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Pragmatic Approaches (Im)politeness
2017This chapter elaborates on how concepts and theories from linguistic pragmatics (notably, speech act theory and conversational implicature) have shaped early politeness theories. It critically examines key politeness notions (e.g. face threatening acts; politeness principles, maxims and implicatures; politeness strategies; indirectness), highlighting ...
Culpeper, Jonathan, Terkourafi, Marina
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2017
Politeness comprises linguistic and non-linguistic behavior through which people indicate that they take others’ feelings of how they should be treated into account. Politeness comes into operation through evaluative moments—the interactants’ (or other participants’) assessments of interactional behavior—and it is a key interpersonal interactional ...
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Politeness comprises linguistic and non-linguistic behavior through which people indicate that they take others’ feelings of how they should be treated into account. Politeness comes into operation through evaluative moments—the interactants’ (or other participants’) assessments of interactional behavior—and it is a key interpersonal interactional ...
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Proceedings of the American Political Science Association, 1911
It may seem paradoxical to suggest, of a doctrine essentially impatient of the absolute, that it bids fair to become the chief bulwark of an absolutism the more tyrannical because it is false. Yet a democracy forgetting freedom, and a philosophy careless of principles, do, in fact, go hand in hand together.
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It may seem paradoxical to suggest, of a doctrine essentially impatient of the absolute, that it bids fair to become the chief bulwark of an absolutism the more tyrannical because it is false. Yet a democracy forgetting freedom, and a philosophy careless of principles, do, in fact, go hand in hand together.
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Towards a Pragmatic Black Politics?
Souls, 2009The election of Senator Barack Obama as the fourty-fourth president of the United States has changed the contours of African American politics for years if not decades to come. His election, in many ways, symbolizes the maturation of black politics; from the protest tradition through the process of incorporation as players in the political system to ...
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Political Consequences of Pragmatism
Political Theory, 1996Etude des consequences politiques du pragmatisme a travers l'analyse de la theorie pragmatique du droit developpee par R. Posner. Distinguant pragmatisme juridique et realisme juridique, l'A. examine la conception activiste du droit et la definition d'une jurisprudence pragmatique chez Posner, a la lumiere de la theorie judiciaire de la decision ...
JACK KNIGHT, JAMES JOHNSON
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2018
The chapter presents John Dewey’s philosophy in terms of three central commitments: a dynamic ontology of impermanence, change, and temporality; a descriptive logic of experimental inquiry; and a democratic politics of individuals having opportunities to share equally in the direction of communities that, in turn, provide resources needed for ...
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The chapter presents John Dewey’s philosophy in terms of three central commitments: a dynamic ontology of impermanence, change, and temporality; a descriptive logic of experimental inquiry; and a democratic politics of individuals having opportunities to share equally in the direction of communities that, in turn, provide resources needed for ...
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2007
The year 1976 marked a major juncture in FAO’s history with the election of a new director-general, Edouard Saouma, a Maronite Christian from the Lebanon with a distinctly different personality, and sharply different views, from his predecessor.
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The year 1976 marked a major juncture in FAO’s history with the election of a new director-general, Edouard Saouma, a Maronite Christian from the Lebanon with a distinctly different personality, and sharply different views, from his predecessor.
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Social Text, 1996
L'A. envisage la signification du pragmatisme sur le plan politique. Il analyse la notion de culture politique, d'histoire culturelle. Il etudie la place des conceptions pragmatiques au sein de la gauche americaine.
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L'A. envisage la signification du pragmatisme sur le plan politique. Il analyse la notion de culture politique, d'histoire culturelle. Il etudie la place des conceptions pragmatiques au sein de la gauche americaine.
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Pragmatism, Truth, and Politics
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American PhilosophyAbstract: This paper defends a Peircean account truth in politics and ethics. It also sets out a novel epistemic conception of democracy. Roughly, if we are to aim at truth, we must take into account all the relevant experience and sustain the conditions under which prevailing arrangements may be contested, an idea which is aligned with democratic ...
Cheryl Misak, Robert B. Talisse
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Toward a Pragmatic Political Theology
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy, 2013Man finds himself living in an aleatory world,” writes John Dewey, “his existence involves, to put it baldly, a gamble. The world is a scene of risk; it is uncertain, unstable, uncannily unstable.”3 This fundamental ambiguity is compounded by the distinct conditions of our late modern, globalizing, postsecular world. Amidst the conditions of this world,
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