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Inside Jokes: A Sensemaking Resource for Understanding Sarcasm and Teasing in the Workplace
No full textHumorous exchanges using sarcasm and teasing can be found in many workplaces despite the fact that they are often considered inappropriate. This study looked at what causes people to participate in sensemaking after engaging in these types of humor and examined how people make sense of sarcasm and teasing. The framework for this study was Sherif’s Social Judgment Theory (SJT) (1969) and Sensemaking (1995). Twenty people were interviewed about their last workplace exchange involving these types of humor and their answers were recorded and analyzed. The results showed that recipients, through sensemaking, assimilated jokes that were insulting and not humorous. Jokes that were funny did not prompt reflection or assimilation. The results also provided several sensemaking resources that help both tellers and hearers of jokes understand the rationale for why jokes may be funny or insulting. The findings of this study provide an understanding of humor that can facilitate a more collegial work environment in organizational setting
\u3ci\u3eNative America and the Question of Genocide\u3c/i\u3e by Alex Alvarez (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014. 203 pp. $34.13. ISBN 978-1442225817).
Get PDFOn September 6th, 2015, Indian Country Today publicized a story that did not make mainstream news but resonated throughout Indian Country: a Navajo/Maidu student, Chiitaanibah Johnson, was ejected from her California State-Sacramento history class after asking the instructor to address the genocide of Native peoples in his coverage of American history. The instructor claimed that Native peoples had simply died of disease and that she was “hijacking” his class when she insisted (Schilling). Meanwhile, amid the protests of 50 different California tribes, Pope Francis made headlines when he canonized the controversial figure Juniper Serra, one of the leaders of the Spanish mission system that was known for its forceful abuse of the Native peoples it attempted to Christianize – a system that many California Native peoples now characterize as genocide (Burke). Both of these examples illustrate how critical the conversation around the concept of genocide has become to Indigenous peoples and how difficult it is to get the wider public to care. It is within such ongoing conversations that Alex Alvarez has published Native America and the Question of Genocide
Jürgen Habermas on the (Non-)Translatability of Religious Meaning
No full textThe relationship between religious faith and public reason has occupied an increasingly central role in Jürgen Habermas’s mature work. Yet this recent engagement with questions of religious meaning also illuminates a significant area of development in Habermas’s thought. While his earlier writings emphasized a need to subordinate religious beliefs to rational critique and to translate religious truth claims into publicly accessible forms of reasoning, his later writings signal a shift to a more cooperative understanding of religious faith and critical reason that highlights the ongoing potential of religion to advance rational discourse and social criticism in the public sphere. This essay traces this growing recognition of the irreducibility of religious meaning in Habermas’s writings, and it attends to the non-translatable dimension of religious faith as a source of its ongoing contemporary significance
Word, Lemma, and Part of Speech (Guatemala)
No full textCorpus del Español word, lemma, and part of speech data format.
Zip folder contains 20 .txt files of linguistic data from Guatemala split into two categories: General (g) and Blogs (b).
Texts are separated by a line with ## and the textID
Linear Text (Nicaragua)
No full textCorpus del Español linear text data format for texts from Nicaragua. This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Zipped folder contains 20 .txt files of General (g) and Blog (b) data
Database (United States)
No full textCorpus del Español database format. This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. Zip folder contains 20 .txt files of linguistic data from the United States split into two categories: General (g) and Blogs (b). See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format
Linear Text (Bolivia)
No full textCorpus del Español linear text data format for texts from Bolivia. This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Zipped folder contains 20 .txt files of General (g) and Blog (b) data
Linear Text (Colombia)
No full textCorpus del Español linear text data format for texts from Colombia. This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Zipped folder contains 137 .txt files of General (g) and Blog (b) data
Database (Bolivia)
No full textCorpus del Español database format. This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. Zip folder contains 20 .txt files of linguistic data from Bolivia split into two categories: General (g) and Blogs (b). See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format
NOW 2016-02 February
No full textCorpus of News on the Web data for February 2016.
The TAR folder contains linguistic data in three formats: Database: This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format. Linear Text: This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Word, Lemma, Part of Speech: Texts are separated by a line with ## and the textID