In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural prominence with more diagnoses and more controversy, its biological causes remain elusive.
Through in-depth interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, Fitzgerald examines what it means to do scientific research in the ambiguous terrain of autism research, a field marked by shifting horizons of uncertainty and ambivalence. He draws out how autism scientists talk and feel their way through their research, demonstrating its profoundly affective character, and expanding our understanding of what is at stake in the new brain sciences.
Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare.
Managing Ambiguity follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.
Автор: Singh Vandana Название: Ambiguity Machines: And Other Stories ISBN: 1618731432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618731432 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A book of stories of how uncertainly we move through space and time by ourselves and with others.
Автор: Susanne Winkler Название: Ambiguity: Language and Communication ISBN: 3110403439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110403435 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 123910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This edited volume investigates the concept of ambiguity and how it manifests itself in language and communication from a new perspective. The main goal is to uncover a great mystery: why can we communicate effectively despite the fact that ambiguity is pervasive in the language that we use? And conversely, how do speakers and hearers use ambiguity and vagueness to achieve a specific goal? Comprehensive answers to these questions are provided from different fields which focus on the study of language, in particular, linguistics, literary criticism, rhetoric, psycholinguistics, theology, media studies and law. By bringing together these different disciplines, the book documents a radical change in the research on ambiguity. The innovation is brought about by the transdisciplinary perspective of the individual and co-authored papers that bridge the gaps between disciplines. The research program that underlies this volume establishes theoretical connections between the areas of (psycho)linguistics that concentrate on the question of how the system of language works with the areas of rhetoric, literary studies, theology and law that focus on the question of how communication works in discourse and text from the perspective of both production and perception. A three-dimensional Ambiguity Model is presented that serves as a theoretical anchor point for the analyses of the different types of ambiguities by the contributors of this volume. The Ambiguity Model is a hybrid model which brings together the different perspectives on how language and the language system work with respect to ambiguity as well as the question of how ambiguity is employed in communication and in different communicational settings. A set of specific features that are relevant for the description of ambiguity, such as whether the ambiguity arises in the production or perception process, and whether it occurs in strategic or nonstrategic communication, are defined. The research program rests on the assumption that both the production and the perception of ambiguity, as well as its strategic and nonstrategic occurrence, can only be understood by exploring how these factors interact with each other and a reference system when ambiguity is generated and resolved. The collection Ambiguity: Language and Communication constitutes a superb introduction to the workings of ambiguity in language and communication along with extensive analyses of many different examples from different fields. As such it is relevant for students of linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, law and theology and at the same time there is sufficient quality analysis and new research questions to benefit advanced readers who are interested in ambiguity.
Автор: David S. Gorfein Название: Resolving Semantic Ambiguity ISBN: 0387969063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387969060 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 111790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book offers a number of new challenges to the role of context in language processing, some striking new evidence on the repetition of homographs in different contexts, and new approaches to resolution capable of being incorporated into either modular or network models.
Автор: Peter Kruse; Michael Stadler Название: Ambiguity in Mind and Nature ISBN: 3642784135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642784132 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 113190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: S. Dopson Название: Managing Ambiguity and Change ISBN: 1349398608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349398607 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book uses the case of the National Health Service to examine the management of ambiguity and change. It is suggested that the process-sociological approach of Elias, and in particular his game models, enable us to better understand the complex interweaving of planned and unplanned processes which is involved in the management of change.
Автор: Alexander Franz Название: Automatic Ambiguity Resolution in Natural Language Processing ISBN: 3540620044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540620044 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 65210.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Dealing with empiricism in natural language processing this text introduces an approach to the the issue of automatic ambiguity resolution, based on statistical models of text. An effective implementation strategy is also described, which is directly useful for natural language analysis.
Автор: Douglas Walton Название: Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity ISBN: 9048147174 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048147175 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 181670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Burke Sean D. Название: Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch: Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts ISBN: 1451465653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451465655 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 67590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Were eunuchs more usually castrated guardians of the harem, as florid Orientalist portraits imagine them, or were they trusted court officials who may never have been castrated? Was the Ethiopian eunuch a Jew or a Gentile, a slave or a free man? Why does Luke call him a man while contemporaries referred to eunuchs as unmanned beings? As Sean D. Burke treats questions that have received dramatically different answers over the centuries of Christian interpretation, he shows that eunuchs bore particular stereotyped associations regarding gender and sexual status as well as of race, ethnicity, and class. Not only has Luke failed to resolve these ambiguities; he has positioned this destabilized figure at a key place in the narrativeas the gospel has expanded beyond Judea, but before Gentiles are explicitly namedin such a way as to blur a number of social role boundaries. In this sense, Burke argues, Luke intended to queer his readers expectations and so to present the boundary-transgressing potentiality of a new community.
Автор: Martin Vohler, Stavros Frangoulidis, Therese Fuhrer Название: Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature ISBN: 3110715414 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110715415 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 166060.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Ambiguity in the sense of two or more possible meanings is considered to be a distinctive feature of modern art and literature. It characterizes the "open artwork" (Eco) and is generated by "disruptive tactics" (Wellershoff) and strategies to engender uncertainty. While ambiguity is seen as a "paradigm of modernity" (Bode), there is skepticism regarding its use in the pre-modern era. Older studies were dominated by the conviction that there was a lack of ambiguity in pre-modernity because, according to the rules of the "old rhetoric", ambiguity was seen as an avoidable error (vitium) and a violation of the dictate of clarity (perspicuitas).
The aim of the volume is to re-examine the putative "absence of ambiguity" in the pre-modern era. Is it not possible to find clear examples of deliberately employed (intended) ambiguity in antiquity? Are the oracles and riddles, the Palinode of Stesichoros and Socrates (Phaedrus), the dissoi logoi of rhetoric, the ambiguities of the tragedies all exceptions or do they not indicate a distinct interest in the artistic use of ambiguity?
The presentations of the conference, which will include scholars from various philologies, will combine a recourse to theoretical concepts of intended ambiguity with exemplary analyses from the field of pre-modern art and literature.
Автор: Dhami, Sanjit. Название: The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis: Volume I: Behavioral Economics of Risk, Uncertainty, and Ambiguity ISBN: 0198835604 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198835608 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 29030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is the first volume of focused texts developed from leading textbook The Foundations of Behavioral Economics. Authoritative, cutting edge, and accessible, this volume covers the behavioral economics of risk, uncertainty, and ambiguity.
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