Hollow institutions: Merleau‐Ponty and the possibility of coordinated action
Abstract This article addresses the phenomenon of political powerlessness, understood—following Hannah Arendt—as the separation of “words and deeds,” a condition in which words become “empty” and actions lose their overall intelligibility, increasingly relying on coercion. I take up Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenology of institution to explore this condition.
Daniil Koloskov
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Situating Black Reconstruction in the Du Boisian Tradition
ABSTRACT In this paper, I develop a contradictory argument about Black Reconstruction. First, I argue that Black Reconstruction certainly is a masterpiece, and indeed, perhaps one of Du Bois's greatest works. Second, however, I argue that we ought to view Black Reconstruction in the context of Du Bois's overall corpus of scholarship.
Ali Meghji
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Teaching Theology and Law in the Australian Secular Law School: Lessons From the Adelaide Law School
ABSTRACT The Adelaide Law School introduced Law and Religion into its suite of elective courses in 2012, the culmination of a long process of encouraging both the institution and individual faculty members to accept that this sub‐discipline, at the time already well‐recognized in the United States and Europe, properly belonged as a scholarly pursuit in
P. T. Babie
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Chinese comprehenders' interpretation of underinformativeness in L1 and L2 accented speech narratives. [PDF]
Li Y, Feng S.
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Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
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The CANDOR corpus: Insights from a large multimodal dataset of naturalistic conversation. [PDF]
Reece A +9 more
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THE VIOLATION OF THE POLITENESS PRINCIPLE MAXIMS IN 300 MOVIE SUBTITLE
Rahman Wildana +2 more
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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World Englishes, Applied Linguistics, and Air Traffic Control Communication
Abstract Air traffic control (ATC) communication in international aviation is conducted in a variety often referred to as Aviation English. Based on an analysis of the Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), two specialized sub‐registers of Aviation English are identified in previous ...
Markus Bieswanger
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THE MAXIM OF REQUESTING POLITENESS BETWEEN COLLEGE STUDENTS AND LECTURER (MAXIM KESANTUNAN DALAM TUTURAN PERMINTAAN ANTARA MAHASISWA DAN DOSEN) [PDF]
Widya Fhitri
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