Search results for " dialectics"

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Researching Identity and L2 Pragmatics in Digital Stories: A Relational Account.

2020

This study explores college EFL learners' construction of identity through the analysis of their pragmatic choices in digital stories, in which they narrated their relationship with another person they had helped in the past. More specifically, such choices were examined following Relational Dialectics Theory in learners' enactments of "connection" with and "autonomy" from this person. A specific view of identity in language education, the notion of "relational work" in (im)politeness research, and a social semiotic framework were also employed in data analysis. Learners' pragmatic choices ranged from the selection of the topic of their narratives according to types of social bonds, to the …

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The Centre-Periphery Dialectics in Eastern Sicily Retail System. An Exploratory Research

2020

This paper aims at scrutinizing from an historical perspective the deep transformations shaped by retail spaces and new consumption patterns challenging long-entrenched dichotomies, such as the centre-periphery one. In particular, the exploratory research explores the territorial reconfiguration of the main Eastern Sicily metropolitan areas, Catania and Messina, from the lens of the retail geography, namely after the diffusion of new suburban retail formats which have completely upset deeply-rooted relations between urban core and suburban rings. 

DialecticGeography (General)Centre-periphery dialectics urban sprawl SicilySettore M-GGR/02 - Geografia Economico-PoliticaAnthropologyExploratory researchsuburban retail formatcentre-periphery dialecticsGeographyurban sprawlhistorical centreG1-922Settore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSicilyCentre peripheryBollettino della Società Geografica Italiana
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Analyzing Stakeholder Diversity in G2G Efforts: Combining Descriptive Stakeholder Theory and Dialectic Process Theory

2008

Author's version of an article published in e-Service Journal, 6 (2), 3-23. Previous research indicates that the benefits of e-government initiatives are slower to realize than initially expected. This has partly been ascribed to the particularly complex settings of e-government projects, consisting of a variety of stakeholders promoting different and often conflicting objectives. Yet few studies have explicitly addressed the inherent challenges of this diversity. This study presents an analytical approach for investigating contradictory stakeholder interests by combining descriptive stakeholder theory and dialectic process theory. Descriptive stakeholder theory is concerned with why some s…

DialecticKnowledge managementManagement sciencebusiness.industryGeneral MathematicsStakeholderInformation technologyVariety (cybernetics)Conflicting objectivesStakeholder analysisSociologybusinessStakeholder theorygovernment-2–government stakeholder theory dialectics municipal cooperation case studyDiversity (business)e-Service Journal
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Relational Communication in Intercultural Couples

2006

This qualitative study utilises the relational dialectics of Baxter and Montgomery (1996) to examine the relationship communication of six heterosexual intercultural couples living in Finland. In this study, I attempt to answer the following questions: what cultural issues are relevant in the couples' relationship? What intercultural relational dialectics do the intercultural couples experience in their relationship? The interviews are based on a concept map, and were recorded, transcribed, and analysed qualitatively. The findings are categorised under two headers: cultural issues and intercultural relational dialectics. The cultural issues consist of the following topics: language and comm…

Linguistics and LanguageRelational dialecticsInterpersonal relationshipIntercultural relationsChild rearingCommunicationCultural diversitySociologySocial psychologyIntercultural communicationAcculturationQualitative researchLanguage and Intercultural Communication
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Relationships of young adults with foster care backgrounds: Tensions and management strategies

2020

Relational dialecticsManagement strategyHealth (social science)Foster careSociology and Political ScienceClose relationshipYoung adultPsychologyDevelopmental psychologyChild & Family Social Work
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Una pioggia vitale

2021

Pioggia di Libri è una manifestazione promossa da Andrea Sciascia, nell’ambito delle attività didattiche e scientifiche del Dipartimento di Architettura che ha lo scopo di divulgare ed incentivare il rapporto tra gli studenti ed il mondo accademico. Con il presente contributo, l’autore (da delegato alla Didattica per il Dipartimento di Architettura) evidenzia alcune importanti ricadute dirette di questa iniziativa sul piano formativo per gli studenti. Rain of Books is an event promoted by Andrea Sciascia, as part of the educational and scientific activities of the Department of Architecture which aims to disseminate and encourage the relationship between students and the academic world. Wit…

Settore ICAR/14 - Composizione Architettonica E UrbanaPercorsi di ricerca dialettica e formazione trasversalità didatticaPaths of research dialectics and training didactic transversality
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Filosofia e critica sociale

2014

In this paper I compare Wittgenstein’s and Adorno’s different post- metaphysical visions of philosophy. In my opinion, it is possible to find many analogies between their approaches regarding the importance of the analysis of concepts and the relation between philosophy and music. But, while Adorno’s theory is understandable just within the sort of philosophy of history traced in the famous Dialectical of Enlightenment, Wittgenstein is absolutely against such an approach. According to Adorno, negative dialectic is the only philosophical instrument useful to resist the universal tendency of domination of the Reason and his vision of language derives from that presupposition. By opposite, Wit…

Settore SPS/01 - Filosofia PoliticaWittgenstein Adorno philosophy analysis of concept negative dialectics music.
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Appropriazione e (ri)semantizzazione dello spazio urbano: lo sport in una piazza palermitana

2019

Il contributo, attraverso uno studio di campo, con un approccio geografico culturale esplora le modalità attraverso cui uno spazio urbano, piazza Vittorio Emanuele Orlando a Palermo, può essere oggetto di complessi processi di (ri)semantizzazione. La piazza diviene infatti luogo per sport giovanili improvvisati, al centro di dialettiche opposte (ufficialità/improvisazione) e di forme multistratificate di socialità e aggregazione.

The chapter through a field study with a cultural geographical approach explores the ways in which urban space Piazza Vittorio Emanuele Orlando in Palermo can be the subject of complex processes of (re) semantization. In fact the square becomes a place for improvised youth sports at the center of opposing dialectics (official/improvisation) and multi-layered forms of socializing and aggregation.
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Ultreya, suseya, Santiago!” Viaggio e spazialità ne La ballata dei pellegrini

2020

Per studiare dal punto di vista della geografia culturale alcuni aspetti del pellegrinaggio a Santiago de Compostela, in Spagna, il capitolo prende in considerazione un testo letterario, il romanzo autobiografico "La ballata dei pellegrini" della scrittrice francese Edith De La Héronnière, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1993 e tradotto in italiano nel 2004. Il romanzo racconta l’esperienza del pellegrinaggio giacobeo effettuato dall’autrice negli anni Novanta assieme a tre compagni di viaggio partendo da un cammino francese. In particolare, attraverso l’analisi di alcune parti del testo, si indagano le modalità attraverso le quali la narrazione costruisce e descrive lo spazio fisico e si…

The contribution critically and from a geographical perspective discusses the connection between propaganda comics and cartoons in the period of twentieth-century totalitarianisms. The way in which space real and symbolic is implicated through the rhetoric and dialectics of power in social economic and identity dynamics is then explored. In order to study some aspects of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela from the point of view of cultural geography in Spain the chapter takes into consideration a literary text the autobiographical novel "The pilgrims' ballad" by the French writer Edith De La Héronnière first published in 1993 and translated into Italian in 2004. The novel recounts the experience of the Jacobean pilgrimage carried out by the author in the nineties together with three traveling companions starting from a French journey. In particular through the analysis of some parts of the text the ways in which the narration constructs and describes the physical and symbolic space of the pilgrimage are investigated. In this way it is possible to explore the way in which peculiar attributions of meaning inscribe the experience of pilgrimage in a symbolic universe that is both personal and collective at the same time.
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Spazio, potere e memoria: riflessioni di un geografo su fumetto e cartoon di propaganda

2020

Il contributo discute criticamente e da una prospettiva geografica il nesso tra propaganda, fumetti e cartoons nel periodo dei totalitarismi novecenteschi. Viene quindi esplorato il modo in cui lo spazio, reale e simbolico, sia implicato attraverso le retoriche e le dialettiche del potere, nelle dinamiche sociali, economiche e identitarie.

The contribution critically and from a geographical perspective discusses the link between propaganda comics and cartoons in the period of twentieth-century totalitarianisms. The way in which space real and symbolic is implicated through the rhetoric and dialectics of power in social economic and identity dynamics is then explored.
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