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Language, Ideology, and Nursing Practice
Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice, 1998This article explores the ways in which nursing practice is shaped by language and ideology. It is based on an ethnographic study conducted at two general surgical units in one of the main acute care hospitals in Iceland. The data used were qualitative: transcribed semistructured interviews with registered nurses on two acute care units, field notes ...
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Language, research and nursing practice
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2001Language, research and nursing practiceAim of the paper. This paper highlights the centrality of language in constructing knowledge. It aims at making us sensitive to the political nature of knowledge production and the complex power relationships that may emerge as a result of our efforts to create new knowledge.Background: Science, as understood here,
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Interembodiment and language: Deaf language practices as resistance
Social Science & MedicineThis article approaches language as both a vehicle for interembodiment and as a fundamentally interembodied process. Drawing from approximately 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork with deaf immigrants in the northeast United States, this article explores how interembodiment emerges through language forms and practices; and how deaf language practices ...
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Towards a practical specification language
Proceedings of the ACM '81 conference on - ACM 81, 1981Recognition of the value of formal specifications in the design and verification of large software systems is becoming more widespread. Specification languages themselves, however, are difficult to develop in part because of the inherent conflict between the goals of clarity and formalism required by these languages.
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Practical extensions in agent programming languages
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, 2007This paper proposes programming constructs to improve the practical application of existing BDI-based agent-oriented programming languages that have formal semantics. The proposed programming constructs include operations such as testing, adopting and dropping declarative goals, different execution modes for plans, repairing plans when their execution ...
Dastani, M.M., Hobo, D., Meyer, J-J.Ch.
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Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices
2021Spotti, Max +2 more
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Language workers and the practice of language management
Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 2009Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how language workers' perceived organisational distances and professional constellations affect their assessment of a language initiative and thereby underline the importance of micro‐level factors to the implementation of a corporate policy.Design/methodology/approach – An exploratory study based ...
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Foreign Language Interpreting in Psychiatric Practice
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1975This article examines the problems of foreign language interpreting in psychiatric practice. It is demonstrated how an interpreter's apparent competence may readily be mistaken for true competence and that it is well worthwhile formally assessing an interpreter's command of his second language. In interpreting from patient to psychiatrist, the omission
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From Language Practices among Maroons to Practicing Maroon Languages
2010The Creoles of Suriname and the Maroon Creoles in particular figure prominently in research on creole genesis, descriptive linguistic research and in formal linguistic approaches to creole grammar. The main reason for their prevalence in this kind of research is that they are widely asumed to be linguistically conservative meaning that they have been ...
Léglise, Isabelle, Migge, Bettina
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