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Instrumental dialogue and the ethics of expressing solicitude for each other’s existence

Language and Dialogue, 2023
Dialogue is about forgoing control and possession when interacting with the Other. In comparison, the notion of instrumentality appears contrary to the very notion of dialogue.
Nicolas Bencherki, Coline Sénac
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Not so exceptional? Prosocial influences on union support among US workers

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021
US unions have often been characterized as ‘exceptional’ in their weakness and conservatism compared to their Western European counterparts. American organized labor is associated with a ‘business unionism’ philosophy that assumes American workers are ...
J. Fiorito, Irene Padavic
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Nussbaum’s capability approach and African environmental ethics: is the African voice heard?

, 2020
Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach (CA) offers a framework for a universal conception of human development. This paper interrogates Nussbaum’s approach using African environmental ethics (AEE) to see if it captures African ways of valuing nature.
Jessica van Jaarsveld
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Employee-experienced High-performance Work Systems in Facilitating Employee Helping and Voice: The Role of Employees’ Proximal Perceptions and Trust in the Supervisor

Human Performance, 2019
Relative to previous research concerning the positive association between high-performance work systems (HPWS) and employees’ voice and helping, we examined a wider range of mediators reflecting employees’ ability, motivation, and opportunity to expand ...
Chun-Hsiao Wang, V. Baba, R. Hackett, Ying Hong   +3 more
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Instrumentalizing Voice

Journal of Communication Inquiry, 2013
This article applies Bakhtin’s ideas of “dialogics” and “speech genres” and Bourdieu’s approach to the “linguistic field” in a study of the “instrumentalization” of voice in interactive voice response (IVR) telephony. The article examines two dimensions of voice as it appears in IVR services: technician-led installations and voice branding “on-hold ...
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Voice keying system for a voice controlled musical instrument

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1979
A voice keying system for a voice controlled musical instrument comprising a frequency responding circuit for responding to an input signal of audio frequency and generating a control signal which corresponds to each of a plurality of frequency bands of input signal and also to a plurality of notes of a musical scale, and a tone generator for ...
Masahiko Tsunoo, Kinji Kawamoto
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Voice-controlled electronic musical instrument

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2004
An electronic, voice-controlled musical instrument called the Vocolo, in which the player hums into the mouthpiece, and the device imitates the sound of a musical instrument whose pitch and volume change in response to the player's voice is disclosed. The player is given the impression of playing the actual instrument and controlling it intimately with
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Making Room for Low-Wage Labor Organizations in the Organizational Inclusion Turn

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019
This article focuses on the theorizing of organizational inclusion. As most scholarly work on the conceptualization of organizational inclusion seems to be implicitly based on high-wage labor organizations, this article questions whether the components ...
D. V. Eck
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Voiceness in Musical Instruments

2019
This chapter presents the results of a pilot study of “voiceness” in instrumental musical sound across cultures. This study grew from the proposition that not only is the voice of primal importance in music, but “voiceness” in nonvocal musical sounds is a quality that seems to exert a particular fascination to music cultures around the world.
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Voice is the original instrument

Contemporary Music Review, 2002
The singer Joan La Barbara's career as a composer, performer, and sound artist has been devoted to exploring the human voice as a multifaceted instrument, going beyond its traditional boundaries to create works for voices, instruments, and interactive technologies.
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