VOLUME 15 • 2016
EFFECTIVE SERVANT LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATIONS
ABSTRACT. Scholarship about the multidimensional servant leadership behavior, the direct and mediating influences of servant leadership on job contentment, and the mechanisms via which servant leadership impacts outcomes has increased and consolidated, especially in recent years. The purpose of this..
THE CRITICAL ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN CRISIS COMMUNICATION
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the pivotal function of social media in crisis communication, the role of the individual within information exchange from inactive recipient to producer, inquirer or collator of crisis communication, and the features of social net..
ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIAL CAPITAL AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
ABSTRACT. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of the character and effectiveness of links and the communication flows in which people and organizations are entrenched, the significance of social relations in organizational contexts, the circumstances in which social capital can thrive..
AN ANALYSIS OF PHONOLOGY AND LINGUISTIC INTERFACES AS A NEW CASE FOR A BIOPSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION FOR LINGUISTICS
ABSTRACT. This paper explores the biology of natural languages at their phonological and formal levels. Phonology is both grounded in speech biology yet, at the same time, an abstraction from it. The building blocks and principles of phonology are abstracted from speech biology by the medium of psyc..
A CONCEPTUAL-PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO EXPLORING EDUCATION: RE-CONCEIVING STANDARDIZED CURRICULUM IN TERMS OF A POETIC, TRANSCENDENT, AND COMPLICATED CONVERSATION
ABSTRACT. This speculative and theoretical analysis, born of a conceptual phenomenological model of research grounded in textual analysis, reveals for the reader the common ontological threads connecting three phenomenological readings of education and curriculum: William Pinar’s “curriculum as a co..
ON THE REALISM–CONCEPTUALISM DEBATE ABOUT THE ONTOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC OBJECTS: THEORETICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES
ABSTRACT. In this paper we will critically analyze the foundational claims of biolinguistics, situating it in the context of the realist-conceptualist debate on the ontological foundations of linguistics (Chomsky, 1966; Behme, 2015), an argument that is both abstractly philosophical and empirical. W..
A PRAGMATIC SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF CATEGORY CROSSING METAPHORS
ABSTRACT. A promising recent explanation of metaphorical language has come from pragmatics. Metaphor, and other departures from literal meaning, are all to be explained by the same set of pragmatic processes, namely narrowing, loosening, saturation, and sense-selection according to this explanation...
SAINSBURY AND TYE FAIL TO SOLVE FREGE’S PUZZLE
ABSTRACT. In Seven Puzzles of Thought and How to Solve Them, Sainsbury and Tye argue for their Originalist theory of concepts on the basis that it solves seven well-known puzzles. These puzzles are traditionally seen as puzzles about language, and in particular puzzles concerning semantic content. S..
WITTGENSTEIN ON ANIMAL (HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN) LANGUAGES
ABSTRACT. In this paper, I propose an analysis of the quite original Wittgenstein naturalism. Wittgenstein included human language into the wider category of animal language. Wittgenstein’s naturalism clearly shows itself in his ethological description of human language – a description based on the ..
COMPOSITIONALITY AND BELIEVING THAT
ABSTRACT. This paper is about compositionality, belief reports, and related issues. I begin by introducing Putnam’s proposal for understanding compositionality, namely that the sense of a sentence is a function of the sense of its parts and of its logical structure (section 1). Both Church and Sella..
THE POSTCOLONIAL UNIVERSITY
ABSTRACT. Derrida is, perhaps, the foremost philosopher of the humanities and of its place in the university. Over the long period of his career he has been concerned with the fate, status, place and contribution of the humanities. Through his deconstructive readings and writings he has done much no..
SPECULATIONS ON THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE
ABSTRACT. The paper is premised on the assumption of a radical gradualism in the emergence of language in opposition to catastrophe theories advocating its sudden birth. On this hypothesis, the paper argues against the view that the evolution of language has meant a loss of iconicity. Instead, I cla..