Search results for "jargon"

‘He is Quirky; He is the World's Greatest Psychologist’: On the Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common

2016

In this article, we challenge the concept of the therapeutic relationship as an operationalisable entity. In contrast to this idea, we introduce Alphonso Lingis’ concept of community, and his distinction between the rational community and the community of those who have nothing in common. This is done through speculative analysis of a transcribed sequence from a research interview with a boy who speaks about his experiences of receiving mental health care. This boy and his family were helped through a network-oriented, dialogical approach. In the sequence highlighted here, the boy speaks of the significance of a particular mental health practitioner. The boy expresses appreciation for the h…

Preferential Biases for Texts That Include Neuroscientific Jargon

2016

The results of an experiment of preferential biases for texts that include neuroscientific jargon are presented. Such preferential bias has been reported even when the presented jargon is meaningless. In a variation of the well-known Weisberg et al. experiment, a group of undergraduate students ( N = 150; females 48%, males 52%, other 0%; M age = 22.4 year, SD = 2.6) chose between two possible explanations for a psychological phenomenon: a correct explanation or a circular restatement of facts. Unrelated neuroscientific terms were added to one of the explanations. Participants were asked to choose the correct explanation. There was a statistically significant preference for the explanation …

La cognificació de l'art

2018

The Cognification of Art Resum: Amb el terme “cognificacio”, un mot pres en prestec de l’argot de la Intel.ligencia Artificial, designo alguns dels processos pels quals les obres d’art han anat convertint-se cada cop mes en dispositius per a la generacio de coneixement. En particular, d’una banda, es tracta en aquest article dels fenomens d’artificacio d’objectes reals, com es el cas de la caixa de sabates de Gabriel Orozco, fenomens que es remunten als ready-mades de Duchamp i que es generalitzen en el darrer mig segle, i, de l’altra, el fenomen de les practiques d’investigacio artistica que s’han generalitzat en els darrers quinze anys, fenomen que alhora es d’artificacio de la recerca. A…

Facebookland: o mundo bizarro-linguístico

2019

Abstract This article investigates the dynamics of contemporary Romanian, focusing on various linguistic structures typically used on social network sites, through which the specific content and interaction strategies are being deployed in virtual communities. The article is part of a larger project devoted to the study of linguistic impoverishment (affecting both the vocabulary and the grammatical structure of the language), social networks being only one of the areas where these “uglified” linguistic structures come from: the mass-media (both print and broadcast), advertising (outdoor, indoor, television commercials), Internet forums, corporate jargon, etc. The structures under scrutiny a…

“My Mind Is Doing It All”

2015

Objective: To study whether pressure of speech in jargon aphasia arises out of disturbances to core language or executive processes, or at the intersection of conceptual preparation. Background: Conceptual preparation mechanisms for speech have not been well studied. Several mechanisms have been proposed for jargon aphasia, a fluent, well-articulated, logorrheic propositional speech that is almost incomprehensible. Methods: We studied the vast quantity of jargon speech produced by patient J.A., who had suffered an infarct after the clipping of a middle cerebral artery aneurysm. We gave J.A. baseline cognitive tests and experimental word-and sentencegeneration tasks that we had designed for …

Professional Talk: Unpacking Professional Language

2020

Modern welfare states have increasingly been infused by principles from New Public Management. The implicit managerialism and standardization of these principles reduces the autonomy of professionals and displaces their discretionary power, replacing it with a standardized professional language that reproduces and reinforces specific narratives of knowledge. This chapter explores why and how we can reconnect the intimacy between word and experience by unpacking professional language. I address the following questions: What are the challenges of interviewing professionals? What is there to discover in the unpacking of professional language? And how do we unpack professional words, discourse …

Dräparpannor och kyliga kustoms : hot rod-jargong i Wheels Magazine

2000

Žargona un jauniešu valodas lietojums interneta ziņu rakstu komentāros

2017

Šajā darbā tiek pētīts žargona un jauniešu valodas lietojums interneta ziņu rakstu komentāros, kas ir publicēti sociālajā platformā facebook.com. Šī darba mērķis ir noskaidrot vai šo valodas slāņu lietojums var tikt uzskatīts par mehānismu, kas ļauj rakstītā tekstā paust emocijas, kuras komunicējot klātienē tiktu paustas caur mīmiku, žestiem un intonāciju. Pētījuma teorētiskajā daļā ir atrodams literatūras apraksts, tajā ir aprakstīts, kas ir žargons un kas jauniešu valoda, kādi valodas elementi tiem ir raksturīgi. Tāpat ir aprakstīta arī interneta vides ietekme uz valodas lietojumu un valodas funkcijas šajā kontekstā. Pētījuma empīriskajai daļā 291 komentārs tika analizēts izmantojot S. He…