Search results for "communicative act"

Ideologies as false communicative practices

2021

Against common understanding of ideology as being a specific form of knowledge or cognition, lately there is a rediscovering of the notion of ideology as practice. In these approaches, ideology is ...

Espiral. Cuadernos del profesorado

2012

La música tiene la capacidad de transmitir conocimientos, habilidades y valores intrínsecos a la cultura del compositor, y al mismo tiempo transmite emociones y sentimientos comunes a todas las culturas; por ello puede decirse que la música es un instrumento idóneo para el establecimiento de un diálogo intercultural. La acción comunicativa musical siempre ha sido objeto de análisis; aunque ha sido la falta de diálogo cultural la que ha aumentado la consideración de que la música puede posibilitar el camino hacia la adquisición de la Interculturalidad. Este artículo muestra cómo la música favorece el proceso comunicativo intercultural, al considerarse como la principal herramienta de trabajo…

Between facts and norms: action research in the light of Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative action and discourse theory of justice1

1998

Abstract An emphasis on democracy is typical of action research. Therefore, theories of modern democracy can be applied within the field of school development through action research. According to Jurgen Habermas, the promotion of democratic will formation requires the promotion of free and rational communicative action that is as free from manipulation as possible. Under ideal communicative conditions, consensus is achieved dialectically through the force of a better argument. The principles of rational argumentation have been developed in detail in Habermas's publications on discourse ethics and in The Theory of Communicative Action. He has recently developed his approach in a book entitl…

Conceptual and Paradigmatic Foundations of ISD

1995

Business in society or business and society: the construction of business–society relations in responsibility reports from a critical discursive pers…

2013

In this article, we analyse the discursive construction of business–society relations in Finnish businesses’ social and environmental responsibility reports. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, we examine how these discursive constructions maintain and reproduce various interests and societal conditions as a precondition of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Our study contributes to the recent discussion on discursive struggles in business–society relations and the role various interests play in this struggle. We find that not only are power asymmetries between actors veiled through the universalization of interests, but reporting can also be seen as a communicative action that prov…

¿Teoría crítica o inmunización del sistema? Acerca de la dicotomía habermasiana entre sistema y mundo de la vida.

2018

El artículo presenta las fuentes y la definición de los conceptos sistema y mundo de la vida, poniendo de relieve cómo la colonización del mundo de la vida por parte del sistema aparece como un proceso patológico, frente al cual cabe mantener un posicionamiento crítico. Ante el aumento de la complejidad sistémica, es necesario asegurar la reproducción simbólica del mundo de la vida a través de la acción comunicativa. Compartiendo con Habermas el sentido de sus problematizaciones, presentamos sin embargo diversas objeciones a la oposición dicotómica de ambas esferas, en la medida en que ésta confiere a los sistemas económico y administrativo un estatuto ontológico que acaba blindándolos ante…

A speech-act-based office modeling approach

1988

In this paper methods and principles that help to analyze offices as systems of communicative action are explored. In communicative action, office agents create commitments through symbolic means. A SAMPO (Speech-Act-based office Modeling aPprOach), which studies office activities as a series of speech acts creating, maintaining, modifying, reporting, and terminating commitments, is presented. The main steps and methods in the office system specification are outlined and their application illustrated through a simple example. In the final section advantages and disadvantages in the SAMPO are noted and some research directions for the future are suggested.

Disturbances of communication in persons with traumatic brain injury

2015

The present study was undertaken to examine the communicative problems faced by non-aphasic patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), with particular attention to the com plex interactions between the psychological processes taking place in the minds of patients and the social transactions involved in the communicative act. Some theoretical background is provided. Five examples are given, illustrating how TBI patients exhibit pathologies of communication, even when their linguistic competence, as normally understood, seems to be largely intact. Qualitative methods of analysis are applied, including a simplified version of conversation analysis. Aphasia is not the only, or even the most im…

Exploring the Ideal of Dialogue by Taking into Account Both an Observed Interaction Session and the Participants’ Views on the Interaction

2014

Published version of an article in the journal: Interchange. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10780-014-9221-7 The focus of the article is on the ideal of using dialogue to promote contact between school and home. The aim was to explore this ideal by taking into account both an observed interaction session and how the participants perceive this interaction. The study draws on data from observation of a meeting about a pupil with special needs and his transition from lower to upper secondary school. The participants were the pupil, the mother and father, the special needs teacher, the school counsellor, the school psychology counsellor and the special needs co…

Human Sensorimotor Communication: A Theory of Signaling in Online Social Interactions

2013

Although the importance of communication is recognized in several disciplines, it is rarely studied in the context of online social interactions and joint actions. During online joint actions, language and gesture are often insufficient and humans typically use non-verbal, sensorimotor forms of communication to send coordination signals. For example, when playing volleyball, an athlete can exaggerate her movements to signal her intentions to her teammates (say, a pass to the right) or to feint an adversary. Similarly, a person who is transporting a table together with a co-actor can push the table in a certain direction to signal where and when he intends to place it. Other examples of ``si…