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‘Clinging Together Against the Dark’: A Pragmatist Reading of Sustainability Conversations

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a typology of managers' interpretations of sustainability as ‘narrative fields’ derived from a qualitative multi‐site study and offer a Pragmatist reading of the results. Pragmatism is grounded in an ethic of meliorism, the belief in the possibility of gradually improving the world through human effort and ...
Barry A. Colbert, Elizabeth C. Kurucz
wiley   +1 more source

POLITENESS STRATEGIES [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
People usually tend to use some politeness strategies in order to make the communication process between speaker and hearer going smoothly without any sense hurting each others.
Saputra , Fider
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Reframing Justice in Healthcare AI: An Ubuntu‐Based Approach for Africa

open access: yesDeveloping World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is an ongoing debate on how to balance the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in healthcare. In resource‐constrained settings, such as Africa, where access to quality care remains a challenge, AI has the potential to improve efficiency, accessibility, and patient outcomes.
Aloysius Ochasi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A SOCIOPRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF APOLOGIZING EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH DRAMA MOVIES [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This research is aimed at classifying the implied meanings (implicatures) and the politeness strategy in the apologizing expressions of apologizing expressions in English drama movies. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research.
PRATIWI, EMMY MARTHA
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What controls forest litter decomposition? A coordinated distributed teabag experiment across ten mountains

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Litter decomposition in mountainous forest ecosystems is an essential process that affects carbon and nutrient cycling. However, the contribution of litter decomposition to terrestrial ecosystems is difficult to estimate accurately because of the limited comparability of different studies and limited data on local microclimatic and non‐climatic factors.
Shiyu Ma   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

The application of politeness principles in speech acts in the 2024 presidential Election debate

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
Language politeness is a pragmatic topic that can help identify potential presidential candidates in positioning themselves in debates. This study analyzes the application of the principle of linguistic politeness in improving the delivery of speech acts
Mulyono   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Social Truth of Schopenhauer's ‘Metaphysics of Pity’: Compassion and Critical Theory

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Taking Horkheimer and Adorno's account of pity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment as my starting point, I show that Schopenhauer's compassion‐based moral theory exemplifies key elements of this account. In particular, this moral theory will be shown to possess a social truth for Horkheimer and Adorno because it is an expression of a wrong ...
David James
wiley   +1 more source

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