[PDF] The Quest For A Referent eBook

Author : Younhee Kim
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783039107339

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This book critically examines David Tracy's well-known methodology of fundamental theology, namely his revisionist model as developed in his Blessed Rage for Order (1975), together with his methodological shifts through the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. It explores how successful he has been in constructing a methodology for the public theological discourse that he deems so necessary. More particularly, this book asks how serviceable this methodology is for articulating Christian discourse in an intelligible and public way in the contemporary context of religious plurality.

Author : David Catchpole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1474231462

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This book seeks to rehabilitate the Q hypothesis as the most satisfactory explanation of the so-called double tradition.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1487531036

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Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a "technique" and a "science" that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its own right, semiotics uses signs, such as words and symbols, to think, communicate, reflect, transmit, and preserve knowledge. Since the initial publication of The Quest for Meaning in 2007, the world has changed dramatically with the advent of online culture, new technologies, and new ways of making signs and symbols. Updated to reflect these many changes, the second edition includes a comprehensive chapter on the use of semiotics in the Internet age. Written in a student-friendly style, featuring examples from everyday life, the book explains what semiotics is all about and why it is so important for gaining insights into our elusive and mysterious human nature.

Author : Ulrike Griebel
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 2832550339

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Human language is unique among animals. We assume that complex cognitive capacities in general and language in particular evolved gradually and thus are manifest in different kinds and/or degrees in other animals demonstrating social communication. This assumption is supported by the fact that we can train social species from very different groups of animals (e.g. great apes, dolphins, dogs, parrots) to understand and in several cases even use abstract symbols for communication with humans and conspecifics. Even simple grammatical rules for sequences of 2-3 symbols can be trained to be understood by several species (e.g. great apes, dogs, dolphins). Even though human language training in these species takes considerable time and effort, it convinces us that cognitive foundations for language are present in other species, and, given the relevant selection pressures, symbolic communication could evolve in other species.

Author : George R. Goethals
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847202934

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This book represents a most robust look at the study of leadership while representing multiple disciplines in a quest to find agreement about leadership and theory. Russ Volckmann, International Leadership Review In this compelling book, top scholars from diverse fields describe the progress they have made in developing a general theory of leadership. Led by James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the classic Leadership (1978), they tell the story of this intellectual venture and the conclusions and questions that arose from it. The early chapters describe how, in order to discuss an integrative theory, the group first wrestled with the nature of theory as well as basic aspects of the human condition that make leadership necessary and possible. They then tackle topics such as: the many faces of power woven into the leadership fabric; crucial elements of group dynamics and the leader follower relationship; ethical issues lying at the heart of leadership; constructivist perspectives on leadership, causality, and social change; and the historical and cultural contexts that influence and are influenced by leadership. The book concludes with a commentary by Joanne Ciulla and an Afterword by James MacGregor Burns. The contributors thorough coverage of leadership, as well as their approach to this unique undertaking, will be of great interest to leaders, students and scholars of leadership.

Author : Martin Christopher Sexton
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0080551777

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The aim of this book is to provide an objective vendor independent assessment of the Market Data Definition Language (MDDL), the eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) standard for market data. Assuming little previous knowledge of the standard, or of systems networking, the book identifies the challenges and significance of the standard, examines the business and market drivers and presents decision makers with a clear, concise and jargon free read. Technical material is set off so that Systems Analysts are provided with an explanation to the standard’s business terms, context and deep hierarchical structure thus enabling them to create MDDL compliant interfaces. In this way, the book confers the knowledge to enable business and technology professionals to converse comfortably regarding financial systems integration. First book to present the business case for MDDL adoption and implementation Identifies the challenges and significance of the standard, examines the business and market drivers and presents decision makers with a clear, concise and jargon free read Technical material is set off from the text for systems analysts and provides comprehensive explanations of terms, context and deep hierarchical structure, thus enabling them to create MDDL compliant interfaces

Author : Evelyne Meltzer
Publisher : NRC Research Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fishery management, International
ISBN : 0660197243

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"A publication of the National Research Council of Canada Monograph Publishing Program."