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The pragmatics of casual dialogue

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Warchala J.

Forum Lingwistyczne

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2015

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issue 2

97-119

EN

In this paper, the author presents the relationships of dialogue and then characterizes dialogue as a text. In dialogue’s characteristics, it is necessary to distinguish its units and both obligatory and optional elements. The author notes that a lively and spontaneous dialogue is dependent on various extralinguistic factors as well as accident.

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Second Order Coherence: A new way of looking at incoherence in texts

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Ulbaek I.

Linguistics Beyond and Within

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2016

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vol. 2

167-179

EN

By using van Dijk’s concept of coherence and bringing it together with my Principle of meaning iconicity, we have a new way of looking at incoherence in texts. The principle says that closely related information is meaningfully related on a pragmatic level, an instruction to the reader to relate the information to each other. It is demonstrated by textual analysis that the concept of coherence can be used analytically by dividing it into first and second order coherence. First order coherence is the usual concept of coherence: sentences are connected by cohesive links and related by causality, time etc. Second order coherence is a way of organizing text by using incoherence as a way of organizing text into chunks of coherent parts. It is shown how readers can detect these structures in the text by detecting the incoherence even without the layout of the text to signal structure (e.g. indention of paragraphs).

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Coherence Problems of EFL Students’ Writing in Light of the Gricean Maxims

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Khonamari F., Hashemi E., Pavlikova M., Petrasova B.

Journal of Education Culture and Society

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2021

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vol. 12

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issue 2

294-313

EN

Aim. In academic writing, lack of coherence is thought to occur mostly due to the lack of necessary linguistic skills and knowledge in L2. Thus, the analysis of a written text is concerned with understanding the local relations among the ideas conveyed in a text. Concept. As is usually the case, students writing in a second language generally produce texts that contain varying degrees of grammatical and rhetorical errors. Most of the studies have been conducted with only one criterion for the analysis of coherence and they reported different results. Also, most of them have been conducted on a small scale in terms of the number of participants, and writing samples collected. Therefore, this study tries to investigate the coherence problems/errors of university students in their writing, if any, on a fairly large scale in light of the Cooperative principle and its maxims. Results and conclusion. The study revealed that the basic problem of the students in their essay writing was the way the text should be structured with reference to how cohesion and coherence are established. In the analysis of maxim violations, the violation of the Quality maxim was identified as making overgeneralisations or giving inadequate or no evidence/support for the claims/ideas. The violation of the Quality maxim indicates that students tend to do it due to their linguistic inadequacies.

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Axiomatic extension of risk measurement

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Khemissi E.

Econometrics. Ekonometria. Advances in Applied Data Analytics

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2017

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issue 2 (56)

116-126

EN

In the article the author introduce the additional axiom of measure of risk and checks, mathematically proving, which well-known functions of risk fulfill this additional axiom. This will be conducted for functions such as: Value at Risk, Expected Shortfall, Median, Absolute Median Deviation, Maximum, Maximum Loss, Half Range, and Arithme- tic Average. In other words, the purpose of the paper is studying which of the above func- tions fulfill the additional axiom of measure of risk, which can enrich Arzner’s and other axioms. This axiom is not a consequence of Arzner’s and other axioms. Furthermore, the author researches mathematically if the mentioned functions of risk retain their properties after replacing the partial order with the stochastic order. Finally the author presents the new measure of risk which fulfills all the axioms of measure of risk and the additional axiom.

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Epistemo-Semantic Coherentism: An Attitudinal View of Meaning Based on Epistemic Pragmatism

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Taşdelen I. s.

Studia Semiotyczne

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2019

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vol. 33

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issue 1

PL

This article develops a conception of linguistic meaning that treats it as an attitude on the part of language users towards pairs of expressions. As with propositional attitudes, these meaning attitudes are subject to being deliberately altered over time by language users, with the aim of maximizing the efficiency of their language use. Therefore, meaning attitudes can be justified or refuted in practical terms. Our instrumentalist-coherentist approach, which allows for meanings to be advocated for alongside beliefs, provides a viable theory of justification of that kind. This view fits better with the evolutionary nature of linguistic phenomena, and resolves the problem of substitutability in opaque contexts.

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The Nonvisual Legibility and the Coherence of Space: A New Theoretical Framework with Examples of Its Implementation in Empirical Research

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Bogucka Z.

Loci Communes. International Journal of Studies on Spaces in Arts and Humanities, Anthropology and Architecture

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2021

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vol. 1

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issue 1

1-39

EN

The legibility and coherence of space are informative qualities as they facilitate the understanding and exploration of the environment. They also function as categories in architectural and urban design theory, as well as environmental psychology. The approaches of those disciplines, including their contemporary continuations, evolved from Lynch (1960) and are based solely on the visual qualities of the environment.In this article, I argue that relying only on the visual scope of human-environment relations is insufficient for inferring the user’s perception of the environment as legible and coherent and evaluating design solutions from the users’ perspectives. The proposed revised theoretical framework combines architecture and urbandesign perspectives with environmental psychology and broadens concepts of legibility and coherence. The revised framework combines the visual scope of the legibility and coherence with other aspects of human-environment relations by referring them to multisensory perspective, social and spatial functioning, levelsand characters of stimulation, and affective appraisal of the environment. To show how we can address this broadened approach to legibility and coherence in empirical research, I present two examples of experimental research using bimodal research materials. They present how nonvisual qualities contribute to legibility and coherence and how they can be measured (tested) during the data-driven evidence-based design process. The first experiment investigates the relationship between the qualities of soundscapes and the social functioning of users. The second covers the tactile and haptic dimensions and their connections with blind and visually impaired users’ spatial functioning.

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Sind Aphorismen hypertextuell? Zur konzeptionellen Hypertextualität analoger Texte

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Szczepaniak J.

Linguistica Copernicana

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2015

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issue 12

271-286

EN

The following article is an attempt to point out the conceptional similarities between two medially distinct kinds of text - the aphorism and the hypertext. The basis for achieving this aim is the concept of coherence. This article supports a broader, process-oriented concept of coherence, which involves the reader as the creator of coherence. The analysis concetrates on the aphorism, with its fragmentary structure, which demandrs participation in constructiong the sense of the text. An attempt is made to exemplify the conceptional hypertextuality of such texts with some aphorisms of K. Kraus, E. Canetti and S. J. Lec.

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Megametaphor as a coherence and cohesion device in a cycle of literary texts

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Rezanova Z., Shilyaev K.

Lingua Posnaniensis

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2015

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vol. 57

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issue 2

31-40

EN

Zoya Rezanova & Konstantin Shilyaev. Megametaphor as a coherence and cohesion device in a cycle of literary texts. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, PL ISSN 0079-4740, pp. 31-39 The present study is concerned with the notion of megametaphor and its role in the cohesion and coherence of the text, as well as its intertextual function. We discuss the method of identifying and structuring megametaphor in a literary text and apply it to four novels by Jack London that have dogs as their protagonists. The megametaphor DOG IS A MAN is shown to organize the texts both conceptually - via a coherent set of frame structures of the source domain - and linguistically, by way of applying a network of metaphorical lexemes to the description of a dog.

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Problems of monotonicity of some popular risk measures

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Khemissi E.

Econometrics. Ekonometria. Advances in Applied Data Analytics

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2016

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issue 2 (52)

108-122

EN

In the article the author checked the properties of coherent measures of risk for Expected Value, Expected Shortfall, Maximum Loss (for losses weighted with probability), Median, Median Absolute Deviation, “Arithmetic Mean of Absolute Deviations from Median”, Quantiles, Cumulative Distribution Function and Mid-Range in connection with the last financial crisis. Methodology of the research – mathematical proving and theoretical analysis. Results. The survey shows that the above functions are not coherent measures of risk with some definition of stochastic order and in many cases not measures of risk in terms of the axiomatic definition. The paper shows also that the lemma used in the literature to prove monotonicity of Expected Shortfall is not truth and we will prove the lemma with the opposite relation. Value of the paper – Mathematical proofs in the field of risk measurement. Showing some problems with monotonicity of risk measures. Contradicting the lemma of monotonicity of Expected Shortfall. Own definition of first degree stochastic order.

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Shifts of Cohesion and Coherence in Several Polish Translations of G.K. Chesterton

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Reda M.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2017

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issue 26/2

151-170

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The paper is concerned with shifts of cohesion and coherence in several Polish translations of G. K. Chesterton from the point of view of the procedural approach, in which the choice of particular linguistic/textual devices is indicative of the text producer’s intended meaning. As regards cohesion, the paper touches upon lexical cohesion and conjunction. It discusses the eff ects of replacing repetition with variation, and of disambiguating and explicating conjunctions. As for coherence, an analysis is carried out which shows how the translator’s failure to render a polysemous word adequately detracted from the TT’s coherence. Also, an example is given of coherence being affected by polysemy in the TT. The aim of the paper is to find out what kind of issues and regularities connected with cohesion and coherence emerge in the translation process and how these affect target texts.

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The Role of Cohesion in Text Creation

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Jassim A. H.

Language, Discourse & Society

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2023

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vol. 11

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issue 1

159-170

EN

This paper aims at exploring the role of cohesion in persuading listeners through answering the following questions; what types of grammatical cohesive relations are displayed and what is their frequency of occurrence in the sampled text? and how does cohesion contribute to the creation and understanding of a text? A program for corpus analysis called (AntConc Tutorial (Ver. 3.2.4) developed by Laurence Anthony (Anthony, L., 2004) is used for analyzing the sample of this study which will be the speech of the Singaporean prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, on the COVID-19 ‘New Normal’, on 31 May 2021 (Appendix A). The study devotes attention to the speech of the Singaporean prime minister on this occasion due to the importance of this event which occupied the world. This paper depends on Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) taxonomy of cohesive devices to analyze data.

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On Nonfoundational Reasoning

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Brożek B.

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce

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2014

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issue 56

5-32

EN

The goal of the paper is to describe the role and structure of nonfoundational reasoning, i.e. a kind of argumentation that meets the revisability, the feedback, the background stability and the disputability conditions. I begin by observing that any nonfoundational reasoning has two components: the deductive and the hermeneutic. Next, against the background of Gadamer’s insightful, although somewhat vague, observations I attempt to uncover aspects of the hermeneutic component. I then proceed to reconstruct nonfoundational argumentation with the help of formal theory of belief revision, defeasible logic, and logical conception of coherence. Finally, I argue that nonfoundational reasoning is the backbone of both scientific endeavours and philosophical inquiry.

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Coherence and Discontinuity in Gregory of Nyssa

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Meredith A.

Vox Patrum

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2006

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vol. 49

399-404

PL

BRAK

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Zum Forschungsstand der polnischen Textlinguistik

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Sikora J.

Lingwistyka Stosowana / Applied Linguistics / Angewandte Linguistik

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2012

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issue 6

141-153

EN

The article deals with selected aspects of Polish text linguistics research. It points to the diversity of defi nitions and the lack of clear criteria for the classifi cation of texts. There is also a lack of distinction between the text and the sentence or phrase, resulting from ambiguous features describing these terms. The article also indicates the variety of defi nitions of ‘coherence', ‘cohesion', ‘delimitation' etc., describing the text as a communication unit. On the basis of the anthropocentric theory of human languages the author presents the model of expression, which shows factors that infl uence the form and content of utterances, related to senders and recipients as well as a given situation/given circumstances. Linguistic expressions cannot be assigned a function or a communicative pragmatic view of the need to take account of linguistic and non-linguistic characteristics of senders and recipients of expressions and their ability to interpret these expressions. Each linguistic utterance is shaped according to the language skills and knowledge of the surrounding reality developed by the participants of the given communicative situation, and the analysis of the circumstances in which a given linguistic utterance is formed.

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HR strategy – necessity or fad for business sustainability?

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Ghinea V. M., Moroianu M.

Management & Marketing

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2016

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vol. 11

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issue 2

458-469

EN

The present paper pleads for the awareness of HR strategy importance, in terms of proper design and implementation, as they definitely could impede or sustain the development of an organization. By making use of G.VALI, the model of organizational culture dynamics, we look for revealing the impact that (non-)existence of HR strategy, its alignment and coherence could have on the organization success. As proven by human experience, all types of strategies could work and be effective in certain conditions. Even more, no one can say that one strategy is better than other. However, in the same way, there is no guarantee of some strategies success. In this light, the difference lays in the handy and clever interlock of the country specific advantages and firm (-tobe) specific advantages. For achieving this specific aim, vertical (alignment) and horizontal (coherence) integration of each functional strategy must be ensured.

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Context-governed meaning adjustment of phraseological units

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Krzyżanowska A.

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature

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2018

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vol. 42

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issue 4

DE

Das Volume enthält keine Abstracts in deutscher Sprache.

EN

The article aims to show the role of the context and the situation of speaking (communication situation) in the process of updating the meaning of phraseological units (fixed expressions). It has been observed that in communication, disambiguation usually takes place by means of context. On the other hand, it turned out that the context itself can be a source of ambiguity. The results obtained in this short study seem to confirm the claim that the update is essentially a modal process, and the semantic coherence results from the interweaving of language, pragmatic, socio-cultural and cognitive constraints.

FR

The article aims to show the role of the context and the situation ofspeaking (communication situation) in the process of updating themeaning of phraseological units (fixed expressions). It has been observed that in communication, disambiguation usually takes place by means of context. On the other hand, it turned out that the context itself can be a source of ambiguity. The results obtained in this short study seem to confirm the claim that the update is essentially a modal process, and the semantic coherence results from the interweaving of language, pragmatic, socio-cultural and cognitive constraints.L’objectif de cet article est de mettre en évidence l’impact du co(n)texte et de la situation d’énonciation lors de l’actualisation du sens des expressions figées. On a pu observer que, dans la communication, la désambiguïsation se fait normalement à l’aide du contexte. Mais d’autre part, il s’est avéré que c’est le contexte, lui-même qui peut être source de l’ambiguïté.Les résultats obtenus au terme de cette brève étude semblent confirmer aussi le fait que l’actualisation constitue un processus foncièrement modal, et que la cohérence sémantique relève d’une imbrication de contraintes linguistiques, pragmatiques, socio-culturelles et cognitives.

RU

Том не содержит аннотаций на русском языке.

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Evaluating the Coherence of a Cinematic Universe as a Prerequisite for Worldmaking in Digital Cinema

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Dimitriadis G.

Facta Ficta. Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media

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2018

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vol. 2

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issue 2

53-70

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Coherence and Comparability as Criteria of Quality Assessment in Business Statistics

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Młodak A.

Statistics in Transition new series

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2013

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vol. 14

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issue 2

287-318

EN

The problems of coherence and comparability exceed the classical notion of analysis of survey errors, because they do not concern single surveys or variables but the question of how results of two or more surveys can be used together and how relevant data can effectively be compared to obtain a better picture of social and economic phenomena over various aspects, e.g. space or time. This paper discusses characteristics of the main concepts of coherence and comparability as well as a description of differences and similarities between these two notions. Types of coherence and various aspects of perception of these notions in business statistics are analysed. Main sources of lack of coherence and comparability, factors affecting them (e.g. methodology, time, region, etc.) and methods of their measurement in context of information obtained from businesses will be also presented.

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Koherencyjny model rozumowań prawniczych

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Araszkiewicz M.

Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej

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2010

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vol. 1(1)

19-38

PL

Celem artykułu jest prezentacja modelu rozumowań prawniczych opartego na pojęciu koherencji (spójności) wypracowanym przez nauki kognitywne. Mówiąc dokładniej, model ten, określany dalej jako koherencyjny MRP (Model Rozumowania Prawniczego), jest bazowany na teorii koherencji wypracowanej przez Paula Thagarda. Zdaniem autora koherencyjny MRP wydaje się w sposób bardzo satyfakcjonujący spełniać kryteria zazwyczaj wykorzystywane w ocenie teoretycznoprawnych modeli argumentacji. Jest on w stanie przedstawić wnioskowanie prawnicze czy to jako sieć neuronową, czy też – bardziej tradycyjnie – jako sformalizowaną grę argumentacyjną. W konsekwencji koherencyjny MRP oferuje obiecującą „trzecią drogę” wobec tradycyjnych dedukcyjnych i niededukcyjnych modeli wnioskowań prawniczych.

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The aim of the article is to present a model of legal reasoning based of the concept of coherence, as this concept is understood in recent developments of cognitive science. More precisely, the model, hereafter referred to as CMLR (Coherence Model of Legal Reasoning) is based on the constraint satisfaction theory of coherence, elaborated and defended by Paul Thagard. The claim of the author is that CMLR appears very satisfactory when assessed against criteria typically employed for evaluation of legal-theoretical models of argumentation. It is able to represent legal reasoning either as a neural network or, more traditionally, as a formal dialogue game. In consequence, CMLR offers a plausible “third road” between traditional deductive and non-deductive models of legal thinking.

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Postawy młodzieży akademickiej wobec transplantacji a ich poczucie koherencji

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Perkowska M. M.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2021

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issue 1(131)

185-203

PL

W artykule przedstawiono związki postaw badanych wobec transplantacji z ich poczuciem koherencji. Wyniki uzyskano po analizie danych statystycznych zebranych w grupie 467 studentów. W badaniu wykorzystano autorski kwestionariusz i skalę do badania postaw młodzieży akademickiej wobec transplantacji oraz Kwestionariusz Orientacji Życiowej (SOC-29) Antonovsky’ego. Uzyskane wyniki dowodzą, że nie istnieje zależność, która uprawniałaby do stwierdzenia, że poczucie koherencji badanych ma istotny statystycznie związek z ich postawą wobec transplantacji. Poczucie koherencji koreluje dodatnio z jednym z komponentów tworzących postawę wobec transplantacji (poziom wiedzy). Oznacza to, iż osoby z wysokim poczuciem koherencji istotnie częściej posiadają wyższy poziom wiedzy odnoszącej się do transplantacji. Dane potwierdziły istnienie zależności pomiędzy poziomem wiedzy badanych związanej z zagadnieniem transplantacji a wszystkimi komponentami tworzącymi poczucie koherencji, czyli poczucie zaradności, poczucie sensowności i poczucie zrozumiałości. Istnieje konieczność podjęcia współczesnego wyzwania pedagogicznego, jakim jest edukacja zdrowotna, której celem będzie kształtowanie postaw społecznych wobec transplantacji. Należy również wzbogacić program edukacyjny w działania kreujące wysokie poczucie koherencji u ich adresatów, co z założenia powinno mieć prozdrowotne konsekwencje dla szerokiego grona beneficjentów.

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The article explores the relationship between the attitudes of the respondents towards transplantation and their sense of coherence. The presented results were obtained through the statistical analysis of data collected in a group of 467 students. The study used a self-designed questionnaire and scale to study attitudes of academic youth towards transplantation alongside Antonovsky’s Orientation to Life Questionnaire (SOC-29). The results obtained prove that there is no correlation that would justify the conclusion that the sense of coherence of the respondents has a statistically significant connection with their attitude towards transplantation. However, the sense of coherence positively correlates with one of the components of the attitude towards transplantation. This concerns the level of Knowledge, which means that people with a high sense of coherence are significantly more likely to have a higher level of Knowledge related to transplantation. The data confirmed the existence of a correlation between the level of knowledge of the respondents related to the issue of transplantation and all the components constituting a sense of coherence, i.e. a manageability, meaningfulness and comprehensibility. Conclusions formulated on the basis of the obtained results point to the necessity of taking up a contemporary pedagogical challenge, which is health education aimed at shaping social attitudes towards transplantation. An additional recommendation is to enrich educational programs with activities the goal of which is to create a high sense of coherence in their recipients, which, by definition, should have pro-health consequences for a wide group of beneficiaries.

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The pragmatics of casual dialogue

Second Order Coherence: A new way of looking at incoherence in texts

Coherence Problems of EFL Students’ Writing in Light of the Gricean Maxims

Axiomatic extension of risk measurement

Epistemo-Semantic Coherentism: An Attitudinal View of Meaning Based on Epistemic Pragmatism

The Nonvisual Legibility and the Coherence of Space: A New Theoretical Framework with Examples of Its Implementation in Empirical Research

Sind Aphorismen hypertextuell? Zur konzeptionellen Hypertextualität analoger Texte

Megametaphor as a coherence and cohesion device in a cycle of literary texts

Problems of monotonicity of some popular risk measures

Shifts of Cohesion and Coherence in Several Polish Translations of G.K. Chesterton

The Role of Cohesion in Text Creation

On Nonfoundational Reasoning

Coherence and Discontinuity in Gregory of Nyssa

Zum Forschungsstand der polnischen Textlinguistik

HR strategy – necessity or fad for business sustainability?

Context-governed meaning adjustment of phraseological units

Evaluating the Coherence of a Cinematic Universe as a Prerequisite for Worldmaking in Digital Cinema

Coherence and Comparability as Criteria of Quality Assessment in Business Statistics

Koherencyjny model rozumowań prawniczych

Postawy młodzieży akademickiej wobec transplantacji a ich poczucie koherencji