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Understanding Misunderstandings
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Author : Robert L. Young
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22
Understanding Misunderstandings written by Robert L. Young and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-22 with Social Science categories.
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.
Misunderstanding In Social Life
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Author : Juliane House
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-25
Misunderstanding In Social Life written by Juliane House and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Misunderstandings In English As A Lingua Franca
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Author : David Deterding
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-10-14
Misunderstandings In English As A Lingua Franca written by David Deterding and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book explores the nature and causes of misunderstandings in ELF interactions. It is based on a corpus of conversations between English speakers from south and east Asia that helps us investigate what causes misunderstandings, particularly the pronunciation, grammar, word choice, and discourse. The book also considers how such misunderstandings may be signalled and repaired. Finally, it discusses the implications for teaching English around the world and offers guidance to teachers in enabling their students to become highly intelligible.
Mutual Misunderstanding
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Author : Talbot J. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1992-07-30
Mutual Misunderstanding written by Talbot J. Taylor and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Misunderstandings
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Author : Patricia Cavendish
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Misunderstandings written by Patricia Cavendish and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
Misunderstanding
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Author : Serges Legrand
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-10-08
Misunderstanding written by Serges Legrand and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-08 with categories.
Have misunderstandings caused you more than a few relationships, jobs, or even your own reputation and you just want to understand why they happen and how you can stop them from happening? Do you just feel misunderstood or do you face a lot of misunderstandings in pretty much all areas of your life and you want to understand more about this tricky yet rarely discussed matter? If you've answered YES, You Are In For A Ride Because This Book Covers Misunderstandings In The Most Fun And Engaging Way To Help You Learn More About The Concept Of Misunderstandings And How You Can Stop Them From Happening! No two people are the same, from our physical selves to our beliefs, how we think and how we reason. Because of this, misunderstandings in our lives are usually the norm and if we are not careful, they can cause us a whole bunch of good things. But if we understand misunderstandings, and where they stem from and what we can do to stop them, we can live a life where we are less misunderstood. So now you might be wondering... Why do misunderstandings occur? Are there solid reasons why they happen? What is the psychology behind a misunderstanding and what are the contributing variables behind one? What are the various types of misunderstandings we face in different areas of our lives? And how can you avoid or deal with misunderstandings? If you have these and other related questions, this book aims to resolve all of your questions so keep reading! In this book, you will discover: The various reasons why misunderstandings occur and the misunderstanding process from an expert's point of view A look at misunderstandings through scientific eyes and various contributing variables to a misunderstanding The causes and effects of misunderstandings in various areas of our lives such as at work and in our families and various forms of misunderstandings such as cultural, historical, political, generational, racial and health and medical misunderstandings The various forms of misunderstandings have been written in a fun and relatable way with each coming with a story that is bound to touch you to your core or leave you rolling on the floor laughing Effective ways to avoid or deal with misunderstandings And so much more! Even if misunderstandings are your order of the day, let this book show you that you are not alone and you can turn things around! Go ahead and, Scroll up and click Buy Now With 1-Click or Buy Now to get your co
Cultural Misunderstandings
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Author : Raymonde Carroll
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-07-31
Cultural Misunderstandings written by Raymonde Carroll and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
“Full of colorful anecdotes…tells us a lot about the French but even more about ourselves.”—Los Angeles Times This is an intriguing and thoughtful analysis of the many ways French and Americans—and indeed any members of different cultures—can misinterpret each other, even when ostensibly speaking the same language. Cultural misunderstandings, Raymonde Carroll points out, can arise even where we least expect them: in our closest relationships. With revealing vignettes and perceptive observations, she brings to light some fundamental differences in French and American presuppositions about love, friendship, and raising children, as well as such everyday activities as using the telephone or asking for information. “An entertaining, informative book…often witty…a vital source for learning how to establish amity not only between the U.S. and France but among all the world’s nations.”—Publishers Weekly
Talking At Cross Purposes
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Author : Angeliki Tzanne
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2000
Talking At Cross Purposes written by Angeliki Tzanne and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Misunderstandings have been examined extensively in studies on cross-cultural (mis)communication which associate them with participants' differing cultural backgrounds and/or linguistic knowledge. Drawing on a large corpus of misunderstandings from cross- and intra-cultural encounters, this book argues that miscommunication does not relate exclusively to participants' background differences or similarities, but that its creation and development are tightly interwoven with the dynamic manner in which social encounters unfold. Against a backdrop of Pragmatics, Conversation Analysis and Goffman's theory of frames and roles, the volume discusses a large number of misunderstandings and shows that they are associated with the constant identity and activity shifts as well as with the turn-by-turn construction of interpretative context in interaction. Besides students and researchers of pragmatics, conversation analysis and sociolinguistics, this book will also appeal to all those interested in the process of making, misinterpreting and clarifying meaning in social interaction.
Misunderstandings
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Author : Georg Weizsäcker
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2023-11-07
Misunderstandings written by Georg Weizsäcker and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-07 with Business & Economics categories.
What do we expect when we say something to someone, and what do they expect when they hear it? When is a conversation successful? The book considers a wide set of two-person conversations, and a bit of game theory, to show how conversational statements and their interpretations are governed by beliefs. Thinking about beliefs is suitable for communication analysis because beliefs are well-defined and measurable, allowing to differentiate between successful understandings and their less successful counterparts: misunderstandings. The book describes the theoretical framework and empirical measurements of misunderstandings – written by an economist, but in simple words and using interdisciplinary concepts. The material will benefit students and researchers of behavioural economics and its neighbouring fields, and anyone interested in human language.
Intergroup Misunderstandings
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Author : Stephanie Demoulin
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2013-02
Intergroup Misunderstandings written by Stephanie Demoulin and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02 with Family & Relationships categories.
This book examines how misunderstandings occur in intergroup interactions as a consequence of the divergences between interactants’ subjective realities (i.e., interpretations), goals, and strategies and beyond their positive or negative intentions.