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Symposiumverslag NVSST 2025
No full textEen verslag van het jaarlijkse symposium van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie (NVSST) gehouden op vrijdag 28 maart 2025
Personality traits and interpersonal behaviors in romantic couples
No full textThe relationship between personality traits and moment-to-moment interpersonal behavior is influenced by the context of the interaction. The aim of the current study was to understand associations between personality traits and interpersonal warmth and dominance in heterosexual romantic couples (Ncouples = 140). Actor-Partner Interdependence Models were used to examine the relationships between interpersonal behavior and the traits of negative emotionality, positive emotionality, and constraint. Results suggested personality traits were associated with behaviors of both the actor and partner, with the strongest positive relationships found between positive emotionality and warm behavior and between negative emotionality and cold behavior. These results provide evidence that personality traits are related to momentary behaviors in romantic couples
Types of perceived social support and dimensions of the hardiness trait: A multivariate regression analysis
No full textWhile existing research has explored the buffering effects of social support and hardiness separately, there is a gap in understanding their interrelationship within the college student population. This study aimed to explore which dimensions of the hardiness trait (capturing commitment, control, and challenge) are associated with which types of perceived social support (attachment, guidance, social integration, reliable alliance, reassurance of worth) among college students. This study thus will contribute to the social support and hardiness literature by providing empirical evidence on how these constructs are specifically related to each other, offering insights that can inform future research, interventions, and practice. The data for this study were obtained from Dang’s (2024) doctoral dissertation examining the relation between social support, distress tolerance, and self-regulated learning. The participants were 323 full-time students (59% male, Mage = 28.3). Multivariate regression analyses were conducted in R to assess the relations between subscales of hardiness and types of perceived social support. Social support turned out to be positively related to commitment and control dimensions of hardiness and was negatively related to the challenge dimension of hardiness. The results of further analysis indicated that perceiving attachment support and guidance support were associated with the control dimension of the hardiness trait
“Har killarna lämnat litteraturen?” En kvantitativ analys av genus bland samtida svenska författare och förlagsarbetare
No full textIn recent years, Swedish media have reported a feminization of the literary field. The culture sections of newspapers highlight that boys and men are reading increasingly less, women are taking over the writing profession and publishing houses’ editorial ranks are dominated by women. “The entire Swedish book industry has been feminized”, Åsa Beckman summarizes the situation in a column in Dagens Nyheter (27/11/2021). However, much of the evidence cited in these articles is rather anecdotal. In addition, there are voices that contest the narrative, arguing that “the rumours of men’s death in literature are slightly exaggerated” (Länstidningen Södertälje, 30/01/2020).There is thus a need for a more systematic review of the situation. How is gender distributed across different roles in the literary field, and can this be regarded as a feminization? Drawing on theories of vertical and horizontal gender segregation (Berkers, Verboord & Weij, 2016; Halldén, 2014), this article explores the gender distribution among literary authors and publishers, in order to shed a light on the levels of feminisation, as well as possible hierarchical differences between men and women in the literary world.
Dialectometrische verkenningen van het taallandschap in Fryslân
No full textThe linguistic landscape in the province of Friesland is characterized by a rich diversity of language varieties: Frisian, peripheral Frisian, Frisian-Dutch contact varieties, and Low Saxon. There is often consensus about this in the literature. Within Frisian, a distinction is again made between Clay Frisian, Wood Frisian and Southwest Frisian. However, there is no consensus about an area in the northeast of the province that is referred to as North clay Frisian: does this belong to Clay Frisian, Wood Frisian, or is it an area in itself? In the 1980s Klaas van der Veen published a dialectometric study. Based on high-frequency words from various sources, he calculated distances between local Frisian varieties using Jean Séguy\u27s method. He weighted the words he used by their frequency of use. Based on the distances, he made a classification of the Frisian dialects and found that North Clay Frisian belongs to Clay Frisian. We compared his analysis with two of our own analyses. In the first analysis we measured lexical distances using Jean Ségey\u27s method as well, and in the second analysis we measured distances in the sound components using PMI Levenshtein distance. Our measurements were based on a random selection of words from the texts in the Reeks Nederlandse Dialectatlassen (RND). The well-known threefold division within Frisian was not found on the basis of the lexical measurements, but on the basis of the distances in the sound components we did find this division, and with North Clay Frisian forming a group with Wood Frisian. The differences between our results and Van der Veen\u27s results are mainly determined by the choice of sources (a mix of different sources versus only the RND) and the choice of words (only high-frequency words versus a random selection from a fairly representative text)
The Autobiographical Triangle – and Then What?
No full textThe essay outlines the key concepts of the universal theory of the autobiography, which I define as a “triangular” form of utterance involving three different stances: witness, confession, challenge. Witness refers to personal testimony to experiences lived through, confession to the presentation of intimate inner experience and challenge to the provocation of the reader to engage in dialogue, enter into an argument or join in a game. The three stances are always present, though usually one of them overshadows the other two. I present the prospects for the development of a variety of inspirations derived from this theory: 1) awareness not only of the existence but also of the growing significance of the stance of challenge; 2) destabilization of autobiographical place as a reference context for witness; 3) singling out of female autobiographical material and research on this topic; 4) the crisis in research on life writing in the context of the posthuman paradigm. My conclusion is a new proposal in the context of ecocriticism and animal studies: cohumanism instead of posthumanism
Life Narrative and the Digital: Outlining the Contours of an Emerging Field
No full textThis cluster emerged from a two-day international workshop and conference, “Life Narrative and the Digital 2023”, which took place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in September 2023, and which was aimed at stimulating a conversation on the ‘possibilities, uses, and challenges of digital methods and technologies for auto/biographical research and practice.’ The contributions assembled in this cluster continue, and in many ways intensify, such an inter- and multi-disciplinary exchange between life-writing scholarship and digitally-oriented research. Taken together, they offer a panoramic vision of the diverse, and often highly innovative, scholarly work that is situated at the crossroads of auto/biography studies and digital technologies. They highlight the rich spectrum of source types, (cultural, historical, and geographical) contexts, methodological approaches, and themes that characterise this field of investigation, from (co-)constructing and (re-)presenting life narratives via social media and computer games to applying digital tools and methods that aid the study of lives and/or life writing. The cluster makes a timely contribution to an increasingly vibrant area of research that bridges traditional and digital humanities
Cluster Introduction: Life Writing in Times of Crisis
No full textWe are pleased to present a special cluster of articles inspired by the IABA conference held in Warsaw from July 5–8, 2023, at the University of Warsaw. The conference, titled Life-Writing in Times of Crisis, also lends its name to this collection. During the conference, numerous thought-provoking presentations explored how experiences of crisis are documented in autobiographical literature. Contemporary crises can unfold on a collective scale — encompassing war, genocide, pandemics, or economic hardships such as inflation, unemployment, and housing instability — or on an individual level, involving illness, bereavement, imprisonment, forced confinement, hunger, homelessness, or involuntary displacement. These are all circumstances of unwanted change, sudden rupture, and discontinuity that often give rise to a sense of living in an unfamiliar, radically altered world. In such moments, various forms of life-writing emerge — diaries, memoirs, letters — many of which are represented in this cluster
Spinozist Apiculture: Labor and the Problem of Interspecies Recognition in the Short Treatise
No full textThis article inscribes itself in a double domain within Spinoza studies: understanding the status of animals in his philosophy and exploring an idea of work in his writings. Its main focus is a specific passage in the Short Treatise, where Spinoza describes the bees as working towards their own ends and as instruments from whom human beings can obtain advantages. The study of this passage on the relationship between the bees and the human being will sketch out some elements for a theory of labor in Spinoza. I show that what I call Spinoza’s “apicultural labor complex” provides a theory of work wherein labor institutions may be established through relationships of what I term “care.” Key here is Spinoza’s notion of werktuig (instrument): it conceptualizes a relationship of mutual well-being, even if one individual is more powerful than another in a specific transindividual complex. These caring relationships imply a form of recognition qua practical knowledge towards another singular life form and, more specifically, about how to aid other individual existences to thrive through the achievement of joy (gaudium). In addition, I will establish that one way of conceptualizing resistance to labor in Spinoza’s philosophy is through a notion of recognition, considered as a principle of conflict and dis-identification of the (human or more-than-human) individual’s position in the social field
Genderview: Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach: Don’t think you can fight injustice by being unjust to others yourself
No full textMonika Kirloskar-Steinbach, who holds the position of chair in Diversifying Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, studies world philosophies. Her research confronts the limitations of Eurocentric philosophies and emphasizes the importance of epistemic justice. In this interview, she reflects on her approach to world philosophy in both education and research