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Electronic Miscommunication And The Defamatory Sense, Jacquelyn Burkell

FIMS Publications

This article examines the effect that cultural and technological changes have had on interpersonal communication and aims to provide an interdisciplinary explanation for the recent proliferation of defamation in electronic media. The authors argue that the absence of certain extra-linguistic cues and established cultural convention in the electronic environment often results in miscommunication which — if not itself defamatory — gives rise to emotional exchanges between interlocutors in a manner that provokes defamation. The authors begin their analysis with a discussion of defamation law as a recipient-oriented tort, demonstrating the importance of the context of communication in the determination of …

University Of Southern Maine Undergraduate Catalog 2000-2001, University Of Southern Maine

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Holisme Et Homophonie, Madeleine Arseneault, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

No abstract provided.

Les Topographies Urbaine, Sociale Et Religieuse Dans Dakar, La Touriste Autochtone D'Aïssatou Cissokho, Heinz Kluppeholz

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

With her book, Aissatou Cissokho goes well beyond what is normally considered to be a simple tourist guidebook. Her social guide focusses on the urban, social and religious aspects of the Senegalese capital. Within these three circles she progressively criticises the education of young people, structures of the State, and the greed of certain religious representatives. By virtue of its openness, however, Dakar, la touriste autochtone evokes other potential problems as well.

You Should Have Known Better, Bailey Kuklin

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Education And Ambiguous Borders In Mexican Corridos Thriving In The United States, Sara Soledad Garcia

Teacher Education

In a previous papers on the corrido I have considered the corrido as a device for cultural transmutation and have analyzed several corridos by focusing on intertextual clements. My attempt in this paper was to reflect on the connection of the lives of the Mexican immigrants living in the United States with the history of the rural schools in Mexico through clements chronicled in corridos and modes of popular culture. With this in mind, the initial focus of my effort was directed at examining the role of the rural school teacher in connection with the community. I found however, from …

No. 19: Botswana: Migration Perspectives And Prospects, Johan Oucho, Eugene Campbell, Elizabeth Mukamaambo

Southern African Migration Programme

The Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) is committed to supporting basic research on the dimensions, causes and consequences of cross-border and internal migration within the SADC region and to making the results accessible to a range of partners. We believe that a well-informed policy-maker or official is more likely to appreciate the workability of policy choices in the area of migration and immigration management. Policies based on poor or misleading information will not only fail but could have negative unintended consequences. From a human rights perspective, we are concerned that without accurate information about migration, decisions may be made which …

Silence And Silencing: Their Centripetal And Centrifugal Forces In Cultural Expression, Pedagogy And Legal Discourse, Margaret E. Montoya

Faculty Scholarship

This article uses Critical Race Theory and LatCrit Theory in its analysis, methodologies, and purpose. I seek to disrupt silences around race and to provide the knowledge and skills for effective work on racial equity and justice. Language and voice have been subjects of great interest to scholars working in the areas of Critical Race Theory and Latina/o Critical Legal Theory. Silence, a counterpart of voice, has not, however, been well theorized. This Article is an invitation to attend to silence and silencing. The first part of the Article argues that one's use of silence is an aspect of communication …

Review Essay: Miran Bozovic. An Utterly Dark Spot: Gaze And Body In Early Modern Philosophy, Shankar Raman

Quidditas

Miran Bozovic. An Utterly Dark Spot: Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Birth Order, Sibling Investment, And Fertility Among Ju/’Hoansi (!Kung), Patricia Draper, Raymond Hames

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Birth order has been examined over a wide variety of dimensions in the context of modern populations. A consistent message has been that it is better to be born first. The analysis of birth order in this paper is different in several ways from other investigations into birth order effects. First, we examine the effect of birth order in an egalitarian, small-scale, kin-based society, which has not been done before. Second, we use a different outcome measure, fertility, rather than outcome measures of social, psychological, or economic success. We find, third, that being born late in an egalitarian, technologically simple …

Standing For Animals (With Notes On Animal Rights) A Tribute To Kenneth L. Karst, Cass R. Sunstein

Articles

No abstract provided.

Focal Point Theory Of Expressive Law, Richard H. Mcadams

Articles

No abstract provided.

Making Culture Visible: Comments On Elizabeth Mertz's Teaching Lawyers The Language Of Law: Legal And Anthropological Translations, 34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 119 (2000), Susan F. Hirsch

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

An Instructor's Guide To Electronic Databases Of Indexed Professional Literature, Scott T. Kidd, Cheryl L. Meyer, Brian M. Olesko

School of Professional Psychology Faculty Publications

This document reviews 20 databases that are relevant to psychology but that are used primarily by professionals in other disciplines. Each database is described, any corresponding paper index is indicated, searching tips are provided, and, when available, free Internet access sites are identified.

From Evidence To Belief: Developmental Precursors For False Belief Ascriptions, Jill De Villiers, Angelika Kratzer, Tom Roeper

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

Recently, a fruitful line of inquiry has linked children’s acquisition of the language of the mind to their developing understanding of other minds. In particular, a cascade of linguistic effects regarding sentences embedded under mental verbs has been shown to occur around the age of four years for the average child, roughly the age when children start passing standard false belief tests. This set of linguistic effects is summarized briefly below. In the proposed study, we will turn our attention to possible precursors for the ability to ascribe a false belief to another person. These precursors include knowledge about how …

Grounded Visions: Native American Conceptions Of Landscapes And Ceremony, Russel L. Barsh

St. Thomas Law Review

When the first wild strawberries flowered, my friend Chris Jocks, a Mohawk professor of comparative religion at Dartmouth, took his students to meet me at the old beaver pond on Thetford Hill. As the sun set behind a warm sprinkling of rain, we sat on top of the beaver dam and listened to successive waves of croaking, roaring, warbling, chirping, and hooting. "In the beginning," we explained that ''the Beaver made the world out of mud from the bottom of the waters. All the animals came and thanked the Creator. That is the way it was, and the way it …

Save The Whales V. Save The Makah: Finding Negotiated Solutions To Ethnodevelopmental Disputes In The New International Economic Order, William Bradford

St. Thomas Law Review

Despite the prominent contemporary phenomenon of globalization, it has proven difficult for globalists to converge and harmonize fundamental differences in values and belief systems, both within and across national boundaries. Thus, notwithstanding the efforts of human rights advocates and international regime architects, there is as yet no universal consensus as to the existence of a "set of rights and duties that cannot be derogated in the interests of nationality, race, religion, ethnicity or other competing claimants upon individual and group loyalty." The vacuum created by the absence of consensus as to the exact parameters of a corpus of nonderogable rights …

Culture, Ntid Department Of Educational Resources

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

What characteristics distinguish learners who are deaf or hard of hearing from their hearing classmates? What factors or conditions increase a deaf person's access to school and employment? What factors contribute to a person's success at school and on the job? The goal of research at NTID is to answer these questions, and in this volume of the NTID Papers and Publications we are pleased to present summaries of recent research and descriptions of instructional materials produced by faculty and staff at NTID. I hope you will find them informative and useful, and I invite your comments, questions and suggestions …

Educational Issues, Ntid Department Of Educational Resources

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

What characteristics distinguish learners who are deaf or hard of hearing from their hearing classmates? What factors or conditions increase a deaf person's access to school and employment? What factors contribute to a person's success at school and on the job? The goal of research at NTID is to answer these questions, and in this volume of the NTID Papers and Publications we are pleased to present summaries of recent research and descriptions of instructional materials produced by faculty and staff at NTID. I hope you will find them informative and useful, and I invite your comments, questions and suggestions …

Communication And Language, Ntid Department Of Educational Resources

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

What characteristics distinguish learners who are deaf or hard of hearing from their hearing classmates? What factors or conditions increase a deaf person's access to school and employment? What factors contribute to a person's success at school and on the job? The goal of research at NTID is to answer these questions, and in this volume of the NTID Papers and Publications we are pleased to present summaries of recent research and descriptions of instructional materials produced by faculty and staff at NTID. I hope you will find them informative and useful, and I invite your comments, questions and suggestions …

Reading, Writing, Speech, And Sign Skills, Ntid Department Of Educational Resources

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

What characteristics distinguish learners who are deaf or hard of hearing from their hearing classmates? What factors or conditions increase a deaf person's access to school and employment? What factors contribute to a person's success at school and on the job? The goal of research at NTID is to answer these questions, and in this volume of the NTID Papers and Publications we are pleased to present summaries of recent research and descriptions of instructional materials produced by faculty and staff at NTID. I hope you will find them informative and useful, and I invite your comments, questions and suggestions …

2000 Pod Network Conference Attendees

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

Asian American Coping Attitudes, Sources, And Practices: Implications For Indigenous Counseling Strategies, Christine J. Yeh, Yu-Wei Wang

School of Education Faculty Research

Coping attitudes, sources, and practices were assessed within and across a sample of Asian American college and graduate students from four ethnic groups: Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian (N = 470). We found that Asian Americans tended to endorse coping sources and practices that emphasized talking with familial and social relations rather than professionals such as counselors and doctors. Korean Americans were significantly more likely to cope with problems by engaging in religious activities. Counseling implications are discussed.

Forgiveness And Public Trust, Linda Ross Meyer

Fordham Urban Law Journal

A discussion of forgiveness and its relation to the community as a whole. The author argues that forgiveness is not merely personal, emotional, nor private, but rather that forgiveness grounds the basic trust which binds the community together.

6. Development Of Grounded Theories Of Complex Cognitive Processing: Exhaustive Withinand Between-Study Analyses Of Think-Aloud Data, Michael Pressley

Issues in the Measurement of Metacognition

I am going to begin with claims that may seem heretical at the Buros Institute, the host for this symposium: Much can be understood about cognition and its metacognitive regulation through qualitative analysis. Qualitative analyses of complex cognitive and metacognitive processes makes a great deal of sense before even attempting quantitative analyses of those processes. In particular, I am going to explain here the advances made by my associates and me in understanding skilled reading using the method of constant comparison, a qualitative approach for developing what Strauss and Corbin (1990) refer to as grounded theories. If that does not …

Shadows Of Fuzzy Sets - A Natural Approach Towards Describing 2-D And Multi-D Fuzzy Uncertainty In Linguistic Terms, Hung T. Nguyen, Berlin Wu, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Fuzzy information processing systems start with expert knowledge which is usually formulated in terms of words from natural language. This knowledge is then usually reformulated in computer-friendly terms of membership functions, and the system transform these input membership functions into the membership functions which describe the result of fuzzy data processing. It is then desirable to translate this fuzzy information back from the computer-friendly membership functions language to the human-friendly natural language. In general, this is difficult even in a 1-D case, when we are interested in a single quantity y; however, the fuzzy research community has accumulated some expertise …

Liu Bannong And The Forms Of New Poetry, Michel Hockx

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.

The Pitchman In Print: Oral Performance Art In Text And Context, Joseph Ugoretz

Publications and Research

Oral performance art, patterned performative speech for an audience, is perhaps the oldest and most ubiquitous human art form. Specific instances of this art include the performances of griots and guslars, troubadors and shamans, as well as rappers and riddlers, preachers and politicians. While this art form is by definition oral, it is also the case that, frequently, literary art has represented oral performance art. There is written art which depicts oral art, which describes it, appropriates it, criticizes and co‑opts it.

In this dissertation, I define oral performance art as constituting a separate and unique artistic genre, one which …

Ot 620 Pentateuch, David Loren Thompson

Syllabi

Required Texts 1. Revised Standard Version of the Bible or some other contemporary, standard (non-paraphrasing) version with minimal editorial clutter in the layout. NASB, NRSV, and NIV are fine. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. David L. Thompson

Nt 502 Comprehensive Greek Ii, Mark J. Hatcher

Syllabi

Black, David Alan. Learning to Read New Testament Greek, rev. ed. (Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1994). Black, David Alan. It’s Still Greek to Me. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998). The Greek New Testament (United Bible Societies, 4th edition).