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Understanding Misunderstandings

Author : Robert L. Young
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786581
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Misunderstandings written by Robert L. Young and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever meant one thing, but said another? Reacted angrily when no offense was intended? Wished that the earth would open up and swallow you? Understanding Misunderstandings will help you get out and stay out of these difficulties. Robert L. Young explains why many common types of misunderstandings arise and how they can be avoided or corrected. In the first part of the book, he breaks the process of misunderstanding down into stages, showing how it can occur when we misspeak, mishear, misinterpret, or react in inappropriate ways. In the second part, he expertly analyzes the kinds of misunderstandings that can arise from differences in culture, social class, race and ethnicity, and gender. Real-life examples illustrate many of the problems and solutions he describes. Because misunderstanding can destroy friendships and marriages, wreck careers, and lead to clashes between whole segments of society, understanding and diffusing it is of the utmost importance. This reader-friendly book provides the practical guidance to do just that. Educators, business people, psychologists, parents—in fact, everyone who interacts with other people—will benefit from it.

Understanding How Others Misunderstand You

Author : Ken Voges
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1575675447
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Understanding How Others Misunderstand You written by Ken Voges and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the pioneering DISC profile, this book teaches--in clear terms--how to build closer, more understanding relationships at home, work and church.

Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol. 2: Artistic Practices

Author : Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz
Publisher : Cross-Roads
ISBN 13 : 9783631785553
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol. 2: Artistic Practices written by Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz and published by Cross-Roads. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this book is to continue the reflection on the innovative potential of misunderstanding in cross-cultural encounters which we started by publishing the first part of the book (Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol. 1: Cross-Cultural Translation, Peter Lang 2019). The main purpose of these two corresponding volumes is to embrace not only the cross-cultural adaptation of texts, ideas and discourses in distant geo-historical contexts, but also the culturally-based mechanisms of creatively transforming and re-shaping the source-text in target environments. The notions of misunderstanding and semantic transformation are seen as crucial in this process, yet still not widely acknowledged.

Dialogue Analysis VIII: Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110933233
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Dialogue Analysis VIII: Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue by : Karin Aijmer

Download or read book Dialogue Analysis VIII: Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue written by Karin Aijmer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present collection of articles, presented at the 8th IADA Conference in Göteborg, focuses on understanding and misunderstanding as dialogic phenomena. The notion of a dialogic grammar and dialogic principles as a framework for understanding human communication and cognition is explored in several contributions. Misunderstanding in dialogue is dealt with in institutional and non-institutional settings, in fiction and film dialogue, from several different theoretical perspectives.

Mutual Misunderstanding

Author : Talbot J. Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383004
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Mutual Misunderstanding written by Talbot J. Taylor and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions about "what" we understand and "how" we understand, rather than with the logically prior question "whether" we understand each other. An affirmative answer to the latter question is apparently taken for granted. However, in Mutual Misunderstanding, Talbot J. Taylor shows that the sceptical doubts about communicational understanding do in fact have a profoundly important, if as yet unacknowledged, function in the construction of theories of language and interpretation. Mutual Misundertanding thus presents a strikingly original analysis of the rhetorical patterns underlying Western linguistic thought, as exemplified in the works of John Locke, Jacques Derrida, Gottlob Frege, Jonathan Culler, Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, H. Paul Grice, Michael Dummet, Stanley Fish, Alfred Schutz, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Harold Garfinkel, and others. This analysis reveals how, by the combined effect of appeals to "commonsense" and anxieties about implications of relativism, scepticism has a determining role in the discursive development of a number of the intellectual disciplines making up the "human sciences" today, including critical theory, literary hermeneutics, philosophy of language and logic, communication theory, discourse and conversation analysis, pragmatics, stylistics, and linguistics. Consequently, this provocative study will be of value to readers from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds.

A Deadly Misunderstanding

Author : Mark D. Siljander
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061981893
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book A Deadly Misunderstanding written by Mark D. Siljander and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Congressman and Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Mark D. Siljander takes us on an eye-opening journey of personal, religious, and political discovery. In the 1980s, Siljander was a newly minted Reagan Republican from Michigan who joined Congress in the same generation as Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, ready to remake the world. A staunch member of the Religious Right, he once walked out of the National Prayer Breakfast when a speaker quoted from the Qur'an. But after losing reelection, Siljander dove into the Bible to look for the passage in which the Bible says it is our job as Christians to convert others in order to save them from eternal damnation. He couldn't find it; in fact, he couldn't even find a passage saying that Jesus set out to form a new religion. This discovery was the first step on a spiritual and political journey that started with an in-depth linguistic study of the Bible and led to the discovery that Christianity and Islam share many base words and concepts. In his role as ambassador to the United Nations Siljander began sharing his insights on the connections between Islam and Christianity, with surprising results. A Deadly Misunderstanding recounts Siljander's amazing discoveries as he travels to some of the most remote and hostile places in the world—deep into Libya, Sudan, Pakistan, and India—forging deep ties with both heads of state and religious leaders. What he has learned could radically shift the contemporary religious landscape and help heal the rift between Islam and the West. No Christian or Muslim will be unaffected after reading this book.

Misunderstanding Science?

Author : Alan Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521432689
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Misunderstanding Science? written by Alan Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misunderstanding Science? offers a challenging new perspective on the public understanding of science. In so doing, it challenges existing ideas of the nature of science and its relationships with society. Its analysis and case presentation are highly relevant to current concerns over the uptake, authority and effectiveness of science as expressed, for example, in areas such as education, medical/health practice, risk and the environment, and technological innovation. Based on several in-depth case studies, and informed theoretically by the sociology of scientific knowledge, the book shows how the public understanding of science raises questions about the epistemic commitments and institutional structures that constitute modern science. These key aspects are usually ignored in standard treatments of the subject. The book suggests that many of the inadequacies in the social integration and support of science might be overcome if modern scientific institutions were more reflexive and open about the implicit normative commitments embedded in scientific cultures.

Beyond Misunderstanding

Author : Kristin Bührig
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027253870
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Misunderstanding written by Kristin Bührig and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges two tacit presumptions in the field of intercultural communication research. Firstly, misunderstandings can frequently be found in intercultural communication, although, one could not claim that intercultural communication is constituted by misunderstandings alone. This volume shows how new perspectives on linguistic analyses of intercultural communication go beyond the analysis of misunderstanding. Secondly, intercultural communication is not solely constituted by the fact that individuals from different cultural groups interact. Each contribution of this volume analyses to what extent instances of discourse are institutionally and/or interculturally determined. These linguistic reflections involve different theoretical frameworks, e.g. functional grammar, systemic functional linguistics, functional pragmatics, rhetorical conversation analysis, ethno-methodological conversation analysis, linguistic anthropology and a critical discourse approach. As the contributions focus on the discourse of genetic counseling, gate-keeping discourse, international team co-operation, international business communication, workplace discourse, internet communication, and lamentation discourse, the book exemplifies that the analysis of intercultural communication is organized in response to social needs and, therefore, may contribute to the social justification of linguistics.

Misunderstanding in Social Life

Author : Juliane House
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317877543
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Misunderstanding in Social Life written by Juliane House and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon in social life, sometimes with serious consequences for people's life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stakes events such as job interviews or in the legal system. In unequal power encounters, unsuccessful communication is regularly attributed to the less powerful participant, especially when those participants are members of an ethnic minority group. But even when communicative events are not prestructured by participants' differential positions in social hierarchies, misunderstandings occur at different levels of interactional and social engagement. Misunderstanding in Social Life examines such problematic talk in ordinary conversation and different institutional settings, including socializing events and story tellings, education and assessment activities, and interviews in TV news broadcasts, employment agencies, legal settings, and language testing. The analyzed interactions are located in a variety of sociocultural environments and conducted in a range of languages, including English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, such language varieties as Aboriginal Australian English and Maori New Zealand English, and nonnative varieties. The original studies included in this volume adopt a variety of theoretical perspectives, including discourse-pragmatic approaches, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, social constructionism, tropological and narrative analysis. They represent multiple views of misunderstanding as a multilayered discourse event.

Understanding and Misunderstanding 'negative Theology'

Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626005129
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Misunderstanding 'negative Theology' written by Rowan Williams and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Affirmative' and 'negative' theology -- Four styles of negative theology -- Negative theology revisited -- Negative theology as ecclesial practice -- Negative theology and artistic creativity -- Negative theology and the acceptance of a future.

Math Misconceptions

Author : Honi Joyce Bamberger
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9780325026138
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Math Misconceptions written by Honi Joyce Bamberger and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children enter school filled with all kinds of ideas about numbers, shapes, measuring tools, time, and money--ideas formed from the expressions they hear ... the things they see on television ... the computer screen ... in children's books ... all around them. It's no wonder some children develop very interesting and perhaps incorrect ideas about mathematical concepts. "How can we connect the informal knowledge that students bring to our classrooms with the mathematics program adopted by our school system? Just as important, how do we ensure that the mathematics we are introducing and reinforcing is accurate and will not need to be re-taught in later years?" Math Misconceptions answers these questions by: identifying the most common errors relative to the five NCTM content strands (number and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis and probability); investigating the source of these misunderstandings; proposing ways to avoid as well as "undo" misconceptions. Using classroom vignettes that highlight common misconceptions in each content area, followed by applicable research about the root causes of the confusion, the authors offer numerous instructional ideas and interventions designed to prevent or correct the misconception. --Publisher's description.

(Mis)Understanding Political Participation

Author : Jeffrey Wimmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317217411
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book (Mis)Understanding Political Participation written by Jeffrey Wimmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practices of participation and engagement are characterised by complexities and contradictions. All celebratory examples of uses of social media, e.g. in the Arab spring, the Occupy movement or in recent LGBTQ protests, are deeply rooted in human practices. Because of this connection, every case of mediated participation should be perceived as highly contextual and cannot be attributed to one (social) specific media logic, necessitating detailed empirical studies to investigate the different contexts of political and civic engagement. In this volume, the theoretical chapters discuss analytical frameworks that can enrich our understanding of current contexts and practices of mediated participation. The empirical studies explore the implications of the new digital conditions for the ways in which digitally mediated social interactions, practices and environments shape everyday participation, engagement or protest and their subjective as well societal meaning.

Misunderstanding Media

Author : Brian Winston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315512203
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Misunderstanding Media written by Brian Winston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, Professor Winston takes a had look at the four central information technologies – telephones, television, computers and satellites. He describes how these technologies were created and diffused, showing that instead of revolution we just have ‘business as usual’. He formulates a ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential – a law which states that new telecommunication technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is contained. Despite the so-called information revolution, the major institutions of society remain unchanged, and most of us remain in total ignorance of the history of technology.

How We Misunderstand Economics and Why it Matters

Author : David Leiser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317381882
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book How We Misunderstand Economics and Why it Matters written by David Leiser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explain why people misunderstand economics. From the cognitive shortcuts we use to make sense of complex information, to the metaphors we rely on and their effect on our thinking, this important book lays bare not only the psychological traits that distort our ability to understand such a vital topic, but also what this means for policy makers and civil society more widely. Accessibly written, the book explores the mismatch between the complexities of economics and the constraints of human cognition that lie at the root of our misconceptions. The authors document and explain the gamut of cognitive strategies laypeople employ as they grapple with such complex topics as inflation, unemployment, economic crises, finance, and money in the modern economy. The book examines sources of misconceptions ranging from the intentionality fallacy, whereby economic phenomena are assumed to have been caused deliberately rather than to have come about by an interplay of many agents and causal factors, to the role of ideology in framing economic thinking. Exposing the underlying biases and assumptions that undermine financial and economic literacy, and concluding with recommendations for how policies and ideas should be framed to enable a clearer understanding, this will be essential reading not only for students and researchers across psychology and economics, but also anyone interested in progressive public policy. Visit the associated website for the book here: http://www.misunderstandeconomics.com/

Misunderstanding Financial Crises

Author : Gary B. Gorton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199986886
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Misunderstanding Financial Crises written by Gary B. Gorton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the United States, that such upheavals were a thing of the past. Gary B. Gorton, a prominent expert on financial crises, argues that economists fundamentally misunderstand what they are, why they occur, and why there were none in the U.S. from 1934 to 2007. Misunderstanding Financial Crises offers a back-to-basics overview of financial crises, and shows that they are not rare, idiosyncratic events caused by a perfect storm of unconnected factors. Instead, Gorton shows how financial crises are, indeed, inherent to our financial system. Economists, Gorton writes, looked from a certain point of view and missed everything that was important: the evolution of capital markets and the banking system, the existence of new financial instruments, and the size of certain money markets like the sale and repurchase market. Comparing the so-called "Quiet Period" of 1934 to 2007, when there were no systemic crises, to the "Panic of 2007-2008," Gorton ties together key issues like bank debt and liquidity, credit booms and manias, moral hazard, and too-big-too-fail--all to illustrate the true causes of financial collapse. He argues that the successful regulation that prevented crises since 1934 did not adequately keep pace with innovation in the financial sector, due in part to the misunderstandings of economists, who assured regulators that all was well. Gorton also looks forward to offer both a better way for economists to think about markets and a description of the regulation necessary to address the future threat of financial disaster.

Misunderstanding Stories

Author : Melinda McGarrah Sharp
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621898741
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Misunderstanding Stories written by Melinda McGarrah Sharp and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we work toward mutual understanding in our increasingly diverse and interconnected world? Pastoral theologian Melinda McGarrah Sharp approaches this multifaceted, interdisciplinary question by beginning with moments of intercultural misunderstanding. Using misunderstanding stories from her experience working with the Peace Corps in Suriname, Dr. McGarrah Sharp argues that we must recognize the limits of our own cultural perspectives in order to have meaningful intercultural encounters that are more mutually empowering and hopeful. Bringing together resources from pastoral theology, ethnography, and postcolonial studies, she provides a valuable resource for investigating the complexity of providing care and fostering communities of belonging across cultural differences. McGarrah Sharp illustrates a process of moving from disconnection to regard for diverse others as neighbors who share a common yearning for hopeful and meaningful connection. Leaders in faith communities, practitioners of care, and scholars will all be able to use this resource to better understand the conflicts, tensions, and uncertainties of our postcolonial twenty-first-century world. An included discussion guide facilitates classroom study, small group discussion, and personal reflection.

Fighting for Your Marriage

Author : Howard J. Markman
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9780787902803
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Your Marriage written by Howard J. Markman and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1996-03-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict in intimate relationships is as normal and essential as love. How you fight and resolve conflicts determines the difference between a sustained healthy and satisfying marriage or endless pain, frustration, and often divorce. At a time when families are falling apart at alarming rates and with enormous social cost, this book provides a research-based program to prevent relationship breakdown. The new audiotape set provides the key to the communication skills of PREPTM.