Talking about an emergency in an urgent situation: prosody and information by Charlotte Danino

“…It proceeds to analyze data from a sociodiscursive point of view in order to consider prosody first as a semantic-pragmatic pattern, then as pivotal tool for participants’ alignment in interaction. …”
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Configuré au Christ ? Le corps des prêtres dans le droit canonique médiéval by Corinne Leveleux

“…The paper shows that pragmatic imperatives have largely prevailed over spiritual considerations in the definition of prescriptions and prohibitions surrounding the body of ministers of religion. …”
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Reconversion of Military Wastelands: the Cultural Refuge as a Unique Scheme by Fabien Jakob

“….), minutes of meetings, interviews, this research, conducted between May 2015 and October 2017, examines an operation to reassign a vast underground galleries and military fortifications network located in the Swiss Alps into a unique scheme dedicated to the cultural heritage preservation. Thanks to a pragmatic approach inspired by the sociology of emancipation (Boltanski & Thévenot, 1991) under which the commitment to action is coordinated around a shared conception of common good (civic, industrial, inspired, fame, domestic and market), it aims at analyzing the heterogeneous representations and actions registers which are mobilized during this reassignment attempting a compromise between technical, cultural dimensions, market concerns, political issues and diplomatic aspirations.…”
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Implementing Namaste Care in nursing care homes for people with advanced dementia: a systematically constructed review with framework synthesis by Serena Salvi, Nancy Preston, Nicola Cornally, Catherine Walshe, on behalf of the In-Touch Consortium

“…Objective To systematically assess the factors involved in implementing Namaste Care for people with advanced dementia in nursing care homes. To provide pragmatic suggestions on how Namaste Care can be delivered in the context of nursing care homes. …”
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La coprésence sociale : un objet émergent en communication des organisations by Gino Gramaccia

“…This phenomenon opens up a new avenue for research in organizational communication, rapidly unmasking the political undercurrents in what is, finally, known as apolitical pragmatism. In other words, beyond social copresence, employability seems to be conditioned by the implicitly political promotion of a social consensus on job flexibility-insecurity.…”
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Law Books in the Hispanic Atlantic World: Spaces, Agents and the Consumption of Texts in the Early Modern Period by Pedro Rueda Ramírez

“…It has also been possible to demonstrate the presence of pragmatic texts intended for a variety of audiences and to trace consignments bound for judicial officials and notaries, who needed compendiums of the laws and rules in effect in Spain’s overseas possessions. …”
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When Ethnic Identity is a Private Matter by Kjell Olsen

“…A spatial ordering of ethnic boundaries and pragmatic assumption of Norwegian culture being neutral norm are among those features perpetuated until today.…”
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The Ontology of Biological Groups: Do Grasshoppers Form Assemblages, Communities, Guilds, Populations, or Something Else? by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

“…By adopting the framework of constrained perspectivism—a form of philosophical pragmatism—it is argued that a term is correct if it accurately reflects the conceptual framework of the investigator and effectively communicates this perspective to others. …”
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La stratégie de la « smart city » au Japon : expérimentations nationales et circulations globales by Raphaël Languillon-Aussel, Nicolas Leprêtre, Benoit Granier

“…Rather than a model, the “smart” communities are part of what pragmatic sociology calls a grammar of the urban. If there is somehow a model, the Japanese case teaches us it might be more in the governance of this new object whom experimentations are various and heterogeneous, in particular in the context of the Japanese developmentalist regime, part of the Japanese capitalism. …”
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A Critique of the Book The Methodology of Social Sciences by Hamidreza Khademi, Mohammadali Ramezani

“…Finally, we have made some efforts to prepare a broader critique for this book and other authors of this realm from a pragmatic point of view.…”
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An Efficient Method for Solving Fractional Black-Scholes Model with Index and Exponential Decay Kernels by Saima Rashid, Saad Ihsan Butt, Zakia Hammouch, Ebenezer Bonyah

“…Additionally, the provided techniques regulate and modify the obtained analytical results in a really productive fashion, allowing us to modify and regulate the converging domains of the series solution in a pragmatic manner.…”
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Translation of pronominal forms of address in for whom the bell tolls by María José Luzón Marcos

“…Forms of address are basic elements in the communicative, pragmatic and semiotic dimensions of discourse; therefore the translator must analyst their functions in these dimensions in order 10 produce an adequate translation. …”
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Environmental Virtue Ethics and the Sources of Normativity by Michał Piekarski

“…In the Conclusion, I suggest that the pragmatic considerations and conservatism of researchers speak in favor of the internalist approach.…”
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La guerre au-delà des langues : ex-Yougoslavie (1991-1999) et Tadjikistan (1992-1997) by Ksenija Djordjević Léonard

“…Some sources happened to focus on the ethnonationalist dimension of these conflicts, while others enhanced pragmatic and political factors. We’ll question the role of language loyalty in conflicts: it seems sociolinguistic claims actually played a far weaker role in civil wars in the Balkans and Central Asia than expected, whereas deeper geostrategic and sociopolitical factors were stronger. …”
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Devenir reine kakataibo. Performance, séduction et genre en Amazonie péruvienne by Magda Helena Dziubinska

“…This performance can be understood through the transformations that are taking place in Amerindian villages, and related closely to education, modes of gender construction and more generally to the new politics of the body. Privileging a pragmatic and interactionist approach, we initially focus on the spectacular and mimetic aspects of the event (training, costumes, choreography), and then proceed to examine the performative dimension of this specific play of being the Other.…”
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Du gouvernement des conduites à l'appropriation par les publics : un éclairage par la communication publique sanitaire by Caroline Ollivier-Yaniv, Nataly Botero, Myriam Hernandez Orellana

“…As a specialist in communication of public institutions, Caroline Ollivier-Yaniv’s works are embedded in pragmatic and comprehensive sociology, and in discourse analysis. …”
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De la multifonctionnalité des Coopératives d’activités et d’emploi : des modèles socioproductifs expérimentaux dans les zones grises de l’emploi et du travail by Justine Ballon

“…Creating a dialogue between the conceptual architecture of the regulation theory and the pragmatism of the social economy, this thesis revisits the productive models to qualify the cooperative government compromises of the BECs, by analysing their multifunctional productive dynamics. …”
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Reconversion de friches militaires : le refuge culturel comme dispositif unique en son genre by Fabien Jakob

“….), minutes of meetings, interviews, this research, conducted between May 2015 and October 2017, examines an operation to reassign a vast underground galleries and military fortifications network located in the Swiss Alps into a unique scheme dedicated to the cultural heritage preservation. Thanks to a pragmatic approach inspired by the sociology of emancipation (Boltanski & Thévenot, 1991) under which the commitment to action is coordinated around a shared conception of common good (civic, industrial, inspired, fame, domestic and market), it aims at analyzing the heterogeneous representations and actions registers which are mobilized during this reassignment attempting a compromise between technical, cultural dimensions, market concerns, political issues and diplomatic aspirations.…”
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« Le mal napolitain » : les Alliés et la prostitution à Naples (1943-1944) by Julie Le Gac

“…The wide range of solutions contemplated in the debates between physicians and officers and the wavering between principles and pragmatism reveal both the shared fear of female seduction and distinct conceptions of the soldiers’ sexuality. …”
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Feedback strategies in distance education: a survey of university students by Pentucci Maila, Laici Chiara

“…Screen-mediated teaching at the university level has necessitated a redesign of learning environments across various dimensions, encompassing epistemological, relational, and pragmatic aspects. How can the Digital Learning Ecosystem nurture these dimensions? …”
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