Course “History & Philosophy of Science” for Doctoral Programs in Education and Pedagogical Sciences by Albina R. Sadyikova, Eleonora K. Nikitina, Andrey V. Korzhuev, Yuliya B. Ikrennikova

“…We analyze some philosophical foundations of contemporary pedagogical science, including logical empiricism, Popper’s falsifiability, Paradigm Thesis by Thomas Kuhn, science theories by Paul Feyerabend and Stephen Toulmin, as well as correspondence, pragmatic, conventional and coherent theories of truth. …”
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On third space and critical paralysis by Steven White

“…However, inspired (in a bad way) by ‘mystical Marxist’ Soja’s ‘startlingly arcane’ definition of Thirdspace, I argue that aspects of critical theory or critical social justice orientations to LD can lead to contradictions or even paralysis in attempts to actually use the considerable empirical insights provided by Whitchurch, and the metaphor of third space more broadly, to inform practice. I highlight a more pragmatic approach to using the third space concept. …”
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A CEO's internal communication programme for middle management and its influence on their perception of the corporate reputation by Irma Meyer, Gideon de Wet

“…The aim of the study is to illustrate the link between the internal corporate communication programme of an organisation's CEO and middle management employees' perception of the reputation of the organisation. A pragmatic research approach was adopted for this study, and two communication theories – the systems theory and in particular the interrelatedness aspect thereof, and the flow of information aspects of the information theory (Bowers & Courtright, 1984: 23) - were used as the conceptual premise of the study. …”
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Kampung Beting: Family Resilience Against Religious Radicalism by Suhardiman Suhardiman, Eka Hendry Ar., Muhammad Nizar

“…The attitude of the people is split from pessimistic, pragmatic and optimistic. Third, public literacy about religious radicalism is quite good among ordinary people and religious and community leaders. …”
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POSSIBLE OUTCOMES OF BREXIT FOR EUROPEAN UNION DEVELOPMENT by N. Y. Kaveshnikov

“…Return to the basics - this is a pragmatic approach to integration, which should replace attempts to fix rotten projects (like Euro) or to achieve the unattainable (political Union). …”
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Pokój jako wartość by Mirosław Karwat

“…Then, however, it is not only the utilitarian, pragmatic value of peace as a favourable, secure state of affairs that comes into play, but above all the abstract, universalist idea of peace as a moral value dictated by humanism and humanitarianism. …”
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I Infrastructure development: Improving on execution systems by Edoghogho Ogbeifun, Charles Mbohwa, Jan-Harm C Pretorius

“…Nevertheless, these shortcomings can be ameliorated through the pragmatic use of the concept of phased development and the fragmentation of mega projects into smaller lots for ease of execution. …”
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Development of Applied Linguistics by Meilutė Ramonienė

“…Research in the field of language acquisition, sociolinguistics, language attrition, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, politeness and impoliteness, corpus and forensic linguistics, and other branches of applied linguistics is presented, and the real-life linguistic issues, analysed by Lithuanian researchers, are highlighted. …”
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What lies beyond and within humour: A relevance-theoretic approach to propositional meanings in the sitcom Modern Family by Magdalena Wieczorek

“… Advancing the proposal that conversationalists frequently engage in humorous communication to convey propositional meanings, the paper aims to employ pragmatic inferential mechanisms specified in a relevance-theoretic framework in order to explicate the viewer’s recovery of additional cognitive effects in sitcom discourse. …”
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METAPHISICAL BACKGROUND OF TECHNOLOGY by D. Y. Snitko

“…Based on these arguments, one can make conclusion about the limitations of purely instrumental (pragmatic) interpretation technology and emphasize the metaphysical premises equipment and metaphysical aspects of modern technology, and the important role of philosophy in these problems.…”
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« La propagande soviétique de 1917 à 1991 : paix et désarmement au service de l’idéologie ? » by Jacques Le Bourgeois

“…After Trotsky suggested the idea of peace without arms, from 1918 the USSR quickly came back to a more pragmatic conception by setting up a powerful Red Army which Stalin, as well as his successors, kept reinforcing, while championing the struggle against militarism. …”
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Proverbs Attributed to Humans and Nonhumans in the Beja Language (Sudan) by Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed

“…The method followed is a descriptive and analytical one, adopting a semantic and pragmatic approach to identifying the different meanings and functions of each proverb. …”
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Diet’s Cariogenicity and Healthfulness Index (DCHI) - A Novel, Comprehensive Index for Children by Raghavendra Shanbhog, H. P. Chanchala, K. T. Srilatha, B. Madhu, S.N. Manjunatha

“…The current scientific paper presents a novel index that assesses the cariogenicity and healthfulness of a child’s diet objectively and guides the professional to achieve pragmatic diet modification in the prevention of dental caries. …”
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Discourse of Europe in Political Dialogue between the EU and the South Caucasus Countries by A. S. Ayvazyan

“…The European Union had been traditionally considered one of the main proponents of this concept but the revision of the European Neighborhood Policy in 2015 has changed the cooperation agenda between the EU and Partner Countries by strengthening its pragmatic component. In that regard the case of the South Caucasus is of special interest as it demonstrates how three countries of the region addressed the EU agenda for cooperation and devised different formats of cooperation, despite similar initial conditions. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF WOMEN'S ATTIRE IN THE LEARN QUR'AN TAFSIR APPLICATION: AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF INTERPRETATION by Nurul Istiqomah

“…The study finds coherence and pragmatic validity in the interpretations but identifies a lack of correspondence truth in the application. …”
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A Foreign Speech Accent in a Case of Conversion Disorder by Jo Verhoeven, Peter Mariën, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Hugo D’Haenen, Peter De Deyn

“…The foreign qualities of her speech did not only relate to pronunciation, but also to the lexicon, syntax and pragmatics. Structural as well as functional neuroimaging did not reveal evidence that could account for the behavioural symptoms. …”
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Evaluation of Paperless Electronic Data Entry and its Comparison with Manual Entry Method for Oral Health Assessment of Adults by Manu Batra, Deeksha Gijwani, Hansika Popli

“…UEQ scores for all scales under attractiveness, pragmatic, and hedonic quality were found to be good with a value more than 0.8. …”
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Didactic strategy to contribute to the development of communicative competence in Health Psychology students by Ana María Molina Gómez, Angelina Roméu Escobar, Miriam Gutiérrez Escobar, María Elinor Dulzaides Iglesias

“…<strong>Background:</strong> the cognitive, socio-cultural and communicative language teaching approach reveals the importance of syntactic speech closely related to semantic and pragmatic dimensions and aimed at understanding, analysis and construction of discourse. …”
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LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF UNDERSTATEMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH by V. G. Ivanova

“…Further on it is emphasized that the structure of Understatement is complex, diverse and can be expressed by a variety of lexical as well as grammatical means, among which double negation, modal verbs, the adverbs of degree and particles can often be encountered which are in most cases dependent on the context. From the pragmatic angle Understatement can be used to conceal embarrassment, anxiety or offence. …”
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FEATURES OF INTRODUCTORY CONSTRUCTION FUNCTIONING IN SENTENCE STRUCTURE by Svetlana N. Mihaleva, Irina N. Kostina

“…The modal specificity of IC can then be considered as a reflection of the speaker's particular intentions, his pragmatic orientation depending on the situation created by the new semantic construction.…”
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