Misunderstandings

Author : Talbot J. Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822383000

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Mutual Misunderstanding by Talbot J. Taylor Pdf

Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions about "what" we understand and "how" we understand, rather than with the logically prior question "whether" we understand each other. An affirmative answer to the latter question is apparently taken for granted. However, in Mutual Misunderstanding, Talbot J. Taylor shows that the sceptical doubts about communicational understanding do in fact have a profoundly important, if as yet unacknowledged, function in the construction of theories of language and interpretation. Mutual Misundertanding thus presents a strikingly original analysis of the rhetorical patterns underlying Western linguistic thought, as exemplified in the works of John Locke, Jacques Derrida, Gottlob Frege, Jonathan Culler, Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, H. Paul Grice, Michael Dummet, Stanley Fish, Alfred Schutz, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Harold Garfinkel, and others. This analysis reveals how, by the combined effect of appeals to "commonsense" and anxieties about implications of relativism, scepticism has a determining role in the discursive development of a number of the intellectual disciplines making up the "human sciences" today, including critical theory, literary hermeneutics, philosophy of language and logic, communication theory, discourse and conversation analysis, pragmatics, stylistics, and linguistics. Consequently, this provocative study will be of value to readers from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds.

Author : Jean Mercer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781452217680

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Child Development by Jean Mercer Pdf

In Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings 2e, Jean Mercer uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers in thinking critically about 59 common beliefs.

Author : Raymonde Carroll
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226111896

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Cultural Misunderstandings by Raymonde Carroll Pdf

“Full of colorful anecdotes…tells us a lot about the French but even more about ourselves.”—Los Angeles Times This is an intriguing and thoughtful analysis of the many ways French and Americans—and indeed any members of different cultures—can misinterpret each other, even when ostensibly speaking the same language. Cultural misunderstandings, Raymonde Carroll points out, can arise even where we least expect them: in our closest relationships. With revealing vignettes and perceptive observations, she brings to light some fundamental differences in French and American presuppositions about love, friendship, and raising children, as well as such everyday activities as using the telephone or asking for information. “An entertaining, informative book…often witty…a vital source for learning how to establish amity not only between the U.S. and France but among all the world’s nations.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : Robert L. Young
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292786585

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Understanding Misunderstandings by Robert L. Young Pdf

Have you ever meant one thing, but said another? Reacted angrily when no offense was intended? Wished that the earth would open up and swallow you? Understanding Misunderstandings will help you get out and stay out of these difficulties. Robert L. Young explains why many common types of misunderstandings arise and how they can be avoided or corrected. In the first part of the book, he breaks the process of misunderstanding down into stages, showing how it can occur when we misspeak, mishear, misinterpret, or react in inappropriate ways. In the second part, he expertly analyzes the kinds of misunderstandings that can arise from differences in culture, social class, race and ethnicity, and gender. Real-life examples illustrate many of the problems and solutions he describes. Because misunderstanding can destroy friendships and marriages, wreck careers, and lead to clashes between whole segments of society, understanding and diffusing it is of the utmost importance. This reader-friendly book provides the practical guidance to do just that. Educators, business people, psychologists, parents—in fact, everyone who interacts with other people—will benefit from it.

Author : David Deterding
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110288599

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Misunderstandings in English as a Lingua Franca by David Deterding Pdf

This book explores the nature and causes of misunderstandings in ELF interactions. It is based on a corpus of conversations between English speakers from south and east Asia that helps us investigate what causes misunderstandings, particularly the pronunciation, grammar, word choice, and discourse. The book also considers how such misunderstandings may be signalled and repaired. Finally, it discusses the implications for teaching English around the world and offers guidance to teachers in enabling their students to become highly intelligible.

Author : Frauke Mörike
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839458679

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Working Misunderstandings by Frauke Mörike Pdf

Misunderstandings are often perceived as something to be avoided yet delineate an integrative part of everyday work. This book addresses the role that misunderstandings play in collaborative work and, above all, their effects on the organisational result. As exemplified by project collaboration across three offices of a multinational corporation in India, Frauke Mörike explores how misunderstandings shape the organisational system and why they prove not only necessary but even productive for organisational functioning. In doing so, she offers new ways to think about collaboration and establishes `misunderstanding' as a key factor of insight for the field of organisational research.

Author : Georg Weizsäcker
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781805111382

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Misunderstandings by Georg Weizsäcker Pdf

What do we expect when we say something to someone, and what do they expect when they hear it? When is a conversation successful? The book considers a wide set of two-person conversations, and a bit of game theory, to show how conversational statements and their interpretations are governed by beliefs. Thinking about beliefs is suitable for communication analysis because beliefs are well-defined and measurable, allowing to differentiate between successful understandings and their less successful counterparts: misunderstandings. The book describes the theoretical framework and empirical measurements of misunderstandings – written by an economist, but in simple words and using interdisciplinary concepts. The material will benefit students and researchers of behavioural economics and its neighbouring fields, and anyone interested in human language.

Author : Stephanie Demoulin,Jacques-Philippe Leyens,John F Dovidio
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9781136950995

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Intergroup Misunderstandings by Stephanie Demoulin,Jacques-Philippe Leyens,John F Dovidio Pdf

This book examines how misunderstandings occur in intergroup interactions as a consequence of the divergences between interactants' subjective realities (i.e., interpretations), goals, and strategies and beyond their positive or negative intentions.

Author : Immanuel Barshi,Candace Farris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317095415

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Misunderstandings in ATC Communication by Immanuel Barshi,Candace Farris Pdf

Effective radio communication between ATC and pilots has long been recognized as an important element of aviation safety. In recognition of the role miscommunications play in aviation incidents and accidents, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recently introduced language proficiency requirements for all flight personnel in all ICAO member states. Using an effective and economical experimental paradigm, the research described here teases apart the complex combination of factors (e.g. speech rate, controller message length, English language proficiency, cognitive workload) believed to contribute to miscommunications between controllers and pilots. Misunderstandings in ATC Communication offers an in-depth report of a seminal study in aviation communication, which until now has only been available in the form of an unpublished dissertation. In addition, it offers a recent extension of that work, the authors’ reflections on the research process, and a thorough review of the aviation communication literature. Graduate students and researchers who wish to address real-world problems will appreciate the simple elegance of the experimental paradigm that has been used to address a wide range of theoretical and applied interdisciplinary research questions. The book will appeal to scholars in the fields of human factors, linguistics, cognitive psychology, applied linguistics and second-language education and assessment. It is also of direct relevance to government and industry decision-makers and operators as they strive to implement the ICAO requirements, and to improve aviation safety.

Author : Stephanie Demoulin,Jacques-Philippe Leyens,John F Dovidio
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136950988

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Intergroup Misunderstandings by Stephanie Demoulin,Jacques-Philippe Leyens,John F Dovidio Pdf

The objectives of the volume are to direct the field’s attention to the unique value of studying interactions between members of different groups and to offer the most up-to-date summaries of prominent and cutting-edge scholarship on this topic written by leading scholars in the field. A central theme of the volume is that improvement in intergroup relationships will only be possible if social scientists simultaneously take into account both the attitudes, beliefs, emotions, and actions of the different groups that shape the nature of intergroup relations. Understanding how members of different groups interact is critical beyond the value of understanding how majority groups behave and how minority groups respond in isolation. Indeed, as the book exemplifies, groups interpret their interaction differently, experiencing different social realities; approach interactions with different goals; and engage each other with different, and often non-compatible, means or strategies. These different realities, goals, and strategies can produce misunderstanding, suspicion, and conflict even when initial intentions are positive and cooperative. The book will be of interest to professionals and students in social psychology, sociology, social work, education, political science, and conflict management, as well as scholars, students, and practitioners interested in anti-bias education and prejudice reduction techniques and strategies.

Author : Alan Irwin,Brian Wynne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521432685

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Misunderstanding Science? by Alan Irwin,Brian Wynne Pdf

Misunderstanding Science? offers a challenging new perspective on the public understanding of science. In so doing, it challenges existing ideas of the nature of science and its relationships with society. Its analysis and case presentation are highly relevant to current concerns over the uptake, authority and effectiveness of science as expressed, for example, in areas such as education, medical/health practice, risk and the environment, and technological innovation. Based on several in-depth case studies, and informed theoretically by the sociology of scientific knowledge, the book shows how the public understanding of science raises questions about the epistemic commitments and institutional structures that constitute modern science. These key aspects are usually ignored in standard treatments of the subject. The book suggests that many of the inadequacies in the social integration and support of science might be overcome if modern scientific institutions were more reflexive and open about the implicit normative commitments embedded in scientific cultures.

Author : Robert Shuter
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015015273140

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Understanding Misunderstandings by Robert Shuter Pdf

Author : Dan P. Modaff,Jennifer A. Butler
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793549613

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Organizational Communication by Dan P. Modaff,Jennifer A. Butler Pdf

Organizational Communication: Foundations, Challenges, and Misunderstandings examines how communication is central to organizational life and the complexities and complications that arise as people attempt to coordinate their organizational activities. The text underscores the importance of the relationships we establish with the people with whom we work and how a better understanding of organizational communication theory and application can help us anticipate and manage misunderstandings in the workplace. In Part One, students learn about classical and modern management theories, systems theory, and frameworks for understanding organizational communication, including organizational culture and critical theory. In Part Two, the text covers topics traditionally covered in organizational communication textbooks through the lens of misunderstandings. Stories from organizational members highlight challenges and opportunities related to communicating in the organization. Realistic recruitment, socialization, the relationship between supervisors and subordinates, peer and team relationships, and leadership communication are addressed. The fifth edition features new interview data; broader coverage of diversity; expanded discussions of emotions at work; and examinations of workplace bullying, blended relationships, and technology as it relates to gender and age. Offering students a balanced mix of theoretical and practical information, Organizational Communication is an exemplary textbook for introductory organizational communication courses.

Author : Kristin Bührig,Jan D. ten Thije
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027293664

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Beyond Misunderstanding by Kristin Bührig,Jan D. ten Thije Pdf

This book challenges two tacit presumptions in the field of intercultural communication research. Firstly, misunderstandings can frequently be found in intercultural communication, although, one could not claim that intercultural communication is constituted by misunderstandings alone. This volume shows how new perspectives on linguistic analyses of intercultural communication go beyond the analysis of misunderstanding. Secondly, intercultural communication is not solely constituted by the fact that individuals from different cultural groups interact. Each contribution of this volume analyses to what extent instances of discourse are institutionally and/or interculturally determined. These linguistic reflections involve different theoretical frameworks, e.g. functional grammar, systemic functional linguistics, functional pragmatics, rhetorical conversation analysis, ethno-methodological conversation analysis, linguistic an­thro­­pology and a critical discourse approach. As the contributions focus on the discourse of genetic counseling, gate-keeping discourse, international team co-operation, international business communication, workplace discourse, internet communication, and lamentation discourse, the book exemplifies that the analysis of intercultural communication is organized in response to social needs and, therefore, may contribute to the social justification of linguistics.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811222440

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Little Misunderstandings of No Importance by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays the decisive role in the protagonists' lives? The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays the decisive role in the protagonists' lives? Blended with the author's wonderfully intelligent imagination is his compassionate perception of elemental aspects of the human experience, be it grief as in "Waiting for Winter," about the widow of a nation's literary lion, or madcap adventure as in "The Riddle," about a mysterious lady and a trip in Proust's Bugatti Royale.