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Pietro Perconti, L'autocoscienza. Cosa è, come funziona, a cosa serve. Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2008 pp. 168
Get PDFThe text offers a Critical Review of "L'autocoscienza. Cosa è, come funziona, a cosa serve" by Pietro Perconti. The author critically reflects on the book by considering its methodologies, its arguments, and its relation with other books of the same type and on the same subject.Il testo propone una Lettura Critica del libro "L'autocoscienza. Cosa è, come funziona, a cosa serve" di Pietro Perconti. L'autrice riflette criticamente sul libro considerandone le metodologie, gli argomenti e il nesso con altri libri dello stesso tipo e sullo stesso argomento
Pietro Perconti, La prova del budino. Il senso comune e la nuova scienza cognitiva
No full textUno dei principali meriti del libro di Pietro Perconti è l’aver fatto chiarezza su una dimensione così elusiva e complicata come il senso comune, precisandone in modo perspicuo i tratti oppositivi e di continuità che ne contraddistinguono le relazioni con gli acquisti teorici della scienza cognitiva e le loro ricadute pratiche. Quest’obiettivo è raggiunto grazie anche alle risorse di una scrittura incisiva e scorrevole, che ottempera alle esigenze dell’alta divulgazione senza che ne sia intac..
Gender differences in the interoceptive awareness: a pilot study on Italian people
Get PDFBackground: Bodily self-recognition requires the individual to be able to refer to himself through a
reflexive representation, typically a schema or an image of one’s own body. Body ownership results
from an interplay between exteroception and interoception (i.e., the ability to perceive one’s own body
from the inside). It has been demonstrated that perceiving sensations inside the body could be
associated with better regulation of emotions. Also, it has been reported that interoceptive awareness
may be affected by gender. Therefore, this pilot study aimed to investigate gender differences in the
interoceptive awareness among Italian people.
Methods: 114 Italian volunteers (57 males and 57 females) completed the 32-item Multidimensional
Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) questionnaire to measure the multiple dimensions of
interoceptive awareness.
Results: The findings showed higher scores among females than among males for the ability to notice
interoceptive input and the awareness of the relationship between bodily sensations and emotional
states.
Conclusions: Results suggested that women could be more inclined to notice and focus on internal cues.
Also, the gender differences could be related to physical and hormonal changes that women experience
during development. Future research on the relationship between gender and physiological responses
(e.g., heartbeat, skin conductance) for a specific ethnographic sample is recommended
The role of literal meaning in the construction of metaphorical meaning
No full textThis paper explores the role of literal meaning in the construction of
metaphorical meaning, challenging traditional views of metaphor theory. First, we contrast the direct access hypothesis, in which the metaphorical meaning is understood without activating the literal meaning, with the indirect access hypothesis, which holds that the literal meaning is accessed first. We argue that this distinction concerns only the process of accessing metaphorical meaning, without clarifying the role of literal meaning in the construction of metaphors. In the second chapter, we
shift the focus from the question of how we get from literal to metaphorical meaning to the more fundamental question of what role literal meaning plays in metaphor construction. We introduce the Onefoldness and Twofoldness Hypotheses to replace the dichotomy of direct and indirect access. In the third section, we examine factors that influence the relationship between literal and metaphorical meaning in shaping the meaning of the metaphor. After an overview of syntactic (Carston, 2018) and semantic (Giora, 2003) approaches that assume that the processing of metaphor is determined by intrinsic linguistic features, in the fourth section we argue for a radical contextualist approach. This approach assumes that the processing of metaphors depends on the pragmatic use of metaphors within the specific “language game” in which they are deployed and offers a dynamic perspective on how metaphorical
meaning is constructed
Argumentation and Discourse: From Topic-Based Reasoning to Its Discursive Realization in a Genre of Political Communication
No full textThis paper explores the relationship between Argumentation Theory (AT) and Discourse Analysis DA), aiming to show how their interaction contributes to a better insight into the meanings and functions of texts. Namely, AT may provide discourse analysts with valuable tools functional to the aims of textual analysis. Once argu-mentative categories have helped shed light onto the structures of argumentation, DA can play a complementary role, by filling them with meanings that are necessarily intertwined with situation and context. At the same time, the constitutive nature of discourse, one of the pillars of DA, allows also for a reshaping of reality through the linguistic representation of both facts and arguments, an aspect that in turn can enrich the analysis of argumentation proper and its effects on society
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Le schématisme linguistique chez K.L. Reinhold
No full textresume : En dépit de son image courante, la philosophie du langage de K.L. Reinhold (1757-1823) — visée par cet article — ne prépare pas le terrain au subjectivisme et à l'idéalisme. Bien au contraire, elle consiste dans un examen de la faculté cognitive humaine tenant compte des dispositifs de médiation perceptive et linguistique. Fondée sur une théorie de la sensibilité d'inspiration empiriste, elle déplace au niveau perceptif plusieurs des fonctions que l'idéalisme va attribuer au sujet absolu. Dans une telle perspective, le langage est conçu en tant que facteur de médiation (métaphorique) entre la sensibilité et le reste de l'articulation cognitive supérieure, l'auteur suggère, à la base de cette fonction, l'existence d'une interprétation linguistique du schématisme transcendantal de Kant.</jats:p
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