational backgrounds? How can traditional settlement patterns in the midwest of America be used to inform attitudes and present day strategies to recapture building that is in harmony with the open landscape? Can the church be activated as a place of personal …
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Imagined Common Ground: Rethinking on Language, Translation and Technology
When waking up from the dream of one-world-ness, how do we talk to each other? Technological development and the hegemonic definition of modernity that emerged from it have been under interrogation for decades. In a diminishingly globalized world, we are prompted to reflect on what our …
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Common ground : a Coast Guard station in Boston Harbor
This thesis begins with the premise that the natural landscape is not a benign entity, but an active operator in the act of spatial perception and space-making. Founded on this premise, the thesis seeks to develop techniques and propositions for constructing space and infrastructure in the hostile, …
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Conquests of the Common Ground: Mansplaining and Under-Presupposing
… so that they presuppose only what is in fact common ground. In practice, of course, speakers' presuppositions are often imperfect matches. They may reflect an overestimation, or underestimation, of the set of propositions presupposed by an interlocutor. Cases involving a speaker who …
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Common ground--the promise of mixed-income/mixed-use development
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Solidarity with outsiders: The quest for common ground in theological ethics
… our own, more equal relationships are enabled. Common work provides contexts in which insiders and outsiders seek common ground for moral commitment and practice together. Solidarity is created in mutual relationships and shared life experiences.
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Marriage and Family Therapy and the Law: Discovering Systemic Common Ground
<p>Many important decisions regarding couples and families are made by the legal system. However, this system’s adversarial nature often results in relational losses for clients, even when one “wins” a case. Some believe a solution may exist in legally-minded marriage and family therapists, who, as …
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Student-teacher relationships: How to find a common ground in relationship building
1 PDF file (vii, 171 pages)
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"A museum on the shore of a lake": finding the common ground
… and landscape architecture and to find the "common ground" between the two. By understanding nature and how the man-made environment can express and complement nature, strong and meaningful places can be created. The project for this thesis is a competition. "A Museum on the Shore of a Lake," …
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Seeking Common Ground: An Exploration of Conflicting Views on Climate Change in Saskatchewan
… change. This study explores the potential for common ground among Saskatchewan people who hold conflicting views and beliefs about climate change and considers how this could support both the reduction of polarization and the creation of equitable pathways for meaningful climate action, in ways …
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Common Ground, Contested Futures: Shared Values and Divided Attitudes Toward LNG in Squamish
Amid geopolitical uncertainty, economic instability and climate imperatives, Canada’s rapid expansion of liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure has generated contested responses, particularly in communities located near new developments. In this thesis, I focus on two interdependent LNG …
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The Effects of Handheld Network Service "Look" on the Acquisition of Common Ground
Constructing common ground and the associated convergent conceptual change is critical to cooperative work and learning. Convergent conceptual change is achieved as participants in a conversation update common ground through presentations, repairs, and acceptances of utterances. People employ …
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Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible Belt Sharing Common Ground Through Adaptation
… forms of Buddhism in the Bible Belt today share common ground through a process of adaptation. Exploring tradition and change, I reveal how change often requires adaptation. Utilizing ethnographic research conducted in south central Kentucky and middle Tennessee, I argue that some Burmese and …
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