Search results for "ambiguity"

Milo De Angelis: il lessico del ritorno e del topos tra finitudine e assoluto

2021

Tema dell’articolo è il lessico nella poesia di Milo De Angelis analizzato attraverso i temi fondanti della poetica: adolescenza, ritorno, topos. Al centro dell’universo lessicale viene collocato e discusso anche quel particolare stato di tensione che percorre i testi del poeta e che li caratterizza in maniera distintiva. Dotato di persistenza e privo di accidentalità, esso si manifesta in addensamenti polarizzati, giungendo a coinvolgere anche la diade finitudine vs indefinitezza. Il discorso sul lessico, quindi, è condotto all’interno del complesso e variegato diasistema di lingua e pensiero deangelisiano del quale vengono presi in conto le articolazioni testuali più rilevanti. L’analisi …

Au royaume des discours incomplets : ambigüité et malentendu dans la conversation entre mafieux

2013

Im Reich der Andeutungen : Bewusst mehrdeutige und missverständliche Aussagen in Mafiosi-Gesprächen. Beim mündlichen Austausch müssen sich Mitglieder der Cosa Nostra gleichzeitig an die Schweigepflicht nach außen und die Wahrheitspflicht nach innen halten. Die Sprache der Mafiosi muss daher eine semantisch indirekte Form annehmen, die dem Sprechenden seinen Spielraum lässt, um die Unvorhersehbarkeit seiner Absichten zu bewahren. Diese Sprachform hat Tommaso Buscetta dazu gebracht, dieses Milieu als „das Reich der Andeutungen“ zu bezeichnen. Die Ordnung der Mafia beruht auf einem wohl verstandenen doppelten Spiel bewusst missverständlicher Aussagen, im Sinne von Jankélévitch, die keine falsc…

Tra mafia, politica e “discorsi di legalità”

2015

Starting from a synthetic review of the studies about the importance of symbolic dimension for the construction of Cosa Nostra’s power (from the area of knowledge to the one of identity, from rituals to myths and apologetics), the paper analyses the ambiguity of the talk-interactions between “men of honour” during the development of conversational grounding for their inter-subjectivity (in Schegloff‘s words). According to the rules, spoken exchanges between Cosa Nostra’s members should be governed by the twofold restriction of the law of silence toward the world outside and the obligation of speaking the truth inside the organization. But in real life, things are different. Mafia’s language…

The Ambiguity of Creativity and Innovation

2009

Role Satisfaction Mediates the Relation between Role Ambiguity and Social Loafing among Elite Women Handball Players

2010

The aims of the study were to develop a questionnaire on self-reported social loafing (SRSLQ), and then to examine its relations with role ambiguity and role satisfaction in a sample of 110 women handball players competing at the elite level in Norway. Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that the SRSLQ was a psychometrically sound measure. In line with the expectations, role satisfaction fully mediated the positive relation between role ambiguity and self-reported social loafing: The more players experienced role ambiguity, the less satisfied they were with their role in the team, and the more social loafing they reported.

‘Disorderly conduct’: on the unruly rules of public communication in social network sites

2013

In this article, we examine typical styles and practices of public communication on social network sites (SNSs) in order to confront the traditional concept of publics as machines for creating order. Through an ethnographic case study of the SNS Facebook, we show how indeterminacy, ambiguity and constant irritation, rather than arguments or reason, produce the communicative order. A decidedly disorderly style of communication and connectivity emerges. Indeterminacy, from our point of view, is a solution to the problem of speaking privately in public and to an indefinite audience. We use these findings to problematize the insights of network theory and Niklas Luhmann's systems theory that on…

Narrating ambivalence of maternal responsibility

2007

Early motherhood and caring for the infant involve a moral ambiguity that is related to the questions of responsibility and vulnerability. By means of the ethics of care, motherhood can be understood as belonging to the moral domain, as relational, and as linked with everyday social situations. The culturally dominant narratives of ‘good mothering’ easily naturalise and normatise maternal agency. This study illustrates the process of adopting responsibility for the infant and the moral ambivalence that is inscribed in early maternal care. The data consist of four interview sessions with each of seven first-time mothers conducted during pregnancy and the first post-natal year. The interview…

Eurocity London: a qualitative comparison of graduate migration from Germany, Italy and Latvia

2016

This paper compares the motivations and characteristics of the recent migration to London of young-adult graduates from Germany, Italy and Latvia. Conceptually the paper links three domains: the theory of core–periphery structures within Europe; the notion of London as both a global city and a ‘Eurocity’; and the trope of ‘crisis’. The dataset analysed consists of 95 in-depth biographical interviews and the paper’s main objective is to tease out the narrative similarities and differences between the three groups interviewed. Each of the three nationalities represents a different geo-economic positioning within Europe. German graduates move from one economically prosperous country to another…

ICA of full complex-valued fMRI data using phase information of spatial maps.

2015

Background ICA of complex-valued fMRI data is challenging because of the ambiguous and noisy nature of the phase. A typical solution is to remove noisy regions from fMRI data prior to ICA. However, it may be more optimal to carry out ICA of full complex-valued fMRI data, since any filtering or voxel-based processing may disrupt information that can be useful to ICA. New method We enable ICA of the full complex-valued fMRI data by utilizing phase information of estimated spatial maps (SMs). The SM phases are first adjusted to properly represent spatial phase changes of all voxels based on estimated time courses (TCs), and then these are used to segment the voxels into BOLD-related and unwant…

Designed for Regional Engagement? The Case of Telemark University College

2018

Established in 1994 through a forced merger between various multiple regional education providers, Telemark University College (HIT) is one of the largest and most decentralised university colleges in Norway. This chapter investigates to what extent the adopted decentralised, multi-campus model has (a) had an effect on organisational dynamics more generally and (b) more specifically how it enables or constrains HIT’s regional role. In so doing, we cast light on a critical tension resulting from the so-called ambiguity of structure inherent in universities as organisations. Our findings show that HIT’s campuses enjoy considerable degrees of autonomy, have overlapping tasks and seemingly conf…