Search results for "autonomy"

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 …

Dialogical Management of Morality in Domestic Violence Counselling

2001

Moral issues have rarely been an explicit topic when family violence has been discussed in psychological literature. This article contributes to this topic through a detailed analysis of the transcripts of a counselling session on domestic violence, with special emphasis placed on how complex issues of morality are dialogically managed by the participants. It is shown that the morality of counselling is not explicit, but is constructed by various cautious and indirect conversational devices. In the analysed conversation it was possible for the counsellor to ‘prescribe’ a normative morality only if this was done indirectly and discreetly. The function of these various delicate discursive te…

Economic Socialization: Childhood, Adolescence, and Early Adulthood

2017

Deep Interpretive Disagreements and Theory of Legal Interpretation

2016

This paper deals with deep interpretive disagreements (DID): very profound divergences that may occur in legal interpretation (on single cases, or on similar cases) among judges and jurists. These divergences involve alternative interpretations of certain expressions or phrases (for instance, “human person”, “dignity”, “personal autonomy”, “life”, “health”) and may lead, under certain conditions, to incompatible interpretations of the legal sentences that incorporate these expressions. The most important examples of this kind of legal sentences are constitutional provisions that express principles asserting legal rights. The main thesis of this paper is that DID represent genuine, faultless…

Learning from learners: a non-standard direct approach to the teaching of writing skills in EFL in a university context

2016

Corpora have been used in English as a foreign language materials for decades, and native corpora have been present in the classroom by means of direct approaches such as Data-Driven Learning (Johns, T., and P. King 1991. 'Should you be Persuaded'- Two Samples of Data-Driven Learning Materials. In Classroom Concordancing,1-16. Birmingham University. English Language Research Journal 4.). However, the suitability of using learners' output in classroom tasks remains controversial. This paper describes a pilot study in the application of a non-standard direct approach where Spanish university students are invited to reflect on their production. In the experiment, carried out in several sessions…

Researching pronunciation learning strategies: An overview and a critical look

2018

Disparate goals that learners might have in learning second or foreign language pronunciation and the scant classroom time that can be dedicated to teaching this target language subsystem dictate that learner autonomy is of vital importance in this case and adept use of pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) can be viewed as key to the development of this attribute. Surprisingly, research on these strategies is scarce, mainly focusing on the identification and classification of PLS, diverse instruments are used for data collection and the findings are inconclusive. The paper provides an overview of the available research on PLS with respect to their identification, learners’ preferences co…

Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Styles of Teaching

2015

Autonomy-supportive and controlling styles of teaching are usually considered to be the opposite ends of a single continuum. An alternative view, however, is that individuals can perceive both styles simultaneously, which suggests that they are different constructs ( Bartholomew, Ntoumanis, Ryan, Bosch, & Thøgersen-Ntoumani, 2011 ). Using cluster analysis, Study 1 (N = 160) confirmed that both teaching styles were perceived by students. Four clusters appeared depending on the student’s score on the measures of autonomy and controlling styles (high autonomy–high control; low autonomy–low control; high autonomy–low control; low autonomy–high control). Participants in the high autonomy–lo…

Informed consent and medical liability

2018

El reconocimiento del derecho a la información del paciente y del deber de obtener su consentimiento ha supuesto un cambio en el modo de ejercer la medicina. La no obtención del consentimiento informado es causa de responsabilidad profesional, aun a pesar de haber cumplido con el resto de obligaciones médicas y cuidados del paciente. El Tribunal Supremo español considera que la obligación de la información es un elemento esencial de la “lex artis”. Este trabajo analiza esta amplia visión de la jurisprudencia española y los casos en los que la infracción del consentimiento informado da lugar a responsabilidad civil. The recognition of the right of patient’s information and of the duty to obt…

Reflections about the authentic document in "post mortem" fecundation

2018

[EN] The legislation on assisted reproduction contemplates the ¿post mortem¿ fecundation. Nevertheless, the document for the presentation of the assent raises some doubts in relation with the principle of party autonomy and the new technologies of the information and communication (ICTs). In the present work one thinks about these questions and one tries to contribute some solution of application in the Spanish legal system.

Dignidad, autonomía y discriminación en la obra de Mario | Dignity, Autonomy and Discrimination in Mario Ruiz?s Works

2019

Resumen: Texto en que se recoge la intervención hecha en el homenaje realizado al profesor Mario Ruiz durante el XXVII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Jurídica y Política, celebrado en Valladolid. Se expone la interpretación de su pensamiento sobre los temas de dignidad, autonomía, discriminación a partir del examen de su publicación sobre el caso Wakenheim. Su posicionamiento se engarza con otros temas que abordó ampliamente, en particular el de la argumentación jurídica.
 Abstract: Text that shares the intervention made in the homage to Professor Mario Ruiz during the  XXVII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Jurídica y Política, held in Valladolid. The inter…