Recountings

Recountings

Author: Joel Segel

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2009-01-03

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1439865418

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This book traces the history of the MIT Department of Mathematics-one of the most important mathematics departments in the world-through candid, in-depth, lively conversations with a select and diverse group of its senior members. The process reveals much about the motivation, path, and impact of research mathematicians in a society that owes so mu


Studies in the Organization of Conversational Interaction

Studies in the Organization of Conversational Interaction

Author: Jim Schenkein

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2014-05-10

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1483272664

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Studies in the Organization of Conversational Interaction examines the different features of conversational interaction, which reflect a vigorous research paradigm for the study of natural conversations. This book discusses the naturally occurring interactions that have been recorder and transcribed. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the turn-taking system for conversation and explains that the organization of taking turns at talk is one type of organization operative in conversation. This text then discusses encounters with strangers that only conduct their business under the auspices of their official identity relations. Other chapters consider the production of compliment responses, which are sensitive to the cooperation of multiple constraint systems. This book discusses as well the conversational activity of telling stories and listening to stories. The final chapter deals with an analysis of a dirty joke. This book is a valuable resource for sociologists, conversationalists, linguists, grammarians, and anthropologists.


Remembering Our Past

Remembering Our Past

Author: David C. Rubin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-02-13

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9780521657235

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This book reviews the latest research in the field of autobiographical memory.


Trials

Trials

Author: Martha Merrill Umphrey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 1351125907

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This volume gathers a collection of the most seminal essays written by leading experts in the fields of law, and cultural studies, which address the cultural dimension of trials. Taken together, these essays conceive of trials as sites of legal performance and as critical public spaces in which the law both encounters and interacts dialogically with the culture in which it is embedded. Inquiring into the contours of that dialogic relation, these essays trace the paths of cultural stories as they circulate in and through trial settings, examine how trials emerge out of particular social and historical contexts, and suggest ways in which trials themselves, as both singular events and generic forms, circulate and signify in culture.


The Self Across Psychology

The Self Across Psychology

Author: Joan Gay Snodgrass

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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This volume is organized around the theme of the self as viewed through the lens of various subspecialities within the field of psychology. It is a collection of papers presented at a series of lectures given during the 1994-96 meetings of the Psychology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences. Subjects vary from the field of comparative behaviour (in particular the issue of animal self-recognition as demonstrated by the mark test), narrative approaches to the self, and social and cultural influences on the development of the self-concept. The text demonstrates how different fields of psychology approach a common topic. Contributing psychologists include: Susan Andersen; Mahzarin R. Banaji; Jerome Bruner; Gordon Gallup; John Kihlstrom; Stanley Klein; Michael Lewis; Ulrich Neisser; Katherine Nelson; and Howard Rachlin.


Ecological Approaches to Cognition

Ecological Approaches to Cognition

Author: Eugene Winograd

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999-04

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1135683360

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This volume is far more than a festschrift; it is a reflection of Neisser's profound impact on theory and methodology in many subdisciplines of psychology. This book will be of value to all cognitive, developmental, and ecological psychologists.


Basic and Applied Memory Research

Basic and Applied Memory Research

Author: Douglas J. Herrmann

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 1317759702

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Basic researchers unlock the secrets of nature; applied researchers unlock the means by which those secrets of nature can change people's lives. Neither basic nor applied research has an independent impact. These volumes examine the convergence of basic and applied research in the field of memory. Volume 1: Theory and Context, focuses on the methods for understanding and applying basic memory theory, while Volume 2: Practical Applications, expands the understanding of practical memory research by providing in-depth research examples and findings. If the science of memory is to make a significant contribution to society, coordinating our basic and applied efforts and determining how they complement each other become of paramount importance. These volumes will help in this regard--both as textbooks demonstrating how to investigate memory and apply basic memory theory, and as reference sources leading to a better understanding of certain problems in basic and applied memory research. Readers of these volumes will gain a thorough grasp of the way major themes relate to basic and applied research collaboration, how programmatic basic and applied research can be conducted on particular memory problems, and the manner in which basic and applied work in major problem areas has been incorporated into the field of memory. Both volumes present important information that will be indispensable to researchers and students alike.


Read to Achieve Teacher's Resource

Read to Achieve Teacher's Resource

Author:

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2015-06-08

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 149660704X

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The Read to Achieve Teacher's Resource Guide provides complete instruction for the defined standards, but also provides scaffolded instruction for the standards leading up to 3rd grade.


The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief

Author: Alison James

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 815

ISBN-13: 1000993361

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The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics. This volume draws on global, cutting edge research and theory to investigate the historically variable understandings of fictionality, and allows readers to grasp the role of fictions in our understanding of the world. This interdisciplinary approach provides a thorough introduction to the fundamental themes of: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives on Fiction Fiction, Fact, and Science Social Effects and Uses of Fiction Fiction and Politics Fiction and Religion Questioning how fictions in fact shape, mediate or distort our beliefs about the real world, essays in this volume outline the state of theoretical debates from the perspectives of literary theory, philosophy, sociology, religious studies, history, and the cognitive sciences. It aims to take stock of the real or supposed effects that fiction has on the world, and to offer a wide-reaching reflection on the implications of belief in fictions in the so-called “post-truth” era.